Oh well, it's not like he hasn't been banned from stuff before. I'm sure it's richly deserved.
Bernie Bros will be next. They’ve already banned some of the more edgy and unwoke socialists (Nick Mullen, Aimee Terese, Brace Beldon).
In the end, there can be no
genuine opposition to the neoliberal hegemony. They might keep libertarians around for a fake opposition. They will allow you to be in favor of EVEN MORE corporate power and EVEN MORE austerity. They will allow you to criticize the establishment for not being committed enough to those things to give the illusion of choice and open debate.
White nationalists and old school class-first Marxists (not Antifa, BLM) are the only significant
truly anti-establishment forces in America. QAnon and BLM, while many times larger do not fundamentally oppose the basic premises of the neoliberal regime.
The only reason the establishment hasn’t shut down the Marxists sooner is because they drew support away from the Alt Right. They have similar target demographics and the Marxists were the lesser evil.
Plus you can always just buy off a Marxists “I’d like to help you get your message out buuuuuuut...”
Or they’ll give them the speech from Network.
You couldn’t do that with, say, Andrew Anglin. You can’t just give him a cushy job as an establishment shill even if you wanted to.
But now that white nationalists have been fairly well scrubbed off social media, the OWS/Bernie Bro/Marxists have outlived their usefulness and they are going to start purging the ones they can’t buy off.
It’s a matter of time before the feds find some mentally ill Bernie Bro and talk him into shooting up a bank and hey, the kid listened to Vaush and Chapo Trap House. Well, gotta shut those guys down before they inspire another shooting!
The coming months are going to be brutal, no doubt. Bad things are coming but honestly, I think those things were going to come either way.
The silver lining in all this is that the establishment is no longer able to “boil the frog”. They were hoping to roll out totalitarianism slowly and incrementally so that no one would notice.
But their hand has been forced and now they are going to have to implement very drastic measures in a very short period of time and in such a way that it will not escape anyone’s attention.
We’re ripping off the band-aid.