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Nov 27 2022

Moonbats Turn on Musk Part II

The Experts at CNN do not have to wage their war alone. Tinseltown bubblehead Alyssa Milano joins them in combating the menace of free speech. Instead of virtue signaling by driving a Tesla, she will now virtue signal by not driving a Tesla:

Allowing free speech to even moderate conservatives like the Babylon Bee and Jordan Peterson (whose accounts have now been restored) is “hate and white supremacy.”

One problem:

Numerous Twitter users noted a flaw in Milano’s rationale to switch from a Tesla to a Volkswagen to fight “white supremacy.” Several commentators pointed out that Volkswagen was created by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party.

As noted by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum:

On May 26, 1938, Nazi dignitaries gathered near Fallersleben in northern Germany to lay the foundation stone for the Volkswagen Works. The Führer himself was present, predicting that this Volkswagen, initially known as the Kraft-durch-Freude-Wagen, or KdF-Wagen, would be “a symbol of the National Socialist people’s community.”

Volkswagens were even built by the slave labor of allegedly racially inferior Slavs.

But then, if Alyssa is still willing to use Twitter, which she regards as racist for allowing free speech, why should she object to driving a Nazimobile?

On a tip from KirklesWorth.

Nov 27 2022

Moonbats Turn on Musk Part I

Elon Musk made much of his fortune on electric cars, which are sacred to moonbats. Yet all he had to do was promise to restore some free speech to Twitter for tolerant liberals to turn on him.

Did you think free speech is a good thing? Wrong, shrieks CNN:

Former CIA case officer and current CNN intelligence analyst Robert Baer appeared on the cable news network on Friday to discuss the opening up of Twitter by new CEO Elon Musk.

Roars Baer:

“Putin will be all over Twitter if there’s no regulations on this.”

Turns out free speech is a Russian plot.

In a Twitter poll, 72.4% approved of restoring the accounts of some who had been banned for failing to conform to leftist ideology. However,

Without evidence, Baer added, “And so when he’s talking about the popular voice, Musk, he’s really talking about Russian intelligence.” …

The CNN security and intelligence analyst bizarrely asserted, “And you know, this freedom of speech is just nonsense because you can’t go in a movie theater and yell ‘fire.’ It’s against the law.”

Beneath the skimpy Russia! Russia! Russia! fig leaf, the liberal establishment media is now saying outright that speech contradicting Democratic Party talking points should be illegal.

Nov 26 2022

Personnel Is Policy Part I

Twitter getting purged of much of its workforce is essential, because that is the only way free speech can be reintroduced to the platform. Leftism = depravity imposed by force, and if personnel is policy, you can expect nothing else from guys like Melissa Ingle:

Post Millennial reports that “Melissa Ingle was one of the many contract content moderators to be fired when Elon Musk took over.”

Kooks like Ingle are why Meghan Murphy was permanently suspended for referring to Jessica Yaniv as “him.” Yaniv is a Canadian chiseler known for shaking down small businesses for cash after demanding Brazilian wax jobs for his male genitalia on the grounds that according to liberal ideology, he is a woman because he says he is.

Naturally, NBC calls Ingle “her,” reminding audiences that the liberal establishment media will gladly report that 2 + 2 = 5 if it advances moonbattery:

The reinstatement of dissident accounts like @TheBabylonBee and @jordanbpeterson is encouraging, but Musk’s announcement that Twitter policy will be “freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach” implies shadow banning of accounts like @Moonbattery1 will continue.

Flushing out kooks like Ingle is encouraging too. However, there won’t be much point if other moonbats replace them. San Francisco tech workers are known for wokeness, not support for free speech.

On a tip from Jester.

Nov 14 2022

Ed Markey Menaces Elon Musk

The purpose of the climate crisis hoax is to provide a veneer of ostensibly benevolent intentions. Leftist Senator Ed Markey (D-MA), cosponsor of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal, makes it easy to see through to what lies beneath.

After making many $millions on government-subsidized electric cars, Elon Musk has betrayed the liberal establishment by indicating that he will allow free speech on Twitter. This enrages Markey to the point of letting his mask slip:

Markey demanded answers from Musk about Twitter’s verification process after the Democratic lawmaker colluded with a Washington Post writer to create a Twitter account impersonating him. …

In a letter, Markey demanded answers from Musk for the “haphazard imposition” of changes to Twitter because “[a]llowing an imposter to impersonate a U.S. Senator on Twitter is a serious matter that you need to address promptly.” Of course, Markey failed to disclose in the letter that he gave the Washington Post writer permission to impersonate him.

This is not about impersonation; the purpose is to put a scare into Musk so that he will not allow speech that contradicts the party line. Orwell would have called such speech “thoughtcrime.” Democrats call it “misinformation” or “disinformation.” They don’t have to worry about hearing it from the Washington Post.

Markey then drew attention to his complaint by going on Twitter to accuse Musk of “putting profits over people and his debt over stopping disinformation.”

“Putting profits over people” is boilerplate Marxist rhetoric. The reference to “disinformation” is a demand for political censorship of the sort imposed under Twitter’s previous owners.

Musk did not become the world’s richest man by being easy to push around. His response:

“Perhaps it is because your real account sounds like a parody?” Musk mocked.

“And why does your [profile picture] have a mask!?” he said.

That brought the mask off. Growled Markey:

Fix your companies. Or Congress will.

Biden too has threatened Musk, croaking about inflicting a federal investigation regarding his “relationships with other countries.” This is rich, coming from a swamp creature who openly boasted of using US taxpayer money to protect his bagman Hunter’s unsavory activities in Ukraine, and who required the help of Twitter to suppress information regarding his influence peddling to our communist Chinese adversaries. The media has been egging on Biden, asking whether Musk is a threat to national security.

Democrats may as well drop the global warming window dressing. By now we all know what we are dealing with: tyranny.

On a tip from Bluto.

Oct 26 2022

Open Thread

On a tip from ABC of the ANC.

Oct 06 2022

Google Suppresses GOP Get Out the Vote Emails

When it comes to Big Tech placing a weighty thumb on the political scales, it isn’t easy to compete with Twitter and Facebook, which suppressed the Hunter laptop bombshell that implicated Biden in selling influence to our communist enemies just before the election. But Google manages:

According to RNC officials, emails being sent by the RNC to Republican subscribers who use Gmail accounts in the final days of each month are being sent to spam folders.

An RNC official told Fox News Digital that since Sept. 28, Gmail has “suppressed” more than 22 million RNC emails—358,000 of which were GOTV emails.

The RNC has complained to Google for months to no avail.

“Every single month, like clockwork, Google suppresses important GOTV and fundraising emails at the end of the month, with zero explanation nor commitment from Google to resolve this issue,” RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel told Fox News. “We are less than 40 days out from Election Day, and important GOTV emails to our opted-in voters in states that have already started early voting are being systematically sent to spam.”

The arrogance and unfairness are characteristic of Google, which semicovertly suppresses anything to the right of all the way left.

Republicans have pointed to a non-partisan study by researchers at North Carolina State University which found that Gmail allows the vast majority of emails from the Democratic Party to land in the user’s inbox while more than two-thirds of messages from conservative candidates are marked as spam. …

During the 2020 election cycle, an RNC official said the study found that Gmail routed Republican emails to spam at a rate approximately 820% higher than similar Democrat fundraising appeals.

Google has potentially cost Republicans $billions in fundraising. Like the “mainstream” media and the FBI, it has become a tentacle of the Democrat Party octopus.

Remarks Robert Spencer,

As the Left grows progressively more open about its authoritarianism and hostility to opposing points of view, ultimately Big Tech, including Google, is going to destroy the freedom of speech, or that freedom is going to be afforded new protections and the tech giants’ ability to infringe upon it will be restricted. It’s one or the other, and the very fate of our free republic hangs in the balance.

A federal government controlled by Democrats is unlikely to institute freedom of speech protections against the leftist Silicon Valley cabal that it has been using as a cat’s paw to circumvent the First Amendment.

If there is any hope of reform from within Big Tech, it lies with Elon Musk, who has enraged the liberal establishment with the suggestion that Twitter could be a neutral platform that allows free speech:

On tips from ABC of the ANC, KirklesWorth, and Bluto.

Oct 03 2022

United Nations Moonbat: We Own the Science

Everything leftists infiltrate, they subvert and subordinate to their twisted agenda, rendering it useless for any other purpose. The Long March Through the Institutions has moved beyond the media, entertainment, schools, and the government to attack the most basic foundations of civilization — including even science.

This is accomplished not only through government control of funding, but by directly controlling the flow of information and redefining science through a political lens.

Two of the farthest left institutions on the planet are Google and the United Nations. Watch Melissa Fleming of the UN Department of Global Communications boast that the two are working together to suppress information that does not support their strategy of seizing wealth and power through the climate crisis hoax:

“We own the science,” crows Fleming. If this is true, there is no science, only propaganda.

“All sectors of society need to be very active” in promoting ruling class opinion (i.e., moonbattery) and suppressing dissent. That they are.

Modern leftism is heavily influenced by postmodernism. Academic moonbats literally believe that objective reality, if it even exists, is irrelevant. According to their ideology, all that matters is the consensus they create by controlling what we say.

The climate crisis will become real when they have achieved the leverage to force everyone to pretend it is real. The tyranny it will be used to justify will dwarf the cost of Covid.

On tips from Dragon’s Lair and Occam’s Stubble. Hat tip: Vlad Tepes.

Sep 25 2022

PayPal Weaponized

The totalitarianism currently unfolding differs from repressive regimes of the past. Rigid adherence to official ideology is imposed on a more decentralized basis. The Constitution defends us against political censorship imposed by the federal government. So our rulers utilize private sector cat’s paws like PayPal, where you can find yourself banned for any thought the liberal opinion enforcers don’t like.

Even gays opposing the sexual exploitation of children can find themselves canceled:

Gays Against Groomers is far from alone:

On the same day, the Telegraph reported that PayPal shut down the accounts of Free Speech Union, its founder Toby Young, and his opinion and news website the Daily Sceptic last week without a clear explanation. Free Speech Union is a nonpartisan organization that opposes cancel culture and has defended academics who have criticized transgenderism and people who have been fired for expressing their opinions.

Toby Young sounds off:

The infraction:

[C]omments from PayPal given to the Advocate suggest the bans are related to both Free Speech Union and Gays Against Groomers’ public opposition to “radical gender theory” and drag queen story hours in schools.

Quacks a PayPal apparatchik:

“Achieving the balance between protecting the ideals of tolerance, diversity and respect for people of all backgrounds and upholding the values of free expression and open dialogue can be difficult, but we do our best to achieve it.”

How do you argue with NPCs who tell you with a straight face that deviation from their demented ideology must be suppressed in the name of tolerance and diversity?

The arms of the octopus work in tandem:

Hours after being banned by PayPal, Gays Against Groomers shared that the group’s gmail account had also been disabled.

The implications of this developing form of liberal tyranny are truly alarming. Paul Joseph Watson explains:

Revelation 13:17 tells of a time when no one may buy or sell without the Mark of the Beast. Compliance with woke ideology is the Mark of the Beast.

On tips from Anonymous, Mr. Freemarket, KirklesWorth, and ABC of the ANC.

Sep 22 2022

Twitter Admits Sex Change Surgery Is Mutilation

Present a picture of a child murdered in a late term abortion to moonbats and they will go off like dynamite, transferring the guilt for the horror to you for showing it to them. The same holds for the grotesque wickedness of sex change operations, which Democrats advocate for children, force taxpayers to subsidize, and compel doctors to perform despite their conscientious objection. Photographic representation of “gender-affirming healthcare” got Mark Ousley suspended by our Big Tech overlords — who made a revealing admission:

We live in a bizarre world where we are told by the medical community that body-disfiguring surgeries like vaginoplasty and phalloplasty are “gender-affirming healthcare,” but when Mark Ousley of the Unwokeable Podcast tried to show photos of what these surgeries actually do on Twitter, the social media company suspended his account, calling the photos “dismembered or mutilated humans” and “gratuitous gore.”

“In the reason Twitter gave for my suspension, they admitted that phalloplasty is the mutilation of humans and Oklahoma Children’s Hospital is collaborating with schools to facilitate this procedure for little girls under the age of 16,” wrote Ousley after being reinstated on Twitter after deleting the offending tweet. The photos show the end result of harvesting arm tissue to make a non-working phallus. The result is a hideously disfigured forearm that will not only always look like a horror movie prop but will be weaker and at risk of infection and chronic pain. …

“Big Tech doesn’t want anyone to expose the ritual mutilation involved in this procedure because they know that if people see the truth of what doctors are doing, not just to adults but to kids in the name of ‘affirmation’ and ‘inclusion,’ the average person will not stand for it,” Ousley told PJ Media.

So the average person has to be kept in the dark. That’s what the information gatekeepers are for.

Evidence accrues that moonbats realize their agenda is evil, yet push it anyway.

On a tip from Steve T.

Sep 03 2022

Prebunking Thoughtcrime Through Psychological Inoculation

Sometimes moonbattery reduces science to propaganda that we can hope is too moronic to do much damage. Other times, moonbats attempt to apply science — or at least, something vaguely like science — for nefarious purposes. From ScienceDaily:

Short animations giving viewers a taste of the tactics behind misinformation can help to “inoculate” people against harmful content on social media when deployed in YouTube’s advert slot, according to a major online experiment led by the University of Cambridge.

“Misinformation” and “disinformation” are euphemisms for thoughtcrime.

Researchers behind the Inoculation Science project (https://inoculation.science/) compare it to a vaccine: by giving people a “micro-dose” of misinformation in advance, it helps prevent them falling for it in future — an idea based on what social psychologist’s call “inoculation theory.”

Sander van der Linden, who leads Cambridge’s Social Decision-Making Lab, boasts that this tactic to “prebunk misinformation” through “psychological inoculation” can be scaled to influence millions of users.

We are led to believe that the intent is not to impose a particular political viewpoint, but only to protect the public from “being manipulated.” Then we are told this:

Google — YouTube’s parent company — is already harnessing the findings. At the end of August, Jigsaw will roll out a prebunking campaign across several platforms in Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic to get ahead of emerging disinformation relating to Ukrainian refugees. The campaign is designed to build resilience to harmful anti-refugee narratives, in partnership with local NGOs, fact checkers, academics, and disinformation experts.

In other words, they want to protect people from manipulation by manipulating them into putting up less resistance to being overwhelmed by refugees.

This is far from the most nefarious purpose the moonbat cult running Google will find for the technique, should it prove effective.

On a tip from Lyle.

Sep 02 2022

Big Tech Colludes With Biden Regime on Censorship

Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini said that fascism should be called corporatism, “as it is the merger of corporate and government power.” For example, we have recently learned that the Biden Regime has arranged regular meetings with Big Tech giants to discuss what to censor:

The new discoveries are the result of a “landmark lawsuit” filed by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry in May against top-ranking Biden administration officials for allegedly colluding with Big Tech companies to censor free speech on a number of critical topics, all under the pretense of stopping the spread of “misinformation.”

They wouldn’t want any Hunter Biden laptop bombshells to sneak through the Democrat Party’s Silicon Valley defenses.

We’ll know more if the Justice Department stops stalling and obeys a court’s orders to turn over communications between high-level federal apparatchiks and their Big Tech collaborators.

On Thursday, the two attorneys general filed a joint petition demanding that the DOJ produce those documents.

Maybe the DoJ should sic the FBI on itself. It might raid Merrick Garland’s lair I mean home like it did Mar-a-Lago.

Yet again we see that the reason the Biden people accuse their opposition of fascism if that they themselves are fascists.

On a tip from Blackjack.

Aug 12 2022

Twitter Promises to Protect Dems From October Surprises

Democrats face some challenges in the elections this fall, including stratospheric inflation, appallingly incompetent leadership, widespread alarm at their banana republic tactics, and a general sense that American civilization is collapsing under their rule. But at least they don’t have to worry about October surprises. Big Tech has them covered:

Far-left Twitter has declared it will “protect” the midterm elections with a range of policies designed to suppress what the company considers “misinformation,” and deliver Twitter-curated news to users.

2020 was the first American election in which Big Tech companies like Twitter, Facebook, and Google had “election integrity” policies — and they resulted in one of the most consequential stories of that cycle, the New York Post’s reporting on Hunter Biden’s corrupt business dealings, being suppressed just weeks before the election.

The Hunter Biden laptop bombshell proved that Joe Biden has been in the pay of our communist Chinese enemies. Widespread knowledge of this revelation would have spared America the humiliating catastrophe of his handlers taking power. But this information was kept from the public by the liberal media establishment and Big Tech. Twitter was so ham-fisted as to lock the account of the New York Post for having made discoveries unflattering to Biden.

Until recently, Americans would never have tolerated such infringement on free speech. Maybe the country really has been fundamentally transformed.

Twitter enjoys legal protection as a neutral platform. It is anything but:

The emphasis throughout Twitter’s announcement is on the curation and filtering of information from the company down to users, as opposed to the old norm, which was users discovering information that was popular with other users, through trending hashtags and other mechanisms to surface popular content organically. Today, Twitter wants users to receive information from the top down, not the bottom up.

As the Democratic Party consolidates power, “misinformation” will be repressed by Big Tech with increasing aggressiveness.

On a tip from ABC of the ANC.

Jul 29 2022

Facebook Forbids Noticing Redefinition of “Recession”

As most know, the Biden Regime has attempted to redefine the word “recession” so as to avoid responsibility for having caused one with its insane and malevolent policies. Nonetheless, Facebook is suppressing this fact:

Regardless of the propaganda excreted by Fakebook’s partisan “fact-checkers,” two consecutive quarters of negative growth is the definition of recession everyone has been going by — including Brian Deese himself:

However, anything that undermines the Biden Regime is thoughtcrime per the Big Tech oligarchs who installed it in power.

On tips from Jester and Varla.

Jul 14 2022

NBC News Calls for More Pro-LGBT Censorship

The difference between an activist and a journalist is that activists shout their opinions at you, whereas journalists adopt a pose of objectivity while cherry-picking Experts to shout their opinions at you. An example is a recent NBC piece calling for even more draconian censorship on social media so as to silence resistance to the LGBT agenda:

For the second year in a row, the five largest social media platforms received failing grades on LGBTQ safety, according to a report from GLAAD, an LGBTQ media advocacy group.

“Safety” in this context means “compliance.”

GLAAD’s second annual Social Media Safety Index graded Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube on LGBTQ safety, privacy and expression using 12 LGBTQ-specific standards. GLAAD found that all five of the platforms scored below 50%.

To score 100% would require every public communication to be devoted to obsequiously praising sexual perversion and the corruption of children.

“LGBTQ people are under attack right now,” Sarah Kate Ellis, president and CEO of GLAAD, said in the report.

LGBT militants are at the top of the cultural Marxist hierarchy. They represent a tiny minority of the population, yet dictate terms of existence to the rest of society as they defile cherished institutions that have endured for millennia. Yet we are told they are put upon, on the grounds that “far-right pundits and even some Republican officials” refer to the LGBT groomers who have become so prevalent in our society as “groomers.”

NBC News describes attempts to protect children from groomers who sexualize, homosexualize, and transsexualize underage victims as “targeting transgender youth” — as if the children were depraved before the groomers got to them. As usual, decent, sane people who try to do good are cast as the villains.

To promote the corruption of children in particular and LGBT domination of American culture in general, social media platforms need to crack down harder on dissident thought — i.e., all criticism of the LGBT agenda. GLAAD provides NBC with shovelfuls of meaningless data on how oppressed crybullying LGBTers feel themselves to be as a result of reading things online that they don’t agree with.

Social media platforms will be happy to respond to this pressure with still more censorship. But Democrats will no doubt pass legislation making it mandatory anyway.

The piece adds balance at the end by quoting someone who believes in free speech and moral decency. Just kidding; that would get an activist I mean journalist fired at NBC News.

On a tip from Steve T.

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