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Leak debate

lundi 26 octobre 2020 à 01:00

(satire) *Trump Threatens To Leak Debate Video Online If Moderator Keeps Asking Unfair Questions.*

A gap in the defense of freedom

lundi 26 octobre 2020 à 01:00

Ira Glasser, former head of the ACLU, warns that the ACLU today has retreated from its defense of free speech for all views. This leaves a gap in the defense of freedom, just as plutocratists are even more powerful and ready to exploit that gap.

The US should provide good medical care to everyone, including the poor. I advocate a universal national medical system, recently often called "Medicare for all." I don't praise Obama's weak system much, but it is better than nothing, so I am glad that lawyers work to defend it. But it should not be the ACLU that does that legal work; some other organization that focuses on the rights of poor people to government aid should do that.

The ACLU's defense of Obama's medical insurance program is an instance of what I call "unionality" — where an organization that was set up to focus on one particular cause starts to support various other causes because the same people tend to support them. If you judge by the short term, it may seem great to have additional organizations supporting all the causes you favor. In the long term, it risks alienating the supporters of one cause who disagree with the other causes.

The article contains a powerful presentation of why anyone who wishes to change an unjust system needs freedom of speech, and would be a fool not to defend it to the utmost.

Faux News and the New York Post

lundi 26 octobre 2020 à 01:00

Faux News and the New York Post are owned by the same plutocratist supporters of extremists, and they work together.

*New York Post Insiders Slag ‘Very Flimsy’ Hunter Biden Stories.*

Totalitarian tracking systems

lundi 26 octobre 2020 à 01:00

US schools and companies setting up totalitarian tracking systems already.

Students are already organizing to fight them. Fight hard — this will make the difference between freedoms and tyranny.

Armed men hired by campaign

lundi 26 octobre 2020 à 01:00

*Armed men outside St. Petersburg polling place said [the wrecker's] campaign hired them.*

The official campaign organization claims not to have hired them. It might be lying, as usual. Or perhaps that is true in a narrow sense, if they were hired by one of his unofficial campaign organizations.