Category: Politics

Here’s your headline for covering this @elonmusk / Fake Hunter shitshow:

Dear Media,Here’s your headline for covering this @elonmusk/Fake Hunter shitshow:The new CEO of Twitter who replatforms Nazis and posts memes praising Hitler hired a red-pilled MAGA propagandist to smear the sitting President of the United States of America.You’re welcome— Andrew Wortman (@AmoneyResists) December 3, 2022

Elon Musk and Matt Taibbi’s First Amendment follies.

No, You Do Not Have a Constitutional Right to Post Hunter Biden’s Dick Pic on Twitter

Now if you are one of the normals—someone who would never think about posting another person’s penis on your social media account; has no desire to see politicians’ kids’ penises when scrolling social media; doesn’t understand why there are other people out there who care one way or another about the moderation policies surrounding stolen penis photos; or can’t even figure out what it is that I’m talking about—then this might seem like a gratuitous matter for an article. Sadly, it is not.

Because among Republican members of Congress, leading conservative media commentators, contrarian substackers, conservative tech bros, and friends of Donald Trump, the ability to post Hunter Biden’s cock shots on Twitter is the number-one issue in America this weekend. They believe that if they are not allowed to post porno, our constitutional republic may be in jeopardy.

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What mainstream journalism hates to admit

What mainstream journalism hates to admit is that bigots are a major element of the gop base (prob the biggest). They like to delude themselves into believing republicans are the nice people they meet in dc who merely have good faith disagreement on taxes etc, not the bigots.— Oliver Willis (@owillis) November 28, 2022

A Personal Apology to Young Americans for Failing to Stop Ronald #Reagan

(commondreams.org) Summary via Wil Wheaton: Great article by Thom Hartmann (whose articles are always worth reading). Hartmann argues that Reagan’s deregulatory, uber-free market, pro-corporate, anti-labor, anti-higher education, and/or low taxation for the rich policies ultimately contributed to:  Greater generational income inequality. “Boomers in their 30s [in  1990] owned 21.3 [%] of the nation’s wealth,” whereas “Millennials in their … Continue reading “A Personal Apology to Young Americans for Failing to Stop Ronald #Reagan”

People refusing to be honest about what 2020 was like

Calling bullshit on people refusing to be honest about what 2020 was like. It wasn’t subtle. Trump crashed america. Bread lines. Millions unemployed. Thousands dying of Covid every day. Unrest in the streets. A lawless maniac prez trying to get generals to attack the people— Luke Zaleski (@ZaleskiLuke) November 24, 2022

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