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Anti-Semitic platforms like Gab have no place in Texas and certainly do not represent Texas values,” Abbott said.********

Pure nonsense. Really disappointed he would say something like this. Gab itself is supposedly a neutral platform, a conduit through which people can express their thoughts and opinions. You can’t blame Gab itself for what the people who use it say.

Yes, quite a few of those people are anti-semitic, there are plenty white supremacists too, boatloads of bigots, neo nazis and even a number who truly believe the earth is flat. And claim they can prove it. And the anti-semitic crowd seems to be very vocal. Much of it really ugly too. I’ve seen quite a few extremely racist people there as well. You have to have a thick skin to stay on the free speech channel long.

But Gab itself is just the software that allows them to say it. Nobody forces you to read their comments, it’s quite easy to block the twits or try to blow their arguments out of the water. Most of them are a waste of time, they refuse to even look at anything that does not support their views. Exactly the same as liberals. I’ve tried. Easier to just block them and move on. I’m not going to change their minds, and I’m not about to read through their hate filled diatribes or stupid memes forever either.

If he thinks Gab is bad, I wonder if he ever tried to read through about 2 hours of Trump’s twitter feed. And if he did, why wasn’t he railing about twitter long ago? Why is he still using it? 10 or 15 minutes reading through Trump’s twitter feed and you could see every brand of hatred you can think of.

Hmmmmm just why IS he still using twitter, when he has to know they have been censoring conservatives and many have simply left?

So far, I’ve been just watching and haven’t come to a definite opinion on Abbott. He kept some promises. We do have open carry now, and soon as biden started pushing gun control, he got busy and established Texas as 2nd amendment sanctuary state. Looks like he might be trying to finish the wall Trump started too.

On the negative side, he bought into the lockdown insanity and allowed the Texas economy to take a huge hit. Now this.

I’m still not sure what to think, but he’s probably been there long enough, time to put him out to pasture and take a chance on someone else. That’s where it gets iffy, very few out there with backbone enough to stand up to the political elite in Swamp Central...