The Sovietization of American culture.
[Update a few minutes later]
A conservative pretends that there is allowable debate in America.
[Update late morning]
Black Lives Matter must be beyond criticism. Professor Jacobson is clearly guilty of wrongthink.
[Update Friday morning]
We refuse mob rule.
Kurt Schlichter certainly refuses to bow before them.
I don’t use Twitter, I don’t use FaceBook, I don’t use Google. Not even Google Drive. Speaking of the Soviet, I am getting a new fax machine. 😉
People need to dust off their modems and ask old geeks about “UUCP”.
I’m *still* on USENET News. About as much activity as Interfax these days… 🙂
Good luck. We had a heck of a time getting modems to work a few years ago. Too much of the phone network doesn’t work reliably with them any more.
At least for long-distance calls. You might have better luck on a local call which doesn’t get converted to VoIP somewhere along the way.
I’m sure that’s true. I put the audio modem in storage after I got cable Internet. Faxing is also a challenge using VoIP.
Do you use a bank?
Bank? Do you mean PayPal? 🙂
I’m sure you are joking but people have been getting their bank accounts shut down for violating progressive marxist codes of conduct. Not breaking laws, just running afoul of the Democrat party’s current fad outrage. Same is true with PayPal and ither credit card companies.
Avoiding social media doesn’t mean people aren’t/won’t get caught up in this fascist nonsense.
Yeah, the NR article missed the point completely. Whether you are far right (whatever that means) or not, someone trying to limit your speech is wrong. The mob is an unthinking beast that should never be allowed to dictate conduct. This “please eat me last” shit has got to stop.
Speaking of unthinking beasts, redefining fascism to mean “whatever I don’t like” is equally annoying when done by conservatives and leftists.
Sometimes, the facist label is accurate especially when used to describe a left wing totalitarian party that controls the means of production but doesn’t own it. Granted they don’t currently hold the presidency but they did stage a coup. And while in power, they persecuted dissidents, spied on reporters, spied on Congress, and spied on their political opponents among other corrupt acts.
When can we have international flights to everywhere except China and Venezuela {and other shithole countries}.
Sure, Mexico and south of it, are still raging with China virus.
And maybe others countries don’t want international air travel with US, but we don’t need the restriction, and they choose whatever restriction they want to maintain.
With China, we just don’t know what going on there. And the communists are pricks. And similar to Venezuela.
But question is not now, when would a better time.
Googled:
“International Demand Slower to Return
While international demand continued to be diminished, today marked the return of service to eight international destinations. These include service from Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) to Amsterdam (AMS), Paris (CDG) and Frankfurt (FRA), as well as service from Miami (MIA) to Antigua (ANU) in the Caribbean and Guayaquil (GYE) and Quito (UIO) in South America. American also restored additional service to London (LHR) from Chicago (ORD) and New York (JFK).”
Lots more scheduled for August. Why August?
Is it just demand?
I have not heard Trump remove what he said he imposed- I think he should likewise get ahead of it, in terms public announcement.
Maybe going to it at Trump rally??
I think should do it on Friday, and can announce it’s done at rally- but, I am not Trump who seems to find endless pleasure at poking the fake news.
Rand does anybody tell you you kinda look like John Bolton?
No, you’re the first. He has more hair.
A wig and bleach your mustache would fix that, or a glass of milk.
https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2013-10/enhanced/webdr05/8/11/enhanced-buzz-10606-1381245214-16.jpg
No need to bleach my mustache; it’s been gray for years. My hair (what’s left of it) is finally catching up. I haven’t done a beard in years, because (a) it was red and (b) it looked like pubic hair. If I ever do some sort of hair restoration genetically, I’ll request that it be much less curly. When it’s long, it’s totally out of control, and I never had time to deal with it. I’ve had a hate-hate relationship with my hair all my life, so I’m not really missing it all that much.
I will say that at a space conference, someone once complimented me on my speech a few years ago, after confusing me with Gerstenmeier. And he and I were born within six months of each other (he’s a few months older).
I just read about a new boycott of Facebook because they aren’t suppressing speechcrime (“hate crime” of course) heavily enough. It’s bizarre that they protest that rather than say, Facebook’s information gathering.
And now we get Nature Communications (maybe they should just shorten the name to Nature Communalism without the “unal”?) with this latest anti-growth, anti-captialist gem: “‘Scientists’ warning on affluence.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16941-y
Or as I’d like to re-title it: “100 citations against Adam Smith.”
I think the first item of affluence that could be eliminated are academics that propose arbitrary limits on affluence. How about a paper entitled: “Your children are killing the planet, what are you going to do about it?”