https://twitter.com/Schwarzenegger/status/1348249481284874240?s=20
This is a good message. Arnold’s got his head screwed on straight. Too bad he represents a tiny minority of the Republican party.
Arnold (@Schwarzenegger) Tweeted: My message to my fellow Americans and friends around the world following this week’s attack on the Capitol. https://t.co/blOy35LWJ5
https://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/1348263036243628032?s=20
I like it.
Dr Sarah Taber (@SarahTaber_bww) Tweeted: live by the bourgeois respectability politics, die by the bourgeois respectability politics
Cognoscente of Cognomens (@ShimminyKricket) Tweeted: Trump is genuinely popular with millions of people. That fact can’t be sidestepped with nonsense like “brainwashing”. Trump is an accurate reflection of part of what America is.
https://twitter.com/ShimminyKricket/status/1348010949496733696?s=20
Yup. It was unfortunate of Hillary to put it like she did, but there is a sizeable chunk of people in this country who are locked in to their positions of believing the old days were the best and they want to go back, no matter what.
And that’s putting it charitably. Some folks are just outright white supremacists and want to take what isn’t theirs, plain and simple. We can talk about the psychology of that, but it’s the state of things.
And while I’m nattering: in this part of the world, it’s a problem with white folks, but in other parts of the world, there’s plenty of ugliness without whiteness being in play. Check out this essay: https://medium.com/@nettlefish/beyond-authenticity-the-spectre-of-han-hegemony-c1e3b5fc1b98. Also, consider what’s happening with Hindu nationalism in India these days. It’s not just a matter of a national people asserting themselves in the face of white hegemony.
This is an old enough problem that 2,500 (or so) year old scripture has something to say: “When an alien resides with you in your land, you shall not oppress the alien. The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt….”
https://twitter.com/notcapnamerica/status/1347936382669484037?s=20
Popcorn. Also, takemymoney.gif.
chris evans (@notcapnamerica) Tweeted: Stacey Abrams is preparing for a rematch against Brian Kemp. https://t.co/WKbdWIzHUi
Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) Tweeted: After Trump leaves office it will be a private individual fighting a private or public company. That is also NOT a violation of the First Amendment. When the government or an agent of the government intervenes – that is a violation of Free speech.
https://twitter.com/BrianKarem/status/1347925399049818117?s=20
Aaaand, we’re off.
Welcome back to our continuing conversation about what “free speech” actually is.
1. Stop bitching about social media, and get a blog.
2. Host it on your own cloud instance (I’ve only done step 1 so far).
3. Host it on your own physical server.
4. In another country. (If you need to do this, Something Bad is happening, and it might be you. Check yourself. Maybe should’ve checked yourself at step 3.)
https://twitter.com/sarahleah1/status/1347938722113847296?s=20
Hopefully, whatever laws are written will have good safeguards against abuse, but, yeah, we’ve seen what happens when we just trust other people to do the right thing.
On the one hand, society runs on trust. On the other hand, blind trust and passivity eventually don’t work out well. (Yes, yes, I’m talking to myself. Especially now that I’m past social media’s character limit.)
Sarah Leah Whitson (@sarahleah1) Tweeted: The apparently coordinated @twitter @facebook & @Google @parler_app suspensions, to be followed by a domestic terrorism law, at a vulnerable moment for our country, feel like the Patriot Act rushed out after 9/11. I’ve seen how bans on “bad” speech play out around the world.🙊
Jonathan Ladd (@jonmladd) Tweeted: One thing political scientists have found is that failed coups are often followed by successful coups.
https://twitter.com/jonmladd/status/1347571793201127424?s=20
Like any many volcanoes, I guess. Little eruptions and then the mountaintop gets blown off.
Hopefully, not as inevitable.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/09/us-capitol-attackers-violence-rural-west
Time to put an end to this. Prosecute, fine, jail. Bring in enough firepower to truly uproot and end it. Money and lives saved by pussyfooting around will be overbalanced by the eventual damage caused by allowing these people to continue their behavior. As we’ve seen now.
«It was a weird mix. Remember, this was everyone who’d been on the floor. In one corner, you had all the Republicans who think we stole the election. You can see people looking, thinking, The people outside are here because of what you’re doing. We were also concerned about the fact that many of them don’t wear masks. Some of them were saying they were glad the “protesters” were there. Everybody else, including many Republicans, was figuring out what’s happening, what’s going on with our institution, with our society, with our democracy. And how do we get back? We knew we had to finish that night.»
I wonder if Hawley has reached his high-water mark. Or if an apology and three years of hard work as a senator will be enough to erase people’s memory.
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