They've gone so far 'round the bend that none of their ideas are viable in a 'free' exchange of ideas. Therefore, they really, really need to enable mass censorship.
This "disinformation" panic is red meat for the hyper-emotional karens out there as well as the rest of the hysterics whose power regime is collapsing. Pretty much anyone whose words cannot withstand scrutiny. Mockery and ridicule are the antidote which will send them back to the social isolation where they belong. Their cats await.
Half agree: Blaming every piece of disinformation on Russia...or even the right...is wrong. But there's little doubt that "...the lies about the 2020 election to the growing influence of anti-vaccine activists, to the enduring influence of climate-change denialism..."do amount to concerted disinformation...and do do serious harm.
Do you regard Tucker Carlson, for example, as anything but a propagandist for the right? Trump? His cabal of toadies? The GOP now controlling the House? One doesn't, and shouldn't without proof, regard these folks as agents for the Kremlin, but there is no doubt that they are massive purveyors of egregious disinformation...falsehoods about important topics like vaccines and climate change.
“Collins pulled the same thing in a piece titled “QAnon’s new ‘plan’? Run for school board.” He knowingly maligned several parents by associating them with the QAnon movement, even though they told him on the record that they didn’t believe the theories and were running for school-board elections over concerns about what was happening in public schools. But obviously that didn’t fit the narrative Collins was pushing.3 “
I don’t see Collin’s piece as “maligning” parents. He was talking about people who had claimed to not follow Qanon theories, but had repeated several aspects of Qanon nonsense in public in the past. I think that there are those who would never admit to “following” Qanon, even in very conservative MAGA communities, but when they begin talking about schools they inevitably end up, with tears in their eyes, worrying about the pediophiles and groomers that have infiltrated, or are trying to, infiltrate local school boards. And this in communities of not hundreds of thousands but maybe hundreds, small towns in a rural states. Everyone knows everyone. Most have grown up with each other. Qanon theories are at the roots of many of their positions, which is why they are terrified. It is heartbreaking.
Both sides have to call a spade a spade. Wokism in its extreme is being used by fringe groups to promote ideas that clearly tear us apart, but so is/does QAnon.
They've gone so far 'round the bend that none of their ideas are viable in a 'free' exchange of ideas. Therefore, they really, really need to enable mass censorship.
This "disinformation" panic is red meat for the hyper-emotional karens out there as well as the rest of the hysterics whose power regime is collapsing. Pretty much anyone whose words cannot withstand scrutiny. Mockery and ridicule are the antidote which will send them back to the social isolation where they belong. Their cats await.
Thank you for the historical context of the censorship.
Half agree: Blaming every piece of disinformation on Russia...or even the right...is wrong. But there's little doubt that "...the lies about the 2020 election to the growing influence of anti-vaccine activists, to the enduring influence of climate-change denialism..."do amount to concerted disinformation...and do do serious harm.
Do you regard Tucker Carlson, for example, as anything but a propagandist for the right? Trump? His cabal of toadies? The GOP now controlling the House? One doesn't, and shouldn't without proof, regard these folks as agents for the Kremlin, but there is no doubt that they are massive purveyors of egregious disinformation...falsehoods about important topics like vaccines and climate change.
“Collins pulled the same thing in a piece titled “QAnon’s new ‘plan’? Run for school board.” He knowingly maligned several parents by associating them with the QAnon movement, even though they told him on the record that they didn’t believe the theories and were running for school-board elections over concerns about what was happening in public schools. But obviously that didn’t fit the narrative Collins was pushing.3 “
I don’t see Collin’s piece as “maligning” parents. He was talking about people who had claimed to not follow Qanon theories, but had repeated several aspects of Qanon nonsense in public in the past. I think that there are those who would never admit to “following” Qanon, even in very conservative MAGA communities, but when they begin talking about schools they inevitably end up, with tears in their eyes, worrying about the pediophiles and groomers that have infiltrated, or are trying to, infiltrate local school boards. And this in communities of not hundreds of thousands but maybe hundreds, small towns in a rural states. Everyone knows everyone. Most have grown up with each other. Qanon theories are at the roots of many of their positions, which is why they are terrified. It is heartbreaking.
Both sides have to call a spade a spade. Wokism in its extreme is being used by fringe groups to promote ideas that clearly tear us apart, but so is/does QAnon.
Let’s harness the power of direct democracy against those corrupting our systems. It’s dangerous but we can do it safely. We have no other choice. It’s a weapon. We could use it on each other. Or them. That’s what they fear most is tyranny of the masses. https://open.substack.com/pub/joshketry/p/weaponized-direct-democracy-the-kryptonite?utm_source=direct&r=7oa9d&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web