I appreciate Katie’s lighter take on this, but seriously… I feel like this one is super serious and not enough people are talking about it or concerned.
When I first saw this news the other day I was FLOORED. How are there not unprecedented marches on Washington?? This seems like it merits a VERY strong reaction in opposition and this one has to come from the people. Notably those of us who have been largely silent in the middle. The fact this isn’t a great unifying cause for all Americans makes me physically ill.
Someone tell me if I’m overreacting.
Also, someone please explain how the right are labeled as “Nazis” when the left *checks notes* has - decided to employ federal police power to control information, launched full press campaigns via press and academia to control messaging and silence detractors, promotes forced medical interventions, openly and actively practices eugenics, wants to indoctrinate kids at the school age level, and, oh yeah, are increasingly anti semitic.
Just a few off the top of my head.
I don’t want to label people incorrectly without a biology degree, but I do have one in political science.
A few years ago, I listened to Jordan Peterson saying that if we ever implemented the speech police, it would be the people you would least want to have doing the policing. I didn't really believe him; but then I hadn't been the one studying the Nazis and other totalitarian regimes. Silly me!
I just finished reading your entire essay word for word, and you completely glossed over the main issue, which is that Dick Van Dyke no longer has the worst Mary Poppins British accent.
News like these make me question am I dreaming, this cannot be reality.
As I was growing up in 1990 in Eastern Europe, USA was a shiny beacon among dark clouds, its institutions were something to be admired. I looked up at Congress, Supreme Court, President with admiration, wanted our institutors back home be like this. Now some two decades later, I want anything but that institutions back home are like those in US. Congress is literal representation of corruption (insider trading, personal enrichment while US people suffer). Presidency was discredited by Clinton, then by Bush and his lies. Obama and Trump dint helped. And now Biden is literary burying any notion of credibility that the office of president had.
We used to make fun that in China there was propaganda ministry, now there will be one in USA. Such sad day for democracy.
Sometimes I think, that if US was to be couped by some external enemy, that they would we more merciful that what is currently going on. It is like someone is on purpose trying to destroy US from within.
PS. I forgot to mention Supreme Court, that was one of institutions I admired the most, but after what happed this week, sad sad state of affairs, it is like last bastion of US greatness has started to crumbed to petty party politics.
When we were studying the US System in eighth-grade civics class, I remember thinking how the horrendous things which took place in the Soviet and Chinese systems could never happen here. Age and experience have taught me otherwise. With lunatics like the Disinformation Czarina spinning her performance art online for the world to see and a senile Titular Presidents setting new records for insanity every day, Lewis Carroll and Franz Kafka must be spinning in their graves like tops. They never intended their fiction to become fact.
Because parts of that system are still operative, though, it is still possible to reverse this descent into madness. I see that J.D. Vance won the Ohio Republican primary last night, having come to Jesus about the America First agenda and its founder. Others are doing the same.
The liars and cheaters know they are in deep kimchi come November and they know they cannot prevail - or even keep their jobs - unless they cheat once again. Voting integrity, not Ukraine, not gender identity, not Supreme Court leaks must be our focus now because if we fail in that, none of the rest matters.
I've been a woman on the internet since 1996, and yet somehow I've managed to avoid all these terrible woes.
Perhaps coincidentally (perhaps not) the only #metoo experience I've ever had was when a hotel porter in an Italian hotel tried to grope me in an elevator. I was barely 14, but I managed to protect myself until the elevator doors opened.
Still, I've wondered, since #metoo, if any of my fellow girl scouts in our group was less fortunate than I was.
I believed (falsely) throughout my youth that I must be horribly ugly, since I wasn't getting hit on like all the other girls were. After a lifetime of experience, I've come to the conclusion that, without even really being aware of it, I give off Don't-You-Even-Go-There vibes. Even my husband of 35 years didn't try anything with me when we were dating that I hadn't greenlighted first.
Of course Jankowicz is a comedic caricature. A loon living in her fantasy world of woke lies and fables, in an apartment filled with cats and a fridge filled with wine and yogurt. Which would be perfectly fine, unless and until she is given power. Then it all turns malevolent and dark. And not the least bit funny.
Aside from our loved ones, our most precious gift in life is liberty. Jankowicz with power is a clear and present danger to that. As are that vile troll Mayorkas and his boss, the senile imbecile who embarrasses our nation on a daily basis. People who threaten our most precious liberties are not our "political opponents." They are our mortal enemies. You mistake that existential difference at your peril.
If Jankowitz is serious about protecting women online, she can start by removing all Met Galla...I mean Hunger Games...photos from my social media feed (shudder). Also stop people from posting their Wordle scores. It’s upsetting to those who get it in six.
Other than that, I can’t believe this shit is happening. I think Raziel is right. We’re being destroyed from the inside.
The Disinformation Governance Board, or the Ministry of Truth, as critics dubbed it, has an ambitious mission: to stop the spread of misinformation. That sounds nice. Except, what one woman calls “misinformation” another might just call “information.”
While I enjoyed the entire article, the above quote was the perfect summary of what's so clearly wrong about the concept.
Pretty interesting piece and definitely scary. I hope they take an absolute drubbing at the polls in November.
Also just listened to your latest Honestly podcast with Andrew Sullivan. While overall I liked it I felt compelled to reply here about it just to say that I thought what he said about Chris Rufo was a terrible smear. Discussing his work exposing teachers saying/doing troubling things pertaining to gender and trans ideology, Andrew said that Chris is basically accusing them all of trying to rape children. Which I thought was an obscene thing to say; Chris is just trying to expose some of the troubling behavior in public schools, I highly doubt he'd agree with such a thing. It wasn't even clear what Andrew's real point was, if you wanted to say that well he was just being hyperbolic.
Gynocentric Fascism- Creating and leveraging massive state bureaucracies to ostensibly stop "toxic masculinity" and protect "pure femininity". From HRC's "It takes an overreaching state" to raise proper children to todays "it takes an entire bureaucracy" to protect childless cat moms. The cards are absolutely stacked against men in this age. Add Roe V Wade to the mix and you'll see the most gender polarized elections in history coming up.
Almost all of the internet censorship thus far has been done on behalf of the Democrat party and the government either as a campaign finance violation or a First Amendment violation.
I feel like making it all official, as opposed to an unspoken agreement, with this new government board could open them up to legal action.
And as I’m typing this Chris Coons is on CNBC talking about regulating social media. Chris Coons is held up as a moderate Democrat and he is in fact a gigantic extreme piece of shit fascist who has previously proposed outlawing ‘climate denial’.
(‘climate denial’ will of course include people like me who simply deny that functionless cocksuckers like Chris Coons can fix the climate)
Just to clarify, Harris did sleep her way to the top. “Girls” if you want a better role model pick ACB, a super mother and Supreme Court justice!! Yes you can have it all!!!
I hope this new ministry can finally solve the overwhelming problem of the nefarious men at the BABYLON BEE, a constant source of “misinformation “😎
I appreciate Katie’s lighter take on this, but seriously… I feel like this one is super serious and not enough people are talking about it or concerned.
When I first saw this news the other day I was FLOORED. How are there not unprecedented marches on Washington?? This seems like it merits a VERY strong reaction in opposition and this one has to come from the people. Notably those of us who have been largely silent in the middle. The fact this isn’t a great unifying cause for all Americans makes me physically ill.
Someone tell me if I’m overreacting.
Also, someone please explain how the right are labeled as “Nazis” when the left *checks notes* has - decided to employ federal police power to control information, launched full press campaigns via press and academia to control messaging and silence detractors, promotes forced medical interventions, openly and actively practices eugenics, wants to indoctrinate kids at the school age level, and, oh yeah, are increasingly anti semitic.
Just a few off the top of my head.
I don’t want to label people incorrectly without a biology degree, but I do have one in political science.
A few years ago, I listened to Jordan Peterson saying that if we ever implemented the speech police, it would be the people you would least want to have doing the policing. I didn't really believe him; but then I hadn't been the one studying the Nazis and other totalitarian regimes. Silly me!
I just finished reading your entire essay word for word, and you completely glossed over the main issue, which is that Dick Van Dyke no longer has the worst Mary Poppins British accent.
News like these make me question am I dreaming, this cannot be reality.
As I was growing up in 1990 in Eastern Europe, USA was a shiny beacon among dark clouds, its institutions were something to be admired. I looked up at Congress, Supreme Court, President with admiration, wanted our institutors back home be like this. Now some two decades later, I want anything but that institutions back home are like those in US. Congress is literal representation of corruption (insider trading, personal enrichment while US people suffer). Presidency was discredited by Clinton, then by Bush and his lies. Obama and Trump dint helped. And now Biden is literary burying any notion of credibility that the office of president had.
We used to make fun that in China there was propaganda ministry, now there will be one in USA. Such sad day for democracy.
Sometimes I think, that if US was to be couped by some external enemy, that they would we more merciful that what is currently going on. It is like someone is on purpose trying to destroy US from within.
PS. I forgot to mention Supreme Court, that was one of institutions I admired the most, but after what happed this week, sad sad state of affairs, it is like last bastion of US greatness has started to crumbed to petty party politics.
When we were studying the US System in eighth-grade civics class, I remember thinking how the horrendous things which took place in the Soviet and Chinese systems could never happen here. Age and experience have taught me otherwise. With lunatics like the Disinformation Czarina spinning her performance art online for the world to see and a senile Titular Presidents setting new records for insanity every day, Lewis Carroll and Franz Kafka must be spinning in their graves like tops. They never intended their fiction to become fact.
Because parts of that system are still operative, though, it is still possible to reverse this descent into madness. I see that J.D. Vance won the Ohio Republican primary last night, having come to Jesus about the America First agenda and its founder. Others are doing the same.
The liars and cheaters know they are in deep kimchi come November and they know they cannot prevail - or even keep their jobs - unless they cheat once again. Voting integrity, not Ukraine, not gender identity, not Supreme Court leaks must be our focus now because if we fail in that, none of the rest matters.
I've been a woman on the internet since 1996, and yet somehow I've managed to avoid all these terrible woes.
Perhaps coincidentally (perhaps not) the only #metoo experience I've ever had was when a hotel porter in an Italian hotel tried to grope me in an elevator. I was barely 14, but I managed to protect myself until the elevator doors opened.
Still, I've wondered, since #metoo, if any of my fellow girl scouts in our group was less fortunate than I was.
I believed (falsely) throughout my youth that I must be horribly ugly, since I wasn't getting hit on like all the other girls were. After a lifetime of experience, I've come to the conclusion that, without even really being aware of it, I give off Don't-You-Even-Go-There vibes. Even my husband of 35 years didn't try anything with me when we were dating that I hadn't greenlighted first.
Of course Jankowicz is a comedic caricature. A loon living in her fantasy world of woke lies and fables, in an apartment filled with cats and a fridge filled with wine and yogurt. Which would be perfectly fine, unless and until she is given power. Then it all turns malevolent and dark. And not the least bit funny.
Aside from our loved ones, our most precious gift in life is liberty. Jankowicz with power is a clear and present danger to that. As are that vile troll Mayorkas and his boss, the senile imbecile who embarrasses our nation on a daily basis. People who threaten our most precious liberties are not our "political opponents." They are our mortal enemies. You mistake that existential difference at your peril.
If Jankowitz is serious about protecting women online, she can start by removing all Met Galla...I mean Hunger Games...photos from my social media feed (shudder). Also stop people from posting their Wordle scores. It’s upsetting to those who get it in six.
Other than that, I can’t believe this shit is happening. I think Raziel is right. We’re being destroyed from the inside.
The Disinformation Governance Board, or the Ministry of Truth, as critics dubbed it, has an ambitious mission: to stop the spread of misinformation. That sounds nice. Except, what one woman calls “misinformation” another might just call “information.”
While I enjoyed the entire article, the above quote was the perfect summary of what's so clearly wrong about the concept.
Pretty interesting piece and definitely scary. I hope they take an absolute drubbing at the polls in November.
Also just listened to your latest Honestly podcast with Andrew Sullivan. While overall I liked it I felt compelled to reply here about it just to say that I thought what he said about Chris Rufo was a terrible smear. Discussing his work exposing teachers saying/doing troubling things pertaining to gender and trans ideology, Andrew said that Chris is basically accusing them all of trying to rape children. Which I thought was an obscene thing to say; Chris is just trying to expose some of the troubling behavior in public schools, I highly doubt he'd agree with such a thing. It wasn't even clear what Andrew's real point was, if you wanted to say that well he was just being hyperbolic.
But can she even define what IS a woman?!?
this world needs more you Katie.
Gynocentric Fascism- Creating and leveraging massive state bureaucracies to ostensibly stop "toxic masculinity" and protect "pure femininity". From HRC's "It takes an overreaching state" to raise proper children to todays "it takes an entire bureaucracy" to protect childless cat moms. The cards are absolutely stacked against men in this age. Add Roe V Wade to the mix and you'll see the most gender polarized elections in history coming up.
Almost all of the internet censorship thus far has been done on behalf of the Democrat party and the government either as a campaign finance violation or a First Amendment violation.
I feel like making it all official, as opposed to an unspoken agreement, with this new government board could open them up to legal action.
And as I’m typing this Chris Coons is on CNBC talking about regulating social media. Chris Coons is held up as a moderate Democrat and he is in fact a gigantic extreme piece of shit fascist who has previously proposed outlawing ‘climate denial’.
(‘climate denial’ will of course include people like me who simply deny that functionless cocksuckers like Chris Coons can fix the climate)
Just to clarify, Harris did sleep her way to the top. “Girls” if you want a better role model pick ACB, a super mother and Supreme Court justice!! Yes you can have it all!!!
I hope this new ministry can finally solve the overwhelming problem of the nefarious men at the BABYLON BEE, a constant source of “misinformation “😎
“this new effort is designed purely to combat disinformation spread by human traffickers and the Russian government”
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A weird flex since the Biden administration is the world’s largest human trafficker.