Twitter is just trying to find any little place where they can make things more Orwellian.

POLITICO:

Twitter will start labeling the accounts of media outlets affiliated with the governments of countries on the U.N. National Security Council, it announced Thursday.

The new labels won’t apply to all media outlets that receive government funding — only “outlets where the state exercises control over editorial content through financial resources, direct or indirect political pressures, and/or control over production and distribution,” according to Twitter’s blog post announcing the change.

The labels will go on the accounts for China Daily, Russia Today, Sputnik and other media outlets, a Twitter spokesperson said. But not Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, two media outlets funded by the U.S. government, or NPR and the BBC. The blog post described NPR and the BBC as “state-financed media organizations with editorial independence.”

Obviously, the editors of RT or China Daily would claim they have editorial independence, in the same way that the editors of NPR and the BBC claim to have editorial independence. That is to say, “state funding” is an objective measure, whereas “editorial independence” simply is not. At all.

Many people question the editorial independence of Washington Post, given that they are owned by Jeff Bezos, and tend to cover Amazon favorably. In fact, the editorial independence of every media outlet tends to be questioned, even if they do not have a direct and public conflict of interest. The editorial independence of the Daily Stormer has been questioned; for example, given that we have ostensibly reported favorably on certain countries, we have been accused of receiving money from these countries. We have never received money from any country or any individual who has ever attempted to change the direction of this publication, but the fact is, that can’t ever be proved, so it becomes a stupid discussion.

All of this is to say: information has to be taken at face value, and all information should be examined through a critical lens by adult readers. The social media companies are now dealing with people as though they are children, incapable of any kind of critical analysis whatsoever. I don’t know if people are or are not capable of critical analysis, but I do know that the primary, foundational assumption of a universal suffrage democracy is that every adult member of society is capable of rational analysis and critical decision-making. That’s the most basic claim of this system, as it justifies allowing them to vote and determine who runs the government.

By undermining the ability of people to make rational and informed decisions, Twitter is undermining the concept of universal suffrage democracy itself. Of course, they don’t care, because our rulers do not actually believe in anything other than power. They profess various ideologies at different times, but only use these ideologies to push their agenda that exists totally independently from the ideologies.

The right needs to start doing the same. We need to be going after power. There was nothing more enraging than watching right-wing shills say that Trump shouldn’t regulate social media because it would “expand government control.” I’ve already given my full analysis of that, so I won’t go into it here, but the fact of reality is this: the right chasing ideological spooks while the left continues to act purely pragmatically is why we are losing. That is the most basic of all reasons we are losing.

Remember that the Trump Administration started off on a failure because John McCain sabotaged the vote to repeal Obamacare. That set the stage for everything else.

It was open sabotage by McCain, of course, and anyone who knew anything knew that, and yet, none in the media or in the party would call him a saboteur or an anti-American traitor because he claimed to be acting under loyalty to an ideological spook. Loyalty to ideological spooks is considered on the right to be respectable and good, even though it is purely destructive, and has zero upsides.

We should take note of the fact that Twitter is allegedly acting in the name of democracy while undermining what is literally the single most important foundational principle of democracy when we consider the fact that we allow our own representatives to act out of alleged loyalty to ideological spooks.

The far-right is even more obsessed with ideological spooks than the mainstream conservative right, frankly. These people are the literal Spook Patrol.

We have an agenda that is a real agenda based on real world policies we want to enact. The process of enacting this agenda should not and cannot be laden with spooks. A spook-laden agenda cannot ever be realized.

I predicth thith.

I said yesterday that because Wayne LaPierre went public with the Oliver North extortion plot to oust him, LaPierre would win the power struggle.

And he has won.

This means we get to keep our guns a little while longer.

ABC News:

Retired Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North announced on Saturday that he will not serve a second term as president of the National Rifle Association, after he said that he has lost support from the gun-right group’s board following a dispute with longtime NRA chief executive and vice president, Wayne LaPierre.

The announcement followed a letter that LaPierre sent to NRA board members on Thursday, stating that North was trying to push him out by threatening to release “damaging” information about him to the board.

The dust-up came as New York State Attorney General Letititia James announced late on Saturday that her office is investigating the NRA and has issued subpoenas. A source close to the investigation confirmed to ABC News that the probe is focused on the NRA’s finances and its status as a tax-exempt non-profit.

This was truly an amazing drama that the media isn’t doing justice, at all. They are reporting the facts, but not putting together what a fascinating and actually astonishing series of events has taken place here.

I’ll lay it out for you lads.

They are riding hard against the NRA because it is literally the last functional right-wing institution in the United States.

They are launching all kinds of lawsuits against them.

I have no idea why they put a spook like North in the ceremonial role of President, but the fact that he even wanted that job should have been suspicious.

Just so you understand how “ceremonial” the role is, Charlton Heston served as President.

It is simply a spokesperson role.

Wayne LaPierre, who is technically the “Executive Vice-President,” has been running the organization since 1991. I don’t know why they use these titles in this order, it would make more sense to call LaPierre the Prime Minister. Or Executive Chairman. Or whatever.

Anyway, no, it isn’t a power position, and North was only put in it because he is a celebrity, because he became a sex symbol during Iran Contra.

Whatever you think about that particular scandal, North is a spook. And involving a spook in your organization is always dumb. The only possible reason he would be attempting to oust LaPierre is to destroy the organization. North was threatening to publicly accuse him of embezzlement and sexual scandals if he didn’t resign, and his stated reason for running the extortion scandal was that LaPierre was spending too much on airplane tickets and suits.

North became the President in October of last year.

So he walks in, in a ceremonial role, and a few months later he’s saying “you know, this guy who’s been running the organization for 30 years sure is spending a lot of money on travel and wardrobe. Let’s threaten to metoo him if he doesn’t resign.”

Come on now.

This is a total spook hitjob, trying to remove LaPierre while the organization is under assault with all of these lawsuits so they can just destroy it.

LaPierre is the only right-wing leader in America with any competence whatsoever, at all. Seriously. Name another person. Even trying to think of someone, the only one that comes to mind is Sheriff Joe. Chris Kobach is competent, but he isn’t actually getting anything done.

For those of you who don’t recall, a year ago LaPierre gave the now infamous “European-Style Socialist” CPAC speech where he listed off the names of over a dozen Jews trying to do gun control, and basically came inches away from saying “this is a Jewish agenda against white people.”

I’m sure that upset them quite a bit – and they wrote about it a lot – but that isn’t the reason they sent North in to oust him. They are trying to oust him simply because he is competent and they want to take your guns away.

And understand: the NRA is the singular last line of defense of the Second Amendment. If it were not for them, we would have New York City style gun control across the entire country. Which means that only criminals are allowed to own guns.

And the Jews have won every single other battle against whitey – they are literally taking children away from their parents so they can shoot them up with tranny hormones.

Free speech has been crushed through the backdoor methods of:

1. Using libertarianism to say that private companies can silence anyone they want on the internet
2. Sending antifa to attack people who organize in ze public space and then charging anyone who defends themselves with assault

If they take guns, they have literally destroyed the last vestige of Americanism.

The NRA should have a normal celebrity as the ceremonial President.

I guess Bruce Willis wouldn’t want to deal with the heat because he’s still got a solid career going and Clint Eastwood is too old. There must be some reason they haven’t already used Ted Nugent.

I think Chuck Norris would be a good call. He’s an OG meme, he’s a good speaker, fun guy, not an evil spook who is going to try to throw a coup.