I so agree with your conclusion and the journey you took us on to get there. Ugh...Truth and Liberty with one foot in the grave. How low can we go? Possible updrafts ahead wafting us to a brighter day.
The updraft is manufacturing jobs for the middle class. In the end, when you build things with your hands and you understand the quality of that built thing, no amount of propaganda will change your mind. On the other hand if you think your skill is being open to new ideas....
I like Mike, but he acts really strangely when it comes to his foundation. I've tried to tell him about censorship on X probably 20 times, but he's not the slightest bit interested. I think people assume that his foundation is legit, but I've written to him about secret mass censorship on the world's most important social media platform, and he doesn't care.
I'm hoping that he'll change some text on his foundation's site, something like "don't actually contact us, we don't care and won't respond. We only write reports. We don't want to hear anything from anyone about actual censorship on the internet happening right now."
Censorship is a big problem that lots of people understand. We are particularly concerned with self-censorship. We’re quite particularly aware of the hegemonic idea of racial essentialism that destroys individualism. That’s a distinction that generic 1st Amendment defenders don’t necessarily understand. It’s easy to see how political defectors from X/Twitter formed their alternative universes. Bluesky, Threads & Mastodon collectively have > 300 million users. It’s not so easy to see how so-called ‘people of color’ literally ask for the neo-Jim Crow of DEI and other such racial condescension.
I so agree with your conclusion and the journey you took us on to get there. Ugh...Truth and Liberty with one foot in the grave. How low can we go? Possible updrafts ahead wafting us to a brighter day.
The updraft is manufacturing jobs for the middle class. In the end, when you build things with your hands and you understand the quality of that built thing, no amount of propaganda will change your mind. On the other hand if you think your skill is being open to new ideas....
I like Mike, but he acts really strangely when it comes to his foundation. I've tried to tell him about censorship on X probably 20 times, but he's not the slightest bit interested. I think people assume that his foundation is legit, but I've written to him about secret mass censorship on the world's most important social media platform, and he doesn't care.
I'm hoping that he'll change some text on his foundation's site, something like "don't actually contact us, we don't care and won't respond. We only write reports. We don't want to hear anything from anyone about actual censorship on the internet happening right now."
Censorship is a big problem that lots of people understand. We are particularly concerned with self-censorship. We’re quite particularly aware of the hegemonic idea of racial essentialism that destroys individualism. That’s a distinction that generic 1st Amendment defenders don’t necessarily understand. It’s easy to see how political defectors from X/Twitter formed their alternative universes. Bluesky, Threads & Mastodon collectively have > 300 million users. It’s not so easy to see how so-called ‘people of color’ literally ask for the neo-Jim Crow of DEI and other such racial condescension.