Hilarity Ensues When Conservatives Try to Protest Facebook and Utterly Fail
By: Sarah JonesAug. 25th, 2013
If they’ve ever wondered why they cannot compete with the Civil Rights movement, on top of not having an actual issue other than resentment at minorities and women, conservatives have answered their own question now.
Conservatives scheduled a protest against Facebook for today, Sunday the 25th of August, because Facebook apparently hasn’t let them post all of the racist, threatening things they are free to tweet. SO UNFAIR.
Oh, way to win for conservative businesses—take yourselves out of the market because your brethren aren’t allowed to post threats to other people. It’s called pouting.
But there was a day when CNN would have raced to cover this, even if only one “patriot” showed up. Things are really looking dreary for the far right, with the media assisting the GOP in their Tamp Down the Crazy public relations efforts.
Since hardly anyone did show up, the conservatives shut down the event page. It’s no longer accessible.
“This page will not be accessible after the 25th. We would like to carry this energy and momentum forward as a permanent movement to address, not only the Facebook issue, but other pressing issues of importance to us as conservatives. In that vein, we have started a Facebook group where we can all meet after this event to organize and ‘strategize’ our future plans. The group is called “The Liberty Tree” because the liberty tree was a tree in Boston which is considered the birthplace of the American Revolution and where the patriots gathered. “
Now they want all of the protest members to join them ON FACEBOOK TODAY – protest day – at their new Facebook Page, The Liberty Tree. [ https://www.facebook.com/login.php?next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fgroups%2F228863673929366%2F ] Yes, this is just like the Revolution, only people actually showed up to the Revolution and they put their lives on the line for freedom, as opposed to being too lazy to abstain from using Facebook for a day. We’ve been trying to tell conservatives that abstinence doesn’t work…
It’s bizarre, but conservatives seem to expect that a private business like Facebook owes them, the consumers who do not pay a dime for the service, a platform and are not allowed to set any rules because FREEDOM. Someone will have to explain that First Amendment again one day to the “constitutional conservatives”.
1,300 patriots have joined the Tree of Liberty Facebook page, including a few of my own friends who are decidedly liberal. Cue another dizzying combination of self-pity meeting paranoia, and passing itself off as a Revolutionary War hero. All the world is a conspiracy against conservatives – they just know it.
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