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Inversions are happening faster than ever. The red and blue tribes swap their positions in sync at this point.

I'm an engineer, not an ideologue, and don't make it a practice of painting myself into a corner just to be consistent. Though I think the big tech companies have too much power, I think the need to avoid having the US government overthrown by a violent coup trumps other considerations. The material they are shutting down includes plans for next weekend to attack both Washington DC and state capitals. Some innocent content could be swept up in this.

Once all this calms down, we can address the excessive power of the platforms with antitrust, so there are more of them to choose from.

I think the government has too much power and the cost of losing the presidency shouldn't be so traumatic.

So much of the executive craziness of the last 4 years is due to the ever growing power of the executive branch and executive orders being de facto law.

All this presidential overreach is about to (hypocritically) be put to use and further expanded.

Historical times!

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