redstate.com By Teri Christoph
While I’d love to believe that Donald Trump’s win in November has led leftists like Mark Zuckerberg to rethink their oh-so-skewed priorities, the sad fact of the matter is these recent course reversals are merely business decisions based on the fallout from Trump’s win and Elon Musk’s success with X.
If I sound bitter, it’s because I am.
Yes, it’s amusing to watch the Silicon Valley bros make the trek to Mar-a-Lago to pay homage to the president-elect, but I, like many other conservatives, have been on the receiving end of the Zuckerbergs of the world trying to shut me up simply because my politics are different.
Before I go full throttle with my story, here’s something I like to tell my kids when they wonder which side is telling the truth: The side that’s trying to silence others are the liars. This is a complete rip-off from the teachings of the great Dennis Prager, but it consistently holds true.
And, oh how Zuck did silence us.
A bit of backstory. Back in 2008, I helped found an online group for conservative women called Smart Girl Politics. We were a virtual-only organization and heavily relied on social media to help us organize and grow, something we did very successfully during the Tea Party years. Because we were a volunteer-only group with very little funding, the activist part of the group fizzled out around 2015.
But I loved the brand and kept it alive through our Facebook page. We tried to keep up with the times and changing algorithms, eventually becoming a conservative meme page. I set our Facebook tagline as: “Mocking the left, one meme at a time.” Like most right-leaning pages, we got an occasional slap on the wrist for crossing what Facebook considered to be “the line,” but we mostly flew below the radar…
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