The former president’s authoritarian tendencies are alarming enough without inventing new outrages.

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    25 days ago

    You’re clearly picking the less popular opinion. This is either obvious to you or it isn’t. The numbers are there, and you chose your reading of them. I cannot do anything about that.

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      25 days ago

      No, I agree. My conclusion puts me on the less popular opinion on this one matter, and that’s obvious to me. However, I was replying to a thread asking for someone to be banned, and - just as we don’t automatically convict folks in court on the basis of popular opinion, I feel that it would be nice if stronger standards also applied before someone got a ban.

      (Not saying the full criminal defendant protections should apply mind, as this is just a ban on one magazine or one instance in the fediverse, so it’s not like we need to apply the full protections against depriving someone of their freedom as they are locked in jail, here.)

      That said, if my reading of the numbers is wrong, I am open to having that explained - that is I’m open to admitting I’m wrong. (If one checks my history, they’ll find that I’ve done so multiple times.)