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All I'm saying is that their own analogy is alarmingly lacking in self awareness, not commenting on what I believe.

Frankly though, this is blown way out of proportion. Plenty of people will do business with them. The Daily Stormer is just the ultimate martyr. They have mastered the art of doing one thing and saying another. They absolutely incite violence and hate, but they're careful to also simultaneously distance themselves from it and play the victim when they wonder why no big company really wants to do business with them. There's a reason why 4chan never really had this issue despite similarly controversial content and the answer isn't just "politics."

No, in my opinion, the real problem is that The Daily Stormer as an entity, is an Asshole. And just like they would in real life, they're being kicked out. Nobody has really made a compelling case otherwise, everyone seems more concerned that big companies actually made a non-nuetral decision (something I wish they'd do more often in the era of fake news and large scale abuse, an era they facilitated...)

I see no slippery slope here. There's a balance to be had.



Given how quickly people are to falsely group people (e.g. Ben Shapiro and Prager being called Alt-Right), I see a huge slippery slope. There really is no balance to be had since balance requires nuance which doesn’t seem to scale, ask YouTube.




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