{"id":10429,"date":"2013-08-24T13:50:33","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T20:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10429"},"modified":"2013-08-24T13:50:33","modified_gmt":"2013-08-24T20:50:33","slug":"tomorrows-conservative-facebook-blackout-a-great-day-to-be-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10429","title":{"rendered":"Tomorrow’s Conservative Facebook Blackout: A Great Day To Be On Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conservatives have selected Sunday, August 25, 2013, as the day they will show Facebook a thing or two. Their ingrained paranoid hysteria leads them to believe that Facebook is discriminating against them by censoring their racist and violent posts and pages. But they aren’t sitting still for it, and have issued this challenge:<\/p>\n

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“We are organizing a nationwide “blackout” of Facebook to protest their arbitrary and capricious policies targeting conservatives with censoring and suspensions. We are asking for all conservatives to suspend (deactivate) their accounts for at least 24 hours on August 25th.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So far the Facebook Event page promoting the Great Facebook Blackout<\/a> shows about 28,000 people pledging to “deactivate”<\/em> their Facebook accounts. That amounts to approximately 2\/1,000 of one percent of Facebook’s membership. Zuckerberg must be shaking in his Birkenstocks.<\/p>\n

This is typical of the whining that emanates from the right whenever they invent some atrocity being thrust upon them. However, as usual, there is no evidence that their protestations are legitimate. Just like their opposition to reforms addressing health care, climate change, voting rights, gun safety, education, and the economy, teabagging right-wingers assert unsupported allegations and then mount hokey protests to combat the phoney complaint they invented.<\/p>\n

This latest wingnut declaration of war is not the first time they have ventured to target Facebook. Last January they even launched an alternative to Facebook<\/a> that they predicted would lure all the conservatives away. If that had been successful, of course, there wouldn’t be any Facebook conservatives to join in Sunday’s blackout.<\/p>\n

The good news is that the 28,000 blackout participants are probably among the most vocal and annoying conservatives on the InterTubes. And with them signing off for the day it will be like a picnic free of those pesky red army ants. So liberals should take advantage of the holiday and enjoy themselves for that 24 hour period free of racist, ignorant, blather inspired by Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Fox News.<\/p>\n

And while you’re at it…Be Sure To \u201cLIKE\u201d News Corpse On Facebook<\/a>
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