Book burning Nazis, everywhere around us.
Democrats are evil scum.
A community is low on a Respect scale if common courtesy is withheld from large groups of people on account of their political attitudes.
...in a downright despotism opposition is dangerous whether the despotism is official or whether it is unofficial...
A community rates low on the Information scale when the press, radio, and other channels of communication are controlled by only a few people and when citizens have to accept what they are told.
See how a community trains its teachers
...these students are being taught to accept uncritically whatever they are told. Questions are not encouraged.
And if books and newspapers and the radio [and facebook and youtube and...] are officially controlled the people will read and accept exactly what the few in control want them to. Government censorship is one form of control. The newspaper that breaks the government censorship rule can be suspended. It is also possible for newspapers and other lines of communication to be controlled by private interests...
Democracy (Encyclopedia Britannica film, circa 1946)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx25aMPvbJo
The newspapers of a real democracy meet these tests...
Newspaper checks.
1. Balance of coverage
2. Disclosure of source
3. Competence of staff
A few years ago they were still PRETENDING to believe in free speech.
Unbelievable. They openly crave totalitarianism.
Don't know who penned those words, but do worry that they might suffer some form of injury at the hands of an over-zealous patriot.
See my tag line.
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Interpreting the act as an expression of repressed desire, Freud concluded, No mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his finger-tips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
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More Big Tech authoritarianism.
Steve Jobs’s widow bought the rag three years ago.
She is a budding, female Bill Gates, owning this through her “Emerson Collective” LLC, “a social change organization focused on education, immigration reform, the environment, media and journalism, and health. Founded by Laurene Powell Jobs,[2] the LLC uses philanthropy, impact investing, advocacy, and community engagement as tools to spur change in the United States and abroad.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerson_Collective)
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What’s so surprising nowadays is how OPEN liberals are to admitting that they favor censorship and surveillance. A few years ago they were still PRETENDING to believe in free speech.
What I want to know is where is the ACLU? I havent heard a peep out of those phony liberals at aclu. Not a word.