MgS
I think, I write. Mostly about politics and current affairs, with a side helping of mental health and LGBTQ topics.
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Joined Apr 2022
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If you're curious about why the GQP keeps talking about grooming and pedophilia, it's because that's who *they* are. They're attempting slight of hand distractions by blaming LGBTQ+, because their house is full of it. It doesn't work on the informed.
Here's a running list of (now) 800 republican pedophiles, sexual predators, and enablers: https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2018/10/23/1806673/-Republican-Sexual-Predators-Abusers-and-Enablers-Pt-1
And here's the link to the article below (tho it's all in the ss): https://www.dakotanewsnow.com/2022/11/03/sd-senate-candidate-charged-with-child-abuse/
Celebrity and wealth are not the same as being smart - and we really need to become less about idolizing either, for too often we end up enabling the worst instincts of some.
Yes, it’s about the #birdsite and its new ownership, but the principle is clear enough.
@Mandypar I honestly didn’t know he was the voice of the sorting hat, but I do remember the Carry On Gang movies … cheesy as they were.
@Whyrllwynnd777 I do not blame you.
Between the dumbest mass firing in history, and what Musk is talking about to monetize the site (paywalls, prioritizing “blue checks” in the algorithms), he’s basically pouring gas on the flames at this point.
@t_lang Well - if it is a poison pill, it’s going to work. As my partner said this morning, trust a billionaire to equate speech and money.
Bye bye birdsite…
https://www.platformer.news/p/musk-discusses-putting-all-of-twitter
This will ultimately kill off the platform.
Twitter is burning itself to the ground.
In real time
@lenaoflune @CarmenShea there’s a proliferation of truly junk science being published in the last few years (it’s really accelerated since the Littman ROGD paper), where things are carefully torqued to appear credible if one doesn’t know how to read the statistics properly.
@Dianora Yes, it is on CBC Gem.
This thread from Twitter is #uspoli, but those of us in #cdnpoli should pay close attention to it given the strong alignment between the GOP and the CPC.
The word ‘dystopia’ comes to mind.
https://twitter.com/brynntannehill/status/1587793900948885504
If you like WWII fiction, the series #DasBoot on CBC is outstanding. It gets beyond the “what happens on the sub” and tells a much bigger story of intrigue, politics, love set against the backdrop of the war in Europe.
The characters are all speaking their languages, so you will need subtitles turned on.
Season 3 is out now, and it’s as good as the first 2 were.
@CarmenShea The Dragon has just eaten a meal …
@Dianora I know - part of me wants to kick back as hard as I feel we are being kicked, but at the same time I also understand that the best remedy for today’s deluge of misinformation is really critical thought.
Creating more propaganda just seems futile.
Watching Danielle Smith fabricate government policy based on conspiracy theories is utterly terrifying to watch.
It's making me wonder just what's next?
The more I see, the more I think that as a society we need to find ways to counter organized disinformation.
In the 90s there were programs on CBC like Street Cents - how effective were those programs in helping arm people with tools needed to pick up on the misleading advertising of that era, and would something similar be helpful today?
MgS
I think, I write. Mostly about politics and current affairs, with a side helping of mental health and LGBTQ topics.
Was MgS_2011 on Twitter
Joined Apr 2022