Friday, July 11, 2025

Censuring Dissent, Facebook Style

ITS OFFICIAL, having been repeatedly confirmed. I am being censured by Facebook. I am no longer being allowed to share posts having anything to do with politics. This obviously applies to posts haateful towards the current American president and/or his MAGA mob movement. Facebook, in my universe, has gone full pro-Trump. Trump and Zuck. Corporate birds flocking together. I have no idea whether I would be allowed to post hateful anti-Trump material, would allow me to post pro-Trump material, or to share pro-Trump material. To prevent nausea, I will never find out. At first, I was being prevented from sharing posts having nothing to do with politics, but then, that stopped, and all my non political post sharing was allowed to proceed without further interruption. I can share lions, tigers, house cats and birds, but not anything Trump. The orange blob, as they call him, has scurried out of my reach. I assume that I can still post ads for this website, and use phrases like "The Truthless Reconciler website effing hates Trump" (I'll soon find out)...but, I'm not sure. For several weeks now I have been unable to share my own advertising posts. I recall the old days when Facebook would limit the amount of sharing one could do. They seem to have quit that. Then, of course, there's Facebook Jail, in which I have spent one day, long ago, for posting below a picture of a dead elephant with a smug hunter standing in front of him that I wish the elephant had killed the human instead. I'm still proud of that one. A badge of honor, that sort of thing. That must be how folks taking selfies next to "Alligator Alcatraz" road signs - they hurlig into Ukraine.must feel honored when hoardes of libs start dogging them online with "alligator Auschwitz" knock offs. Hell, I haven't spent a day in Facebook jail since..heaven knows when. Matt Dillon must be very proud of me. Also, no more one hour suspensions from Facebook messenger, evidently. So, it may be that we are finally gaining our freedom from social media tyranny. So I don't know. I suspet that I might get back the "prvilege" of sharing posts posted by my fellow Facebook progressives antithetical to Trump, as Facebook turns its ugly head, falls back asleep, while I sneak out of jail, and get lost in the crowd. Meanwhile, I'll have plenty of targets of opportunity to attack. I can add comments to if not share posts, and I can urge others to click on "share" an extra time for me. There are, as they say, any number of "work arounds". As Davy Crockett might have said: "I reckon the government's a mite prickly, but I'm wrathy as a screamin' painter, and I'll stand up to my rack, all holler, fodder, or no fodder, and may the devil take the hindmost." So, I'll go right on attacking and berating Trump, all holler, and I'll do the same to his MAGA mob of immoral maggots. Its that important. It is to be hoped that this nightmarish swampy Trump era will pass away, and that decency and at least some semblance of democracy shall return to our beloved America. WE further hope that it happens far less forcefully than it did in post Hitlerian Germany. To that end, any attack I levy against Trump, whether instantly effective or not, is worth the price I pay to make it. IN any event, I see my verbal attacks as being like the drones Russia keeps hurling at Ukraine, like little chimpanzees throwing their own dung haphazardly at humans on the outside their cage. Sometimes it hits, sometimes it misses. Others will always carry the torch. The lights will come back on. And if I end up right back in Facebook jail for mercilessly slandering the forty seventh president, it was worth every moment, as long as they don't send me to "Alligator Alcatraz", and feed me only Twinkies and water.

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