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https://unherd.com/thepost/the-twitter-purge-moves-us-closer-to-a-civilisational-internet/

>There’s no point American conservatives whining about free speech or unfairness or hypocrisy: American politics has moved beyond such abstractions, whatever anyone involved claims to think. It’s as pointless as complaining about the dissonance between the policing and reporting of one side’s riots versus the other: each side wants their riots supported by the state, and the other side’s quashed; their own rioters handled with kid gloves, and the other side’s shot: there’s nothing deeper to it. There are now two popular factions, who hate each other and wish for the other’s total destruction: Trump and Biden are just the avatars in wrinkled flesh of the two opposing popular wills.

This point hits the nail on the head. The wedge is driven wider and I have friends posting on social media their shitty "debates" with their other friends they're disowning/blocking because they disagree about what happened in the Capitol. Meanwhile Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell are still close friends and all these democrat and republicans in D.C. attend the same parties and have the same social life. And people are destroying their own relationships over the illusion of an arbitrary political divide? Pic related is dead. It seems like everyone is saying, "Anyone who disagrees with me is a fascist, and anyone who is silent on the issue is a fascist in hiding."