That the Biden Admin casually announced today that the Dept of Homeland Security -- a domestic security agency -- has created a "disinformation" board is indescribably dystopian and chilling.

That Democrats think this is good and normal tells you all you need to know about them.
That the Biden Admin is using Homeland Security -- a domestic security agency -- to decree what is and is not "disinformation" is creepy and dystopian on its own.

That they found a caricature of an MSNBC-watching #Resistance kook to run it is surreal:

I don't know the exact percentage but I know the vast majority of self-proclaimed "anti-disinformation" agents peddled:

-- The Steele Dossier
-- The fairy tale that Russia seized control of the US with blackmail
-- The CIA fabrication of "Russian bounties" in Afghanistan.

This:
If you spent the weeks before the 2020 election spreading and ratifying the CIA lie that the Biden family emails were "Russian disinformation," and then never apologized or retracted it, you have *zero* credibility to lament "disinformation."

You are a disinformation agent.
The #Resistance cartoon-activist whom the Biden Admin selected to head its dystopian Homeland Security "Disinformation Board" will provide a valuable service: showing how "disinformation" is a meaningless term that just means whatever those who wield power want it to mean.
Ethics and principles and all that aside, both Democrats and Republicans in Congress have an equal self-interest in defunding and banning this new DHS Ministry of Truth. Just unite and deny it funding. Congress is supposed to check Executive Branch abuses this way.

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Apr 29
Billionaires already control most social media monopolies and corporate news outlets but AOC seems to have no problem with that because they censor in accordance with the wishes of her party and ideology.

It's only a problem now that this political censorship might stop.
Remember when AOC publicly demanded Google and Apple remove from their stores, and thus destroy, a social media site devoted to free speech.

They obeyed and Parler was destroyed. Google and Apple are controlled by billionaires but they censored for her:

Dems have spent 18 months threatening billionaire-controlled platforms to censor in accordance with their demands.

They have *zero* problems will control by tech, who donate huge $ to Dems. The problem begins only if they won't censor.

greenwald.substack.com/p/congress-esc…
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Apr 28
I'm interested to see how much "sacrifice" -- ie, suffering -- people in the US and Europe are willing to endure to stay involved in a conflict over who controls regions in eastern Ukraine.

Weapons manufacturers thrive and war-pundits feel purpose. But people are getting poorer:
Adam Smith in the "Wealth of Nations" so presciently described -- 250 years ago -- the war-hungry ethos that so often predominates in Western capitals, along with the psychological and cultural reasons why it does:
For those upset at the suggestion that Ukraine is of vital interest to Russia but not the US, direct your anger to Barack Obama, not me, since he told @JeffreyGoldberg in 2016 that this was a core principle of his foreign policy worldview:

theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
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Apr 27
The Twitter official Musk criticized, in the mildest of tones, makes $17 million/year, as @neontaster says.

Over and over, the largest media corporations try to place the most powerful people *off-limits from criticism* by claiming any criticisms of them generates "harassment."
The same WashPost just doxed a private citizen, dragging her into the spotlight because they disliked her politics, publishing her address as they did it. That generated immense "harassment."

How can one criticize powerful people without being accused of generating "harassment"?
Please read this thread from @esaagar -- about the WashPost's attempt to blame him for "harassment" received by a mega-rich Twitter official because he criticized her -- to see how corrupt corporate journalism is when it comes to its enemies. Please read:

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Apr 26
It was completely predictable -- and indeed, many predicted -- that the Only Real Victim™ of the doxing of @LibsofTikTok by @TaylorLorenz and @washingtonpost would be... Taylor Lorenz.

The outcome is always that this wealthy, powerful media figure who ruins lives is the victim.
The rules:

-- Splashing a private citizen's name, work address, and religion all over the Bezos-owned Washington Post, and banging on the doors of their relatives: heroic.

-- Splashing the name of a powerful media figure on a billboard or a cable show: evil, vile murderous.
Corporate journalists can do anything they want to private citizens: unveil their identities, dig up and publish dirt about their lives, stalk their relatives, ruin their reputations.

But nobody can publicly criticize corporate journalists for doing that.

That's the game here.
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Apr 26
I'm currently in a conservative enclave in the US. There are far more Ukrainian flags -- on home rooftops, in store entrances -- than US flags.

Virtually every powerful media and state institution in the West have been united in lockstep messaging and the results are stunning
Whatever your views on the moral dimensions of this war, it's hard to deny this is the most dangerous moment in US foreign policy in two decades. Every week, US/NATO involvement in the war intensifies, as Russia explicitly warns of nuclear war. For what?

reuters.com/business/aeros…
Virtually every week, Biden announces new massive aid of cash and weapons to Ukraine. Every week, US/NATO announce greater involvement that, weeks earlier, was deemed unthinkable. It's a full-on proxy war. The risks are mind-boggling. What is being achieved that warrants this?
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Apr 25
I'm not really sure how or why it happened -- and at some point it should be studied with the perspective of some temporal distance - but the neediest, most ardent, and most passionate censorship crusaders are the tattletale-employees of media corporations like this:
There are so many amusing aspects to the utter panic and meltdown of corporate media employees at the prospect of Musk's control of Twitter.

Perhaps the funniest are ones who work at huge corporations owned by Bezos other billionaires are lamenting billionaire control of media.
Hi, I work at CNN, owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, and I'm really worried about billionaire control of media.

Hi, I liked the way things were before: with Soros, Omidyar, Google and Zuckerberg running everything - not a billionaire!

This was in the Bezos-owned WP 2 weeks ago!
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