Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms

A "conservative" government threatens to shut down private businesses. Wait, what?

Maybe the billionaire hotel magnate from New York should arrange a leveraged buyout of the business he doesn't like, and shut it down when he owns it.

Its not real "conservative" views that get censored is it its entryist far right views.

Its like in the UK when Corbyn's crank supporters claim ultra far left positions are main steam labour views when they are not.

Just to distance myself from the current "conservative" establishment, I would argue that their views are not conservative so much as they are a relatively newer form of fascism. Typically with fascism there is nationalism that prioritizes the citizens of the nation above all else, but with this new "conservatism" in the US, the nationalism is a bit more race-based. But other than that it's much more close to fascism than what we in the US typically considered "conservatism".

Maybe we need a new word for it altogether?

Seems nonsensical like most of what Trump does, until you accept that he operates on the third axis of the political compass: how flattering or critical something is to Trump.

>the nationalism is a bit more race-based

You could almost say it's a white nationalism. But really I think it's less about race and more about capital and political fealty. Loyalty to the seats of power above all else, and your value to the party and its "society" determined relative to your capital holdings.

>Maybe we need a new word for it altogether?

It's called the "alt-right[0]."

And at the fringe of the fringe, right-wing accelerationism[1].

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right

[1]https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/11/11/20882005/accele...

Corbyn is ultra far left? The way he was getting slandered as some sort of neonazi, I assumed he was considered too rightwing or something.

British politics can be confusing to outside observers..

There was a concerted effort to smear him from within his own party, it’s not surprising that you got that impression.

Edit: There is even a sister reply to this comment repeating the same nonsense, from a Google employee. Misinformation winning again.

He's the Islamic terrorist sympathizer type of anti-Semite, not the neo-Nazi type. We get it from both sides.

Yep full he's full Tankie - more interested in turning Labour into a niche party and dreaming of a revolution.

The sort who sell papers calling on the UK to help Assad crush the counter revolutionary's under the tracks of tanks.

Ethnofascism or Ethnopluralism...