December, 2022 archive
Facebook Frolics 0
In an interesting twist, the con works only when you click on a link within Facebook. If you try to reach it otherwise, it redirects to another fake website. Snopes theorizes that this was an attempt to make the scam harder to uncover. I submit that it may rather be an indication of the scammers’ opinion of the susceptibility of persons assimilated by the Zuckerborg.
A Notion of Immigrants, 0
Thom suggests that Republicans are trading on a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Afterthought:
Methinks Thom is onto something.
I doubt that this is some sort of conservative conspiracy. Frankly, I don’t think the American right is capable of thinking that far ahead. (Indeed, their preference is to look back, not forward.)
Nevertheless, given the pervasiveness of “social” media (and I think Americans tend to forget that other countries have are plagued by it too), I think he makes a strong case that one society’s rhetoric could affect other societies’ perception of reality.
Save Just What, Exactly? 0
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I have found that those who trumpet most loudly their own patriotism, those most likely to wrap their bodies in the stars and stripes (in violation of the Flag Code, by the way, but that is quite another issue) while waving the Stars and Bars–the flag of treason, for Pete’s sake–are also those most likely to reject the idea that “all men are created equal,” however imperfectly it might have been practiced at the time of the Founding.
Rather, they would will restore if they could can America’s original sin of chattel slavery.
I say this as one whose ancestors wore the grey.
I’m a Southern Boy who grew up under Jim Crow.
I know racism when I see it.
How Far Will Wells-Fargo? 0
Afterthought:
I’m certain that these sorts of shenanigans can be explained by the confluence of old-fangled greed and the new-fangled sophistries of the Chicago school of economics. This led to the poisonous theory that the first responsibility of a business is, not to the health of the business nor to its customers, certainly not to its employees, but to its stockholders. You know, those folks who don’t work there and don’t buy there and certainly don’t rely there, but own a few scraps of paper . . . .
A poisonous corollary led to the notion that it was perfectly okay for predatory “investors” (think hedge funds) to loot and destroy perfectly healthy businesses, so long as the “investors” come out holding bags of looted wealth.
Not that I’m perhaps a wee bit cynical or anything like that . . . .
The Speeding Docket 0
You’ve heard of justice delayed, but have you heard about justice hurried?
Be Prepared, Reprise 0
Regarding those who do not understand the concept of “the rule of law,” Farron is less than sanguine.
Be Prepared 0
As we have a significant portion of our polity that does not understand the concept of “the rule of law,” methinks that this may be a worthwhile read at this juncture of chronology.
Have Cake, Eat It Too 0
The Disinformation Superhighway 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Susan A. Nolan and Michael Kimball discuss a recent study that indicates some stuff is best left unsaid. Here’s their statement of the issue; follow the link for the rest (and, yes, I read the whole thing).
One more time, “social” media isn’t.
Freedom of Screech 0
Afterthought:
Sparky makes an oft-overlooked point. The Constitution says that “Congress shall make no law” interfering with freedom of speech.
It does not require anyone to listen.
Vaccine Nation 0
Ignrance and stupidity that absolutely boggles the mind . . . .
Four centuries of history prove that vaccines protect humanity against disease, and now comes this guy to lobby in favor of propagating infection and death. Do they not remember polio?
And to compare getting the occasional injection so as to protect your own life and the lives of others to a lifetime of forced labor in order to line the pockets of your “owner”–well, I’ll stop now, for all I have left is profanity.
Today’s Republican Party is a vile and loathsome thing.
