I agree with all that. The issue is sooner or later another spark is going to happen and people on both the far sides are still p----ed. Don't know what it will be: Biden going 25, shooting Republican congressmen, another police incident with an African American (justified or unjustified). I worry less about Antifa and the far rightist that orchestrated the Capitol take over....it's the fellow travelers they latch onto which make the situation dangerous when outraged. And there's still a lot of outraged out there which didn't magically go away with Biden taking the oath of office.
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I agree with all that. The issue is sooner or later another spark is going to happen and people on both the far sides are still p----ed. Don't know what it will be: Biden going 25, shooting Republican congressmen, another police incident with an African American (justified or unjustified). I worry less about Antifa and the far rightist that orchestrated the Capitol take over....it's the fellow travelers they latch onto which make the situation dangerous when outraged. And there's still a lot of outraged out there which didn't magically go away with Biden taking the oath of office.
Not sure it was really COVID that stopped them, more like batons and tear gas.My prediction is there will not be any violent protests in other areas. And if there are, they will be carefully depicted and downplayed. No one cares about ANTIFA. They are a fringe group that stands for fringe issues. No one outside of the NW cares about salmon and owls, ferns, or whether the original starbucks has it's windows broken.
The migrant caravan would have been a Biden policy testing ground but seems Covid is helping the new admin out.
Large migrant caravan dissolves in Guatemala
Guatemala’s government had made clear it would stop the caravan for immigration and health reasons.www.nbcnews.com
I am pretty sure there will be more protests, NYC just had a riot on MLK day.
NYC MLK Riot
Some folks have developed a taste for it and are now thinking Biden may be more lenient and sympathetic towards them and less so to the police facing them.
Seattle? Denver? Atlanta?
Yup. Ngo has most of them on his twitter feed now. Go look.
He just posted Seattle. Here it is. Atlanta and Denver took place earlier in the day....go look. Atlanta and Denver were much smaller than either Seattle/Portland. There was some activity in NYC too but also small.
Amazin! You knew about it before he did!
The government of Guatemala used COVID and public health as the reasoning for the escalation of force against the caravan. It's a much easier sell. Last time they barely put up a fight.
Nah I just don't care enough to go back and read through my twitter feed and I don't flag things in anticipation of debates with you. If someone else had asked me I might go back, but for you nah. I, for example, would probably do it for dad. This was just convenient.
No offense, but old joke and I'd couldn't care less what our employees politics are. There is no place in the work place for politics. Do we support or oppose legislation that is detrimental to our business? Absolutely, we have a fiduciary duty to our stakeholders and employees. We contributed a fair amount to defeat Prop 15 and it was worth every penny.For Happy and Watfly owners. I thought of you guys today. My pal just got the boot after 21 years of service. He and the CEO were opposite and the CEO told him to leave. It goes both ways now. My son gets an A every time because writes all his papers with words of fluff to make professor happy. I told my son I would have got an F because I will never sell out. He said he has to get an A. To each his own I told him and I said your playing the game well. I just play different
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Now if someone complains about how much they pay in taxes and they happened to vote for Biden, I will keep my mouth shut but feel absolutely zero sympathy for them.
It was a joke and satire mixed with some truth
The purge continues....twitter after days of pressure from cons making some moves towards at least the semblance of equal treatment.
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Polish Minister: Here's Why I Decided to Regulate Monopoly Social Media Tech in My Country
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"This is a viewpoint almost entirely absent in the American political class. The Democrats won't regulate Big Tech because Big Tech is their jackbooted speech code enforcer and their propaganda arm, and the Republicans won't regulate Big Tech because they're fucking taking money from them.
Hail Poland.
Say, do you remember when Americans were particularly sensitive to attempts to curtain freedom of speech?
It was like ten years ago, before half the population decided to lobotomize and zombify itself staring at FaceBook walls and Twitter feeds all fucking day long, and then screaming that Trump, rather than their own social media addiction and consequent diminished-executive-function brains, is the reason they're so anxious and miserable every minute of their miserable, fearful lives.
Good for Poland. Maybe we can ask them to send scholars here to teach us what America used to be like."
Desert Hound
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And from the WH spokesperson.
Jen Psaki on Why Biden Ignored His Own Rules About Mask-Wearing at the Lincoln Memorial: "We have bigger things to worry about."
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Two big points:
1, Joe Biden just signed a new rule making it a requirement to wear masks when visiting federal lands and monuments. Which the Lincoln Memorial, of course, is.
So he didn't just violate general rules-- he violated the rule he had just signed into being.
2, I couldn't fit it in the headline, but Jen Psaki's full answer was, ""He was celebrating a historic day in our country... We have bigger things to worry about."
The Ruling Class always has good reasons why it alone is immune from its own rules. From "she's the public face of this city, she can ignore her own orders and go to a hairdresser" to "he had more important things to do than obey his own law, like celebrate his own ego."
Oh, he was celebrating something, eh? Oh well, if you're celebrating an important milestone or anniversary, the rules don't apply, right?
Jen Psaki on Why Biden Ignored His Own Rules About Mask-Wearing at the Lincoln Memorial: "We have bigger things to worry about."
—Ace
Two big points:
1, Joe Biden just signed a new rule making it a requirement to wear masks when visiting federal lands and monuments. Which the Lincoln Memorial, of course, is.
So he didn't just violate general rules-- he violated the rule he had just signed into being.
2, I couldn't fit it in the headline, but Jen Psaki's full answer was, ""He was celebrating a historic day in our country... We have bigger things to worry about."
The Ruling Class always has good reasons why it alone is immune from its own rules. From "she's the public face of this city, she can ignore her own orders and go to a hairdresser" to "he had more important things to do than obey his own law, like celebrate his own ego."
Oh, he was celebrating something, eh? Oh well, if you're celebrating an important milestone or anniversary, the rules don't apply, right?
Desert Hound
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Maybe if they ban some prominent D politicians or prominent D (sorry non partisan) journalists then there will be an uproar about the silencing of free speech by unelected tech overlords.
Celebrations are apparently o.k. now. So we can go "celebrate" a once-in-a-life-time wedding, a kid's sweet 15, Christmas, my folks 30th wedding anniversary, my friends new job, my kids' book publication. Hey, soccer games are celebrations too, right? Celebrating the joys of futbol? All good!
1 day in office and he's already being called on the carpet for the mask and vaccine stuff. Trump's start wasn't any better, but not exactly a rip roaring start to the 100 days.
Apparently attacking the Democrat Party headquarters crossed the line for Twitter.
Honestly I prefer they didn't purge anyone. Like I said before I'd rather have cockroaches exposed to light than hide in dark corners. Either you believe in the 1st Amendment 100% or you don't. I personally don't believe there is any middle ground. The ACLU used to believe the same thing until it was taken over by the narrative pushers.
While Twitter is a private entity, it along with, Facebook have a near monopoly on online communication and has the power to influence a significant population in any direction they so choose. I know im on common ground with the left because they believe that Facebook posts by the Russians are what led to Trumps victory.
So let it all flow and let the individual decide what to believe.
Glitterhater
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Agree. Just like this place- exposed!
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Are you going to ask Poland how to control the judiciary also? I assume you'd be good with the D's coming up with a new rule that causes a large number of the judiciary to have to "retire" so that they can then replace them - that would be following Poland's example too.
The same Polish government in a long running dispute with the EU over the rule of law.
Is "Hail Poland" meant to be ironic, given that their leaders would like a "Heil" when saluting them, given their inclinations?
Holding up the opinion of the Polish government is pretty risible given their actual inclinations.
And, fwiw, I don't agree with censorship etc. but Poland, FFS.
I don't think we should hang Biden on the cross of mask wearing, that's just garden variety hypocrisy. Let's hang him on the cross of eliminating more jobs in the midst of a pandemic. F'ing brilliant. Right now I wish he would just help states that are struggling with the vaccine rollout. Like implementing financial ramifications for failing to reach some aggressive benchmarks.