Everything the Russians don’t like is now “Nazism.” Probably should be cautious in thinking their cause is righteous in Ukraine. https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2022/04/20/foreign-student-arrested-in-russia-on-nazism-charges-for-twerking-at-war-memorial
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Foreign student arrested in Russia on 'Nazism' charges for twerking
Investigators say the 21-year-old performed an "obscene dance" in front of a war memorial in Khanty-Mansiysk.
Interesting angle: “Luring children onto social media — and keeping them there — is a top priority for online platforms. This is because, like all social-media users, children are not so much the customer as they are the labor. The platforms induce them to produce the content that engages other children and that, in the cycle of virtual affirmation these companies deliberately engineer, drives them to keep on engaging and producing.”
Catch my podcast partner Robert Vane tomorrow, April 23rd at 7:00pm EST, on CSPAN-2 with William Sterne Randall on the Founders' Fortunes. If you miss it, it will be up here after it airs: https://www.c-span.org/video/?519204-1/the-founders-fortunes
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<em>The Founders' Fortunes</em>
Author Willard Sterne Randall examined how the American Revolution and the Constitution were influenced by the financial interests of the Founding Fathers. Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C., hosted this virtual program.
Enjoy that $ 1 Billion in-kind contribution to DeSantis, Floridians. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/21/florida-set-to-dissolve-disneys-reedy-creek-special-district.html?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=Main&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1650561883
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Florida Republicans vote to dissolve Disney's special district, eliminating privileges and setting up a legal battle
Dissolving the district would mean Reedy Creek employees and infrastructure would be absorbed by the local counties.
Here is the best breakdown of libertarianism in history: https://youtu.be/TFCz2R2U_kE
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An Introduction to Libertarianism with Marshall Fritz
Marshall Fritz founded the Alliance for the Separation of School and State and Advocates for Self-Government, and was perhaps best known as the creator of th...
Florida Republicans just raised taxes on two counties in Florida while giving Disney a tax break because DeSantis wants to please Republican Twitter so he can win Presidential primaries. Quite the political gamble.
“Effectively, Disney’s loss of control also hands it a $163 million per year tax break. If the entire state of Florida was responsible for covering the hole, each taxpayer would have to cough up roughly $7.50.”
“Effectively, Disney’s loss of control also hands it a $163 million per year tax break. If the entire state of Florida was responsible for covering the hole, each taxpayer would have to cough up roughly $7.50.”
Having worked in both talk radio and local politics, I can assure you that online political media is totally detached from the realities of governing, and the more that mindset embeds itself into policy, the more blunders it will make.
I remember being impressed by the complexity of the problems with moderating Twitter when Dorsey laid it out on Rogan. People hoping Musk will be the deus ex machina may be in for a letdown as I’d guess the line between healthy, open speech and Gab is a fine line. By Gab, I mean that Twitter is popular because it is a broad cross-section of the public conversation and doesn’t allow people to be abusive like maximal new social networks, which causes everyone but the extremes to quit using it. Where’s his line? The big stuff like bans on people like the Bee will be easily solved. The devil will be in the details on things like allowing AI bots and dealing with the laws of European laws, which encourage a lot of censorship for normal people.