Thread by @seanmdav

All we wanted was one set of rules. Rules that allowed us to say things like, "Men can't become women," or "universal mail-in balloting seems sketchy," or linking a New York Post story about the corrupt foreign business dealing's of a Democrat candidate's 50-year-old son. (1/x)

While we were feverishly fighting that battle, scores of court eunuchs on the Right joined hands with the Left and screeched about how Twitter and Facebook and Google can ban and censor whoever they want because muh private company and also because Trump is icky. (2/x)

When the New York Post, which was founded by Alexander Hamilton, was banned (along with anyone who shared its reporting on Hunter Biden), many of these same people shrugged at best or sided with the Left and its lies about NYP's reporting at worst. (3/x)

When the sitting president of the United States was banned from Twitter and Facebook after posting a video calling for peace and denouncing violence, the self-declared free speech warriors busted out their soapboxes and lectured on the propriety of Big Tech's censorship. (4/x)

The Babylon Bee ban, in which a Christian satire site was banned for calling a man a man, was also illustrative. Oh, sure it's troubling, they tut-tutted. But what can you do? Twitter's a private company, and also mocking insane trans ideology is mean. (5/x)

And then there's the ongoing, coordinated banning and shadow-banning of millions of normal people whose only crime is not going along with whatever narrative is being jammed down the country's throat by the current regime. Where was the plea for fairness for them? (6/x)

Years and years of censorship of their own readers and contributors barely rated a yawn, but when suddenly a handful of left-wing journos get busted for doxxing that led to Musk's kid getting attacked? WELL NOW. Suddenly their principles require them to say something. (7/x)

When people describe conservatism as a defeat mechanism, or as progressivism driving the speed limit, this is what they are talking about. Standing athwart history, yelling, "I'm not like those other icky people on the right. I'm one of the Good Ones™." (8/x)

At some point it becomes obvious the only real motivating principle of so many of the so-called Right is a desperation to be liked by the very people who spend their every waking moment working to make sure you have no voice, no job, no church, no guns, and no freedom. (9/9).