TGIF for sure. For the first time (except Thanksgiving weekend when all the people at work who annoy her were also gone) in at least 6months, it looks like my wife will have a whole weekend for herself! Huzzah!!
Anyway, as for Twitter and it past behaviors, all the lies Twitter told are now being defended by retroactively redefining terms. The so-called "journalists" of the LSM are as angry and ignorant as ever. Talk about privilege.
And Jack@Twitter is either neck deep in the lying or some sort of idiot savant who understand little but coding. I kind of lean toward the latter. I've known people like that.
It may be that the Leftist Narrative will not be able to shut down, shout down, the evidence coming out of Musk's release. I suspect a future move will be to allow all Twitter accounts to search for past limits put on by the old regime.
And I am REALLY not a lawyer, but is there any way some of those damaged in one way or another by Twitter employees can sue individuals and possible take some of their money? I don't have a Twitter account, but I would love to see that.
Let's be real here, Gertrude's Iguana was sorta being a bitch. Speaking of being a bitch, "Sam" Brinton probably wouldn'a pass a security clearance because the administration didn'a do one. That would be "on brand" for this administration, as the kids say.
We went from "Twitter is not Shadowbanning anyone! There would never be a shadow ban based on ideology! To say so is a conspiracy theory!" to "OF COURSE you evil/racist/sexist/bigoted/transphobic conservatives are being shadowbanned! The F**K did you pieces of shit expect? Your speech is violence and WILL lead to violence. So shut up and take it."
The funniest part, in my opinion, is that "journalists" act like people have no ability to research what they said a few months ago. Also, just love how these Corporate Lefty Journalists are all "Twitter is private company! They can do what they want!"
Oh, sweet merciful baby Jeebus, please take the wheel while I try to regain my sanity!
The sheer hubris of the Ruling Class will be their downfall. Sheer. F**king. Hubris.
I think that the Bidet Administration thought the Brittany Griner "trade" would be the shiny object needed to distract a compliant public long enough to get past the Twitter Drop, to get to the point where they could just use the "old news, nothing to see here" excuse that KJP trotted out a few days ago.
TGIF indeed. Yesterday's Strib ran a Washington Post column calling the Twitter Files (Taibbi) a "dud". It's why everyone needs to read alternative sources of news. The local papers rely on the NYT and WaPo wire services, and the bias of those two goes to every reader whose paper uses them. They may have a harder time with the explicit showing of lying about shadowbanning. Thanks Treach, for stringing the examples together.
Brinton represents so much of what is wrong with the Administration and, frankly, the Democrat Party's addiction to diversity including perversity. If someone's into kink, bondage, puppy-training fetishes, maybe they don't need to work in a high-level position in the US Government? Do you really keep him on with pay?
A big shout-out to Ms. Gajewski, "Lil," for the link to Jordan Schachtel's Dossier: The Biden Admin lied, again, as they could have brought the vet home. Instead we get lesser Bergdahl. And the big takeaway is NBC covered up its own scoop. Yeah, I may need the weekend to recover.
I don't participate on the Twitterverse and frankly wouldn't give two $#!t$ about it but so many people seems to live their lives there and are incapable of making a decision unless they have read the opinions of whoever they are "following". Or perhaps rely on it for alternative info because the so called MSM has become nothing more than a parrot of the delusional utopians that now are in office pretending to govern.
So now I'm forced to care because there are people with REAL knowledge about public health and socio-economic issues whose opinions differ from current policy who. apparently were prevented from saying, Hey not so fast, there is a better way. And THAT my friends was the real steal, not some cockamamie voter fraud, the machines were rigged theory.
Hats off to the South African for caring enough about this country to spend his billions to expose the truth (even though we all knew what was happening - he bought the dirt and is showing it) when others went all out to bury it. That f'g @Jack scurried away like a rat on a sinking ship.
So, I was cleaning out some open tabs with articles I've been meaning to read for ... longer than I'm willing to admit. One from The Tablet, titled "How the Media Trains Journalists to Lie," made an interesting argument:
Advertising revenue for media, especially newspapers, has tanked.
They now rely on subscribers for more and more of their income.
Subscribers want news that conforms to their worldview.
Reporters, sharing that worldview, are only too happy to provide.
If somebody upsets The Narrative by accidentally telling the truth, this upsets subscribers. This is a direct threat to the paper's bottom line, and the reporter's livelihood.
Thus, the reporters and subscribers gang up on the transgressor, to beat them back into line.
Their chosen tool for doing this: Twitter.
This may explain part of the liberal media freak-out over changes wrought by Musk. He may make it harder to launch a Twitter storm. Certainly it should become easier for others to come to the victim's defense. The appearance of universal condemnation would be gone, and with it, some of its effectiveness.
They may not articulate it in quite that way, but I suspect that is weighing heavily on some people's minds.
Twitter is quite amusing now, progressives who actually have to defend their ideas outside an echo chamber are recoiling in horror. Wokery is a hothouse flower that can only survive inside the confines of censorship and repression. As soon as you start logically examining their premises and conclusions (“speech is violence!”), it falls apart like a house of cards.
It seems pretty certain that Sam Brinton has a pathological need for attention. He got a burst of it when he was appointed, then faded from view. Now he's back in the limelight as a serial thief. I think he believes that any publicity is good publicity, in the sense that it makes him seem less insignificant (if more pitiable).
TGIF for sure. For the first time (except Thanksgiving weekend when all the people at work who annoy her were also gone) in at least 6months, it looks like my wife will have a whole weekend for herself! Huzzah!!
Anyway, as for Twitter and it past behaviors, all the lies Twitter told are now being defended by retroactively redefining terms. The so-called "journalists" of the LSM are as angry and ignorant as ever. Talk about privilege.
And Jack@Twitter is either neck deep in the lying or some sort of idiot savant who understand little but coding. I kind of lean toward the latter. I've known people like that.
It may be that the Leftist Narrative will not be able to shut down, shout down, the evidence coming out of Musk's release. I suspect a future move will be to allow all Twitter accounts to search for past limits put on by the old regime.
And I am REALLY not a lawyer, but is there any way some of those damaged in one way or another by Twitter employees can sue individuals and possible take some of their money? I don't have a Twitter account, but I would love to see that.
Hey where do we send all those bags of coal, I mean presents for you for Christmas?
"That’s because all those ex-Twitter employees weren’t there to run the site. They were there to run the users."
They're all Slime. https://youtu.be/nRnNDkHb0MU
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I'm the tool of the government
And industry too
For I am destined to rule
And regulate you
Let's be real here, Gertrude's Iguana was sorta being a bitch. Speaking of being a bitch, "Sam" Brinton probably wouldn'a pass a security clearance because the administration didn'a do one. That would be "on brand" for this administration, as the kids say.
We went from "Twitter is not Shadowbanning anyone! There would never be a shadow ban based on ideology! To say so is a conspiracy theory!" to "OF COURSE you evil/racist/sexist/bigoted/transphobic conservatives are being shadowbanned! The F**K did you pieces of shit expect? Your speech is violence and WILL lead to violence. So shut up and take it."
The funniest part, in my opinion, is that "journalists" act like people have no ability to research what they said a few months ago. Also, just love how these Corporate Lefty Journalists are all "Twitter is private company! They can do what they want!"
Oh, sweet merciful baby Jeebus, please take the wheel while I try to regain my sanity!
The sheer hubris of the Ruling Class will be their downfall. Sheer. F**king. Hubris.
"You wouldn’t know it to look at him, but it turns out Sam Brinton might have some mental health issues"
*blink ... blink*
I think that the Bidet Administration thought the Brittany Griner "trade" would be the shiny object needed to distract a compliant public long enough to get past the Twitter Drop, to get to the point where they could just use the "old news, nothing to see here" excuse that KJP trotted out a few days ago.
TGIF indeed. Yesterday's Strib ran a Washington Post column calling the Twitter Files (Taibbi) a "dud". It's why everyone needs to read alternative sources of news. The local papers rely on the NYT and WaPo wire services, and the bias of those two goes to every reader whose paper uses them. They may have a harder time with the explicit showing of lying about shadowbanning. Thanks Treach, for stringing the examples together.
Brinton represents so much of what is wrong with the Administration and, frankly, the Democrat Party's addiction to diversity including perversity. If someone's into kink, bondage, puppy-training fetishes, maybe they don't need to work in a high-level position in the US Government? Do you really keep him on with pay?
A big shout-out to Ms. Gajewski, "Lil," for the link to Jordan Schachtel's Dossier: The Biden Admin lied, again, as they could have brought the vet home. Instead we get lesser Bergdahl. And the big takeaway is NBC covered up its own scoop. Yeah, I may need the weekend to recover.
I don't participate on the Twitterverse and frankly wouldn't give two $#!t$ about it but so many people seems to live their lives there and are incapable of making a decision unless they have read the opinions of whoever they are "following". Or perhaps rely on it for alternative info because the so called MSM has become nothing more than a parrot of the delusional utopians that now are in office pretending to govern.
So now I'm forced to care because there are people with REAL knowledge about public health and socio-economic issues whose opinions differ from current policy who. apparently were prevented from saying, Hey not so fast, there is a better way. And THAT my friends was the real steal, not some cockamamie voter fraud, the machines were rigged theory.
Hats off to the South African for caring enough about this country to spend his billions to expose the truth (even though we all knew what was happening - he bought the dirt and is showing it) when others went all out to bury it. That f'g @Jack scurried away like a rat on a sinking ship.
“There to run the users” - perfect observation and oh so true.
So, I was cleaning out some open tabs with articles I've been meaning to read for ... longer than I'm willing to admit. One from The Tablet, titled "How the Media Trains Journalists to Lie," made an interesting argument:
Advertising revenue for media, especially newspapers, has tanked.
They now rely on subscribers for more and more of their income.
Subscribers want news that conforms to their worldview.
Reporters, sharing that worldview, are only too happy to provide.
If somebody upsets The Narrative by accidentally telling the truth, this upsets subscribers. This is a direct threat to the paper's bottom line, and the reporter's livelihood.
Thus, the reporters and subscribers gang up on the transgressor, to beat them back into line.
Their chosen tool for doing this: Twitter.
This may explain part of the liberal media freak-out over changes wrought by Musk. He may make it harder to launch a Twitter storm. Certainly it should become easier for others to come to the victim's defense. The appearance of universal condemnation would be gone, and with it, some of its effectiveness.
They may not articulate it in quite that way, but I suspect that is weighing heavily on some people's minds.
Twitter is quite amusing now, progressives who actually have to defend their ideas outside an echo chamber are recoiling in horror. Wokery is a hothouse flower that can only survive inside the confines of censorship and repression. As soon as you start logically examining their premises and conclusions (“speech is violence!”), it falls apart like a house of cards.
At least Musk took down the Child Porn Purveyors. Holy Smokes, what twisted people.
https://redstate.com/streiff/2022/12/09/twitters-trust-and-safety-council-resigns-in-protest-and-elon-musk-evaluates-their-performance-n671303
It seems pretty certain that Sam Brinton has a pathological need for attention. He got a burst of it when he was appointed, then faded from view. Now he's back in the limelight as a serial thief. I think he believes that any publicity is good publicity, in the sense that it makes him seem less insignificant (if more pitiable).
Twitter with a Texas twang - sounds purty.