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Chad Felix Greene

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14 Jan

Psychologically, it takes a very big mental leap to smash the window of a storefront.

You have to severely alter your state of normalcy and believe you are immune from responsibility.

The constant media mocking of this as a serious issue lowers that internal severity.

What the left has made clear is the only distinction between rioting and terrorism is the motivation.

The actions are the same.
The abandonment of normal functioning in the same.
The belief in absolute moral justification is the same.

They view good cause riots as being good.

They genuinely laugh at the notion of attacking businesses and public buildings as a threat at all - when they support the motivation behind it.

The problem is they have conditioned people to view that exaggeration of normal behavior as normal and ok.

They lower the threshold.

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Chad Felix Greene

@chadfelixg

14 Jan

Here's the thing.
Big rallies draw lots of kinds of people.
Mostly peaceful, but passionate voices.
They also bring out crazies.

The more passionate the rally the more likely the crazies will falsely believe they are empowered to act out the chants and slogans all around them.

The Capitol Riot had a contingency of well-known instigators, fantasy revolutionaries and very real actually dangerous people deluded into believing they were there to save the country, oh, and lots of white supremacists and Nazi LARPers and so on.

We shouldn't shut down all political activism and rallying.

But we must have better security and better organized rallies.

We have to be aware of the people who show up and pay attention to rising passions.

Our leaders must balance passion with measured reason.

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Chad Felix Greene

@chadfelixg

10 Jan

Here is my argument for why access to digital services should be considered a civil right equal to access to physical services.

As a Jewish person and as a gay person I am protected under anti-discrimination law (varied for being gay).

A store cannot ban me for either.

A store could not, for example, have a policy that bans 'immoral behavior' on their property and then selectively enforce this only on gay couples who happen to either simply walk in or who hold hands or show affection of any kind.

No liberal perspective would agree.

If this happened to me I would be able to argue that my civil rights had been violated.

Even without official legal protections, this would be enough to file a lawsuit, launch legislation and create public outcry until it was officially illegal to do so.

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Chad Felix Greene

@chadfelixg

9 Jan

The left believes bad ideas reproduce in the open.

You let someone share a bad idea and it multiplies with the validation of an official platform.

That makes it 'dangerous' as exposure is like a virus.

They think if you suppress the people with the bad idea, it will suffocate.

It seems simple to them.
Trump incited his followers to commit violence through his rhetoric, ban Trump and you remove the rhetoric.

No one else gets infected.
But then you must remove all those already infected...

Then you must stop the rhetoric from repeating.

Its a simple issue of threat reduction, not speech suppression.

But they refuse to recognize that in doing so they validate the rhetoric, turn it into dogma and it becomes mythology with more and more loyal adherents.

It goes underground.
It grows in power and legitimacy.

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Chad Felix Greene

@chadfelixg

9 Jan

If you are not a journalist or writer or if you are not trying to build a public profile right now, please:

- Use a generic AVI and take out your name and location from your profile.
- Turn your privacy settings on facebook off for searches and only let your friends see you.

Your facebook doesn't need to have your employer on it or your town or your phone number. Your friends and family already know who you are.

Same for any other social media you use.

If you use LinkedIn set your profile to private so only your connections can see you.

Basically you do not want to be easily found with a google search of your name.

Its easier than you think and its best to lock down. You don't need an open profile.

The only exception is if you are job hunting. Again, disguise your twitter and its less of an issue.

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Chad Felix Greene

@chadfelixg

9 Jan

Here is the insidiousness of what is being proposed here.

You don't have to be actively political at all.
In fact you could cease all political affiliation today. You're done.
Retired.

But someone finds your name or photo associated with Trump from when you were?...

That's where we are now.
Its not that you said something so offensive that your employer must have a PR nightmare to manage.

An activist hunting for Trump supporters, which they are actively doing and being encouraged to do from Congress members, finds and outs you.

They put pressure on your company to fire you, claiming they have a secret white supremacist terrorist in their office! What else can your company do?

That's not all. Once they name you, suddenly every service you use gets blasted with your info and demands to ban you.

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