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First part is about his facebook comment being pulled. Second part is that post that took the lid off the basket.
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Renegade 911
I made a Facebook post about 9-11.
It went viral.
It wasnt even the first viral post I wrote this week, or the first to offend a certain segment of America.
And many people were offended.
Oh, yes, they were offended.
Those who beat their fleshy chests and wave the flag in righteous unending fury and bleat most bitterly about Freedom and Liberty and Patriotism were the most offended.
Because arent they always?
Arent they?
They attempted to hack my Facebook account.
When that didnt work, they complained to Facebook in righteous anger, furiously waving their little flags.
Because thats what you do when you love Freedom and Liberty and Patriotism -- not the real freedom and liberty and patriotism but the jack-booted goose-stepping version where everybody is lined up and made to salute the flag with a gun to the back of their necks. The kind of Freedom thats administered by serious men of pure Aryan descent with deaths heads and lightning bolts on their collars.
Eventually these patriots succeeded in convincing Facebooks idiot mechanical brain to remove my post for violation of community standards, even though nothing I wrote violates Facebooks community standards in any way.
Now, Im not particularly vexed by this.
First, because this is the risk you take when you post to Facebook. You dont own it. You dont control it. You are entirely at the mercy of poorly coded algorithms and the arbitrary judgement of some 20 year old Frappuccino swilling douchebeard somewhere in the bowels of the Facebook cloud.
Facebooks interests arent yours, even if like me you make them piles of money by pulling in 70,000 people every day. I knew this when I signed up. It irritates me, what they did pulling down my post because a bunch of fascist right-wingers got their delicate little Hitler Under-Roos all in a bunch, but Im not in anyway surprised by the behavior of either party. Its right there in the EULA.
Second, Because the people who complained confirm everything I said about them.
And Id be lying if I said that didnt amuse me.
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malthaussen
(17,217 posts)... we have very different definitions of the word.
-- Mal
annabanana
(52,791 posts)to a truly righteous rant!