Posted on 04/29/2023 10:26:24 AM PDT by Nicojones
Despite my criticism of GAB, I did enjoy the video clip. I could have done without some of the comments that followed it however.
Hopefully any future posts from that neo-nazi hosting platform will be banned.
Hopefully, but I won’t return to it until it’s thoroughly scrubbed and fumigated.
I don’t know much about GAB, but I do know 2 things - the babe that posted this on GAB is hot and the Nefarious clip is pretty anti woke and cool.
Not that many years ago I would have thought demons and demonic possession were rhetorical hyperbole. Not now.
“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.” - Sherlock Homes
CLEAR PILLED: the final phase of awareness of the human condition. The peace of mind you experience when you accept that no matter what crumbles and falls around you in this world due to the corruption and degeneracy of man you are the master of your own mind and your soul belongs to God.
See, your source is biased to the left.
From the link you sent me:
“ADL’s Center on Extremism (COE) has also found examples of extremist and harmful content, including the antisemitic and anti-immigrant rants Robert Bowers posted prior to his 2018 mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue, in which he killed 11 people.”
When mass murderers post on Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, etc. do those platforms automatically get branded as “hate” platforms and attacked like GAB?
“In 2021, Torba posted on his personal Gab account that he supported Tucker Carlson and his promotion of the replacement theory.”
ADL apparently considers Tucker another dangerous right-winger. And whether you call it “replacement theory” or something else, it is very apparent that Democrats support open borders to give themselves a political advantage.
“Regarding election misinformation, Torba has shared conspiracy theories regarding the 2020 U.S. Presidential election and encouraged Gab users to share this misinformation with their peers and families. In a recent article, Torba claims that if more people were on Gab, then they ‘would know much more about the rigged and stolen 2020 election. They would know about the January 6th hoax and see the video footage of Capitol police literally opening the doors and allowing the crowd into the Capitol. They would know about the Great replacement and who is doing it.’”
Those views are commonly shared by many on this platform.
“While Torba only recently began using the specific phrase ‘Christian nationalism,’ he has long argued that Christians should be building a ‘parallel Christian economy’ and distancing themselves from mainstream institutions, creating their own social media platforms, banks and other resources. Using his influence as Gab’s founder and CEO, Torba regularly publishes content that underscores this message.”
I don’t like associating with brands and labels that others try to put on me. I’m a patriot and Christian but nationalism isn’t my cup of tea. Maybe federalism. Definitely not globalism. And finding a way to build an ecosystem that disallows being fired, de-platformed, and demonetized is probably wise. This is because anti-Christian globalists have a lot of power. If some of these, like George Soros, happen to be from an ethnically Jewish heritage, I consider this to be a distraction from the main issues of ideology rather than race or religion (or irreligion in many cases).
“In 2021, the far-right conspiracy theorist Stew Peters interviewed Torba and praised Gab.”
I know Stew personally. Not well. But I hung out with him and his family for a little while a couple of years ago at a charity fundraiser. We traded personal cell numbers. While he might lean a bit toward the fringe or conspiracy theory views I’m not aware of anything that makes him uniquely “far right”. I’d say I’m probably more conservative than him on many things. So I think ADL is overreaching and proves to be biased.
“Finally, Torba has been interviewed multiple times by the far-right influencer Steve Bannon on his online show ‘Bannon’s War Room.’”
While I’m sure there are many things I don’t agree with Bannon on, I think he’s on the right side. ADL doesn’t seem to think so. ADL is a left-wing organization. I don’t trust them.
“In early 2022, Torba shared that more than 50 US officials had already created Gab accounts, including figures such as Paul Gosar, Marjorie Taylor-Greene, Lauren Boebert, Matt Gaetz and Wendy Rogers. These elected officials have all either been connected to other extremist movements, involved in spreading election conspiracies and COVID-19 misinformation or, in the case of Gosar, promoted violence against political opponents.”
I understand why ADL exists. There is a reason most Jews feel the need to be hypervigilant against anti-semitism. I don’t think you’ll see much traction for such sentiments here, and I attribute this to this site being supported mostly by conservatives and evangelical Christians. I also don’t see anti-semitic talk coming from Catholics or non-evangelical Christians who lean conservative or libertarian. I think the problem with ADL is they mix their left-leaning politics with their defense of Jewish people. So, for example, they will be biased against those of us who speak out against LGBT because it gets categorized as “hate” even when it isn’t. Likewise, they might be indifferent to lawlessness that may lead to targeting of specific ethnic or religious groups, including Jews.
Finally, ADL has dangerous tendencies to label people unfairly, which can easily make them guilty of the very thing they exist to prevent. Check out this article which shows their similar approach compared to SPLC:
https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/03/12/the-hate-list/
“The problem is that the SPLC and the ADL are not objective purveyors of data. They’re anti-hate activists. There’s nothing wrong with that — advocating against hate is a noble idea. But as activists, their research needs to be weighed more carefully by media outlets that cover their pronouncements.”
ADL engages in the same kind of reckless labeling of “hate” that SPLC does. And there was at least one terror attack prompted by such labeling:
https://www.lc.org/southern-poverty-law-centers-hate-group-label-is-false-propaganda
“This false labeling of nonviolent, Christian, pro-family, conservative organizations is not only defamatory, it is dangerous. The SPLC’s false ‘hate group’ label motivated Floyd Corkins II to attempt mass murder on August 15, 2012, at the Washington, DC office of Family Research Council (FRC). Corkins is now serving a 25-year federal sentence for domestic terrorism after he walked into FRC’s headquarters with the intent to gun down staffers and rub Chick-fil-A sandwiches in the faces of the dead corpses. A brave and alert security guard stopped him in the building lobby but not before 28-year-old Corkins declared words to the effect, ‘I don’t like your politics,’ and then shot and seriously wounded the guard. The shooter’s backpack contained almost 100 rounds of ammunition.”
“Corkins targeted FRC because of its position on marriage and picked the pro-family group, he told the FBI, using the SPLC’s online hate listing: ‘It was a, uh, Southern Poverty Law, lists, uh, anti-gay groups. I found them online. I did a little bit of research, went to the website, stuff like that.’”
Bottom line: using the labels “neo-NAZI” and “anti-semitic” should be backed up with hard evidence. Otherwise, try a lighter approach like, “I don’t trust the nutty CEO because he advocates so-and-so”. Otherwise, there is the risk of the boy who cried wolf effect. Already a lot of people shrug off the label of racism because now everything is supposedly evidence of racism. I advise against doing the same with anti-semitism and extreme labels like “neo-NAZI”.
See my posts: 15 and 17.
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