The deadly triumph of the paranoid style

Via: Bob Nelson  •  The Beacon  •  3 Comments  •  5 years ago

“"Dwight Eisenhower was a 'dedicated, conscious agent of the communist conspiracy' "”

Politicians' lies are not new. The capacity to distribute them is.

Twitter removed a lot more abusive content in the second half of 2020 than ever before

Via: Bob Nelson  •  The Beacon  •  2 Comments  •  5 years ago

“Twitter is getting better at moderating its platform”

Completely free speech is a race to the deepest point in the septic tank.  Twitter's exclusion of Donald Trump was important... but much, much too late.

Gettr by the Pu$$y

Via: Bob Nelson  •  The Beacon  •  12 Comments  •  2 Likes  •  5 years ago

“Jason Miller pitched a free-speech utopia. He got a moderation nightmare.”

We got into a spat over Moderation yesterday. Then this arrived today. Karma! For the thousandth time... I have great esteem and affection for Perrie. Which does not mean I must always agree with her.

The US Flag at the Front of YOUR Church is Blasphemous

Via: Bob Nelson  •  The Beacon  •  14 Comments  •  1 Like  •  5 years ago

What America Failed to Understand About Its War in Afghanistan

Via: Bob Nelson  •  News & Politics  •  17 Comments  •  2 Likes  •  5 years ago

“That the war went on so long may be tragic, but it is hardly surprising”

I fought in Vietnam. I - like most of us - knew that it was futile. We fought for various reasons. I thought that doing my duty for my country applied even when my country was wrong... if not too wrong What will our Middle East veterans say about their time in a futile war?

Only the incompetent need apply

Via: Bob Nelson  •  The Beacon  •  13 Comments  •  4 Likes  •  5 years ago

“Among conservative Republicans, expertise is now considered disqualifying”

We see this here on NT. Members who make no effort to verify the "facts" they put up. They don't care whether they're true or not. They post the party line. The result is a steady decline in the intelligence of posting on NT.

Seriously???

Via: Bob Nelson  •  Metafied  •  3 Comments  •  1 Like  •  5 years ago

“I really don't give a shit about tickets the Mods give me.But a ticket this ridiculous deserves wide distribution.”

The prospects of a post-democratic world

Via: Bob Nelson  •  The Beacon  •  3 Comments  •  5 years ago

“The systemic collapse of American democracy posits the prospects of a post-democratic world”

I subscribe to al Jazeera as I once subscribed to the Wall Street Journal: to see what the bad guys are publishing. (Yes, I know... there's more than enough "bad guy publishing" right here on NT... but I'm looking for quality writing.) It's interesting to see this presumption of the coming...

The rogue department: How the Trump DoJ trashed legal and political norms

Via: Bob Nelson  •  The Beacon  •  4 Comments  •  1 Like  •  5 years ago

“New investigations will examine the scale of wrongdoing - and experts say there could be more revelations of abuse to come”

What's the fuss? Reichsjustizminister Otto Georg Thierack did not doubt for whom he was working... What's the difference?

White Christianity and Disney Princess Theology

Via: Bob Nelson  •  The Beacon  •  3 Comments  •  5 years ago

How can thinking creatures refuse to think? What is going on in their heads? I cannot stop trying to understand the fascists. Individually, they are not bad people Collectively, they are evil.