If you are a liberal / progressive and your outlook is medium to long-term, this is the last thing you want Apple to do.
Denying people their voice makes them more dangerous. Let's give them a means to vent out / express themselves. Violent subgroups / individuals can be addressed, but please don't deny the __entire__ opposition their voice. The last thing you want is for the conservative movement to be hosted on a Chinese or Russian platform.
It is really time to bridge the divide and come together. That's not to say adopt a soft approach against the violent / revolutionary elements.
If 48% of these United States voted for Trump, only a handful of those are violent.
As victors can we show some compassion, and more important, in the coming four years, how can we win over that other half of the country, who are for the most part non-violent lawful people.
> It is really time to bridge the divide and come together.
"Fuck your feelings". I could probably count on the fingers of one hand the number of times where the right has suggested "bridging the divide". Instead it's "patriot" this, "traitor" that, and so on.
And all the while any conciliatory efforts are ignored. One side clearly isn't interested in this bridge. But constantly expects the other side to make concessions to them in the name of some hypothetical middle ground that they openly mock even as they do so.
You miss the irony. "Fuck your feelings" is a common right/Trump refrain to the left. Arguing that the left should continue "bridging the divide" when the right largely has precisely zero interest in doing so is an unreasonable burden.
"You want to make this marriage work? You, wife, have to work harder at it, keep trying. I know he says he's not interested and keeps mocking you when you do, but that's not the point. What this marriage needs is you continuing to try and try harder."
You're taking the empathetic path and I wish more people did as well. I think the past 4 years were deeply traumatic for most of the progressive left. They control these institutions and they want to make damn sure Donald Trump never happens again.
> They control these institutions and they want to make damn sure Donald Trump never happens again.
Oddly enough Trump was all but a symptom of a system that's completely hollowed out and unable to work for the Trump crowd.
Not only does the system not work for Trump ppl - it effectively represents no one.
So you end up with this pathetic ping-pong between major parties, trying to declaring their "mandate" after each election. The truth is that a sliver of swing voters is switching between absolute fools and empty suits.
Biden is The System incarnate - he created the void that was begging for Trump and it'll be interesting to see what happens next.
Instead of trying to understand how the Trump crowd is ailing and respond to their requests for help and recognition no matter how distorted and seemingly vulgar/uncivilized/etc., we had 4 years of hysteric catastrophizing, outright conspiracy theories(like Russia-gate) and obstruction.
Let's remind everyone that Hillary participated in the whole "switch the electors", "he's an illegitimate president" talk.
Denying people their voice makes them more dangerous. Let's give them a means to vent out / express themselves. Violent subgroups / individuals can be addressed, but please don't deny the __entire__ opposition their voice. The last thing you want is for the conservative movement to be hosted on a Chinese or Russian platform.
It is really time to bridge the divide and come together. That's not to say adopt a soft approach against the violent / revolutionary elements.
If 48% of these United States voted for Trump, only a handful of those are violent.
As victors can we show some compassion, and more important, in the coming four years, how can we win over that other half of the country, who are for the most part non-violent lawful people.