Red MenacePosted on 02/04/2021 5:36:06 AM PST by NOBO2012
Anyone else starting to get the feeling that the progs idea of social democracy is much more closely aligned with dystopian totalitarianism than anything resembling “democracy”?
Because so many of us no longer watch Fox, here’s a great clip from Mark Steyn on Tucker last night addressing the NYT opinion piece calling for a Reality Czar to “fix” all that disinformation floating about in the roiling sea of free-speech which, as Mark points out, the Left mocks as a ‘right-wing fetish’.
“Several experts I spoke with recommended that the Biden administration put together a cross-agency task force to tackle disinformation and domestic extremism, which would be led by something like a ‘reality czar.'”
Other helpful suggestions proffered in his opinion piece for ways to combat “misinformation” included “auditing” social media algorithms and enacting federal government programs referred to as a “social stimulus” – which sounds chillingly similar to China’s “social credit” system. But now that Trump is gone, China is our new best friend.
Red Menace
It amuses me, slightly, that at no point does it occur to Roose that he and his lot are heavily implicated in the creation of the very “reality crisis” that terrifies him.
“I’ve spent the past several years reporting on our national reality crisis, and I worry that unless the Biden administration treats conspiracy theories and disinformation as the urgent threats they are, our parallel universes will only drift further apart, and the potential for violent unrest and civic dysfunction will only grow.”
Perhaps the reason people can no longer figure out what’s real and what’s fake is because “media” stopped presenting facts and started “shaping the public agenda” and instead began propagating exclusively the Left’s POV, talking points and stories that advanced the narrative.
You see, “fake news” isn’t the problem; the problem is mainstream “news” with an agenda. The media’s lack of credibility contributes greatly to the public’s - especially the non-liberal segment thereof – cynicism and willingness to believe anything not reported by the MSM. So Mr. Roose, this is your mess. And your proposed plan for cleanup on aisle 5 is worse than the mess you’ve made.
But if you really think a Reality Czar will do the trick I hear that Winston Smith is available, although he’s no doubt overqualified.
“The further a society drifts from the truth the more it will hate those who speak it.”
Posted from: MOTUS A.D.
Time to boo the heck out of the reality czar and spam the internet with it.
First off, who decides what “reality” is? Bravo TV?
DoublePlus ungood.
I guess those displaced pipeline workers could go to work for the Ministry of Truth.
I never viewed 1984 as a playbook, but apparently, I was alone in that assessment.
The reality is that a majority of Americans no longer believe that government is interested in decent values or the common good. That the MSM is controlled by vile propagandists and can no longer be believed. That they have a sense that big tech and Wall Street are harming the country through censorship and rigged markets. That a corrupt demented Biden stole an election and is a figurehead for people who viscerally hate America.
A reality czar will need to have brutal, blunt power to cower these people to accept the lies and the globalist , anti American narrative.
“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Democrats.
All will applaud it until they step out of line a bit.
Then to the gulag with them...just like Trump.
I started to go through the article and highlight the lies. In the first few paragraphs there were more highlighted areas than not.
This article, I think, helps one to get a grip on things:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3920426/posts
I know this is just an “idea”, but I don’t doubt that it is already happening. Think of all the tech people who were involved with Obama and now his closet third term. They share his vision and goals. They’ve actually participated in tech meetings in DC. This has been in place since 2008...if not earlier.
“A reality czar will need to have brutal, blunt power to cower these people to accept the lies”
That’s exactly what is being called for here. The Left are afraid that they are moving us so fast leftward that there may be shock revolt among the still armed to the teeth. At some point a very important transition must occur that sheer velocity might upset.
Mr. Reality Czar, meet your huckleberry....
“A reality czar will need to have brutal, blunt power to cower these people to accept the lies and the globalist , anti American narrative.”
Maybe Diana Moon Glampers will be available.
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Idea from people that live a World of Fantasy
The Department of Propaganda should be a cabinet position. Why hide it?
Ah, the EXPERTS! We must listen to them. Especially when there were “several”. Good Lord.
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