We live in a time that people are more inclined to obey an unlawful executive order than they are to follow a court order 🤦🏾♀️.
Dictators are created due to cruelty, cowardice, & compliance! IF THEIR ASSES will ignore the Supreme Court, we can definitely IGNORE HIM!
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staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by Senator Chris Murphy
The elevation of Pope Leo XIV is a profound and historic occasion. Like so many around the world, I am praying for him and wishing him and the Church well as his papacy begins.
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So let me get this straight, we finally get an American pope, and some of the America first crowd is mad because he cares about the poor and immigrants. Am i missing something here?
So that's why Nigeria and why Naomi Wolf. I don't quite agree with you about Twitter being able to do whatever they want. Regulation of businesses is a well established practice in America for the good of the public. (Yes, I understand the downside of that, but sometimes e accept the downside when the abuse is great enough). As Twitter (along with Facebook, Google, and Amazon) is so big, it could be considered something of utility. So either regulation or breaking them up. However, until that happens, I'll just have to enjoy this little bit of irony.
i find the idea of "too big to be free" or "too successful for self determination" to be problematic and the idea of appeals to past practice on regulation as a justification for more in the future to be a form of logical fallacy. it's just appeal to tradition. you could have made the same argument about not allowing women to vote.
you cannot regulate your way to freedom and these policies just make the state we need to rein in more powerful and capable of future interference.
the way forward i…
I had not seen that essay before (sorry I'm too old to know the right terminology). Thanks for pointing me to it. I hope you are right and there is a way to build a decentralized internet where no one controls the keys to the kingdom and we are all free to express and ignore at our own pleasure. I guess I'm just not as optimistic as you are, but I understand. But maybe places like Substack are the beginning and I will be proven blissfully wrong.
