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Kavanaugh's nomination was stopped by a mob too.



Yeah, but they weren’t instructed to go there by a politician. And their goal was to disrupt, not kill.

This is a classic “both sides” argument.

Are you arguing that both sides have done bad things? Yes, that’s true. Everyone at some point in their life has done a bad thing, so you will always be able to point out “a bad thing”.

Are you arguing that both sides have done bad things of the same degree? No way. I’d love to hear an example of any other party leader in history using the inflammatory language Trump has used, lying about election results to supporters and begging politicians to overturn an election, resulting in terrorism and multiple deaths. This is unprecedented, inexcusable and unfortunately completely predictable.


I don't know of any example in the last 150 years of a party leader doing that.

But this isn't about Trump; this is about Parler and the consistency of AWS is applying to its Terms and Service to of service for hundreds of thousands of users over the weekend.

Trump doesn't even use Parler AFAIK; his actions are related but tangential to the core issue of Parler + AWS.




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