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I'm not calling Russia a benign player, but this silly partisan obsession is an ever more transparent attempt to redirect attention from a much more powerful and dangerous foe. But we should rejoice for the good fortune of brilliant and selfless leadership, who know the best way to avoid a war is not to fight. Thus, we preemptively surrender.
How does one fight against widespread inverted morality in a democratic system?
https://silvatongue.medium.com/the-blessing-of-the-sussexian-dynasty-by-the-pontifex-angelus-ac436bcd417e
Oh yeah. Those folks. I'm actually unsure of how well known Meghan is in the US, and I'm rather bad at gauging public sentiment. At any rate, I highly doubt that she will gain any significant political traction over here. I'm inclined to think most Americans would be disposed to view her as conniving and manipulative, if they don't already. That said, I fully misjudged Trump and his chances when he threw his hat in the ring.
It amuses me to think; however, that if successful, First Gentleman Harry would probably be unable to help himself as he looks across the Pond at William, and proclaims "Mine is bigger."
Fortunately, the power of our collusive corporate media appears to be ebbing, as even the TDS afflicted are beginning to turn against the narratives they're pushing. The more the better as far as I'm concerned.
Welcome 
Stilakra. Please make yourself at home.
Appreciate the welcome.
Hey guys. I'm the Dragonborn. I got bored of my last region. I hope you have plenty of mead and scantily-clad women.
Well met, friend. The objects of thy quest are welcome here, so if thou seekest, perhaps thou mayest find.
who actually likes AOC?
The View-watching-Karens prefer Biden and Pelosi and the far left is now pissed at AOC and the Squad, as per Jimmy Dore.
Who likes AOC? who is her audience?
I've previously heard she has a sizable following on Twitch, and upon inspection, it looks like she's the second most popular streamer (ranked by the average concurrent viewers while live over the past 15 streams).
https://www.twitchmetrics.net/channels/popularity
She plays "Among Us". Sounds about right.
Looks like an 'internet radicalized extremist' attacked the Capitol...
:D :D :D :D
It sounds like there's a good chance the dude might have been suffering from some kind of paranoid psychosis according to what he was posting on Facebook.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/facebook-suspends-capitol-attacker-accounts
According to the article, he was talking about being mind controlled, suffered from afflictions from the FBI and CIA, and identified Farrakhan as Jesus. That said, I don't consider this to absolve the individual or these merchants of hate of their respective roles, either. Farrakhan has always been a crummy guy, and if the establishment press didn't keep peddling garbage that's remarkably similar in tone and substance to Farrakhan's, it would have been far less likely that someone who was mentally vulnerable would have thrown away his life to lash out against his perceived persecutors.
You racist bigot!!
I very much enjoy celebrating the holidays in this curious plane of Oblivion you call Earth. <gulps down mead>
Right on, crazy dragon dude!
The FUNNIEST Russia-Gate Headlines Of All Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr2SmniV0HY
This looks like Ryan Long's blogging template sketch, narrowed down to Russia weaponizes _______.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7VEx2dviNk
I've really been enjoying this Project Veritas versus CNN saga. And now Twitter's predictably jumping to CNN's defense by permanently suspending O'Keefe for operating "fake accounts". And they're getting sued for it on the basis that they're allegedly lying with malice and reckless disregard for the truth. How fun.
The only way to take down Big Tech is through class action suing. The right needs to get organized and start boycotting back as well. Trump has already appealed to doing it.
Well, I don't know that suing is the only way, but it's a good avenue to pursue. And this lawsuit from PV, which history suggests has a very competent legal team, has the potential to open the door to more legal action against Twitter, and possibly other tech platforms that ban content creators for false or unprovable reasons.
There's also the political route, with reform of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, but we're not going to see that for at least the next 2-4 years, and even then Republicans may obstruct it if they're the ones in power. One of the best things I can hope for is that that Big Tech continues its reign of terror and alienates too many people, who otherwise would be content to let them monopolize the fora for political and civil dialogue. They're not just making enemies of the right (a term I'm not even sure I know the meaning of). They're after conservatives, moderates, libertarians and classical liberals, social liberals, and even left-populists. We know well enough, they will even eat each other. What remains is mostly a creature of the illiberal left that beguiles the politically inattentive by wearing the name of liberalism like a ill-fitting skin.
As for "Section 230", I believe the offending clauses are 47 U.S. Code § 230 (c)
(1) Treatment of publisher or speaker: No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.
(2) (A) No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected
Of course, we know that these protections are allowing providers of interactive computer services to be de facto publishers, since they can and in many cases do, effectively exercise editorial authority over any content on their platforms. They furthermore, use their massive (and dare I say 'privileged'?) positions within their markets to both individually and collusively monopolize public discourse (and beyond) based on largely partisan political lines. The former could be outlawed by modifying legal protections that have been systematically gamed, while the latter is most likely already against the law but will go unused until there is a political will for it.
Lastly, I'm inclined to think (maybe hope) that the market will erode the power of Big Tech on its own, as newer (and for my purposes, mostly superior) platforms begin to compete in their traditional domains. Historically speaking, it's hard for monopolies to maintain their market power for long, at least without direct government intervention on their behalf. And when you watch Silicon Valley (and Wall Street and major Fortune 500 companies) engage in what appears to be not-profit-motivated suppression of half the politically engaged population, it's almost like they don't want to maintain their dominant market positions...
Largely because of the injudicious behavior of these corporatists, there's also a new awareness among people who have been too complacent for too long (on some level, myself among them) to simply allow companies to invade their privacy and feed them misinformation. Boycotts are fine by me, since turnabout is fair play. And it really shouldn't be that hard to abstain in many cases, since good alternatives often exist, but we also need more people to populate, use, and make content for these newer and fundamentally better competitors.
Come on people, try new things.
Apparently Gab and Substack are trying that route.
Oh look, another Russia hoax. I am caught by surprise. Who could have seen that 1 coming...
Tucker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HCFv6CX2H8
Dore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi9IwQFHJQE
Sure. I don't really use (or like) Twitter-like social media, but it's nice to have Gab and Parler competing with them. And Substack is also a nice way to promote a direct line of communication between writers and their audience, while removing the gatekeepers/middlemen.
MeWe also describes itself as an anti-Facebook. It not only doesn't have the political censorship of Facebook, it also is supposed to be really good about privacy and features a Privacy Bill of Rights, and has a straight forward newsfeed algorithm. I think Minds and Locals might also belong in roughly this category, although I'm not sufficiently familiar with them to know for sure.
As for Facebook's WhatsApp spyware, we've got Signal and Telegram as pretty good encrypted alternatives.
Instead of Google, I use Duckduckgo. Plus there are plenty of other options including Startpage, SwissCows, Qwant, Gigablast, and Mojeek. Obviously, many of these search engines have various levels of dependence on Google and Bing, but they mostly improve privacy and anonymity relative to the more popular search engine choices. As for results, it's questionable whether (1) personalized results improve the user experience (I don't think I can say my experience has been improved from this feature), and (2) whether it is desirable to allow search engines like Google to curate content, and promote/demote results based on anything other than relevance.
We're also seeing some promising competition beginning to chip away at YouTube (much of which is again their own fault). As they promote content from corporate sponsors and a handful of ultra-monitizeable personalities to the detriment of their independent content creators, and as they variously harass and ban creators who promote inconvenient narratives, people are leaving and setting up shop at places like Odysee, Rumble, Bitchute, and Rokfin. In particular, I'm optimistic about Odysee, which is a decentralized platform based on LBRY, and which is not tightly moderated at the platform level, and theoretically impossible to moderate at the blockchain level. Unfortunately, they're currently being harassed by the SEC, so I hope they can come away relatively unscathed.
I also used to like Firefox at one time, but I've fallen out of love with them because of their fairly recent stance promoting internet censorship and social engineering. Couple that with their increased propensity to monitor and even run social experiments on users, and I decided it was time to look elsewhere. So far, my favorite alternative is their GNU counterpart, IceCat, which runs off of the Firefox ESR, but removes Mozilla's telemetry and adds in a few security features. As for Chrome alternatives, Ungoogled Chromium seems like a solid choice, while I think Iridium is most of the way to being at the same standard (just turn off a few extra options). However, I've found that in general my favorite Chromium based browser is Brave, which has some extra privacy features and is generally supposed to be faster than Chrome, but there are a fair few extra options that should be turned off in order to maximize privacy.
I'm soon going to be experimenting with Linux distros, and am also optimistic about the future of Linux smart phones. The next time I get a new phone, I'll probably be deciding between the Purism Librem 5, a more mainstream phone to install with Graphene, Replicant, or Lineage OS, or an otherwise de-Googled phone.
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