yea feels like media should do both so for every “far-right” story which are happening pretty much hourly the media should make up a “far-left” story to counter it, it is only fair :)

I thought I’d explained that.

Even when Obama was president and had both houses of congress, I don’t recall headlines about ‘far left’ stuff.

If you think that’s wrong, show some links.

> Even when Obama was president and had both houses of congress, I don’t recall headlines about ‘far left’ stuff.

You mean the same Obama whose signature legislative accomplishment was passing a healthcare reform law modeled on a proposal originally made by the insurance industry and embraced by the Republican Party as an alternative to the proposed Clinton healthcare reform?

Yeah, there's a reason that there wasn't much talk about the "far left" except from very openly right-wing partisan sources.

Maybe it's because Obama was center-right?

everywhere except America Obama would be right/far-right :)

I personally am against any speech supression but when the government itself is working hard to supress free speech and most “social media” these days are nothing more than an extension of a political party perhaps some place where you can’t just say stupid shit all day makes some sense. in an ideal world american would have freedom but unfortunately that ship has sailed…

Interesting. Should I be allowed to block the "End The Woke Mind Virus" guy on Bluesky, or is that suppressing his free speech?

When Trump was on Twitter, he blocked some accounts.

blocking part of this I personally never understood the controversy, anyone should be able to block anyone they want.

I will add though that me as a private citizen (if I was stupid enough to be on social media (used to be long time ago)) I would block 100’s of accounts daily. However, if I was POTUS I would never block unless I am sure it is a bot and not a real person. If you are POTUS and also have nothing better to do (God help us) but read replies and mentions on social media I’d like to hear “both sides.”

Republicans in particular are awesome at winning elections where majority of sheep voting eat crap like “wokeness” all day long. however, the Replicans neither know nor probably want to govern (especially this administration which is acting like 95% of americans voted for them) and hence come 2026 and 2028 they get creamed like 2018 and 2020. average american voter is fairly dumb (see 2016 and 2024) as it is easy to scare people with stupid things like “wokeness” and “migrant crime” - works well to win election but when you are clueless how to govern you soon (2026 for DJT) become lame duck waisting country’s time for next two years.

Trump had his Twitter and Facebook accounts frozen prior to the 2020 elections.

Now the tech titans are leaning the other way, it seems. They look to be pretty flexible in their politics.

tech titans are spineless scum of the earth. zuck was ready to marry a black transgender inner city ‘women’ while Joe was President and now is suddenly all ‘masculine’ while Donny is at the helm. they would all get train F’ed before standing up for their beliefs, regardless of what those are… Tim I won’t even mention, the levels he has to stoop to I wouldn’t do for a trillion dollars…

That's because there isn't a significant "far left" in the US. Democrats today are not too far from where they were in the 2000s.

Republicans on the other hand are way farther right than they were then. For a good illustration go read Republican Party Platforms from then.

The 2008 Platform for instance talked about the need to greatly reduce the use of fossil fuels to reduce climate change, and called for the government to push for electric and alternate fuel cars and for making gas cars more efficient, and for pushing for renewable energy.

> but seldom see headlines about ‘far left’ things.

Because we have far right domination of the party currently enjoying a trifecta in the federal government, while the far left in the US is split between a tiny minority of the opposition party and various politically-irrelevant minor parties.

Before its recent sharp right turn, it was widely argued that the US was a "center-right" country; it is now, by government if not necessarily popular sentiment, a far right one.

We do not have a “far left” political bloc in this country.

It's because the far-right is in power all over the world, while I can't really think of a single far-left government anywhere. It's just not as big of an issue.

The center is those getting flamed evenly from the 'left' and 'right'.

The same happens if you have heterodox views that don’t fit neatly into either box, like actual libertarianism of the pro human liberty kind. Argue that kind of thing and the far left and the far right will both be hosing you down with der flammenwerfer.