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'Deplatforming works': AOC celebrates Tucker Carlson's exit on TikTok and embraces censorship
Twitchy.com ^ | 4/25/2023 | FuzzyChimp

Posted on 04/25/2023 6:01:56 AM PDT by NetAddicted

As Twitchy readers know, AOC recently spoke with Jen ‘Circle Back’ Psaki about using government regulation to stifle the speech of people like Tucker Carlson, who she claims clearly engages in ‘incitement of violence’.

What does this incitement to violence look like? Telling the public what liberals are doing. That’s it. That’s why she hates Tucker Carlson.

Unsurprisingly, AOC was quite pleased to hear that Tucker and Fox News were parting ways, and the congresswoman turned the camera on herself to spread her speech-squashing satisfaction on the perfect platform for such pronouncements: Chinese-owned TikTok.

She summarized her thoughts by saying ‘deplatforming works and it is important’.

.@AOC on @TuckerCarlson: “Deplatforming works and it is important.” pic.twitter.com/AZZj0wd3S9

— Donna, Independent 🌺🗽🇺🇸⏳ (@TruthFreedomPe1) April 25, 2023

That’s right, according to Authoritarian Ocasio-Cortez, it is important to silence dissenting opinions.

An entire generation of activist progressives have been raised to participate in our political system by declaring their opponents to be evil and then trying to silence them because they have declared them to be evil.

We’re left with young people who lack the intellect to defend their ideas, coupled with a moral conviction of their rightness that’s barely distinguishable from religion.

Yeah deplatforming does work in most cases (it won't in Carlson's case) but it is also the tool of people whose ideas either can't stand scrutiny or debate and/or those with totalitarian impulses https://t.co/H4F7f46FTK

— Kevin Boyd 🇺🇸 (@TheKevinBoyd) April 25, 2023

Exactly this. AOC is right that deplatforming works.

When you’ve trained your core supporters to oppose whomever you accuse of ‘hate’, but they have the intellectual depth of a Mojave mud puddle, exposure to other viewpoints cannot be tolerated.

Deplatforming does work – to keep people from thinking and changing their minds. Totalitarians understand this.

She's going to cheer deplatforming until it happens to someone she likes. Then it will be called violence. https://t.co/Gn8VKUMjdA

— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) April 25, 2023

That’s how the game is played.

Deplatforming my opponents is ‘battling hate’.

Deplatforming me is an act of ‘hate’.

When you are unable to debate your viewpoints you resort to calls for censorship of your political opponents like AOC does here and most libs do because they don't have an ideology

Why can Jamaal Bowman debate Byron Donalds on Gun Reform but AOC can't debate MTG on Climate? https://t.co/g2vz94jqBA

— Edward (@OmegaJolteon) April 25, 2023

This guy gets it.

When you can't win the battle of ideas, deplatforming is your only option. https://t.co/DjCmofod7I

— Derek Anderson-Author (@derekbwriting) April 25, 2023

Thankfully, many people are paying attention.

AOC needs to be deplatformed!! https://t.co/USzdvu5eex

— The Red Phoenix Media Collective (RPMC) (@XZanadon) April 25, 2023

Yes, she does, and the mechanism the Constitution gives us to do that is voting.

Convincing people to vote how you want when ideas are exchanged freely is hard.

The easier, lazier, approach is to pretend your opponents are Nazis. Nobody should, of course, listen to Nazis … and that’s how we get the Bronx Censor Queen.

Wanna be dictator https://t.co/x5hv6dQ1FG

— GayPatriot Imprisoned (@GayPatriot) April 25, 2023

Sorry, AOC, if you stop everyone else from speaking, you’re a dictator.

Deplatforming is the tool of whiny losers who know they can't win debates in a marketplace of ideas. If he was really as awful as she claims, then he would've been gone a while ago.

I can't see Carlson being deplatformed for long.

— Corbin Spencer, online safety expert (@corbinspencer1) April 25, 2023

Yeah, we think AOC is being a bit naïve to believe Tucker’s exit from Fox News is tantamount to ‘deplatforming’. It’s more a matter of where he’ll be ‘platformed’ next, and his reach very well could be larger.

AOC, The Squad and the entire Democratic Party have successfully gotten their supporters to fully embrace Fascism while convincing them they're fighting against it.

— Karyn (@Sage501) April 25, 2023

They’re certainly embracing many of their tools.

Isn't censoring the same thing as "deplatforming"? So she's celebrating censorship… pic.twitter.com/sOSd2mrOQ1

— Gcwanini🖤🇱🇮🇮🇸 (@its_skoma) April 25, 2023

LOL. Well, yes, she is, but only for the people she has decreed are ‘bad’, so it’s okay.

We all know she wants to date him LoL

— Nunya Business (@RiderInBlack85) April 25, 2023

LOLOLOL! Nice.

tags:AOC, CENSORSHIP, DEPLATFORMING

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KEYWORDS: aoc; aocthefascist; censorship; deathofthewest; deplatforming; fascisti; theblueguard; tiktok; tucker; tuckercarlson; twitchy
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To: NetAddicted
The world is getting darker by the day.

Now. More than ever.

21 posted on 04/25/2023 6:38:42 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: NetAddicted

AOC, proud member of the American Communist Party.


22 posted on 04/25/2023 6:41:37 AM PDT by Colo9250
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To: NetAddicted

At no time in history has the people promoting censorship been the good guys


23 posted on 04/25/2023 6:43:09 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare)
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To: butlerweave
She is wrong. But she is the type the young voters want to lead them. This is demonstrated by the voters electing her, and Maxwell Frost from Florida and the freak that calls itself transgender in Montana. In the end, it is America that loses, but who cares about that. As long as the Bidens continue to get their blood money from Ukraine.
24 posted on 04/25/2023 6:43:49 AM PDT by sport
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To: Levy78

[[She’s a no good, horrible, terrible person]]

In otherwords, a liberal


25 posted on 04/25/2023 6:45:31 AM PDT by Bob434 (question )
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To: MrRelevant

It’s obvious that the left hire the handicapped. TOo many in The party are for it not to be true.


26 posted on 04/25/2023 6:48:30 AM PDT by Bob434 (question )
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To: logi_cal869

been cut since 2013 at least... I’ll snip it again for good measure though.


27 posted on 04/25/2023 6:55:33 AM PDT by cableguymn
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To: NetAddicted

Censorship Barbie


28 posted on 04/25/2023 6:58:12 AM PDT by ilgipper (The mob only destroys. Never creates. )
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To: MrRelevant
her lack of intelligence

I am not sure she is that stupid. She was certainly able to say all the right buzzwords to persuade all liberals. She is also an effective public speaker. Those 2 things alone would put her way above the average stupid American.

29 posted on 04/25/2023 7:39:17 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: nwrep

She is not stupid. She is evil. She knows what she is doing and why she is doing it. You may not but she does.


30 posted on 04/25/2023 7:42:02 AM PDT by sport
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To: nwrep

Well trained then, performs on command? that puts her in the pet dog category not the smart persons category.... theres a big difference.


31 posted on 04/25/2023 7:44:20 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: sport

She was installed in her district by a long and well thought out head hunt. She checked the right boxes and was put forth as a progressive socialist by big money donors like many of the “new school” politicians. She is doing what she has been programmed to do. Thats why she is doing it. Clearly she doesnt comprehend the naivety of most of her rants and takes on issues. She hits and runs. Shes never caught up in debates , she gets her sound bite and bathes in the glow of her clueless leftist lemmings ballwashing. Like her most recent “deplatforming” commentary... yet shell be the first one to serve up the word fascist..without of course never seeing the irony.


32 posted on 04/25/2023 7:50:38 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: sport
AOC is all about sustaining and exhibiting herself in order to have a celebrity status among the fools who listen to her gibberish. She's a socialist and only knows how to push their agenda when she's told to. ...otherwise she remains as scattered brained as she is known for.....loves to cause a ruckus only because she gets the press - her favorite source of sustaining her need to exhibit herself.


33 posted on 04/25/2023 7:59:46 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: MrRelevant

34 posted on 04/25/2023 8:00:38 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: NetAddicted

Tucker will do just fine, Sandy. His success will continue to vex the Left. He will not be silenced by the woke mob.


35 posted on 04/25/2023 8:06:51 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: butlerweave

AOC is extremely dangerous. The groups backing her have all supported and based themselves off violent marxist revolution. She is the pretty puppet who has managed to brainwash a huge number of even stupider violent idiots.


36 posted on 04/25/2023 8:13:45 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: caww

Ding ding ding a winner


37 posted on 04/25/2023 10:30:40 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: NetAddicted

Wow, some great comments there by the Twitchy people.


38 posted on 04/25/2023 10:41:22 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Levy78

Somebody should have done their best to keep Carlson on Fox; he had something to say. Better to get rid of AOC, Psaki, & a few more like them & try to insure Carlson staying on Fox. AOC has no business in the position she’s in.


39 posted on 04/25/2023 3:09:39 PM PDT by oldtech
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