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YouTube is described as social media, yet it lacks the most basic tools of social media. Such as: the ability to block trolls in the...

YouTube is described as social media, yet it lacks the most basic tools of social media.

Such as: the ability to block trolls in the comments. Why do I need to let trolls annoy me with messages repeating the same talking points when I could just block them?

It's baffling that YT doesn't get it.

"There were 307 anti-migrant protests in 2022, while in 2023 there have already been 64 demos, according to the Garda Síochána,...

"There were 307 anti-migrant protests in 2022, while in 2023 there have already been 64 demos, according to the Garda Síochána, Ireland’s police force, calling the numbers an “exponential increase”.

“Ireland’s borders are wide open,” Niall McConnell, leader of the Irish Nationalist Catholic Party, told Euronews. “There is no restriction on immigration.”

“The indigenous Irish are being racially discriminated against,” he added."

#Europe #Ireland #FarRight
https://www.euronews.com/2023/03/13/keep-ireland-irish-say-hello-to-irelands-growing-far-right#:~:text=There%20were%20307,against%2C%E2%80%9D%20he%20added.

"Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon ... signed a bill banning the sale and use of abortion pillsin the conservative state. He also green...

"Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon ... signed a bill banning the sale and use of abortion pillsin the conservative state. He also green lighted a seperate measure, without his signature, which would restrict abortion to become the law.

The governor's decision to prohibit abortion pills comes after the issue took center stage in in Texas, where a federal judge is considering ordering a nationwide ban"
https://www.dw.com/en/us-wyoming-governor-signs-bill-outlawing-abortion-pills/a-65033369#:~:text=Wyoming%20Governor%20Mark,a%20nationwide%20ban

YouTube has restored Trump's channel, more than two years after it was suspended for inciting violence.“Starting today, the Donald J....

YouTube has restored Trump's channel, more than two years after it was suspended for inciting violence.

“Starting today, the Donald J. Trump channel is no longer restricted and can upload new content,” YT said. “We carefully evaluated the continued risk of real-world violence, while balancing the chance for voters to hear equally from major national candidates in the run up to an election.”

YT dealing with Trump like the Weimar Republic dealt with Hitler.

#Trump
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/youtube-restores-donald-trump-channel_n_641479b3e4b0fef15243afae#:~:text=YouTube%20on%20Friday,to%20an%20election.%E2%80%9D

David Rothkopf said that "Taiwan will become part of China."#China...

David Rothkopf said that "Taiwan will become part of China."

#China #Taiwan

https://www.schedium.net/2023/03/David-rothkopf-promotes-china-communist-propaganda-invasion-taiwan.html

Ron DeFascist's whole Guantanamo torture story is starting to receive more attention. Let's see if most media will actually cover...

Ron DeFascist's whole Guantanamo torture story is starting to receive more attention.

Let's see if most media will actually cover it extensively instead of waiting until he gets elected.

If you lie your way into Congress, you face no consequences, but you get a lot of free media coverage. I'm not going to mention the name...

If you lie your way into Congress, you face no consequences, but you get a lot of free media coverage.

I'm not going to mention the name of that specific person I've been seeing in the headlines for months, and whose lying was exposed after he got elected.

What's the point if media organizations don't cover a candidate's lying during an election campaign, but obsessively overcover it afterwards?

Btw, I was against the Iraq war and US-UK regime change policy. I was yelled at by lots of people, even liberals, over the years. During the...

Btw, I was against the Iraq war and US-UK regime change policy. I was yelled at by lots of people, even liberals, over the years.

During the Arab spring, e.g., it wasn't fashionable to say that the US and Europe should stay out of it. There was huge animosity in those debates.

But the mistakes of the US and its allies are no excuse for supporting dictatorial regimes, not at all.

We know what a world dominated by Xi-Putin means. •Crackdown on democracy movements (like in Belarus, Hong Kong and Kazakhstan)....

We know what a world dominated by Xi-Putin means.

•Crackdown on democracy movements (like in Belarus, Hong Kong and Kazakhstan).

•Territorial expansion (starting with Ukraine and Taiwan).

•Attempts to destabilize and overthrow democracy (Russian interference in elections, Beijing's "united front" strategy, disinformation etc.).

When people blame the US for confronting Xi's regime (not "China"!) they're either clueless or useful tools

#Putin #Xi

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/03/17/russia-ukraine-war-news/

A clip of Alastair Campbell still making excuses for the Blair government's decision to invade Iraq. #UK #politics...

A clip of Alastair Campbell still making excuses for the Blair government's decision to invade Iraq.

#UK #politics #Iraq

https://youtu.be/ivd-7qb4CkQ

Alastair Campbell defending the 2003 invasion of Iraq is nuts. Especially his claims Blair was given plausible information and that we...

Alastair Campbell defending the 2003 invasion of Iraq is nuts.

Especially his claims Blair was given plausible information and that we cannot criticize it *in hindsight* (yes, we can, and we also did it back then, maybe he just doesn't understand the concept of evidence);

And the idea that *we cannot prove* that Saddam wouldn't have been a threat if the US/UK hadn't attacked Iraq.

Why do we need to prove that Saddam wouldn't have been a threat based on some warmongers' conspiracy theories?

"US European Command released footage of the Tuesday encounter between a US surveillance drone and the Russian fighter jets...

"US European Command released footage of the Tuesday encounter between a US surveillance drone and the Russian fighter jets ...

"The video shows the camera of the MQ-9 Reaper drone pointed backward toward its tail and the drone's propeller, which is mounted on the rear, spinning. Then, a Russian Sukhoi SU-27 fighter jet is shown approaching. As it draws closer, the Russian fighter jet dumps fuel as it intercepts the US drone."

#US #Russia
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/16/politics/us-military-video-drone-russian-jet/index.html#:~:text=US%20European%20Command,the%20US%20drone.

Letters and Politics with Mitch Jeserich has decided to amplify GQP propaganda. One of the witnesses: Matt Taibbi. It's annoying to see...

Letters and Politics with Mitch Jeserich has decided to amplify GQP propaganda. One of the witnesses: Matt Taibbi.

It's annoying to see how a segment of the left, or purported left, acts as a useful tool of the far right (e.g. Taibbi and Glenn Greenwald) due to their common hatred of the US government.

I will let Jeserich know what I think about this. If he doesn't care, I'll put him in the trash can like Taibbi and Greenwald

"The UK has been downgraded in an annual global index of civic freedoms as a result of the government’s 'increasingly...

"The UK has been downgraded in an annual global index of civic freedoms as a result of the government’s 'increasingly authoritarian' drive to impose restrictive and punitive laws on public protests ...

"The UK’s willingness to clamp down on civic freedoms such as the right to peaceful assembly means it is now classified as 'obstructed' – putting it alongside countries such as Poland, South Africa and Hungary."

#UK
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/16/hostile-authoritarian-uk-downgraded-in-civic-freedoms-index#:~:text=The%20UK%20has,Africa%20and%20Hungary.

Miles Guo, a Chinese businessman and internet media personality with close ties to former Trump White House chief strategist Steve Bannon,...

Miles Guo, a Chinese businessman and internet media personality with close ties to former Trump White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, has been arrested on various charges of wire fraud, securities fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering.

#MilesGuo #GuoWengui #Trump #Bannon

https://www.schedium.net/2023/03/Pro-Trump-Chinese-Businessman-Miles-Guo-Arrested-US-Over-Alleged-1-Billion-Fraud-Conspiracy.html

The Confederate flag would be allowed to be displayed by governmental agencies, local governments, and other units of local government in...

The Confederate flag would be allowed to be displayed by governmental agencies, local governments, and other units of local government in Florida, if an amendment filed by GQP extremist Sen. Jay Collins is adopted by the Florida legislature.

Meanwhile, LGBTQ+ flags are not included in the list of permitted flags.

#GQP #FarRight

"Honduras president Xiomara Castro said she has instructed her foreign minister to establish official relations with China, a move that...

"Honduras president Xiomara Castro said she has instructed her foreign minister to establish official relations with China, a move that would end its ties with Taiwan and further isolate the island on the world stage.

The Central American country’s switch from Taipei to Beijing would leave Taiwan with formal diplomatic ties with only 13 countries."

#Taiwan #China
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/15/honduras-to-switch-ties-from-taiwan-to-china-says-president#:~:text=Honduras%20president%20Xiomara,only%2013%20countries.

Apparently the North Carolina Supreme Court is poised to strike down the electoral districts which it previously approved and which resulted...

Apparently the North Carolina Supreme Court is poised to strike down the electoral districts which it previously approved and which resulted in a 7-7 split between Dems and GQP.

Now it wants to replace them with the heavily gerrymandered maps drawn by the GQP -controlled legislature which would give a 11-3 advantage to Republicans

#Democracy #Politics #US
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/14/north-carolina-court-gerrymandering-case-voting-rights#:~:text=the%20North%20Carolina%20court%20appears%20poised%20to%20overrule%20itself%20and%20get%20rid%20of%20congressional%20and%20state%20legislative%20districts%20it%20approved%20last%20year.%20The%20GOP%2Ddrawn%20map%20could%20have%20produced%20a%2011%2D3%20advantage%20for%20Republicans%20in%20the%20congressional%20delegation%2C%20but%20the%20replacement%20ones%20resulted%20in%20a%207%2D7%20split.

A Russian Su-27 fighter jet collided with an American military drone over the Black Sea on Tuesday. "Our MQ-9 aircraft was conducting...

A Russian Su-27 fighter jet collided with an American military drone over the Black Sea on Tuesday.

"Our MQ-9 aircraft was conducting routine operations in international airspace when it was intercepted and hit by a Russian aircraft," US Air Force General James Hecker said in a statement."

#US #Russia
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-jet-us-drone-collide-black-sea/#:~:text=A%20Russian%20Su,in%20a%20statement.

Han Feizi (c. 280-233 BC), was an influential Chinese philosopher of the Warring States period.His works on statecraft provided a...

Han Feizi (c. 280-233 BC), was an influential Chinese philosopher of the Warring States period.

His works on statecraft provided a theoretical foundation for autocratic absolutism. They were admired by China's First Emperor, and the Second Emperor quoted from Han's essay “The Five Vermin”.

Yet the collapse of the Qin dynasty, as well as his own downfall, are emblematic of the arbitrary harshness of unrestrained personal rule.

#China #History #Histodons

https://china-journal.org/2023/03/11/legalist-philosopher-han-feizi-at-the-court-of-chinas-first-emperor/