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Tuesday, October 1. 2024

Tuesday morning links

 "I know it has a 4 in it". Why our feelings are not to be trusted


Every school in the world should adopt this method of teaching!


Eco Loons Who Threw Soup On Van Gogh Painting Sent To Prison


Top high school’s standards slip following DEI policy


Fort Worth ISD Bets On “Equity,” Loses


The Biden-Harris Federal Response to Helene Is a Total Disaster


 Matt Taibbi: How to Fight Back Against the Censors. To small thinkers, free speech is a wilderness of potential threats. Thankfully, America wasn’t founded by small thinkers.


What America Can Learn from Israel but Won’t


Italy’s Giorgia Meloni: Why the West Is Worth Defending


Israel Launches Ground Invasion Of Lebanon: Operation Northern Arrows


The Left Wails in Mourning for Nasrallah


A Palestine of the Mind - For the radical Left, the Palestinian is the
last natural savage—innocent even when killing and slaughtering.

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Commenting on Elon Musk: that has not been my experience. Since the advent of especially YouTube, local performances have become excellent, often of a higher caliber than anything you see in the movie theater or tv.
#1 Eva Marie on 2024-10-01 10:48 (Reply)
Musk on teaching/learning... We went from being story tellers creating visions and sounds to becoming listeners of radio or instructors to becoming zombies watching the TV screen/movie screen/phone screen. Reboot the system to local.

Eco loons... learn to make soup in the prison kitchen rather than lazily buy it off the shelf or at the counter. You might learn something in the process.

HS standards slip... DEI is a distraction from the real world and you have to function in the real world or live in the shit hole third world.
#2 indyjonesouthere on 2024-10-01 11:28 (Reply)
Something strange going on in Asheville NC. Just before the hurricane hit hundreds of migrants were bussed in with no place to stay. Now in the aftermath numerous deaths of residents from non-hurricane related reasons. The migrants are looting homes and causing havoc. The military is quietly being moved in but no one is talking about any of this. Who planned this?
#3 Anon on 2024-10-01 11:33 (Reply)
QUOTE:
Matt Taibbi: How to Fight Back Against the Censors . . .

Now, is it against the law when a White House official calls Facebook and asks to ban a journalist for writing that the Covid vaccine “doesn’t stop infection or transmission”? I think, Hell yes. It certainly violates the spirit of the First Amendment, even if judges are found to say it keeps to the letter.

Well, no. The president and his representatives have every right to "ask". Jawboning isn't illegal. The president has a right to speak like any other citizen. While, the government has no right to use undue coercion; even then, the president has the right of the bully pulpit—as long as he doesn't cross the line into threatening the use of government power. (For example, Trump saying he would revoke the license of networks who air criticisms of him, or punishing late-night comics for "illegal" campaign contributions in the form of satire.)

That is not to say that social media companies may not have excessive power, but Republicans have spent generations neutering anti-trust regulation, so this is the result. But even without the concentration of ownership in social media, the algorithms are designed to stir social and ethnic anger and to canalize groups. "We see you liked a post on making bombs and terrorism. Would you like to join a group of others with similar interests?"
#4 Zachriel on 2024-10-01 11:39 (Reply)
Jawboning isn't illegal but when they have power over you and practice 'lawfare', both of which government can and does do, then it becomes unethical, illegal, or both.
#4.1 indyjonesouthere on 2024-10-01 12:17 (Reply)
The Biden administration just announced they will send billion$ in aid to the flood stricken areas of Appalachia!!!

Just kidding it's all going to Ukraine. Appalachia, you are on your own.
#5 Anon on 2024-10-01 11:49 (Reply)
Anon: The Biden administration just announced they will send billion$ in aid to the flood stricken areas of Appalachia!!!

In fact, Biden immediately approved disaster relief, opening up federal aid. FEMA is sending search-and-rescue teams. Governor Kemp said, "The President just called me yesterday afternoon, I missed him and called him right back, and he said ‘hey what do you need,’ and I told him we got what we need, we’ll work through the federal process. He offered if there’s other things we need just to call him directly, which I appreciate that.”

Meanwhile, Trump said Biden wasn't available to talk to Kemp; Project 2025 would gut FEMA, Trump withheld aid to Puerto Rico after a hurricane, Gaetz was one of a number of Republicans who voted against additional FEMA disaster funding just before Helene struck, and Trump has threatened to withhold disaster aid to California over political differences.
#5.1 Zachriel on 2024-10-01 12:18 (Reply)
Withholding aid...Puerto Ricans call for resignation of governor after unused Hurricane Maria supplies found in warehouse.
You played the same game with an incompetent governor and N.0. mayor after Katrina.
#5.1.1 indyjonesouthere on 2024-10-01 12:37 (Reply)
In fact, Project 2025 is not a Trump plan. In fact, he's called parts of it "abysmal" (you'll probably need to look that word up".

You're such a gullible little guy!
#5.1.2 SK on 2024-10-01 16:18 (Reply)
SK: In fact, Project 2025 is not a Trump plan.

Trump took a private flight with Project 2025 leader in 2022 to speak at a Heritage Foundation conference, where he said, “They’re going to lay the groundwork and detail plans for exactly what our movement will do."

SK: You're such a gullible little guy!
#5.1.3 Zachriel on 2024-10-01 16:48 (Reply)
Correct, it's a Heritage Foundation plan, not a Trump plan.

i'm surprised you don't know how all this works. Let me explain, since you clearly don't understand. I'm always happy to help.

Heritage is sort of a "think tank"(you should look that up), one of many on left and right that try to influence policy. You'll be surprised to know that these sorts of policy groups have been a feature in US politics for decades!

Heritage has been writing similar plans since the Reagan years. And since then Republican presidents have, like Trump, given speeches at Heritage events. And, like Trump, they've thought that some ideas in the plans (and the plans of similar groups) are worthwhile and some are not. There are similar groups on the left, and Democrats have similar relationships with them. This is basic, basic stuff, here, little fella.

By the way, that speech is from 2022, before Proj 2025 was even released.

In Trump's words, some of the ideas in this particular Heritage Foundation plan are "abysmal", "absolutely ridiculous", and "seriously extreme".

But thanks for the video. Which of the insane, gullible children in the comments section are you? Some of that stuff was comical as hell!
#5.1.3.1 SK on 2024-10-02 07:16 (Reply)
SK: Correct, it's a Heritage Foundation plan, not a Trump plan.

Trump took possession of it by calling it "plans for exactly what our movement will do."
#5.1.3.2 Zachriel on 2024-10-02 07:34 (Reply)
It could be reasonable for Trump to distance himself from some aspects of Project 2025. It is not reasonable for Trump to pretend he wasn't involved or even know the other people who were involved. The Project is well within Trump's notions of how to concentrate power into his hands, the same person who said he would be dictator on day one. As with all his lies, your mileage may vary.
#5.1.3.3 Zachriel on 2024-10-02 09:07 (Reply)
You know, you're right! Trump's just the kinda guy who'd dispatch the number three official at DOJ to prosecute his opponent! And FBI officials to X (formerly Twitter)!

We gotta stop him, and you're just the man to do it, Zachie-Cracky Pookie-poo!

Get off Youtube and send your CV right over to DOJ! The country needs you! Nay, civilization itself!
#5.1.3.3.1 SK on 2024-10-02 10:22 (Reply)
SK: Trump's just the kinda guy who'd dispatch the number three official at DOJ to prosecute his opponent!

There is probable cause Trump broke the law. None of that, of course, addresses Project 2025 or his saying he would be dictator on day one.
#5.1.3.3.2 Zachriel on 2024-10-02 10:48 (Reply)
And here, boys and girls, is the left revealing itself, justifying the executive pressuring the media industrial complex to police speech it doesn't like.

One more time--when someone tells you who they are, listen.

More leftists telling us who they are:

"My biggest concern is that your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the government in significant ways," Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, during oral arguments in Murthy v. Missouri, formerly Missouri v. Biden.


...our First Amendment stands as a major block to the ability to be able to just hammer it out of existence. So what you need, what we need, is to win the ground, win the right to govern by, hopefully, winning enough votes that you're free to be able to implement change.” John Kerry, Sept. 28, 2024

Spin away, widda Zachie-poo. Tell us more about who you are.
#6 SK on 2024-10-01 12:11 (Reply)
SK: "My biggest concern is that your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the government in significant ways," Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, during oral arguments in Murthy v. Missouri, formerly Missouri v. Biden.

Jackson was referring to the plaintiff's view that the president and his agents shouldn't be allowed speak out. But, as above, the president has a right to free speech. The question remains whether the government crossed the line into coercion, but constraining the free speech of the president isn't that.

SK: ...our First Amendment stands as a major block to the ability to be able to just hammer it out of existence. So what you need, what we need, is to win the ground, win the right to govern by, hopefully, winning enough votes that you're free to be able to implement change.”

In other words, Kerry says that convincing voters is the solution. How did you think it worked?
#6.1 Zachriel on 2024-10-01 12:30 (Reply)
Kerry says no such thing. He does the typical progressive dance that information he doesn't like is mal/mis/dis/information and the first amendment stands in his way
#6.1.1 indyjonesouthere on 2024-10-01 12:42 (Reply)
The latest Kerry/Jackson joint statement--"We're gonna convince those voters as soon as we get rid of that silly blockade hamstringing the government!. You know the one! Yeah baby, we're gonna convince 'em! We're gonna convince 'em all!"
#6.1.2 SK on 2024-10-01 14:22 (Reply)
SK: The latest Kerry/Jackson joint statement--"We're gonna convince those voters as soon as we get rid of that silly blockade hamstringing the government!

Your exaggerated fake-quote twists Kerry's position. Kerry is pointing out the social and political problems inherent to social media, then pointing to the democratic process as the solution, saying "So what we need is to win the ground, win the right to govern, by hopefully winning enough votes that you're free to be able to implement change {sustainable development}."
#6.1.3 Zachriel on 2024-10-01 14:46 (Reply)
Just for Zach and the Borg...

At real clear politics

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/09/29/john_kerry_tells_wef_our_first_amendment_stands_as_a_major_block_against_hammering_disinforation_out_of_existence.html
#7 indyjonesouthere on 2024-10-01 13:07 (Reply)
From the Conservative Tree House 2024/09/30

Day #4-Facing major crisis, private sector groups working furiously to assist western Carolina region.
#8 indyjonesouthere on 2024-10-01 13:27 (Reply)

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