Category: Cyber War
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If Books Scare You, Actual Ideas Must Be Nightmares
Ever notice how it’s never progressives banning books? True fact: being progressive means book banning is anathema to you. Instead, progressives ban hate speech because hate speech undermines a diverse, democratic society. It is a literal assault upon others. Conservatives by contrast ban books because they hate what’s inside them – ideas and ways of…
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The Republican Party Is A Monstrous Ponzi Scheme Of Treason
The bottom line is always the emperor’s birthday suit. That’s what he’s wearing and everyone knows it. The question is who will say it – out loud – bursting the bubble of bullshit? For a Ponzi scheme to actually work, everyone in existence would have to buy in. The goal of a Ponzi scheme is…
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New Year’s Day Is A Great Day To Recall: Kevin McCarthy Is A Traitor!
Current GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy desperately wants to be Speaker Of The House. Even if somehow he manages to scrape together the votes, McCarthy won’t be Speaker for long. There are a thousand different inglorious ways for McCarthy’s speakership to crash and burn. And, quickly, too. That’s what happens when you’ re a traitor like…
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The Media’s “Breaking News” Culture Is Broken
Dear American News Media: Breaking news that broke more than an hour ago, is no longer “breaking”. The fact that you continue breaking it all day regardless? That is broken. The same goes for your whole “breaking news” culture. I write this to you as an avid consumer of your product. By “avid”, I mean…
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The Big Lie Is An Act Of War
Even if it wasn’t an actual “on the books” crime, what Donald Trump and the Republican Party are doing to America feels criminal and that the fact that there aren’t already laws making what’s happening illegal is because it’s so monstrous, no one imagined Americans of any stripe would be capable of doing such a…
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The Bondage Of Bad Ideas
What makes a character like Wylie Coyote so universally funny that he transcends time is that he epitomizes the bondage of bad ideas. Even before he sets out on his latest attempt to catch the Roadrunner (who, frankly, doesn’t look like much of a meal to begin with), the Coyote is doomed to fail. The…
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No, You CAN’T Run Government Like A Business Because They’re Two DIFFERENT Things
Thinking you can run a democratic government like a business is as silly as thinking you can run a mortuary like a birthing business. They exist on opposite ends of a spectrum. The mortuary and birthing business may both be for-profit businesses that require extra sensitivity in their workforces, but aside from that, no matter…