Probably the most significant year in the development of American fascism:
Suppression of socialist resistance and the establishment of the peacetime security state.
Speaking of Woodrow…
Still don’t know
But when I bring up how much of European (ethno-nationalist) politics rely on shielding themselves with American hate websites while organizing their movements there, it gets dismissed by the usual Freeze Peach crowd.
To be clear, I am not taking AT&T Time Warner’s side. I am not in favour of media monopolies, period. But people need to stop thinking that the government’s actions here are in any way about preventing a monopoly.
This is not a “bust 'em all up” move. This is about creating a state propaganda system with no viable alternative voice. I know it’s easy to say “Fuck those guys,” when it comes to ATT/TW/Comcast, but it’s vital to keep an eye on the actual slight og hand, not just stand slack-jawed staring at the trick.
Thread:
This reply, from one of the Hell of a Way to Die vets, sums up the general theme of the responses:
More Cloobeck-stomping:
But he was on Undercover Bosses!
Related to the topic of episode #5:
Oman is an excellent source of weird-but-interesting things to think about: