Nobody said "go full toddler," but would it be too much to ask that Democrats stop referring to the people who are literally destroying democracy as their "friends"?
Messaging fail. They should have said that the office would be created to monitor Antifa and BLM activity (because you know that's what they'll concentrate on anyway), and Rethugs would have supported it overwhelmingly.
And how much is getting done? Bupkis. The time for 'go along to get along' has passed, Newt Gingrich drove a stake through its heart but the Democratic "leadership" hasn't yet noticed.
“'This bill would more accurately be called the Democrat plan to brand and insult our police and soldiers as white supremacists and neo-Nazis,' Mr. Paul said."
Why Won’t Twitter Treat White Supremacy Like ISIS? Because It Would Mean Banning Some Republican Politicians Too.
The argument that external experts made to Motherboard aligns with what the Twitter employee aired: Society as a whole uncontroversially and unequivocally demanded that Twitter take action against ISIS in the wake of beheading videos spreading far and wide on the platform. The automated approach that Twitter took to eradicating ISIS was successful: “I haven’t seen a legit ISIS supporter on Twitter who lasts longer than 15 seconds for two-and-a-half years,” Amarnath Amarasingam, an extremism researcher at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, told Motherboard in a phone call. Society and politicians were willing to accept that some accounts were mistakenly suspended by Twitter during that process (for example, accounts belonging to the hacktivist group Anonymous that were reporting ISIS accounts to Twitter as part of an operation called #OpISIS were themselves banned).That same eradicate-everything approach, applied to white supremacy, is much more controversial.“Most people can agree a beheading video or some kind of ISIS content should be proactively removed, but when we try to talk about the alt-right or white nationalism, we get into dangerous territory, where we’re talking about [Iowa Rep.] Steve King or maybe even some of Trump’s tweets, so it becomes hard for social media companies to say all of this ‘this content should be removed,’” Amarasingam said....“Cracking down on white nationalists will therefore involve removing a lot of people who identify to a greater or lesser extent as Trump supporters, and some people in Trump circles and pro-Trump media will certainly seize on this to complain they are being persecuted,” Berger said. “There's going to be controversy here that we didn't see with ISIS, because there are more white nationalists than there are ISIS supporters, and white nationalists are closer to the levers of political power in the US and Europe than ISIS ever was.”
I've run into a few MAGA Trump Cultist RWNJ veterans, and some of the comments I've read from active duty military on military. com just reek of being ripped from OAN and Breitbart disqus pages.
Speaking of Nazis in otherwise perfectly cromulent institutions ...A new book examines Pope Pius XII’s role in the Holocausthttps://www.nytimes.com/202...
And in case there are some among us who think Pope Francis is not much better or different from every other pope, it was Francis who ordered that the Vatican archives be opened to scholars in 2019 for the first time ever. The Vatican archives have been notorious for 2000 years for their closely guarded, untouchable secrets.
Francis said “the church is not afraid of history,” which makes sense since it has usually been history's big winner. Maybe now the fuckwads who want Pius XII to be canonized with shut the hell up.
while not doing enough to prevent terrorism by the "far Left."
It didn't contain a "shoot on site" clause for anyone throwing a pie at God-Emperor Trump? (Apparently you can add hurled baked goods to the list of things Trump is bizarrely afraid of, along with exercise and stairs and having a normal skin tone.)
If Francis was pope back when I was having issues, I might have never left. He seems to actually believe in the entire don't be a dick/help people thing
Which is one reason why I an honestly dumbfounded that he's managed to live as long as he has. Inconvenient Popes usually die of unspecified ailments pretty quickly.
My dog gave this response just now, to the question "Want to go outside?" Much more coherent than the guy I was talking to.
Nobody said "go full toddler," but would it be too much to ask that Democrats stop referring to the people who are literally destroying democracy as their "friends"?
Betcha the cops take action in less than an hour.
They can keep the fucking country fair; we’ll take the square.
Hello, Ms. Fire! Meet Mr. Gasoline!
Messaging fail. They should have said that the office would be created to monitor Antifa and BLM activity (because you know that's what they'll concentrate on anyway), and Rethugs would have supported it overwhelmingly.
And how much is getting done? Bupkis. The time for 'go along to get along' has passed, Newt Gingrich drove a stake through its heart but the Democratic "leadership" hasn't yet noticed.
“'This bill would more accurately be called the Democrat plan to brand and insult our police and soldiers as white supremacists and neo-Nazis,' Mr. Paul said."
Good God, he is stupid.
Why Won’t Twitter Treat White Supremacy Like ISIS? Because It Would Mean Banning Some Republican Politicians Too.
The argument that external experts made to Motherboard aligns with what the Twitter employee aired: Society as a whole uncontroversially and unequivocally demanded that Twitter take action against ISIS in the wake of beheading videos spreading far and wide on the platform. The automated approach that Twitter took to eradicating ISIS was successful: “I haven’t seen a legit ISIS supporter on Twitter who lasts longer than 15 seconds for two-and-a-half years,” Amarnath Amarasingam, an extremism researcher at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, told Motherboard in a phone call. Society and politicians were willing to accept that some accounts were mistakenly suspended by Twitter during that process (for example, accounts belonging to the hacktivist group Anonymous that were reporting ISIS accounts to Twitter as part of an operation called #OpISIS were themselves banned).That same eradicate-everything approach, applied to white supremacy, is much more controversial.“Most people can agree a beheading video or some kind of ISIS content should be proactively removed, but when we try to talk about the alt-right or white nationalism, we get into dangerous territory, where we’re talking about [Iowa Rep.] Steve King or maybe even some of Trump’s tweets, so it becomes hard for social media companies to say all of this ‘this content should be removed,’” Amarasingam said....“Cracking down on white nationalists will therefore involve removing a lot of people who identify to a greater or lesser extent as Trump supporters, and some people in Trump circles and pro-Trump media will certainly seize on this to complain they are being persecuted,” Berger said. “There's going to be controversy here that we didn't see with ISIS, because there are more white nationalists than there are ISIS supporters, and white nationalists are closer to the levers of political power in the US and Europe than ISIS ever was.”
I've run into a few MAGA Trump Cultist RWNJ veterans, and some of the comments I've read from active duty military on military. com just reek of being ripped from OAN and Breitbart disqus pages.
Speaking of Nazis in otherwise perfectly cromulent institutions ...A new book examines Pope Pius XII’s role in the Holocausthttps://www.nytimes.com/202...
And in case there are some among us who think Pope Francis is not much better or different from every other pope, it was Francis who ordered that the Vatican archives be opened to scholars in 2019 for the first time ever. The Vatican archives have been notorious for 2000 years for their closely guarded, untouchable secrets.
Francis said “the church is not afraid of history,” which makes sense since it has usually been history's big winner. Maybe now the fuckwads who want Pius XII to be canonized with shut the hell up.
while not doing enough to prevent terrorism by the "far Left."
It didn't contain a "shoot on site" clause for anyone throwing a pie at God-Emperor Trump? (Apparently you can add hurled baked goods to the list of things Trump is bizarrely afraid of, along with exercise and stairs and having a normal skin tone.)
Remember "Eco-terrorism", that thing the GOP made up in the 90s to deflect from their militia movement? It's still not a thing.
Oldies but goodies; how dare you brand ALL our sacred police as white supremacists by saying there are any white supremacists in the force.
And the complicit fucking media lets them get away with this and pretends it is a good faith argument every fucking time
If Francis was pope back when I was having issues, I might have never left. He seems to actually believe in the entire don't be a dick/help people thing
Which is one reason why I an honestly dumbfounded that he's managed to live as long as he has. Inconvenient Popes usually die of unspecified ailments pretty quickly.