Where a Hispanic Catholic, and a Computer Geek write about Gun Rights, Self Defense and whatever else we can think about.
Contradictory messages originating from the same people tend to do that.
And I am glad I have not faced a crowd of idiots screaming “SAY HIS NAME!” because my brain wants to answer “GEORGE ZIMMERMAN!” and that probably would not be received nicely.
And I know the USPSA guys are thinking “HANDS UP – SHOOTER READY!”
The International Lord of Hate (ILoH) does it again.
That would be bad enough, but then it got extra stupid! So while these evil media empires are pretending that they are unbiased and merely trying to “curate the truth”, they banned the White House Press Secretary! They stopped sitting US senators from sharing news articles. Then they banned the president’s reelection campaign nineteen days before an election!
If social media had banned Obama’s press secretary, and then stopped Diane Feinstein and Chuck Schumer from sharing articles from the New York Times, and then shut down the Obama campaign page nineteen days before his election against Mitt Romney, everyone would have lost their fucking minds. And rightfully so! Because that kind of blatant manipulation of information is evil.
If I put that into a thriller my editor would tell me it was too far fetched. Nobody would buy into such mustache twirling villainy, even if I was writing cyberpunk dystopia.
GEORGE ORWELL WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THIS WEEK’S PLOT IS TOO FAR FETCHED – Larry Correia
And the phone is resting now. Tethered the hell out of it.
Normal blogging to resume tomorrow, I hope.
Accurate.
Never before have we seen the censorship of a major outlet's reporting, with serious allegations of corruption by a presidential candidate, days before an election. #BigTech crossed a line & must be held accountable. That’s why @senjudiciary is going to subpoena @jack. pic.twitter.com/FYHTacmbWr
— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) October 15, 2020
We need Trump to win a second term because if he doesn’t this goes nowhere.
I just hope and pray that this is the moment the GOP gets mad enough to grow some balls and actually send people to prison and fine the shit out of companies, and not just dick around.
Monopolies for the most part are not a good thing. In fact, I would say that 90% they are a bad thing. Monopoly busting is one of the few government actions that make sense and actually have been proven healthy for the people.
Those old enough will remember the dismemberment of MaBell and the doom prophecies foretold for telecommunications in the US. We were supposed to pay for our sins by having to use the Pony Express and carrier pigeons again if we wanted to communicate beyond shouting distance. But almost immediately, prices went down, savings appeared and the service did not suffer. Most people had one phone for the whole house because they were either very expensive. or you also could get a phone if you rented one from MaBell. That stupidity was removed and we were suddenly flooded with phones that worked and you could buy for about about 70% less that the monthly fee you paid to your local Bell company. Calling relatives long distance only happened once or twice a year during Holidays or when there was a dire emergency or death of a close relative. Telegrams in some cases were cheaper if you were willing to accept the hours’ delay. Families shared the same line! because it was a cheaper way to be connected, but again, anybody could listen in to your call. Oh yes, you were tethered to a wall. At best you could buy a very long extension chord to see if you could talk in another room. Mobile phones? That stuff was for the Rockefellers or Gettys.
Fast Forward to today and we have homes with multiple phones which can be used to call long distance without any extra charge, in some cases even free overseas calls. Hell you can send instant “telegrams” that will reach anybody in the world in seconds from the palm of your hand . And the phones now still do what a bank of computers at the Pentagon could not do back then and all while we carry it in our pockets anywhere we want to go.
But what is going on with Facebook and Twitter is more insidious. It is no longer a question of simply commerce but a direct attack on the Freedom of Information by controlling its flow. It is covering the mouth of a woman being raped so nobody can hear her screams for help just because she happens to be in your apartment and it is private property so you can decide what can be said or transmitted. It is disabling the fire alarm system in your business so people do not pull the switch in case of a fire till you (or a trusted fact-checking partner) makes sure that indeed there is a fire.
This is a concerted effort to directly affect the ability of people to make a decision on a news item by the suppression of information monopolies deem prejudicial to their bottom line. It is a direct attack on the health of an ailing Republic by people who can and will leave the country and buy themselves a dacha and immunity in a foreign land after the mess they helped create explodes everywhere. They will find soon afterward that neither the people they helped, nor the ones they screwed up, will have any kind of sympathy for them other than have them standing in front of the ballistically pockmarked wall in the back of some property.
I love this headline:
In a nutshell, Gelman co-founded a startup that was a private club intended to be a safe space, exclusively for women, to use a workspace free from men. A place where women could flourish and be creative.
Turns out, Gelman is just as abusive, demeaning, and hostile as any man.
This is more evidence that what it takes to be a multimillionaire CEO is to be a psychopathic, abusive asshole who is willing to stomp on people all the way to to top.
The reason there are fewer women CEOs isn’t sexism as much as there are fewer women who have this sort of ruthless psychopathy.
Also, it makes me feel less bad that I’m not a millionaire millennial, because I’m not that sort of person. If rather share credit and work in an environment with comradery than be the richest guy in a hostile work environment.