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This ship has sailed when Gab creator was cut-off from all payment systems.

People widely applauded Visa et. al move, as this Gab guy is a horrible person that ends each message with dreaded "Jesus is King" quotation. So "the people" was happy.

Now people learn the hard lesson, one day your opinion, business, etc. might irritate the powers that be and you'll be crashed, as those who you helped to crash before.

Let's this be the lesson for everyone.

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Trying to point out where it was going was impossible.

“What if your opinions become deemed unacceptable?” “What do you mean? My opinions are acceptable.” “But what if one day they aren’t?” “They are though. Why do you keep saying they aren’t?”

It's like some clamp comes down on the mind and stops critical thinking, where usually they are pretty thoughtful people otherwise. Self preservation instinct I guess.

Those conditional hypotheticals strike again.

"First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."

- Martin Niemöller

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