…In 2025 it is very likely that Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis will be appointing the replacement to Ms. Jankowicz.
And I suspect said replacement will not be all that inclined to show mercy on a left that has none.
But go ahead and create the position of Disinformation Czar over our objections but don’t be surprised if you discover that you don’t like the new rules.
I’ll leave you with this quote from Mitch McConnell:
If you want to play games and set yet another precedent that you’ll no doubt come to regret, I say to my friends on the other side of the aisle: You’ll regret this, and you may regret it sooner than you might think,
What doomed CNN+? How rival strategies and executive intrigue fueled the streaming service’s rapid demise
Seriously, it’s because of rival strategies and executive intrigue that CNN+ failed. How about the idea that it was trying to get a population to pay for a product that they haven’t been able to give away free.
God how stupid do they think we are?
Nothing illustrates how deadly the idea of people being able to make their case to the general public without leftist censorship to the electoral prospects of Democrats as the complete and utter meltdown of the left over the Elon Musk purchase of Twitter.
Again when your opponents have bad arguments it’s not hard to dispute them, when they have better arguments that’s the time to rethink your positions or panic. The left has chosen the later
As Ann Althouse put it: “It’s interesting how much free speech the opponents of free of speech already have.”
Anyone surprised by Russia’s move to cut of Gas to Poland and Bulgaria has no sense of history or of how Russia thinks.
In terms of how they think, anyone who has followed this history of the last 200 years knows that once Russians decide someone is their enemy no amount of local hardship is unendurable if it causing said enemies to suffer. That’s how Putin will sell it to his people and they’ll buy it.
Secondly all of the history of the last forty years of the USSR & Russia funding groups in the west to decrease energy self sufficiency was precisely for this eventually where Russia would force their potential foes into tough choices.
Not sure how this ends.
Speaking of Russia and the war while I distrust all the various sources all we have seen thus far shows the weakness of the crony system of procurement.
When you’re busy stealing and skimming it can be a problem when suddenly the equipment you have turns out to be substandard. Furthermore in a Kleptocrocary which in many ways Russia is the idea that you would use state funds to enrich yourself rather than solve a problem is considered the norm.
It’s very possible that the Russia’s performance in the war in Ukraine is the natural end result and this time around there won’t be the US sending convoys of arms and equipment to save them.
Finally I got an oil bill earlier this month that perfectly illustrates the cost of a stolen election.
It was a split bill for the 180 gallons of oil I got. Half of it was priced at the pre-pay price that I paid under Trump before the election. The other half showed the current price under Biden.
You can talk about the costs of a stolen election in terms of what it’s done to our country, our foreign policy and our freedoms but I have a concrete figure of how much this stolen election is costing me in cash. And that cost is a full week’s take home pay every time oil is delivered.
Multiply that times every voter who sees snow and cold in the winter and that tells me that they’ll have be even more blatant next time to push that walking corpse in the White House over the line.
Posted: April 27, 2022 by datechguy in Uncategorized
The degree of panic over Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter has been even more fun then watching Basketball folks melt down over Brooklyn being swept in the 1st round of the NBA Playoffs.
Stelter on Elon Musk buying Twitter: "If you get invited to something where there are no rules, where there is total freedom for everybody, do you actually want to go to that party or are you going to decide to stay home?" pic.twitter.com/rhSmF04OUk
For those concerned that they will suddenly be exposed to all kinds of “hate” speech (which the left defines as any speech they hate) let me introduce you to two features included in Twitter, the “Block” and the “Mute” buttons.
For this example I will use Tweetdeck because that is what I use.
Let’s say you see a tweet that you don’t like say this one:
Now for the record I wouldn’t block someone for this tweet but for the purposes of this example I am going to do so and because people on twitter can sometimes resemble a bad high school clique I’ve put out the fact that I’m doing said muting and blocking only as a demo.
So lets say however I got angry at this tweet and wanted it out of my timeline I have two options: The “Mute” and the “Block” features.
The “Mute” button allows one to remove someone from your timeline without actually blocking them completely. The “Block” button blocks someone completely and they become aware that they are blocked if they try to reply to you or access your tweets.
Here is my timeline before using the “Mute” button.
Now once I click on the tweet and choose “Mute” either within tweetdeck (left) or twitter proper.
tweetdeck on left twitter on right
And presto the offending person and/or tweet is removed from the timeline
Now if you decide you change your mind because let’s say someone does a Rick Wilson and decides to join your side for money you can reverse this as well Simply go to the menu the same way
And viola the tweet is back in your timeline
Be aware you will likely have to refresh your browser for the tweets to return.
Note that in the above example the “Block” choice is there on the same menu so I won’t repeat the example as the images would be redundant. To “Block” someone do the same thing as you would with “Mute” and vice versa.
So this means that if a person sees speech that distresses them they are only a few clicks away from making sure they do not see that speech in their timeline and/or the person who generated said speech.
Now I’m slightly surprised that the folks having fits on the left weren’t aware of this feature and must be reassured by this post knowing they don’t have to be exposed to any speech they “hate”.
Why given their reaction you might think their real problem was people being able to see counter arguments to the things they claim, argument that they are unable to refute because their own points can’t stand up under fire instead of just eliminating what they call “hate speech”.
Posted: April 26, 2022 by datechguy in Uncategorized
I’m slightly confused.
Were not people on the right told that if they didn’t like twitter there was nothing stopping them from making their own?
I mean if the left wants to make their own version of twitter that ruthlessly censors anyone who disagrees with them, I’m sure there are plenty of leftists with money who could begin a start-up. They could call it “Pravda”
In fact they would be in a position to poach hundreds if not thousands of current twitter employees who are in a state of grief and panic over their pending inability to censor others.
And with the Biden Administration in power it is very unlikely that any agency would make any attempt to put up legal roadblocks to do so.
So c’mon leftists show us how much people want to stand with you. I’m sure many celebs would be anxious to delete their twitter accounts and switch to demonstrate their wokeness to the world. I’m sure tens of millions can’t wait to join your alternative.
Aren’t you?
I mean if the right is capable of starting GAB and TRUTH surely you can do what they did?
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