Stainless Steel DC Rat

The misadventures of a stainless steel datacenter rat. Sarcasm thought leader. Scruffy looking packet herder. Abyss domain expert. He/Him

[Stainless Steel DC Rat @scarynetworkguy]

@SamBrown_LDS Just heard about Kate. All the love and all the empathy. My heart goes out to your family.

[Stainless Steel DC Rat @scarynetworkguy]

Yup.

[Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome]

Trump can hold a press conference every day if he wants to & broadcast his rambling, unhinged conspiracies & white racial grievances. Ask him why he doesn’t.

[Stainless Steel DC Rat @scarynetworkguy]

Yup.

[Stainless Steel DC Rat @scarynetworkguy]

Yup.

[Don’t Boo…Revolt! @BreeNewsome]

Kristallnacht is trending on Twitter & folks want to debate whether it was problematic to ban Trump. Unbelievable. This is a perfect example of how liberalism is always bent in service to whiteness. Did these folks oppose the banning of pro-ISIS accounts as threat to free speech?

[Stainless Steel DC Rat @scarynetworkguy]

@ogmaconnect1 Of an attempted coup?

Literally any other example.

[Stainless Steel DC Rat @scarynetworkguy]

@ogmaconnect1 They asked Parler “Please remove this illegal content” and they flat out refused.

Pretty cut and dried to me.

And OMFG I can’t believe I’m defending AWS. What is the world coming to?

And sure. You have a point. But can we use an example besides literal Nazis? In the process

[Stainless Steel DC Rat @scarynetworkguy]

This is why we don’t want to talk about this right now.

We are trying to do something that has never been done before. We don’t need folks giving the fascists talking points.

Use another example.

[Lauren Boebert @laurenboebert]

Angela Merkel, the chancellor of Germany, came out and said that she found banning President Trump from Twitter “problematic”.

Merkel is certainly not a friend of Trump.

Why is it that the rest of the world can see what liberals in America can’t?

A terrible precedent was set.

[Stainless Steel DC Rat @scarynetworkguy]

@cneitzert @ogmaconnect1 We’re over here doing our best to get rid of a fascist regime with a minimum of bloodshed.

This has been a problem for a very long time. It can wait a couple of weeks.

[Stainless Steel DC Rat @scarynetworkguy]

@cneitzert @ogmaconnect1 I don’t see why we need one.

Let’s talk about it after the 20th and let’s not use the one who shall not be named as an example.

Nobody disagrees that there is a problem. Just not right now. It ain’t that urgent and we still need to get rid of a fascist regime that ain’t gone.

[Stainless Steel DC Rat @scarynetworkguy]

@ogmaconnect1 This is a very flawed analogy but I trust you to read it as meant.

This feels like if during the troubles the US Gov started trying to make political points less than a week after an event.

( Which I’m sure we did and I’m sure it made y’all mad.)

Does that make more sense?

[Stainless Steel DC Rat @scarynetworkguy]

@ogmaconnect1 And that direct line is, by design, very hard to show. In this case it was pretty undeniable.

So they moved.

Also the whole national trauma thing played in.

[Stainless Steel DC Rat @scarynetworkguy]

@ogmaconnect1 @cneitzert Not arguing that it’s worrying.

Pointing out that her using the example of the guy who used the platform to incite an attempted violent overthrow of our gov is maybe a wee bit out of line.

Find a different starting point for this conversation. Which is important.

[Stainless Steel DC Rat @scarynetworkguy]

@ogmaconnect1 @cneitzert Yes. That is worrying.

But this is the WRONG example to use as a jumping off point to it.

[Stainless Steel DC Rat @scarynetworkguy]

@ogmaconnect1 @cneitzert No. That’s exactly the issue. Trump was banned for incitement.

Simple as that.

Anybody making a larger point or wanting to have a different important conversation needs to find a different example.

[Stainless Steel DC Rat @scarynetworkguy]

Yeah. Let’s increase formal US Gov powers over social media.

That couldn’t possibly go horrifically wrong in every possible way. https://t.co/miZithNmXj

[Stainless Steel DC Rat @scarynetworkguy]

Correct.

[Stainless Steel DC Rat @scarynetworkguy]

@cneitzert @ogmaconnect1 Really not needing any clever points made about the guy who literally just tried to overthrow our government.

[Stainless Steel DC Rat @scarynetworkguy]

@cneitzert @ogmaconnect1 Yeah. Let’s go ahead and use an example not related to an attempted coup in the US. Fair enough?