The Inequity of Free Speech
A few people were whining about alt-right hate monger Richard Spencer being suspended from Twitter in response to the suspension of Peter Douche, because, you know, Free Speech ™.
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The difference? Richard Spencer is a hateful son of a bitch who uses his various platforms to intimidate anyone who isn't a white, 'culturally christian', or male. Peter Douche was a parody of neoliberal assholes who insist that their choice to side with the economic royalists will somehow benefit everyone even when there's a mountain of evidence to the contrary (Looking at you, Peter Daou).
We are seeing the left being punched the fuck down by virtually everyone. Okay, left-wing folks have had, at best, a few token victories over the last few weeks. But what do you suppose is going to happen in 2018? Or 2020? Or beyond? We'll just be punched the fuck down again. It's what the system, and dumbass 'Murican plebs, do best. All while whining about Free Speech ™ for Richie or Milo, or worse, defending abusers like Al Franken, Harvey Weinstein, Dipshit Trump or Roy Moore.
If the real left doesn't start fighting back, and I mean NOW, the entirety of humanity is f-u-c-k-e-d, fucked.
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See ya around,
Aspie
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Two punch downs is sufficient for bread dough
and two too many for humans. Why do they hate us so? Or do they fear we will leap from the bread bowl and do them harm? I am thinking latter now. If only we could organize...
Could I start a rumor of a big meetup, say in Ft Worth? Could we make those turkeys jerk on our strings?Is it even worth it, or will I be disappeared? My dog would be sad. Jefferson City might be better. Columbia, somewhere middle.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
@riverlover
They fear a yeasty uprising into their stolen dough.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Taxes on Corporations Make Them Reinvest
In the company.
No or low taxation sees them pocket that shit.
Super simple, elegant capitalist dogma right there.
Don’t believe me? Ask a RWer if they believe that corporate will pass on their tax savings to their workers.
The hearty guffaw will give you the answer.
“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ~ Sun Tzu
Many people do believe this in Utah
it's beyond bizarre how many people here think that they are going to come out better after the tax cuts. They are in the middle class or upper middle class and it doesn't seem to matter how many people tell them that their tax cuts will go away in 7 years, they still believe this.
And they believe that corporations will pass their cuts on to their employees. Corporations have $2.3 trillion in off shore accounts so that they don't have to pay taxes on their profits.
Sure some of the rich will buy new cars, homes and TVs, but the corporations are going to buy back more of their stocks. They will not pay their workers higher wages because their shareholders don't want them wasting their money on us peons.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
I Believe the 1st, But Not the 2nd Point
“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ~ Sun Tzu
I can't wait to read "An Inconvenient Douche".
Wonder who Pat a/k/a Peter Douche will get to publish it?
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Agree.
We need to herd the cats soon. Very soon.
the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.
Big difference between Richard Spencer and Peter Douche
Richard Spencer has been in clear violation of Twitter rules.
Peter Douche's account is clearly within the rules for a parody account. It clearly stated that it was a parody account and used a different last name than that of the person being parodied.
We are moving into areas of censorship in advance of the death of net neutrality. It will get worse, not better.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Two legs are better than four
While many of us see this coming, it'll be a rude awakening when the final ban hammer hits for the useful idiots who can't seem to see past the partisan divide.
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier