And, #AnotherThing...
The #IT hasn't #AgedWell... #TwasEverThus
And, #AnotherAnotherThing...
Why would #SH and #JM #SignOff their #TextMessages to #OneAnother; #Surely they #EachHave #CallerDisplay / #CallerID... And/Or #Know from whom their #TextMessages are #Coming...
#IT's #VeryStupid... But, #IT's also #Fictional; #So... #That's... #OK
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I know that everyone seems to love on Jimmy Carter, but I imagine the people of East Timor celebrated his demise just like you celebrated Kissenger's. He did love the old Shah too, amoung other policy horrors
And it was Robert F Kennedy, who personalised authorised COINTELPRO. In 1975 the Church Committee report on the secret FBI programme concluded that
“Governmental officials—including those whose principal duty is to enforce the law—have violated or ignored the law over long periods of time and have advocated and defended their right to break the law.”
And of course nothing has changed in terms of the US state’s ability to “expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize" activist movements, except to the extent of the technology they can use for it. #twaseverthus
And it was a democrat senator who brought in the Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950, under which the US state excluded or imprisoned and deported so called alien subversives. One such victim was the great Claudia Jones who was deported for writing an article entitled “Women in the Struggle for Peace and Security" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_Jones #twaseverthus
#twaseverthus Democrat president Harry Truman initiated the anti left wing witch hunts, even before McCarthy. The Truman doctrine began at home
Here is Medgar Evers, a Black liberal, who was murdered by white supremacists with the active collaboration of the police and FBI.
And here is the Patriot Act which authorised warentless surveillance, indefinite detention of non citizens and a host of other horrors. It finally ceased to be law under Trump.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act
Here is the state bombing its own citizens because a small group of anarch-primativists were preaching black power and animal rights
Here is the Democratic National Convention 1968 where the state unleased terrifying violence to prevent people peacefully protesting the establishment's war
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Democratic_National_Convention
Here is CLR James. He was expelled from the United Status for believing that every cook can govern.
Here is Stokey Carmichael. He was a Black revolutionary leader. He was persecuted by the FBI and pushed out of the US for his political views and leadership.
Here is an extraordinary singer, Paul Robeson, who was more actively persecuted than Ochs for his political beliefs singing about Joe Hill who was fitted up and killed by the state for singing and organizing
Because so many people seem to think that a Trump victory will bring a terrible authoritarian doom on the US I want to start a new hashtag, #TwasEverThus. It won't catch on because people like to think that they live in uniquely bad times. For my first offering, I give you Phil Ochs singing 'Love me, I'm a liberal.' He was hounded by the FBI for such a terrible crime of being a pretty good protest singer.
Replacement products always go through an accelerated cycle from the original. In Bluesky it has moved from restricted beta to entangled shittification in one leap.
Apparently.
And, what's #Wrong with that? Some of us are better at playing #Diablo than others...
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"In our country are evangelists and zealots of many different political, economic and religious persuasions whose fanatical conviction is that all thought is divinely classified into two kinds—that which is their own and that which is false and dangerous."
Robert H. Jackson
(02/13/1892 – 10/09/1954)
US Supreme Court justice
#TwasEverThus
@jon Hmm... does read rather like "Ranking in Google is hard! Waahhh!"
And also "There's lots of spam on the web! Waahhh!"
I mean... isn't that what keeps us SEO folk in business? 😄 #twaseverthus
Just got mansplained at by someone who doesn’t speak the language I asked a question in and then gave me an irrelevant and condescending answer (in a different language). 👌🙄 #classy #twaseverthus
Wrote a lengthy, technical blog post ready for my blog over at yakshaving.co.uk.
Inevitably, it's so long since this blog was touched, Hugo now fails to build it so I can't actually publish to Yak Shaving blog until I have resolved this latest yak shaving exercise.
