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Rich, we are so sorry.
We have empathy for you, brother.
Slog has deleted about 30 of our accounts and hundreds of posts for the crime of expressing opinions that, while on topic and respectful, dared to differ from the Leftist Orthodoxy.
Together let us fight the good fight for uncensored expression and free discourse.
It would be a shame to have to drag the ACLU into it...
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Poor butterfly! Look in your own backyard when it comes to hiding peoples comments, restricting people or outright banning people who dare to differ in opinion from your echo chamber. It’s probably why even the online readership and “Shares” are minimal at best. I recommend a crying towel for your tears of oppression and those future days at unemployment office as The Stranger becomes less and less relevant.
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The Stranger isn't a government entity, and it's writers aren't government officials, so they can censor content all they like.
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Washington’s US Congresswoman McMorris Rodgers (R) blocked me and deleted every single one of my past comments. Others’ too. Why? No idea. I called her offices to ask, was promised a response that never came. Pre-ghosting, I disagreed w her at almost every turn. As often as she posted. Could that be why? What a snowflake.
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They can,
but it is pretty hypocritical to whine about politicians who delete your comment when you work for the Mad Deleter.

And,
while certainly not illegal,
it is a very grim development for our free open society that those who claim the title of Liberalism, which once was THE champion of free speech in America (I may disagree with what you say but will defend with my life your right to say it...)
have instead adopted the tactic of branding anyone who votes or opines or thinks differently from them a NAZI! and striving to eliminate their opportunities to expression.

That practice damages society at large;
but it is especially destructive to those who practice it.
The refusal to even expose oneself to different ideas and opinions leaves one mentally weak and unprepared to function in the larger world,
and tends to foster adherence to faulty principles that do not work in the real world and do not sell well in the political free marketplace of ideas.

That phenomenon was grandly displayed in:
1 Hillary's shitty campaign, that was woefully out of touch with America at large but also with large segments of her base
2 The inability/refusal of The Left (Democrat Party, Media (CNN, Rachael Maddow et al, etc) etc) to even contemplate the possibility that America would reject their message and candidate
3 The frightening levels of disfunction, delusion and hysteria after the election among The Left, particularly on college campuses.
4 The subsequent Trump Derangement Syndrome in which The Left fixates on its petty hatred of Trump (and his hair and his kids and etc) while refusing to address the structural flaws within its message and methods. and seems to so far have learned nothing from the defeat in 2016.

The Left's control of most of the "News" Media and Cultural outlets (Hollywood, etc) make it easy to fall into the trap of thinking your's is the only true way.
Conservatives (and, increasingly, people in the middle, as The Left veers into ever more extreme positions- for example see the post on Slog recently sneeringly dismissive of 'prayer') are used to having themselves and their beliefs trashed and ridiculed in the popular culture and by mainstream news outlets and it toughens them up for the battle in the marketplace of ideas (it also, however, fosters a seething raging contempt for those smug elites that is a powerful motivator to get them to the polls; and motivator to stick with Trump, not in spite of but because of the hatred and contempt the Leftist Elites heap on him)

Just as The Arc of The Moral Universe bends toward Justice,
The Truth will prevail, eventually; Always.
If one's positions and opinions are correct exposing them to the buffetings of disagreement, even ridicule, will only polish and sharpen them.

The Truth does not need to be hidden or protected from opposition,
it is The Sword which will banish Error and Confusion.

En Garde!
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ps
Often what gets accounts banned is posting FBI statistics or CDC data (gathered by the Obama administration) unfiltered and unedited.
We find that puzzling, but especially sad.
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@9 - lol no
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Ha! I find this so hypocritical. I replied to Ms Sawant, probably you're a huge supporter, on social media too. As a decade long resident on the hill, I was asking about street lighting and an alley in poor condition. I asked her to please put down the need for the national spotlight, and attacks on Donnie, and help her constituents. She proceeded to not only block my comment, but to entirely block one of her constituents.
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"The Left's control of most of the "News" Media and Cultural outlets "

if that isn't trolling, what is? can this fucker once again
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@7 I am not, as well as many others who come here, interested in reading the "opinions" (mostly propaganda and lies) of right-wing activists who come trolling these pages every day even though they disagree with almost all the content.
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Does the stranger boot trolls? There seem to be a lot of right wingers here anyhow. I like to know the enemy, and I find them a lot more cogent than the commentariat over at the PI, which is some of the worst in the country. Of course, I would probably be considered "right wing" by Seattle standards, despite voting Democratic 99% of the time. The Stranger accurately reflects the ultra-liberalism of the 700k people who live in Seattle, not the 1.4m of us who live in the rest of the county.
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@15 "ultra-liberalism"? LOL
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While Mr. Rossi’s censorship of criticism is not commendable, it’s not reasonable to expect a privileged white male Republican to accept critical examination. It does remind me of Rob McKenna’s https://www.thestranger.com/slog/archive…">snotty declaration that David Goldstein was not a journalist, and of McKenna’s hilarious http://soundpolitics.com/archives/014927…">refusal to speak at his own campaign event because a non-supporter started recording it. Neither event boded well for his political career.
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@16: yes, ultra-liberalism. Seattle is the second most liberal major city in the US, behind Oakland. That's a fact that Seattle people like to celebrate when it behooves them. But then when the rest of us point out that it might make them a tad outside the norm, we're the bad guys. There's a reason no Seattle Mayor has risen to state level leadership in over 60 years.
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@19 - Just gonna ignore that we recently had someone leave state leadership to be mayor?

Has anyone from King County every joined state leadership in the past 60 years or do those people not count either?

Do you always enjoy talking down to people you view as "ultra-liberal" or are you this full of yourself with everyone?

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