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There are two sides to every story and most political issues , read this
Liberal 2.0ers are as big or bigger hypocrites than non Liberal 2.0ers
I want Amazon and Big Tech to be broken up. We have to stop their monopolies. Big Tech has too much power and control and that needs to end
There is no reason so many people should wear the same brand of clothes, or be a member of the same social media site. Movie character Arthur Jensen's speech in his movie about how corporations are the real nations of the world today seems frighteningly prophetic after decades of increasing globalism and corporate 'synergy'. I am against this and all forms of monopoly Capitalism
Big tech also adds and removes features without giving one damn how it effects users and that is wrong.
There is an obvious Capital Corporatist , Liberal 2.0 bias media bias in the media and that is a fact. The MSM are predators . All media has a spin. There is no such thing as objective media, no matter how hard they try.
For example, western MSM outlets and reporters wrongly had the Ukraine flag in their social media profile pics or on their newspaper and website logos.
That alone is proof that the MSM was bias against Russia and pro Ukraine. How can we trust them to cover the Russia-Ukraine conflict fair and without bias when they have the Ukraine flag in their logo or profile. It is like the West as a whole has State run media
There's been so many times I see a controversy in the MSM play out in real time where the reporting does not match reality. James Damore for example , with all of these it reaches a point where everyone accepts that skewed reporting as the historically accurate MSM depiction. Bring up James Damore with nearly anyone today and you're told he was worse than he really is, see here for example
Most reporters and editors are Capital Corporatist or Liberal 2.0
See this link and this link for some of the many things that the Liberal 2.0 political news machine got wrong and things the right wing Conservapedia site thought Right wingers got right but didn’t
Only Capital Corporatist , Liberal 2.0 fanboys would deny that fact (I would deny it too if I was in their shoes).
From Mark Twain who had a prophetic vision about today's MSM 'If you don't read the newspaper (or news sites), you're uninformed. If you read the (Capital Corporatist ,Liberal 2.0) newspaper (or news sites), you're mis-informed'
Liberal 2.0 bias (not a Liberal bias as user claims) : https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk%3AReliable_sources%2FPerennial_sources&diff=prev&oldid=1058700530
Bari Weiss points out this Liberal 2.0 bias https://www.commentary.org/articles/bari-weiss/resist-woke-revolution/?s=04
Replace Liberal bias with Liberal 2.0 bias and this article is correct. https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/565489-chuck-todd-liberal-bias-doesnt-exist-in-media-it-absolutely-does
Wikipedia has at absolute minimum a slightly more than somewhat Liberal 2.0 bias . Even Wikipediocracy , Larry Sanger and admits this. Jimbo Wales even sort of said there is a ‘slight’ Liberal 2.0 bias . See this subsection for more
Corporations are starting to run our country, they are now influencing state laws, donating heavily to politics etc. They don’t care about sides, they want to use both sides to hamper the other while these corporations rise to create their Social Corporate fascist utopia. This type of Corporatism is a threat to Democrats and Republicans alike
Robert Reich is correct about the threat of Corporatism. Corporations are starting to run our society and many of them are a threat to our democracy. It's bad enough they feed off of monopolies and buying other corporations but now they are crossing the line. Reich's book provides great insight into this. We need to fight against Corporatism before it engulfs our country.
Corporations have their own agenda that transcends Right-Left split. We must stop that, bipartisanly. Both parties have sold our to corporatism. Corporations are not people. They should stay out of politics. Big corp can easily swing the other way and if that happens, we are screwed. Break up big corp
Many of our socioeconomic problems are caused by Multinational/Transnational corporations. Multinational/Transnational corporations run our world, and are a growing threat to our democracy due to the power and influence they have in politics and consumer culture . See elsewhere in this blog for more
We need to end Corporate personhood. Corporations are not people. We should not be giving tax cuts to corporations
Corporations are WRONGLY exploiting the 14th amendment. We have to change the 14th amendment to stop corporations from doing this . A.L never intended for the 14th amendment to apply to corporations
I support these Anti-corporatocracy proposals : limits and disclosure requirements on political campaign contributions, registration of lobbyists, recording and publication of Congressional committee proceedings.
You know there was a Time corporate media was not allowed. Do you know who signed into law that corporations could own media companies? In the sixties almost 400 people collectively was responsible for all of the news you read heard on the radio or watch them TV.
Today it's four or five corporations control the news and social media is controlled I believe 3 people. Who made this possible? Liberal 2.0ers .Hats off to them for pulling it off
We need to politely fight against these Corporate Capitalists-Liberal 2.0ers from taking over our country and world with their monopolies and influence. Robert Reich has some good ideas to fight this type of Social Corporatism.
The truth is, nearly every NASDAQ corporation, every Big Tech company, every major Hollywood celebrity on social media, nearly all MSM, the majority of colleges, etc all have a Liberalism 2.0 bias and is destroying politics as a whole.
Corporations, Big Tech, Hollywood, MSM etc in particular always have the same exact position and responses/virtue signaling to every issue, and news story (demonizing the same people and knighting the same people) whether it is:
Lining up with the Liberal 2.0 agenda on green new deal type policies, ESG, health issues, sexual orientation and gender issues, gun rights, voter ID laws, restrictions on speech, abortion and policing. See this for me expanding on this
“Historically this role was fulfilled by religious institutions hence the usage of the term "cathedral", this is intentionally contrasted with the institutions that fulfill the role of the cathedral in the modern age that being Schools, Universities, the Media and the Entertainment industry who largely market themselves as "Secular".
It is worth to note that the Cathedral (in it's modern incarnation) is not a formal institution that people just belong to but rather an informal network of leaders of the before-aforementioned institutions that happen to agree on most important matters (Harvard, The New York Times, Disney and The Guardian rarely disagree for example)” This and this can give you an idea of this Liberal 2.0 cathedral (even though that is a bad website, it gives you an idea of this Liberal 2.0 cathedral, just replace Liberal with Liberal 2.0).
Corporate Liberal 2.0 tyranny is a HUGE slippery slope and major issue we need to fix now (for example see this) . Also see this for more. Too many corporations also wrongly donate mostly to Republican politicians and causes and that is bad too. These corporations do that to prevent unionization, true equality, Socialism,Communism etc . Why can’t Corporations be neutral?
I am glad that Kellogg’s supported BLM before 2020 as it is cooler go support movements before they become huge. The 2017 racist anti white drivel by that Lorelai woman they fired isn’t that bad and doesn’t trigger me because she made that statement in 2017 and thus before the 2020 BLM protests. And so I am not ‘fragile’ over her racist anti white rhetoric(even though I absolutely disagree with her, since she is wrong)
Though if this corporate wokeness is really just marketing and not virtue signaling, I feel that is a understandable (but still lame) excuse . I can old school tolerate (as in tolerate pain) that corporate wokeness if it is only marketing campaigns as opposed to virtue signaling
Though I criticize such woke pandering in my criticism on pride month being exploited by corporations elsewhere in this blog
We need to stop Corporate Tyranny of the Liberal 2.0ers huge takeover of corporate America, and thus Liberal 2.0ers’ woke and censoring mob in the corporate lane. This article reflects more of my thoughts on this and how to fix this issue with corporations.
I reject Liberal 2.0ers weaponization of corporate America against non Liberal 2.0ers views and values.
We have to convince corporations from engaging in activities which undermine free enterprise, individualism, liberty, small government, freedom of speech and of course the rule of law.
Companies need instead go back to their main role—as fiduciaries for their investors. They should remain neutral on political issues like abortion, gun rights, Transgenderism etc
We must restore a healthy respect for and understanding of free enterprise, liberty, and our lived in experiences , all of which are being corrupted by corporate oligarchs.
The US’s major corporations increasingly are choosing political sides in the battle between liberty and woke tyranny.
The largest threat to liberty isn’t big government anymore, it is big business.
Corporate America has begun to mirror our country’s higher education—a space dominated by Liberal 2.0ers and for Liberal 2.0ers, but with more power to stifle any opposition to the Liberal 2.0ers cultural orthodoxy and dominance.
Corporate tyrants are dictating to us what ideas and beliefs are ‘acceptable’.
For people to dissent from this corporate elite makes you become targeted against the increasingly-expanding corporate promotion of the Liberal 2.0’s extreme radical agenda in the US and around the planet.
These Liberal 2.0 Corporations are acting more and more like the 1920s and 1930s literal Corporate fascists in Europe, see here, here and here for more
Corporate Fascists are defunding, censoring, deplatforming, and silencing non-Liberal 2.0s voices in the public sphere, eliminating pluralism, freedom of speech and civil debate.
As mobs get the upper hand, intimidation spreads.
Non Liberal 2.0 Americans views are being marginalized and increasingly are being cancelled.
Tactically, the Liberal 2.0ers are working using a top-down, bottom-up model along with an outside-in to craft culture to their approval at breakneck speeds.
From the top, Liberal 2.0 CEOs and their board members use shareholder’s money in order to advance Liberal 2.0 policy. From the bottom, woke employees dictate the plan of attack for the corporation while non-partisan or non Liberal 2.0 employees remain silent, out of fear of them being cancelled.
Also, from outside, legions of sufficently-funded outside investors, Liberal 2.0 activists, NGOs, and MSM members apply pressure to companies to get them to work in lockstep with the power-hungry, political Liberal 2.0.
Whether this is under the guise of “ESG” (environmental, social and governance), “wokeness,” or “stakeholder” Capitalism, make no mistake, these terms are only really cover for Liberal 2.0ers weaponizing big business in order to achieve their radical, political goals
However I am cool with Big Corp officially being merged into the Democrat party and if they did that I would be fine with them being as Liberal 2.0 as they are
Issues like voting rights, migration and transgender-inclusive restrooms have economic impact
The millions of alienated people from those culture war fights aren’t just only these Corporations future customers, a lot of them expect to support brands that they believe in, but they’re also the companies’ employees.
Non Liberal 2.0ers might have a 1920s view of who Big Business’ workforce is. However that workforce is, at a minimum, very diverse and they get along. Trying to stir that up is misguided
It is almost like they are in sync with each other (which is cool they are insync with each other if they are because cohesion is a biblical value but still…). The odds they are on the correct side of all of those issues is slim at best and slim left town.
No variance, nothing. They now are being openly anti life, anti gun, etc. From Media bias fact check, here. That is MSM outlets who have a Center Left or Left Center bias. You know, Liberalism 2.0 territory. Also see here. Again Liberalism 2.0 territory
It is better to steadily increment towards a more prosperous society through the market like using more and more co-ops
Until we abolish the state, the government would end corporate monopolies other market market failures to rebalance the competition. That government would be elected through a liberal democracy since that is is supposed to be representative of the people
Conservatives waste their time and political energy on cultural social battles over issues like wokeness, because Liberal 2.0 ideology holds sway in the above important institutions of prestige media and academia—an intertwined nexus he calls “the Cathedral.” The US has lost its state capacity, so it is not really capable of governing anymore
The power of the executive branch has slowly dwindled into an oligarchy of the educated who care more about competing for status within our system than they do about US’s national interest.
If I didn’t know any better I would think the US and Canada have a state run media like China and Russia (but I won’t because I know better)
It is Corporate Capitalist-Liberalism 2.0 groupthink
Capitalism tends towards monopoly, but it does not tend toward many businesses. That is both true in theory and also in practice. "A million small businesses count for nothing, a small amount of gigantic cartels count for everything". The government must, and in fact does, makes clear efforts (though with small success) to reverse this trend towards monopoly which is inherently a part of the system.
So what's so bad with monopoly? When a company (or a cartel) has a monopoly they are not put in a position to deal with the competitive nature of capitalism. They can artificially set prices high, they can cost cut by reducing quality, and they wield under-contested control over the creative, tech, cultural makeup of their product.
By using their comparatively high wealth over smaller businesses they can (and in fact do) suppress their competition by them lobbying (/bribing) for laws that are favorable to them (like net neutrality) or oftentimes by them targeting small companies with a litany of lawsuits to destabilize them financially.
But how about a state monopoly, or how about a socialist mode of production? Ok, first off, it should be run democratically, and a "democratic monopoly" is not really a monopoly all that much in any regard
Since the workers are the ones who control production, and the ones that are not attempting to create profit, they have a vested stake in avoiding price raising and in not reducing the quality. Production is at its fundamental core, all about appeasing the consumer as opposed to appeasing the accountants, because the consumers are the ones who are in charge.
Within a capitalist system competition is the force which shoves production in the direction of the consumers' interest (because, theoretically, if you are not doing what the consumers desire, someone else will do so and thus replace you). What this means is as soon as competition wanes, the consumers' power to influence production wanes straightaway.
What are profits and why are profits needed? Our present mode of production insists that the abstract idea of ownership entitles people to share in their earnings from productivity'.
It's vital at this point to make a distinction between the owner and executive/whatever who really does work; the pay gap for executives is absurd, but they're keep doing something and that position is not in and of itself parasitic.
Though, in every production cycle we need to cut out a portion of the fraction of our earnings and to portion that out to the "owners" who didn’t do anything (for the umpteenth time, who might have done something but receive compensation for their work, and then double that for "ownership", the latter of which is the problem). If they receive their cut, or on top of that if they can receive a greater return anywhere else, then they'll just take their capital and exit.
This is a fundamental decree of capitalism and this is the reason that all companies are every time, not out of human desire but out of necessity, attempting to squeeze every last dime that they can.
We don't get products that are most enjoyable, we get products that are the most cost effective. We don't get services which most enrich us, but we get services which have the best margins. We get a society that wrestles with itself to make money with little or no concern in any way shape or form for human lives and interests.
Companies siphon drinking water from communities in poverty in order to load it with sugar and sell it to people who would be better served without it, due to the fact that money is to be made from this.
Companies plaster brands and logos on all surfaces and pieces of media, non stop bombarding of populations with ads, because companies can make products for pennies on the dollar by exploiting third world women and youth and companies need somebody to buy them.
I also am against the ESG movement, I support this Anti ESG group and their stated aims. The ESG is one of the greatest threat to our freedoms in the US today without question
Tesla should have been rated higher by ESG than Exxon. Tesla is more green friendly, etc
Though the fact a few corporations own so many corporations and so on makes that somewhat understandable, look at how many corporations and entities CBSViacom, Disney, Time Warner, NBCUniversal own for example).
Some of them are heavily influenced by Liberal 2.0 lobby and advocacy groups who organize and coordinate attacks on those corporations through ‘SJWism’ and other tactics until those corporations give in. It's like a real life Stepford Wives (I love that movie).
Just look at how they one by one they pretended to become woke in 2020 (mary sue), how all of these corporations punished innocent Russians for a war they had nothing to do with, look at how all of these corporations fire or go after people who are far left (i.e tankies), Authoritarian Conservative ,Blue Dog Democrat (Krysten Sinema bathroom incident at ASU in 2021) or Left Wing (like their attacks on Hassanbi, Breadtube, Destiny, Jimmy Dore, Krystal Ball, Tim Dillion, Kyle Kulinski etc).
Look at how these corporations use diversity to cover for their corrupt labor practices and attack everything that us reasonable private citizens stand for in their tone deaf, tone deaf virtue signaling fests.
Liberal 2.0ers own most of the western media and make up the majority of Liberalism 2.0 . So Liberal 2.0ers then promote other Liberal 2.0ers into power positions. Liberal 2.0s then feed constant Liberalism 2.0 through that mechanism
But I at the end if the day, I could care less. Let the Cathedral go after non normies. It is no skin off my back. As long as they aren’t going after me, it’s all good. If conservatives and other non normies don’t put as much effort as Liberal 2.0ers in creating their own bias in the media ,they only have themselves to blame
How can Leftists, Democrats, Republicans and Fascists see everything each other sees yet have the exact opposite views of those things?
No matter how much truth and facts each side points out, they will call each other names, use dishonest tactics ,emotionally charged attacks while spewing misleading info like robots . One side has MSM and Big Tech and mainstream, the other side has Alt media, Alt tech and underground. They always have counters to everything.
Liberals 2.0ers and Right Wing fascists truly exist to torment us (to appease our torment fetishes) and the Liberal 2.0ers in particular cannot even do it in a way that is fun and uplifting which would make it more bearable. At least we are genuine in our causes even if we are an unsavory bunch at times
The SPLC has done great work for decades and is generally a good tool for info on hate groups but in the past decade (especially since they wrongly fired Morris Dees) they have a Liberal 2.0 bias, at least outside of their info on hate groups.
They are seen by some to be almost a some scam and should be taken with a grain of salt after the acts they pulled over the years
The SPLC listing pro life groups and Traditionalist Catholic groups as hate groups is proof they are moving towards being a smear campaign designed to destroy non Liberal 2.0ers, especially Republicans and the Conservative movement with misinformation ,(they should know better) , innuendos and only looking at one side (Liberalism 2.0 side), to find the truth.
This article by SPLC shows just how partisan they have become. They set themselves up to be the judges of hate but they do they really judge hate fairly? They label (or even smear), strawman and go deep into any non Liberal 2.0 (other than Alt Righters) and non Liberal 2.0 view as extremist, far right etc.
Being pro life is not an extremist position, the Pope and Catholic Church are pro life. Calling being pro life extremists is an insult and a slur to the millions of Americans who are pro life.
At best, what SPLC calls extreme positions on abortion are hardline (which they seem to use interchangeably with extremist). If SPLC replaced extremist with hardline for abortion I would be able to live with that
Peter Thiel is not far right. There is no proof Thiel is far right. his connections to right wing extremists is a huge stretch to call him far right, as is Thiel being a MAGA backer .So now every person who the SPLC doesn’t like is far right?
Being against young kids mutilating their bodies due to a magical feeling they are another gender becoming Transgender, while complex and a waste of energy to focus on said issue is not extremist (at worst such a position is rhetoric or possibly even hard right).
The SPLC article itself noted that position and being right wing on Transgender issues in general has been adopted nationwide by mainstream Republicans, so it is not an extremist position if it is s mainstream Republican view which it is. I guess the silent majority of Americans are extremists too?
Though it appears the SPLC may not label people who are pc against LGBTQ/Transgender rights as extremist, far right, hard right or hateful, so maybe I am too hard on the SPLC above
They even tried to slander and smear Max Blumenthal with a now retracted article on Multipolar red green brown alliance article
The SPLC wrote a relatively fair article about the Proud Boys in 2017 titled 'Do you want bigots Gavin?' article. I actually was surprised how decent and relatively fair that article was. But even that SPLC is long gone (though this recent article by them was decent compared to their hit pieces in the last few years)
The SPLC are now are a defamation, smearing hit squad designed to smear anything and all things that don’t align with their political views, left, right and middle.
The SPLC and the ADL are aligned with Big Tech ,other major corporations and the media . Wikipedia uses them as a trusted source.
They are seen as experts on ‘hate’. With their exaggerations of the far left or right wing’s ‘sins’ or them liberally throwing around stigmatizing labels can lead to demonizing people, character assassination , canceling people or groups etc.
The SPLC tried to prematurely list the Proud Boys in 2018 by cherry picking, using one members' life to 'prove' that the Proud Boys were a 'gateway drug' to the alt right.
They were correct about the Proud Boys , but back then and based on the methods (ie fishing expeditions which on Wikipedia, checkusers are not allowed to do to catch sockpuppets) they used, the SPLC was jumped the gun.
The SPLC uses filler in their hit pieces and solidly manipulate an associations to prove the logical fallacies of 'guilt by association'
Non right wingers can agree or associate with right wingers on a few issues without becoming one. Guilt by association is a logical fallacy. According to the Christian bible, Jesus ate with sinners in and the pharisees called him all sorts of evil names.
Are right wingers so evil, and far off we can’t even talk to them? Are they freaking lepers? So much for liberal 2.0 ‘tolerance’
The work of the MSM is in some ways outsourced to the SPLC, as contemporary "journalism" and this consists of finding people with opinions they find problematic and going on and on about it until they lose their job.
One of the ways they do this is journalists reprinting the pr releases from the SPLC and calling them articles.
The issue here is, that when you begin confirming the SPLC's work with other sources, things get tangled including the narrative
The SPLC has a habit of counting single individuals as groups or chapters, which may give a skewed impression of hate groups in any given state. The SPLC’s list of hate groups is very inflated and overstated according to a employee at a different progressive NGO .
Like the SPLC will list skinhead groups in areas where there are only s few individuals instead of organized groups
Even the Washington Post , Politico, and USA Today admit the SPLC has noticeable issues, and this site, this site, CBC, this site (Xtian fundie site, major grain of salt) go off the deep end with their criticism of the SPLC, but at times , it is hard for me not to peek at those sites to see their deflecting toward criticism of the SPLC
The SPLC goes overboard too much of my liking. They fling around negative labels and smear anyone not Liberal 2.0 (except the Alt Right) and they are no longer what they use to be. No one should their partisan hit pieces seriously.
This DIVISIVE and PARTISAN hit piece by the SPLC is enflaming hate. They are now insulting , shaming and smearing anyone right of center. The SPLC are turning into a HATE GROUP themselves
Jason Wilson, Hannah Gais and Cassie Miller are the real extremists and fascists. They are the ones whose views are outside the mainstream. They are sad people who smear, shame and attack anyone who isn’t Liberal 2.0
THEY ARE DEFLECTING onto others. I feel they should have been fired instead of Morris Dees
I do feel the ADL is no longer the respected civil rights organization dedicated to fighting extremism and hate against Jews that I supported in the early to mid 2000s decade.
The ADL is still correct probably most of the time and I still see some solid articles where I feel they reasonably critiqued the Right wing in a positive way,
I am glad that the ADL still fights for Israel, when so many left of center right people and groups are turning on Israel and hitting to close to home (i.e day of rage aggression).
But the ADL have jumped the shark in my eyes. The ADL seems to smear anyone (or at least their against political opponents) on the Left and ESPECIALLY the Right which rarely causes consistent character assassination
The ADL seems brazenly partisan (revolutionary progressive). It is headed by Jonathan Greenblatt who worked for former President Barack Obama. Obama is center right but Obama put a lot of people with Liberal 2.0 views around him and those Liberal 2.0ers around Obama might have rubbed off on Greenblatt pushing him left
The ADL are somewhat slightly above below average not because they are Jewish or because they are a Jewish organization (I am part Jewish) but because of what I wrote above and below
This includes the ADL’s online censorship pledges which can stifle non ‘violent’ free speech
The ADL also partners with the corporate cheap labor lobby funded by billionaire Republican Charles Koch to stifle critics of what Koch supports. The Koch brothers heavily fund Liberalism 2.0 causes to spread Liberalism 2.0
The ADL's speech police exploits Left wing counter violence (like by ANTIFA) and the BDS’s overkill pro Palestinian activism to demonize the whole non Democrat approved Left.
The ADL should criticize the Anti Israel smears that are done by people and groups that the ADL currently gives a pass to (like Amnesty International) while the ADL should no longer support anti Jewish state violence like they have in the past on occasion. In addition the ADL should return to the way they were at least in the 2000s decade if not earlier. Also this
The ADL should also be more pro Palestine /pro Palestinian (but in a non woke way and without trying to own the conservatives like without the ADLA demonizing or smearing good nature anti Palestinian criticism even if said criticism is ignorant or blurs the line of being bigoted, otherwise forget it) and be less partisan
The ADL maybe rightfully exploits Trump supporters and Alt right craziness to demonize and go on witch hunts after all right of center right and right center views and people (but if right wingers are dumb enough to put themselves in that exploitable position then maybe [big maybe] they deserve to be taken down by the ADL and their allies but the ADL should do so with grace just for optics)
Don't let the ADL fool you: Among the ADL’s four categories of violence—Islamist, left-wing, right-wing, and white supremacist extremism—researchers found that the first two were more or less accurate; 85 of the 88 Islamist incidents checked out as properly labeled, as did 24 of the 26 leftist ones. Where the ADL was inflating things was almost entirely in the “white, right-wing” areas.
As the researchers noted, among the 300 incidents of right-wing extremism during this period, when reviewed, only 131 were found to truly fit the bill. White supremacist extremism was even more inflated: just 57 incidents of the 199 claimed by the ADL credibly had such a motivation.
That the ADL’s “hate inflation” fell only on whites and right-wingers; that the spirit of scrutiny apparently grips the SPLC when reviewing some racial agendas but not others; and that people like Neiwert pass over basic facts to pursue anti-white narratives can be summed up in one word: bigotry. It should be called out as such by conservatives and independents whenever they see it.
The SPLC and ADL get it right a lot but they get it wrong or go too far sometimes . Since they are partnered with so many Big Tech companies, corporations etc if they smear rare innocent people they can cause innocent people to be cancelled, deplatformed, swatted etc. Those two NGOs have too much reach with these partnerships and with what I wrote above, contributes to this toxic Liberal 2.0 culture we find ourselves in now
The ADL also pushes its anti-Palestinian agenda through a bunch of corporate partnerships. The ADL works as a “content vetting” partner with companies such as Google and Microsoft to remove “antisemitic” , which often means “pro-Palestinian” content from these companies’ platforms, and pressures these companies to continue to suppress Palestinian voices.
The ADL has a record of supporting anti-Jewish state violence which is wrong , hypocritical and treasonous, as mentioned here .
Similarly the ADL also downplays or even gives a pass to some Left wing anti Israel rhetoric and attacks (like the ADL did with Amnesty International) which is also wrong and hypocritical
The ADL’s allegiance to US empire can lead it to sanitize threats of racist violence, even from Nazis (or at best Anti Zionist ultranationalists) like the ADL did with the Azov battalion . The current situation in Ukraine demonstrates this point.
By the ADL doing this type of shady things, it spoils all of the good work they do and further shoes their partisan nature while normalizing Nazis (or at best Anti Zionist ultranationalists) like the Azov battalion which makes more work for the ADL to combat anti semetism since normalizing such groups causes them to be harder to counter for obvious reasons
Prior to the recent war in Ukraine, in 2019, the ADL reported that the Azov battalion – a Nazi-filled group that is now part of the Ukrainian national guard – “has ties to neo-Nazis and white supremacists.”
But when the war that the US government and arms companies who are deeply invested in this war broke out, the ADL began downplaying Ukrainian Nazis by promoting materials that downplay Ukrainian Nazism.
Imagine what the ADL’s response would have been if a country that wasn’t allied with the US had a Nazi army unit like the Azov battalion, one in which the soldiers have anti semetic tattoos and whose commander once said anti Jewish comments?
For balance, I have to mention that some have been pointing out that the Azov battalion might not be as bad as people make them out to be
Like some zionist organizations and newspapers, like the The Times of Israel, reported that the Azov battalion isn’t as bad as they might seem. The Times of Israel’s March 2022 interview with Jewish Ukrainian nationalist Konstantyn Batoszky attempted to show how:
“I was shocked when I saw guys with swastika tattoos,” he [Batozsky] said about the Azov members he got to know. “But I talked with them all the time about being Jewish and they had nothing negative to say. They had no anti-Jewish ideology.” He insists that the viewpoint of Ukraine as a hotbed of antisemitism is in his mind ‘absurd’.
“I don’t practice, but still everyone knows I am Jewish – I have such a Jewish face! And I never experienced antisemitism from Ukrainians,” he insisted. “The military guys I am working with now really don’t care that I am a Jew.”
In March 2022, the ADL interviewed Jewish Theological Seminary professor, David Fishman, a conducted by ADL Director of European Affairs Andrew Srulevitch, titled “Why is Putin Calling the Ukrainian Government a Bunch of Nazis?”
In the interview, David Fishman was asked aspects of the contemporary Ukrainian nationalist movement that venerate Stepan Bandera and the UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army), who are known to have collaborated with the Nazis during World War II. Keep in mind that members of the Azov battalion, revere Bandera and the UPA.
Fishman said: “For Ukrainian nationalists, UPA and Bandera are symbols of the Ukrainian fight for Ukrainian independence. The UPA allied with Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union for tactical – not ideological – reasons.”
See here for more
I do stick up for the ADL when I can. The ADL never denied the Armenian genocide , that Armenian denial genocide charge against the ADL was an antisemetic smear meant to delegitimize the ADL and thus was wrong
I like how the ADL defends Israel , since as I show here, I similarly have pro Israel views.
At the very least I like the ADL being as pro Israel as they are because by the ADL being like that, it shows that the ADL isn’t pigeon holed into having Liberal 2.0 or Left wing views by the ADL having Right wing (i.e Zionist) views on Israel
However because of how the ADL becoming Liberal 2.0 the last decade as mentioned a little ways up, I do not feel sorry for them in the slightest when they similarly get smeared and demonized by the Left , as they were smeared in this hit piece.
Maybe those type of pieces on the ADL will make the ADL feel what it is like for pro Palestinian activists , Anti Zionists and non antisemetic people around the center right who similarly get smeared and demonized by the ADL, to be smeared and demonized by Left wingers/Liberal 2.0ers
That article has a lot of truth to it which I echo in other places in this blog
Anti-semitism is obviously horrible, but the Jewish exceptionalism and some issues with the ADL and Israel I outline in this blog are two or the more larger modern drivers of that.
“When anti-Semitism is everywhere, it is nowhere. And when every anti-Zionist is an anti-Semite, we no longer know how to recognize the real thing—the concept of anti-Semitism loses its significance”. —Brian Klug
I agree with this article on the ADL
My various reactions to ADL redefining ‘racism’ https://www.adl.org/racism can be found here
We now have experts, academics, corporations, celebrities, psychologists, scientists who have dominion and power over us and our views because of their degrees, or credentials.
They use that power and influence to control our politicians at the behest of lobby groups, NGOs, rich activists etc to fit whatever political agenda they align with or play to
These silent ruling elite-aristocrats are the reason our country has moved so far authoritarian ‘left’ and neocon right. If we made our country officially be run as Scientism , Corporatism, etc I would be able to live with this since that would make this official and then I couldn’t complain about this.
“If liberty means anything at all it means the right to say things others don’t want to hear” and to quote Betrand Russell on freedom of speech “ The fundamental argument for freedom of opinion is the doubtfulness of all our belief... when the State intervenes to ensure the indoctrination of some doctrine, it does so because there is no conclusive evidence in favour of that doctrine .. It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions make it impossible to make a living” and "'Free thought' means thinking freely ... to be worthy of the name freethinker he must be free of two things: the force of tradition and the tyranny of his own passions.”
While I believe in free speech, speech that would clearly cause hate crimes (where even mainstream conservatives would say so), should possibly not be protected as free speech.
Freedom of Expression has limits, the extreme right wing and extreme tankies reasonably have a right to speak but they don’t have a right per say (correct me if I am wrong) to megaphone ‘hateful’ views, especially ones that even Parler would consider ‘hate speech’
It is wrong and evil that ANTI FREE SPEECH Liberal 2.0ers are twisting the 14th amendment in order to stifle/limit free speech
The 14th amendment does not and should not be used to stifle/limit free speech (or at least not by my standards). as Abraham Lincoln NEVER intended for the 14th amendment to be used stifle/limit free speech.
If the 14th amendment is going to be used to stifle/limit free speech, then maybe we need to change the 14th amendment so it doesn’t stifle/limit free speech (or at least not by my standards)..
But to provide balance, though, the 14th amendment may in fact do the opposite and expand free speech protection as mentioned here
I see Progressive originalism as Ketanji Brown Jackson mentioned according to this article , as positive in some ways. Progressive originalism means that the Fourth Political theory and Common good constitutionalism can adopt certain progressive ideas due to Progressive originalism giving them an. excuse to do so. This means that progressivism has a timeless value to it, which a positive attribute to have
The a-temporal structure of principles and values is one of the core tenants of the Fourth Political theory and Common good constitutionalism similarly upholds timeless values written ‘on the hearts of men/women’.
Moreover, Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Progressive originalism may further be good by putting us on a collision course with the correct knowledge that many of the US’s founding fathers themselves were favorable to abolitionism, with some of our founding fathers being actual abolitionists themselves.
That would prove to them the US’s Founders were not racists.
Liberal 2.0ers use to believe in free speech but now they have gone mad and are against it.
I generally cautiously take a wait and see approach for Elon Musk’s free speech Twitter plans . But Elon Musk is a hypocrite and is wrong for stifling free speech of his workers, I echo this article
Twitter needs to allow more free speech where reasonable people like me don't get angry about their clear censorship. While it shouldn’t be as free as Gab, it still needs to be free enough where bans like Paul Sperry,, Elizabeth Johnson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Destiny, Comrade Wal Luigi the person rightfully criticized the killallmen hashtag and Caleb Mauphin NEVER HAPPEN
I support free speech , but my idea of free speech is very much much less strict than techcrunch's views of free speech. I acknowledge that Musk is naïve , but the blowback that Musk has gotten is appalling
Twitter should NOT have censored things like that tweet by the official CDC they censored, by not censoring things like Jordan Peterson’s tweet about E Page which they deleted , by NOT censoring things like this letter https://medium.com/@soumynona_/anonymous-letter-from-uc-berkeley-professor-in-response-to-black-lives-matter-protests-24a66a6f1ca7 letter etc.
Those examples are the type of censoring that Twitter SHOULD NOT BE DOING EVER AGAIN
As Twitter workers have said, Musk believes in free speech and Twitter does not. They believe in 'healthy discussion'. If the latter is their goal, then maybe they have sold it to someone who fits that bill instead of Elon Musk. Common sense free speech should be allowed on Twitter.
Paul Sperry should not have been suspended from Twitter for his Tweets in August 2022. Suspending Sperry for those tweets is political suppression, censorship, authoritarian, and goes against his freedom of speech. Sperry did not tweet anything wrong or ban able. Twitter now bans anyone who speaks out against its DNC narrative. We have to stop these social media fascists. #freedomofspeech
I agree that some other Twitter accounts were unfairly banned too (Paul Sperry, Elizabeth Johnson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Destiny, Comrade Wal Luigi the person rightfully criticized the killallmen hashtag and Caleb Mauphin)
Even cases where suspensions are seemingly justified on the surface (like Talib Kweli’s suspension for harassing Twitter uses for criticizing him). A temporary cool off suspension would have been better. Why can’t Twitter use at the very least duration suspensions that incremently get longer for each strike for cases like Kweli’s case?
If Twitter can't handle 2 political parties, then say so publicly, don't insult our intelligence. Twitter should then be open and say that no chuds or chud sympathizers allowed like some reddit subreddits say in their terms and services. I would be fine with that like I am fine with subreddits having those rules
If there is not free speech in political debate, the downtrodden may be worse off. Who can expose the oppressors? I support #freespeech and fully disagree with anti free speech crypto fascist Lara Kiswani https://t.co/eeD7bdV7EI
I fully support full anonymity on Twitter. Forcing Twitter users to prove their real identity or similar things like Elon Musk wants is in bad taste (at best) and will rightfully cause many Twitter users to flee. There is a proper way to go after fake accounts, but the way he wants to is off base.
This is a great solution to the Twitter privacy problem: https://bford.info/2015/10/07/names.html
Generally the Corporate Capitalists, Liberal 2.0ers and the Alt lite are dark people .
Here is my blog post where I positively react to and cheer on a small mobile park’s fight against a dark ruthless Capitalist Corporation who are committing unfair economic practices toward said mobile park residents leading to them losing their homes
This article provides some good takes on Sheldon Whitehouse’s dark money conspiracy theory
The Corporate Capitalists, Liberal 2.0ers and the Alt lite are in it to divide us all,by every characteristic people are a part of. Identity, religion, political persuasion,etc.
This is a goal for only one reason-to weaken us as a Nation. It's up to the people to put a stop to this.
Because as it becomes more and more clearer by the day. and as much as I dislike saying this, this IS a battle, and this is a battle which is being waged on the spiritual level, affecting all other levels. People who deny this truth in the spirit, are not equipped to help fight in this battle.
That is, to help themselves or the joint well being of we the People. More of us need to stay awake and be aware of these things which are happening in our country as opposed to being merely PO'd at "the fringes of the other side",which is what we are being manipulated to do .This attack has been on for decades
Capitalist Corporatists and Liberal 2.0ers are way off base, rude and appallingly reactionary for calling nearly every person who don't agree with them far right, racists or bigots. There is nothing far right, wrong or racist or bigoted about disagreeing with Democrats on at least SOME issues
Yes I know the radical right are so toxic that agreeing with any right wing view even for left wing reasons legitimizes the radical right wing to some Liberal 2.0ers but that is logical fallacy or at best exaggeration
I am a fan of George Soros. He has done good especially with him exposing the dangers of the W.E.F, China’s social credit system, dangers of drugs etc. But some of his donations go to Liberal 2.0 causes so that is a minor negative
Some people on the Left feel that George Soros funds seditious terrorism in nations the US doesn’t like
The word 'racism' as noted below has morphed into being an overused word that hyperboles (like Conservapedia type right wingers and Liberal 2.0ers) use to smear people they don't agree with and to dehumanize them which causes a real disservice to people who are real victims of real racism. God knows what people are in their hearts, mere human Conservapedia type right wingers and Liberal 2.0ers DO NOT.
I am talking about the cases when they label someone a racist who isn’t a racist. Many times the Liberal 2.0ers are correct with calling people that word. But if even one person is smeared by that word , that is one too many
Whenever a few but significant amount of Liberal 2.0ers or Conservapedia type right wingers can’t win a debate they throw around the tired and lame ‘racist’ smear (hint a significant minority of people they call ‘racists’ are not racists, they don’t even know the true meaning of the word). Words have power
There comes a time when the term 'racist' or 'white supremacist loses all of its meaning (like when non racists like Ben Carson, Neil deagrasse Tyson , Majid Nawaz, Max Blumenthal, Tulsi Gabbard, Krysten Sinema, Bari Weiss, Winsome E Sears, Dianne Feinstein, the Freedom Riders, Condi Rice, Christopher Hitchens, Michael Steele, Morris Dees ,Joy Reid, Toure, Kyle Kulinski, Katie Herzog, Jimmy Dore, and Robert Mugabe are labeled as racist or white supremacist)
It is becoming easier and easier to dismiss those terms. Since every so often, it's regurgitated nonsense. This is a major disservice to those who are genuinely suffering from the consequences of racism.
I am against Microsoft , Facebook and other Big tech using ‘fact checkers’ like they do.
People are smart enough themselves to decide if something is true or ‘misinformation’ or ‘disinformation’. It is an insult to our intelligence to decide ‘for us’ what is or isn’t ‘true’. Such intrusiveness by Big Tech can have unintended consequences. We cannot allow elitists and bourgeois ‘experts’ run our lives, tell us what to think, do, feel etc. It is 2022, not 1984
I was a fan of Everyday Feminism and Medusa Magazine until they went out of business because they spoofed the Regressive Left.
I felt the best way to expose how counterproductive, dangerous and ridiculous the Regressive Left was, was to spoof them and those 2 magazines provided that for me. I am glad that Everyday Feminism and Medusa Magazine existed.
I've enjoyed spoof magazines since I was a kid and I read GamePro's yearly April Fool's Day section called 'LamePro' each April and get a kick out of the cool, weird and fake video games I unfortunately would never be able to play (thank you GamePro!)
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