Oooh, Political!
Nov. 7th, 2022 04:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloElon Musk's passion for free speech doesn't extend to people who impersonate him. Twitter in his name and you're banned. My mild approval of his takeover is getting milder.
A petition arrived in my email asking Elon to ban President Khamenei of Iran. I binned it. If you believe in free speech you believe in free speech for everyone- even for bigoted autocrats who deny it to others.
I don't really care what Paul Pelosi gets up to in his spare time but the politically unimportant story about him being hit on the head with a hammer is rendered important by the utterly implausible version of events his friends are putting out- and the media's willingness to swallow it.
The Democrats will be swept away in the midterms and they'll have deserved it. Of course the Republicans won't be any better.
Russell Brand refers to the dominant (but very unpopular) ideology of the moment as "liberal authoritarianism". There was a time when I'd have called that phrase oxymoronic. Now I'm just confused...
A petition arrived in my email asking Elon to ban President Khamenei of Iran. I binned it. If you believe in free speech you believe in free speech for everyone- even for bigoted autocrats who deny it to others.
I don't really care what Paul Pelosi gets up to in his spare time but the politically unimportant story about him being hit on the head with a hammer is rendered important by the utterly implausible version of events his friends are putting out- and the media's willingness to swallow it.
The Democrats will be swept away in the midterms and they'll have deserved it. Of course the Republicans won't be any better.
Russell Brand refers to the dominant (but very unpopular) ideology of the moment as "liberal authoritarianism". There was a time when I'd have called that phrase oxymoronic. Now I'm just confused...
