Balk didn't elaborate much, but the general reason is that "everyone" includes a lot of loud-mouthed idiots.
Like many other hosts of "user-generated content", Twitter was at its mostly-harmless best early on. When I joined in 2007, it was almost unknown outside of Greater Silicon Valley (i.e., the subculture centered on Silicon Valley, which at the time I felt a professional obligation to pay attention to). For awhile, I found it mildly entertaining and occasionally useful, although I always thought the character limit was ridiculous and encouraged thinking in soundbites. By 2012, however, it had become infested with bots and trolls, so I stopped bothering with it. Of course, it went on to become the far more putrid cesspool it is now.
I think John Herrman captured much of the spirit of what might be called middle-period Twitter - after the early innocence but before the current Elonshittification - when he wrote (at *The Awl*), "Who tweets? Brands, and people who believe themselves to be brands." I'm stubbornly resistant to becoming a brand; I loathe the concept, and I've managed to get along fine without it. So I don't miss Twitter, even the relatively benign Twitter of 15 years ago (although I realize it was useful to journalists).
As for the "AI enhancement" nonsense, you can blame *Blade Runner* and a multitude of idiots who don't understand the difference between reality and fiction.
Well, damnit, someone has to say this. Maybe the kid in custody actually shot Charlie Kirk. But given the immediate, intense reaction of the right, I have to ask not only whether someone not trained as a sniper could kill someone in one shot from that distance but the critical question, Who Benefits? Trump's sending the national guard and a hugely beefed-up ICE into just cities with black mayors and Dem governors of the states, saying things like "Chicago will find out why we call it the Department of WAR!!", his whole contingent constantly engaging in violent rhetoric while accusing the virtually nonexistent left of being violent--these people are clearly aching for a civil war. Why, I'm not sure, but the fact that the right is enormously better armed and more aggressive than the left--or rather, the Democrats, who they confuse with the left--means they can expect to "win"--whatever that means. I guess a lot of what it means is that Trump has his excuse to declare yet another state of emergency and cancel the midterms, use the army and his ICE militia to control dissidents in otherwise clearly unconstitutional ways.
So maybe they're seizing on that kid actually having killed Kirk, maybe that came as a surprise they were ready to instantly leap upon to further their agenda...or maybe it was a CIA or Mossad sniper, sent in to take out one of a dime-a-dozen rightwing trolls so they could roll out this reaction and use it to justify an intense, violent crackdown.
Gah good flags on the AI “enhanced” slop circulating re. the suspect photos. It’s completely scary and completely plausible that “armchair sleuths” will misuse that “tool” plenty moving forward.
I'm not even American but this civil war type hatred between X/twitter and BlueSky, majority on both most probably being American, seems really quite weird to me...
The irony of all these talking heads calling for lol "war" is that much like the ones who perpetuate the conditions necessary for traditional ways, they will be safe begins desks and keyboards if/when things pop off.
I am an old man and remembering my High School English literature that I studied in Cote des Neige where Kamala Harris attended the same English Protestant Schools as Leonard Cohen and Moe of Montreal.
Paradise Lost was a reflection on the English Civil War led by Oliver Cromwell who began by slaughtering Roman Catholics in Scotland and Ireland. Milton was Cromwell's secretary not his friend just as James Boswell the lowly Scot was secretary to the great English supremacist and conservative Samuel Johnson who wrote the DICTIONARY used in 1775 and 1789 to create the greatest most powerful Empire the world had ever known.
Paradise Lost was about the battle between good and evil and Milton was a Unitarian not a Christian. Satan and Jesus were two sides of a single coin and a flip of the coin says to Christians Jesus always wins and his twin brother Satan always loses. Amazingly in 2024 Satan won and America embraced Satan as their Messiah and Kirk was one of Hell's Angels. Paradise Regained was bathetic farce.
I know the Doyon of Chabad. He has asked me on many occasions to study Kabbalah with him. I love Kabbalah. My father loved Kabbalah and my great grandfather's great-grandfather loved Kabbalah. In August of 2024 Chabad held its annual Golf Tournament at Trump's Doral Country Club and despite the all day rains the golf was terrific and Satan's choice now rules south of my border.
Charlie Kirk was an angel and Kabbalah says angels only follow orders they have never eaten the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil and are forever committed to eternities of following The Laws of the father of Jesus and Satan. Jesus believed in love and Satan believed in pain and suffering and blood and war and pestilence just like Charlie Kirk and America's executive, congressional majorities, and America's Supreme Court's Tomas de Torquemada.
In Quebec we had a revolution led by Rene Levesque who served in Roosevelt's European Command and covered the liberation of Dachau as a journalist enlisted in Roosevelt's Army. Pierre Eliot Trudeau was also a journalist and covered a war and covered Mao's liberation of China. Montreal's Jews still favoured Trudeau over Levesque because we Jews are fucking ignorant and insane regardless of outside opinion. Captain Kirk to his forever shame is one of us and his second in command was a Bostonian Red Sea Pedestrian.
Kinky Friedman was a patriot, poet, philosopher, philanthropist, humanitarian and a polymath and left us with this song from 1970. The Ballad of Charles Joseph Whitman and it asks the eternal QUESTION: "Who are we to say the boy's insane." Whitman was a Marine and Eagle scout and an A student.
I don't whether Charlie Kirk or Tyler Robinson are crazy. Insane is not knowing the difference between right and wrong. Maybe they are just God's Angels. Tennyson was forced to write "Ours is not to reason why, ours is but to do and die" after the suicide charge of the light Brigade at the battle of Balaclava in Crimea as the Russians were already retreating back to Russia. The light brigade was England's best and brightest from the Playing Fields at Eton College where Thomas Gray wrote "Where ignorance is bliss t'is folly to be wise."
Memphis is America's busiest airport Hartsfield Atlanta and O'Hare Chicago handle people but Memphis handles cargo and cargo has value and citizens are shit in the land where its only the economy Stupid in neoliberal and neoconservative circles.
We often turn to religion when we cannot explain occurrences. The fact is it’s not really relevant to political discussion, unless we are talking about whether the government can control our choice of worship. I have an ancestor who was a Recusant during the reign of Henry VIII. I myself am baptized Catholic but have no problem with Unitarians because their hearts are in the right place. I have more Unitarians in my family than any other religion except one branch married into the Mormons.
Treating the subject of religion as done, now we can talk politics!
Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense. He was a Unitarian like Milton , Jefferson and Ben Franklin.I think Paine more important in 2025 than those Bullshit anti-Christian hate mongers like Charley Kirk, Marco the Nazi Rubio, Peter "the Crusader Hegseth and JD VANCE. The crusaders began with the genocide of Jews by Small Peter 😹 "the butcher" in the Rhineland Massacres.
I spent over a decade raising Caine and grandsons in Chicago. Today's Chicago Tribune said John Astin is the new SAG President and he is the son of Patty Duke. He is also the SON of GOMEZ ADDAMS and the thought of Morticia ADDAMS still creates a bulge in my 77 year old's pants.🙈🙉🙊 Let's talk Common Sense "These are the times that try men's souls." Thomas Paine. Charles Dickens attended school while his mother and Father and siblings worked in Marley and Scrooge's Debtor's Prison belonging to the London Stock Brokerage firm in the heart of heartless London. Wall street must love your Supreme Court of Injustice Judiciary, your ideological illogical Legislators and America's kakistocratic, incompetent, and corrupt Federal government Executives. We cannot change the past only learn from our mistakes and try to create a better future. Jefferson made some very big mistakes but in 1820 he left us The Gospel according to Jesus of Nazareth.
I've lost interest being on X, Bluesky, Instagram, Facebook, all of it. Started using the time tracking features on my phone, and the amount of time lost to this junk is just staggering. No wonder everyone is anxious, angry, and disconnected.
At least now those of us attempting to build genuine people power will not confuse social media engagement with relationships of trust and cooperation.
Why do you add the vanity caps on the "S" in Bluesky? I'm developing my own personal theory of why people do that (Gen X behavior) but it's not present in the actual branding and never has been.
Ha I'm not Gen X — the answer here is that it's a Substack CMS editor issue that I trusted too much; Bluesky gets the red dots underneath while BlueSky does not. Thanks for flagging though barely realized I did that
Fairview Alberta is the hometown of the Quack and Charlatan Jordan "River OF Shit " Peterson. as YOU DRIVE FROM Peace River Alberta TO Fairview Alberta you pass BLUESKY ALBERTA>
The water tower says BLUESKY in all capitals and I thought it was pronounced Blueski and a Polish immigrant town not blue sky but Jordan is still River of Shit Peterson and Charlie Kirk was always a National Socialist and I was born a God Damn Jew almost 80 years ago in Montreal where my mother was born a second class God damned Jew over a century ago and my father was born in a town near CAmp Auschwitz near Krakow like the senile old pope still living in the Vatican.
Chrystia Freeland grew up in Peace River Alberta and she is Canada's Minister of Transportation. She wrote Plutocrats: The Rise of the Global Super Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else and Sale of the Century. Sale is about How the west sold out Russia's democracy to the World's oligarchs and Chrystia's uncle wrote Canada's Charter of Human RIGHTS because America committed suicide in 2024 in November and St John's Newfoundland not New Pork New York is our gateway to London , Dublin and Paris and Churchill, Manitoba is the closest North American port to Taipei, Tokyo and Hong Kong and it is closer to Minneapolis than it is to Seattle or Los Angeles. The Prime Minister of Manitoba Wab Kinew is a democratic socialist and a rap star
Lately I keep thinking how unfortunate it is that the discussion of the vice/virtue of social media got tangled up with the discourse of "right" vs. "left". For years, the social media (Facebook, Twitter) were coded as "left-wing". So, for far too long the "left" was in denial about their inherent toxicity, and fell prey to algorithms that (among other things) toxified "left-wing" discourses ("cancel culture", etc.) and thus discredited left-wing positions.By the time some people on the "left" finally started facing up to the problem, Musk's takeover of Twitter shifted the focus - now the issue was framed more as being Twitter's right-wing shift, rather than its fundamental toxicity. So the exodus to Bluesky ended up being perceived mainly as "lefties switching to a left-friendly platform". Seems like a huge missed opportunity to send the message that it's not about "right-wing" platforms vs. "left-wing" platforms, it's about creating platforms that are good for everyone because they don't polarize and manipulate.
Living in Germany, I'm really glad to see people here finally talking about the need to develop better social media - but it seems like the German discussion is falling into the same trap, focusing too much on the "right-wing shift" in social media rather than the fact that for-profit social media inherently sucks. Ok, maybe you need to do that to win over Twitter-addicted lefties, but that framing glosses over the underlying problems, and alienates average people who can write off the whole discussion as toxic partisan sniping.
(To be clear: I'm not trying to relativize right-wing fascism or equate it with lefty cancel culture. I'm just saying that, to reach the mainstream with these issues, we urgently need to find modes that move beyond right-left framings.)
Unitarians were the largest religious group in the 1776 English speaking North American colonies.They are the liberals and are not Bible literalists. The Quebec Act was the final intolerable act. It gave Roman Catholics full citizenship, Texas and California were Spanish Colonies and Quebec was conquered by the English. That is history.
Unitarians were the largest group of non conforming Protestants in 1789. The Federalist John Adams disputed Jefferson the Democratic Republican's right to hold office in 1800 because Jefferson was not a Trinitarian. The disputes were religious and William and Mary gave up all their power to the House of Lords in 1689. The revolution was about land ownership and in 1789 the land belonged to the Church. The final intolerable act was the Quebec Act of 1773 which gave Roman Catholics in Quebec the same rights as English Catholicks and non-conforming Protestants. The Quakers in Pennsylvania could not bear arms or join the militias.
In England in 1535 Henry VIII executed Thomas More the Archbishop of Canterbury and ended Roman Church Rule. Henry made himself King and Pope. Jonathan Swift was the head of the Church of Ireland and he was an Anglican like Charles III who is hosting the feeble minded fetal alcohol disordered head of your dead state at Windsor Castle. Jonathan Swift wrote a Modest Proposal before Ireland had potatoes and in 1845 they got rid of the bottom 20% of Ireland's Roman Catholic peasants through genocide or sale of humans into the new cities of the industrial revolution.
They had no Jews to blame until they allowed Jews to trickle in under Oliver Cromwell. The Jews in Rhode Island and New York came from Spain and Portugal.
Charlie Kirk wanted to undo the revolution. Only Pope Leo stands in his way. Even Mormons can't believe their shit and trying to find Jews that believe in Noah is like opening a dental practice for chickens.
The English Civil War was about Jesus and it was the bloodiest war in English History and the first American Civil War was about Jesus and my prayer is the next American Civil War will be like the one we had here while Kamala attended Westmount High School and Vanier Jr College. There is no such thing as Christians, Jews, Races, Moslems, transexuals or cisgendered at Westmount High School in 2025 only citizens of the oxymoronic appellation controller of Homo Sapiens Sapiens.😢
You can visit Westmount High online anytime and find out Kamala is the President 89% of Americans want because they teach real patriotism not hate mongering. And Jesus was a sailor when he walked across the water. In 2024 we learned Christopher Columbus was a refugee fleeing the Spanish Inquisition and a corrupt vile and vicious supreme court of injustice. Columbus was not an Italian from Genoa. My father told me this 70 years ago before my wife studied science at Chicago in a lab next to David Suzuki and his Drosophila Melanogaster and before Spain and Portugal said we were entitled to Spanish and Portuguese citizenship because of our DNA.
If I was a gambling woman, I'd put money on the CIA having done it. I know how that sounds, but If you read the book "Chaos", by journalist Tom O'Neil, you'll see the CIA have been manipulating the left and right into strife since at least the sixties and are capable of the most evil things imaginable. They are no doubt loving all the extreme reactions on both sides right now.
Charlie Kirk loved in-person debates, and the beautiful thing about debates is it forces you to actually listen to what the other side is saying, as opposed to mouthing off in an echo chamber, and because it's in person, it also humanises the other side.
When people do this, they often find common ground, and that type of unity isn't what the twats who run things behind the scenes want. Because then we can say with one voice "What's in the Epstein Files?", "Why do I have to work 2 jobs to put basic groceries on the table?", "Why are there no proper AI regulations?", "Why is tech being enshitified?", and many other things that both sides agree on.
Twitter indeed never was a "global town square", but even if it had been, I agree with Alex Balk's Second Law of the Internet:
The worst thing is knowing what everyone thinks about anything.
(https://www.theawl.com/2016/11/the-spirit-of-the-internet)
Balk didn't elaborate much, but the general reason is that "everyone" includes a lot of loud-mouthed idiots.
Like many other hosts of "user-generated content", Twitter was at its mostly-harmless best early on. When I joined in 2007, it was almost unknown outside of Greater Silicon Valley (i.e., the subculture centered on Silicon Valley, which at the time I felt a professional obligation to pay attention to). For awhile, I found it mildly entertaining and occasionally useful, although I always thought the character limit was ridiculous and encouraged thinking in soundbites. By 2012, however, it had become infested with bots and trolls, so I stopped bothering with it. Of course, it went on to become the far more putrid cesspool it is now.
I think John Herrman captured much of the spirit of what might be called middle-period Twitter - after the early innocence but before the current Elonshittification - when he wrote (at *The Awl*), "Who tweets? Brands, and people who believe themselves to be brands." I'm stubbornly resistant to becoming a brand; I loathe the concept, and I've managed to get along fine without it. So I don't miss Twitter, even the relatively benign Twitter of 15 years ago (although I realize it was useful to journalists).
As for the "AI enhancement" nonsense, you can blame *Blade Runner* and a multitude of idiots who don't understand the difference between reality and fiction.
Long live John Herrman and the archived The Awl, seriously. And yep.
Well, damnit, someone has to say this. Maybe the kid in custody actually shot Charlie Kirk. But given the immediate, intense reaction of the right, I have to ask not only whether someone not trained as a sniper could kill someone in one shot from that distance but the critical question, Who Benefits? Trump's sending the national guard and a hugely beefed-up ICE into just cities with black mayors and Dem governors of the states, saying things like "Chicago will find out why we call it the Department of WAR!!", his whole contingent constantly engaging in violent rhetoric while accusing the virtually nonexistent left of being violent--these people are clearly aching for a civil war. Why, I'm not sure, but the fact that the right is enormously better armed and more aggressive than the left--or rather, the Democrats, who they confuse with the left--means they can expect to "win"--whatever that means. I guess a lot of what it means is that Trump has his excuse to declare yet another state of emergency and cancel the midterms, use the army and his ICE militia to control dissidents in otherwise clearly unconstitutional ways.
So maybe they're seizing on that kid actually having killed Kirk, maybe that came as a surprise they were ready to instantly leap upon to further their agenda...or maybe it was a CIA or Mossad sniper, sent in to take out one of a dime-a-dozen rightwing trolls so they could roll out this reaction and use it to justify an intense, violent crackdown.
I have to say, I have been thinking about it in this exact way myself. The US is run by a Mob Boss right now. We know who the violent "Party" is.
Gah good flags on the AI “enhanced” slop circulating re. the suspect photos. It’s completely scary and completely plausible that “armchair sleuths” will misuse that “tool” plenty moving forward.
I'm not even American but this civil war type hatred between X/twitter and BlueSky, majority on both most probably being American, seems really quite weird to me...
Maybe this helps:
https://open.substack.com/pub/noahpinion/p/the-bluesky-ization-of-the-american
I agree! Pretty silly stuff, imo
The irony of all these talking heads calling for lol "war" is that much like the ones who perpetuate the conditions necessary for traditional ways, they will be safe begins desks and keyboards if/when things pop off.
This was extremely thoughtful and well written.
Thank you. More like this, please.
We need as much insightful cultural commentary as we can get.
Cheers Craig.
I am an old man and remembering my High School English literature that I studied in Cote des Neige where Kamala Harris attended the same English Protestant Schools as Leonard Cohen and Moe of Montreal.
https://westmount.emsb.qc.ca/whs
Paradise Lost was a reflection on the English Civil War led by Oliver Cromwell who began by slaughtering Roman Catholics in Scotland and Ireland. Milton was Cromwell's secretary not his friend just as James Boswell the lowly Scot was secretary to the great English supremacist and conservative Samuel Johnson who wrote the DICTIONARY used in 1775 and 1789 to create the greatest most powerful Empire the world had ever known.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/James-Boswell
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Johnson
Paradise Lost was about the battle between good and evil and Milton was a Unitarian not a Christian. Satan and Jesus were two sides of a single coin and a flip of the coin says to Christians Jesus always wins and his twin brother Satan always loses. Amazingly in 2024 Satan won and America embraced Satan as their Messiah and Kirk was one of Hell's Angels. Paradise Regained was bathetic farce.
I know the Doyon of Chabad. He has asked me on many occasions to study Kabbalah with him. I love Kabbalah. My father loved Kabbalah and my great grandfather's great-grandfather loved Kabbalah. In August of 2024 Chabad held its annual Golf Tournament at Trump's Doral Country Club and despite the all day rains the golf was terrific and Satan's choice now rules south of my border.
Charlie Kirk was an angel and Kabbalah says angels only follow orders they have never eaten the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil and are forever committed to eternities of following The Laws of the father of Jesus and Satan. Jesus believed in love and Satan believed in pain and suffering and blood and war and pestilence just like Charlie Kirk and America's executive, congressional majorities, and America's Supreme Court's Tomas de Torquemada.
In Quebec we had a revolution led by Rene Levesque who served in Roosevelt's European Command and covered the liberation of Dachau as a journalist enlisted in Roosevelt's Army. Pierre Eliot Trudeau was also a journalist and covered a war and covered Mao's liberation of China. Montreal's Jews still favoured Trudeau over Levesque because we Jews are fucking ignorant and insane regardless of outside opinion. Captain Kirk to his forever shame is one of us and his second in command was a Bostonian Red Sea Pedestrian.
Kinky Friedman was a patriot, poet, philosopher, philanthropist, humanitarian and a polymath and left us with this song from 1970. The Ballad of Charles Joseph Whitman and it asks the eternal QUESTION: "Who are we to say the boy's insane." Whitman was a Marine and Eagle scout and an A student.
I don't whether Charlie Kirk or Tyler Robinson are crazy. Insane is not knowing the difference between right and wrong. Maybe they are just God's Angels. Tennyson was forced to write "Ours is not to reason why, ours is but to do and die" after the suicide charge of the light Brigade at the battle of Balaclava in Crimea as the Russians were already retreating back to Russia. The light brigade was England's best and brightest from the Playing Fields at Eton College where Thomas Gray wrote "Where ignorance is bliss t'is folly to be wise."
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44301/ode-on-a-distant-prospect-of-eton-college
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45319/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU-UI4lHjds&list=RDMMwU-UI4lHjds&start_radio=1
Memphis is America's busiest airport Hartsfield Atlanta and O'Hare Chicago handle people but Memphis handles cargo and cargo has value and citizens are shit in the land where its only the economy Stupid in neoliberal and neoconservative circles.
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/Neoliberalism
https://www.britannica.com/topic/neoconservatism
We often turn to religion when we cannot explain occurrences. The fact is it’s not really relevant to political discussion, unless we are talking about whether the government can control our choice of worship. I have an ancestor who was a Recusant during the reign of Henry VIII. I myself am baptized Catholic but have no problem with Unitarians because their hearts are in the right place. I have more Unitarians in my family than any other religion except one branch married into the Mormons.
Treating the subject of religion as done, now we can talk politics!
Thank you Cheyenne,
Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense. He was a Unitarian like Milton , Jefferson and Ben Franklin.I think Paine more important in 2025 than those Bullshit anti-Christian hate mongers like Charley Kirk, Marco the Nazi Rubio, Peter "the Crusader Hegseth and JD VANCE. The crusaders began with the genocide of Jews by Small Peter 😹 "the butcher" in the Rhineland Massacres.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Peter-the-Hermit
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/medieval-concepts-of-the-past/rhineland-massacres-of-jews-in-the-first-crusade-memories-medieval-and-modern/A20AC5B7F948CB580B36411C9FDBCF5F
I spent over a decade raising Caine and grandsons in Chicago. Today's Chicago Tribune said John Astin is the new SAG President and he is the son of Patty Duke. He is also the SON of GOMEZ ADDAMS and the thought of Morticia ADDAMS still creates a bulge in my 77 year old's pants.🙈🙉🙊 Let's talk Common Sense "These are the times that try men's souls." Thomas Paine. Charles Dickens attended school while his mother and Father and siblings worked in Marley and Scrooge's Debtor's Prison belonging to the London Stock Brokerage firm in the heart of heartless London. Wall street must love your Supreme Court of Injustice Judiciary, your ideological illogical Legislators and America's kakistocratic, incompetent, and corrupt Federal government Executives. We cannot change the past only learn from our mistakes and try to create a better future. Jefferson made some very big mistakes but in 1820 he left us The Gospel according to Jesus of Nazareth.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Jefferson-Bible
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/why-thomas-jefferson-
created-his-own-bible-180975716/
https://uuhouston.org/files/The_Jefferson_Bible.pdf
Jefferson was a deist, so I guess he was a Unitarian. Never would have thought of that
Cheyenne is much more than a town in Wyoming.
I've lost interest being on X, Bluesky, Instagram, Facebook, all of it. Started using the time tracking features on my phone, and the amount of time lost to this junk is just staggering. No wonder everyone is anxious, angry, and disconnected.
At least now those of us attempting to build genuine people power will not confuse social media engagement with relationships of trust and cooperation.
Why do you add the vanity caps on the "S" in Bluesky? I'm developing my own personal theory of why people do that (Gen X behavior) but it's not present in the actual branding and never has been.
Ha I'm not Gen X — the answer here is that it's a Substack CMS editor issue that I trusted too much; Bluesky gets the red dots underneath while BlueSky does not. Thanks for flagging though barely realized I did that
Thank you Sam,
Fairview Alberta is the hometown of the Quack and Charlatan Jordan "River OF Shit " Peterson. as YOU DRIVE FROM Peace River Alberta TO Fairview Alberta you pass BLUESKY ALBERTA>
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/Peace_River,_Alberta
https://mapcarta.com/24154642
The water tower says BLUESKY in all capitals and I thought it was pronounced Blueski and a Polish immigrant town not blue sky but Jordan is still River of Shit Peterson and Charlie Kirk was always a National Socialist and I was born a God Damn Jew almost 80 years ago in Montreal where my mother was born a second class God damned Jew over a century ago and my father was born in a town near CAmp Auschwitz near Krakow like the senile old pope still living in the Vatican.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svPDzNO6GQk&list=RDsvPDzNO6GQk&start_radio=1
Chrystia Freeland grew up in Peace River Alberta and she is Canada's Minister of Transportation. She wrote Plutocrats: The Rise of the Global Super Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else and Sale of the Century. Sale is about How the west sold out Russia's democracy to the World's oligarchs and Chrystia's uncle wrote Canada's Charter of Human RIGHTS because America committed suicide in 2024 in November and St John's Newfoundland not New Pork New York is our gateway to London , Dublin and Paris and Churchill, Manitoba is the closest North American port to Taipei, Tokyo and Hong Kong and it is closer to Minneapolis than it is to Seattle or Los Angeles. The Prime Minister of Manitoba Wab Kinew is a democratic socialist and a rap star
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/headline-kinew-optimistic-port-churchill-011346352.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmluZy5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJHTXNrWzlfam47MpBA1AAZZQkHljgTEdWzru0WaLe5xM-BoE41LzumugNheVlA3kWz8l961bLso-6CExsBXy1Lm9yezb7DlowUO7dcrUqmLQaWAZLps3Rvfe-UWNqh3ZttrJMEA3uU7wPSu7sgo9pv_vF0T40_XDwwY8ZDtzSlJ
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/wab-kinew
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/chrystia-freeland
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/f/freeland-sale.html
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15797932-plutocrats
Lately I keep thinking how unfortunate it is that the discussion of the vice/virtue of social media got tangled up with the discourse of "right" vs. "left". For years, the social media (Facebook, Twitter) were coded as "left-wing". So, for far too long the "left" was in denial about their inherent toxicity, and fell prey to algorithms that (among other things) toxified "left-wing" discourses ("cancel culture", etc.) and thus discredited left-wing positions.By the time some people on the "left" finally started facing up to the problem, Musk's takeover of Twitter shifted the focus - now the issue was framed more as being Twitter's right-wing shift, rather than its fundamental toxicity. So the exodus to Bluesky ended up being perceived mainly as "lefties switching to a left-friendly platform". Seems like a huge missed opportunity to send the message that it's not about "right-wing" platforms vs. "left-wing" platforms, it's about creating platforms that are good for everyone because they don't polarize and manipulate.
Living in Germany, I'm really glad to see people here finally talking about the need to develop better social media - but it seems like the German discussion is falling into the same trap, focusing too much on the "right-wing shift" in social media rather than the fact that for-profit social media inherently sucks. Ok, maybe you need to do that to win over Twitter-addicted lefties, but that framing glosses over the underlying problems, and alienates average people who can write off the whole discussion as toxic partisan sniping.
(To be clear: I'm not trying to relativize right-wing fascism or equate it with lefty cancel culture. I'm just saying that, to reach the mainstream with these issues, we urgently need to find modes that move beyond right-left framings.)
Thank you Cheyenne,
Unitarians were the largest religious group in the 1776 English speaking North American colonies.They are the liberals and are not Bible literalists. The Quebec Act was the final intolerable act. It gave Roman Catholics full citizenship, Texas and California were Spanish Colonies and Quebec was conquered by the English. That is history.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Unitarianism/American-Universalism
https://www.britannica.com/event/French-and-Indian-War
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/battle-of-the-plains-of-abraham
https://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entries/quebec-act/
Thank you Cheyenne
American History.
Unitarians were the largest group of non conforming Protestants in 1789. The Federalist John Adams disputed Jefferson the Democratic Republican's right to hold office in 1800 because Jefferson was not a Trinitarian. The disputes were religious and William and Mary gave up all their power to the House of Lords in 1689. The revolution was about land ownership and in 1789 the land belonged to the Church. The final intolerable act was the Quebec Act of 1773 which gave Roman Catholics in Quebec the same rights as English Catholicks and non-conforming Protestants. The Quakers in Pennsylvania could not bear arms or join the militias.
In England in 1535 Henry VIII executed Thomas More the Archbishop of Canterbury and ended Roman Church Rule. Henry made himself King and Pope. Jonathan Swift was the head of the Church of Ireland and he was an Anglican like Charles III who is hosting the feeble minded fetal alcohol disordered head of your dead state at Windsor Castle. Jonathan Swift wrote a Modest Proposal before Ireland had potatoes and in 1845 they got rid of the bottom 20% of Ireland's Roman Catholic peasants through genocide or sale of humans into the new cities of the industrial revolution.
They had no Jews to blame until they allowed Jews to trickle in under Oliver Cromwell. The Jews in Rhode Island and New York came from Spain and Portugal.
https://elizabethjpeterson.com/2021/05/how-america-went-from-puritan-to-unitarian/
Charlie Kirk wanted to undo the revolution. Only Pope Leo stands in his way. Even Mormons can't believe their shit and trying to find Jews that believe in Noah is like opening a dental practice for chickens.
The English Civil War was about Jesus and it was the bloodiest war in English History and the first American Civil War was about Jesus and my prayer is the next American Civil War will be like the one we had here while Kamala attended Westmount High School and Vanier Jr College. There is no such thing as Christians, Jews, Races, Moslems, transexuals or cisgendered at Westmount High School in 2025 only citizens of the oxymoronic appellation controller of Homo Sapiens Sapiens.😢
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/quiet-revolution
You can visit Westmount High online anytime and find out Kamala is the President 89% of Americans want because they teach real patriotism not hate mongering. And Jesus was a sailor when he walked across the water. In 2024 we learned Christopher Columbus was a refugee fleeing the Spanish Inquisition and a corrupt vile and vicious supreme court of injustice. Columbus was not an Italian from Genoa. My father told me this 70 years ago before my wife studied science at Chicago in a lab next to David Suzuki and his Drosophila Melanogaster and before Spain and Portugal said we were entitled to Spanish and Portuguese citizenship because of our DNA.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg2049ezpko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_56ep729TE&list=RDn_56ep729TE&start_radio=1
If I was a gambling woman, I'd put money on the CIA having done it. I know how that sounds, but If you read the book "Chaos", by journalist Tom O'Neil, you'll see the CIA have been manipulating the left and right into strife since at least the sixties and are capable of the most evil things imaginable. They are no doubt loving all the extreme reactions on both sides right now.
Charlie Kirk loved in-person debates, and the beautiful thing about debates is it forces you to actually listen to what the other side is saying, as opposed to mouthing off in an echo chamber, and because it's in person, it also humanises the other side.
When people do this, they often find common ground, and that type of unity isn't what the twats who run things behind the scenes want. Because then we can say with one voice "What's in the Epstein Files?", "Why do I have to work 2 jobs to put basic groceries on the table?", "Why are there no proper AI regulations?", "Why is tech being enshitified?", and many other things that both sides agree on.