China is protesting how a QR code dominates their lives in a digital dictatorship (& more)
Well, let’s review #Nevada in a 🧵.
Our government just created one with their vac database (a bunch of private medical info they have no right to)
They did this in anticipation for “airports” in specific, saying they might require proof of vac.
To be clear, our government imagined we might need to be drugged, compliant with a mandate and require a QR code to travel.
Sound familiar? 🤔
Then Gov Sisolak apparently colluded when he announced his latest edicts and hours later the Raider’s came out saying they had a plan that perfectly matched up… the digital QR system was piloted NFL style.
…& AG Aaron Ford threatened criminal charges for using fake cards.
“Destination of CHOICE” was somehow used un-ironically here. Sisolak didn’t take the passport system off the table & “hours later” Raiders announce their plan, that was made possible by his directive.
Also, they stupidly thought vac meant can’t get sick/ transmit, scrapped mask.
And, the Biden admin had their ways of coercive polices, working on their own passport. Idk why some people voted for this, except they didn’t realize how much of a threat to privacy and liberties these systems create.
In Canada, it’s reported that a ton of personal information was to be included in the digital health passport.
Back to Nevada, Sisolak mandated the drug or testing & masks for state workers and they championed major employers who did similar stuff voluntarily and having nothing to do with pressure from gaming regulators and bureaucrats 😉 thenevadaindependent.com/article/nevada…
Just kidding— the Gaming Board told all the “private” major employers what they could do the entire time. They are all appointed by the Governor.
Meanwhile, they discriminated against religious institutions (kinda like China would) and we had lawsuits to rectify. One I got the ball rolling on through protest followed by coalition building and campaigns to legal groups. We got to SCOTUS & narrowly lost. Good dissent, though
For me, there’s not a ton of difference in the PCR lines in China, and the ones our teachers stood in. In their passport, and the ones piloted in our state. In the yellow code on their phone, or our teachers’.
They did that in Nevada, too.
Teachers in long lines awaiting forced government testing.
Some testing wasn’t even based on anything other than lottery. Then you had to undergo a diagnostic medical procedure because of some government BINGO game.
Sisolak activated our National Guard for two years.
Do I take issue with our National Guard? No.
Do I like the police state optics while an executive ruling by whim calls in his militia? Also, no.
I’ll cut this thread off here and spare you of when tourists were told to come and locals were told to stay home, or Sisolak telling jurnos & bloggers to stop criticizing him, and the Northshore scandal… they were willing to do anything they could get away with & they did.
Oh, I guess I should say that Nevadans protested. Aside the religious freedom Easter ones I organized leading to lawsuit, I attended this one which was large— cool pics in article.
Spencer was arrested for “disturbing the peace” by protesting with a megaphone at Sisolak’s vax lottery— was very political prisoner.
The resisting arrest charge was dropped.
I’ll end here— I do not deny that Spencer & I made the naughty list that year.
But, Sisolak made the one-term Governor list this year.
Cheers 🥂
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For the record, they once “allowed” me to give my kid Christmas presents (as in, they gave them to her, not me) after a detective unwrapped and inspected the to make sure I didn’t have a note that said “I love you” or anything.
More recently, I walked into their Sheriff’s station to have them serve some papers and the employee immediately recognized the case, saying “the kid… the school… you’re the mom…”
Yep. That’s ME!
We spoke for a bit and she said her heart goes out to me as a mother. They know.
After she processed the docs I teased her saying, “we’re done here? No cuffs?!”
At the end of case the DA tells me not only did she “almost not file charges” (um then drop them, why are we even here then?) but that the Detective said he felt my ex “played it up”
Me: ya think?
I can’t wait for the Cashman piece, but I feel like we already got a preview. My guess: Opposing the targeting of creators over fair use is a euphemism for taking down Elon. Eliza has tied herself to this idea that she’s “standing” between Elon and da haters. Seems imaginative 🧵
Jesus is gonna turn up in the mix, duh, that guy is everywhere.
Something about Ye being a true defender of free speech. Unless there’s a fair use image and full rights of publishers. Other than that, free speech with Ye who never objectified anyone commercially, ever.
Maybe Cashman will even get in on the act and also pretend his trip was made public in some way other than Eliza announcing it weeks ago— and then posting a photo with him.
If tonight’s boondoggle is a preview, this is my BINGO card. Plus a cat named Carl.
THREAD🧵Currently, Eliza is tweeting assurances about how Elon Musk doesn't do favors for her. She also tweeted a photo with the caption "Hi". It appears to be a picture w/ Timcast jurno Shane Cashman. Tim Pool announced he has a journalist investigating.
A lot of people are hoping this will be more than a puff piece, from comments I saw. But, prior to release let's note a few things: Both have extremely high opinions of each other, gushing you might say.
Elon Musk live in spaces:
Elon accuses SBF of being on stimulants during conversation that was supposed to be about Twitter:
Taking about himself & not asking questions about transaction, talking at speed of auctioneer, set off Elon’s BS meter.
Asked about Assange & Snowden. Elon takes no hard position, doesn’t know enough about it.
Mod asks Elon to take a poll on Twitter about it and he agrees.
There is talk about Elons safety & being “under pressure” which he says he’s under pressure every day anyway.
He said he would be doing no open air parades.
Twitter will push other social media and media companies to compete to be more truthful, or they will lose viewers.
I’m proud of the nonpartisan work done in rejecting Ventura County’s ballot measures that would interfere with domestic production in a highly regulated CA industry. Grateful to have the support of labor unions on that initiative too. USA needs energy production & independence
I encourage consumers to boycott Patagonia for their multi-million dollar role & tactics in an attempt to grant a simple majority of County Supervisors new powers over production that would have implications far beyond their districts. We need a thriving industry, not overlords.
If not produced in CA, it’s delivered on tanker. Some from Alaska but also foreign nations entrenched in geopolitical issues. And, if environment & labor practices are your concern, be assured California & US have high standards beyond what you will find in many nations.
This will be my most offensive post of the day; I want to redraw the boundaries of what is considered the Midwest. I’m really a Missouri girl, truth be told— and it’s as middle as it gets so I will claim expertise here.
I’m redistricting Great Lakes states.
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You can decide what to call your region but Southern Canada is in the running. I’m taking Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Illinois & Nebraska (plus Arkansas). I will take Indiana if the Great Lakes states agree to taking Ohio. They are obligated to the Dakotas as part of South Canada
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As for Arkansas, I’m taking it as culturally relevant to the Ozarks and giving Oklahoma to the South West as Northern Texas.
There is no better solution. Midwesterner’s from Great Lakes & Rust Belt have few commonalities in language, history or culture to farms & Bible Belt. 3/