You might know a kid who was interested in playing Chess. But just because a kid was playing Chess doesn’t mean he was good at it.
Oftentimes, when you play against a kid, you would allow special rules that were designed to give the kid an advantage, to give him a chance of winning.
It might be that his pieces couldn’t be taken when they’re on his side of the board. Or it could be that you couldn’t start the game with your strongest pieces. Or it could be that the child would be granted two moves on his turn, while you still have only one. Whatever the special rules were, they were designed as “kid gloves”, to give the child an advantage to help them win the match, which they usually did.
But imagine playing a game of Chess as an adult, being granted the opportunity to benefit from the same special rules that were designed to encourage children to play, playing with the same advantages that these special rules would afford. If you’re like me, you’d be embarrassed to accept such an advantage. But if you were to accept them and when victory occurs, would you really feel like you’ve outwitted your opponent?
Considering the unfair advantage that you’ve been granted, could you really succeed in convincing yourself that you’ve won on your own virtues and merits?
But for a long time, that was how heavily the social media landscape favored left wing viewpoints. Social media networks were run largely by those who were politically on the left. Not only that, the algorithms favored left wing viewpoints, while algorithmically burying any conservative viewpoint. Worse yet, moderation was dominated by leftists, who oftentimes deleted conservative viewpoints outright, not specifying any Terms of Service violations. In many cases, this resulted in a loss of income.
These leftists would even go as far as to shadow ban conservatives, limiting their potential for reaching a wide audience, without them being notified of this, with Facebook leader Mark Zuckerberg denying that such a practice was taking place, committing perjury before Congress.
Through it all, the book burners of the digital age had a partner in crime: the Democratic establishment. This government entity colluded with social media companies to suppress conservative viewpoints, in what is the gravest violation of the first amendment in the history of the republic, and it’s not even close.
While we’ve been repeatedly told that no such thing was occurring, there is a mountain of evidence showing that it certainly has been, not least of which are the Twitter Files. There’s also the fact that the government’s three-letter agencies are embarrassingly bad at keeping secrets, even secrets that are so damning.
Now, a federal judge has ordered them to stop colluding with social media to suppress dissent:
Can you imagine a grownup kid, one wearing a Burger King crown and a cape made of bedsheets, who for his entire adult life has been playing and winning games of Chess because he’s been playing by the kid’s rules, suddenly having to play grownup Chess with all the other grownups?
Can you imagine him, as his action figures are lined up outside the play area “cheering him on”, slowly coming to the realization that he’s not the brilliant strategist that he thinks he is, as he is suddenly made to play on equal footing with the other adults?
Can you imagine him throwing his toys on the floor, and storming off, stating his intention on making a “better game”, better than the “complicated” game that all the other grownups are better at?
And can you imagine him continually coming back, even though he gets soundly defeated again and again, each time retreating to the comfort of his soup and crayons?
Now, we’re at the point in which you don’t have to imagine it. And you love to see it.
Magnetricity 