Not a lot of time today, but enough time for a quick post!
More embarrassing things the administration couldn’t admit before midterms…..
This is actually a super easy mistake to make. Basically a decimal issue!
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Meanwhile, the hilarious Twitter freakout continues. (LOL @ “Twitter suspends journalists who wrote about owner Elon Musk” — as if that were the problem) Suddenly media outlets everywhere are super concerned about reporters getting banned from Twitter — as are the ‘experts’ holding political office.
Do you remember the media and governments leaping to the defense of Project Veritas, who was the target of FBI raids due to the Ashley Biden diary? How about defending the removal of Alex Jones from polite society? Of course not. If they even bothered to talk about these things, it was in full support of the censorship.
No, it’s only when THEIR club is affected that they suddenly think censorship is a danger. And I promise you, CNN isn’t the lifeblood of anything but a three-week reality-defying bender.
And while I hate Twitter drama, this is just too good not to post. Recently banned doxxing queen Taylor Lorenz is joined by LibsofTikTok (victim of one of these doxx attempts) in her live channel!
Yet none of these people cared even a little bit when respected scientists — and nobodies simply posting government data — were banned for ‘covid misinformation’. They didn’t care when it turned out Russiagate was a hoax AND EVERYBODY KNEW IT. And they didn’t care for the same reason that they don’t care about the Twitter Files now — they’re presstitutes, not journalists. They are in that position because of their willingness to follow every half-brained narrative pushed out by the DNC or whoever is actually running things here.
But the truth is…….
And if you don’t stick up for the right for your political enemies to speak, you don’t get to complain when the censors come for you.
This morning Twitter Files 7 dropped, and as always Brad as the unroll. This dump centers around Hunter’s laptop and the three-letter agencies attempts to kill the story — even though they were already in possession of the laptop (and thus knew it was true) by this time! Yet another instance of the FBI simply being a political weapon.
Just read the latest substack from Libs of TickTock. She certainly exemplifies that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. The hateful rhetoric thrown at her because of Taylor Lorenz https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/doxxing-libs-tiktok-creator-justified-rcna25280
In a recent interview, Matt Taibbi opined that because journalism has become untethered from its working-class roots, you get elites working hand in hand with institutions serving the elites. No wonder they want us little people labeled as terrorists.
Everybody's got a line where "freedom" stops, be it of expression, opinion, worship or other.
And that line comes long before you're affected personally and directly.
Take a hot-button issue in Europe, that no-one wants to touch: genital mutilation.
It's a clear violation of the rights of the child and assault on its bodily autonomy, as today's parlance has it.
Yet it is both legal and illegal at the same time, depending on the race of the perpetartor and the race of the child.
Jew? Legal and even a "right". Moslem? Depends on race and the gender of the child. Arab or negro and and a boy child? Legal. A girl? Illegal. (With variance in different jurisdictions.) Indigenous white europan? A heinous crime that may land you in an asylum for the criminally insane.
So clearly rights are dependent on race, not being a human?
Because if rights are dependent on being human and all humans have the same rights, well then either those races not mutilating children have it wrong, or the other ones have it wrong. Both can't be in the right at the same time.
If rights are dependent on race, and one race imposes its rights on all who share that race's territory, then right are a function of race and of compliance with the limitations of rights set by the race in charge.
And that is why the Mencken quote is wrong: it presupposes that those humans concerned already share the same fundamental values and codes for what is right and a right. When virtually everyone is a european(-descendend) white christian (of any denomination), at leastculturally, any conflict on rights will be at the margins: "topless beaches, yeah or nay?" type of disagreements.
But when you mix, you instead get "whistling in public is a sin against god-of-choice" or "unbelievers can't ride the same buses as true believers".
Good luck solving this!