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Biden avoids firm position on Trump impeachment as House Dems ramp up | Fox News
If he doesn’t take a position, that makes Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA-12) the official Democrat position. Which means it’s his position. He can’t avoid that. He is now the official head of the Democratic party.
Wanting to silence contrary views doesn’t imply that you have confidence in your own.
Israelis Wonder Why Twitter Silenced Trump But Not Khamenei (israeltoday.co.il)
What’s got Israelis all across the political spectrum frustrated is the fact that the Jewish state has for years been pressing Facebook and Twitter to ban incitement to violence against Israel from the likes of Iran, Palestinian terror groups and others. But the response has always been that freedom of speech must be protected.
Explain to me, how is it that President #Trump can be suspended from @Twitter, but the President of Iran, @khamenei_ir, who literally calls for genocide of Israel, violence to Americans and denies the Holocaust, is allowed to stay on?
— Arsen Ostrovsky (@Ostrov_A) January 9, 2021
cc. @TwitterSafety @Policy @jack pic.twitter.com/gBywZO0TCI
On this day in 1964, the U.S. Surgeon General announced a definitive link between smoking and cancer.
I signed up for it almost two years ago, but I spent more time on it this weekend than I had total up to this point.
Why? It’s just Twitter, redone. And I don’t like Twitter. It’s a time sink. Nothing useful comes out of it.
Perhaps I am being too harsh on Parler. Time will tell, I guess.
No, it’s not so much Parler I’m defending as it is freedom of speech. I find the attacks on free speech that we’ve seen so far in 2021 to be terrifying. Maybe I’m being Chicken Little. I hope so. But I fear not.
Free speech and the ability to express political ideas is a societal pressure-relief valve. That relief valve is being slammed shut, and the consequences are entirely predictable, particularly combined with organized efforts to get Trump supporters fired and made unemployable.
Democrats and their tech oligopoly friends are drunk with internet power, and feel all-powerful. If history shows us anything, it is that those who seek to repress free expression inevitably increase the repression, and the people repressed find a way to push back. In China, The Communist Party has increased repression through internet control and deplatforming dissenting voices through extensive social media monitoring. It can happen here, and it is. Tech oligopolies have learned well from the Chinese Communist Party.
Parler is the canary in the coal mine. Whether it surives or not, internet repression by tech oligopolies is making the national atmosphere more toxic by the day.
I think that’s very right.
But really, it’s all been said.
Back when I was really making an effort on this blog, I would write out lots of long, well thought out posts. And I am sure that I will do some of that still.
But, I really didn’t add all that much to the discourse. One, hardly anyone read my blog. Probably now, no one does. And two, as I said above, it’s all been said before.
No, this blog is most effective for me as a memory tool. And I think I will continue to use it as such. That means shorter posts, more links.
I don’t know about you, but I find it odd that despite all the claims that President Trump (R-USA) incited violence last week, I haven’t actually seen or heard any quotes of him doing that.
So, I saved you the trouble and looked them up myself. What I found is simply amazing.
- You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about.
- You get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. You tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.
- Go to the Hill today. Please, get up in the face of some congresspeople.
- If there is some collateral damage for some others who do not share our view, well, so be it.
- When they go low, we kick them.
- What we’ve got to do is fight in Congress, fight in the courts, fight in the streets.
- I want to be very clear we’re not asking you for patience. And we’re not asking you for pacifism.
- Everyone beware. They’re not gonna stop before election day in November, and they’re not gonna stop after election day. They’re not gonna let up and they should not.
- There needs to be unrest in the streets.
Wow, that’s quite a laundry list. I had no idea.
Oh wait. These things were said by Democrats.
More here:
This is what you get when you vote for Democrats.
I’ve read a number of disturbing reports from lefties that Parler does the same sorts of things to them that Twitter does to conservatives, bans for no apparent reason, etc. All of the evidence is anecdotal, but it’s anecdotal for Twitter too.
I hope it’s not true. I don’t want it to be true. I don’t want something that’s the opposite of Twitter. I want something that is better than Twitter.
Will continue to follow up on this.
