The right is free to do everything the left is. Just look at Bud Light. Their sales STILL haven't recovered and they "apologized" for their "sin."
The right tribe is free to try, but we're always free to try.
Due to institutional capture (universities, government agencies, large corporations, etc...) there is an enormous zone of suppression where voicing opposition to the adoption of left-tribe agenda in purportedly non-political enterprise is punished, severely if necessary.
Without this zone of suppression and the propaganda machine (it wears the skin of a now destroyed free press) the left-tribe wouldn't have a chance in hell.
There are asymmetries and budlight shows them quite well. Left-tribe attack comes from institutional capture, they put people in high places. The company create a DEI office as a matter of course.
The counterattack, and this is new that the right-tribe has begun direct counter-attacks outside of the political sphere; came from the general population. That's why they call it populism.
But I do agree that there is much more of an oppressive force on the left than on the right. Just the ESG climate 100+ organization that consists of the largest companies in the world makes it extremely difficult to get hired in MOST places if your politics doesn't add up to a quasi-socialist, rights-hating, racist, anti-Christian bigot.
Exactly.
And with doxxing being the "in" thing on the Left these days, even if you've somehow managed to keep your opinions below their radar, and you haven't hurt anybody, it doesn't matter. They'll dox you and ruin your reputation with a bunch of spurious allegations (Covington Boys, for instance) to try to force you to fall in line.
Which is why any attempt to destroy ring encryption systems like cryptocurrency or Tor are a red-line issue with me. Although I respect the defiance of the gun-collecting crowd they can be unfortunately naive when accounting for the full scope of the conflict.
Without communications there is no resistance, no coherence, no truth. Look at what they do with Trump, everyone around him, and anyone trying to actually behave like a journalist should.
If they can ID everyone they can cut off any corrections. They can deep fake somebody raping children. They can pick out the rising leaders of opposition and smear them into oblivion one by one.
All good and well, just don't trust what you read online right? Yet how will you know to act without information?
America is no worse than many other empires of old as far as atrocities go.
America was barely an empire, a loose element of America was imperialistic for like 40 years.
The UK was an empire, and it was the most moral empire in history.
"Imperialism" and "Empire" are perfect examples of what happens to a word when you let people overuse it. It becomes watered down and meaningless. Empire is when an army shows up, demands taxes and the dismantling of local military, and kills anyone who disagrees.
The USA planned and executed no genocides and is one of the very few nations in history that was in the position to annex large amounts of territory and choose not to on moral grounds.
The USA's mid to early history is far less evil (by comparison) than is claimed by the left-tribe while its modern government and recent history is far more evil than claimed.
They certainly do (all the recent book bannings and drag queen event bannings, for example).
All I've seen is banning of porn delivered to children, which was theoretically illegal before they simply didn't want to enforce it.
Now the way the right-tribe obtusely pretends to be unable to differentiate between a pedophile grooming a child to have sex with and a left-tribe cultist indoctrinating a child is reminiscent of the knee-jerk "racist" screams.
Even Tim Pool is doing it now, very unfortunate.
