My shot of schadenfreude with regard to the Trump Tweets has nothing to do with this. There was no possible exposure of mighty Facebook to civil liability for maintaining the SEP accounts, unlike the Trump Tweet situation where incitation to violence was a factor. There was no reason whatsoever for Facebook to have done this.

To all who are to the left of Ronald Reagan politically, I have this message, from "Patmos John's Bad Acid Trip":

"Come out of her, people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues!"

-- paraphrase of part of Christian Scriptures, Revelation 18:4 (KJV)

Theists who want a serious scare should read Rev. 18 with Facebook in mind. A Facebook account really has become everything Patmos John said about "the mark of the Beast" (Rev. 13:16-18)

Julian is the bellwether. Truth will not be tolerated if it paints the US in a bad light (ie tells the truth about the empire).

I never did join spacebook nor twitter. Corporate power isn't about people, it is about profit and controlling the narrative.

Thanks for the links!

Thai woman jailed for record 43 years for criticising monarchy

A Thai woman has been jailed for 43 years for criticising the royal family, the country's harshest ever sentence for insulting the monarchy.

The former civil servant, known only as Anchan, posted audio clips from a podcast on social media.

The 63-year-old said she had simply shared the audio files and had not commented on the content.

Thailand's lèse-majesté law, which forbids any insult to the monarchy, is among the strictest in the world.

After a three-year break, Thailand revived the controversial law late last year in an attempt to curb months of anti-government protests, with demonstrators demanding changes to the monarchy.

Anchan pleaded guilty to 29 separate violations of sharing and posting clips on YouTube and Facebook between 2014 and 2015, her lawyer told the Reuters news agency.

She was initially sentenced to 87 years, but this was cut in half because of her guilty plea.

The trial was held behind closed doors and the evidence against the defendant kept secret for reasons of national security.

...at the end of 2020, would shine on Communism, of all things. Nobody expected to see a potential utopia in the East like a shining beacon on the hill — a place where there was no poverty and everyone had a home they could afford, a way to earn money, and access to the most technologically advanced infrastructure on earth.

They certainly didn't expect Berne Sanders to deliver to the Left an idea whose time had come — a Socialist dream that would not die, no matter how many times Bernie was defeated, or how loudly these ideas were ridiculed.

The political Left brought an inconvenient perspective that always required crushing, as far back as early slavery. The perspective of the Left caused problems during the industrial revolution, and with their growing vision for world peace; the establishment of the League of Nations, and the rise of worker rights and the labor movements, and the push for unions and labor solidarity, not to mention the rise of women and the Equal Rights Amendment — ALL OF IT HAD TO BE CRUSHED. It had to be criminalized, vandalized, scandalized, and demonized. The LEFT was never tolerated in American Politics.

The Political Left was silenced by FDR's economic justice. It was vilified by the McCarthy hearings and demoralized during the Vietnam war. Over the next few decades, the populist bounty and oversight from the New Deal was systematically torn away from the People, and clawed back by the Overlords. But then, the Internet revealed the universal Political spectrum of all national governments — which spans from the Plutocratic Right to the Socialist Left. And there it was! The empty unfilled bench in US politics, where authentic Leftist principles finally had a designated place at the podium.

The Left was heard, but they were not clamoring for the Democratic Party and the statues que. They were the People — all the People together as the kind of Society that wants to build a civilization for themselves. The voice and consciousness of Society was heard, and it spoke about improving the lives of all the People. Not to incubate billionaires and corporate monopolies, and greedy politicians. But to further the development and joy of humanity. On the Internet, the Left had the moral compass and generated spiritual gravity, which drew in the like-minded and the emerging generations that will inherit all of it, just as we did.

So, once more, the Privileged Overlords must rise up and crush the Left. They believe if they silence the words that the Left speak — and the principles of decency and justice they stand for, they can somehow extinguish these ideas. What's upsetting them and spurring them on, is that the Left is urgently expressing the manifest truth of the times — and there is no force more powerful than that.

The Left need look no further than China to see one example of how the People's social dreams — no matter how utopian or grandiose — can be accomplished right on schedule by an accountable government of the People, by the People, and for the People. The Left knows what those words really mean and who our civilization really belongs to.

My guess.

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