February 7, 2011
December 5, 2010
If Google-In-China Was Evil, What Is U.S. vs Wikileaks?
Hillary, quit playing Kissinger.
“That’s a script that they roll out every time there’s a leak of any sort,” he said.
It is not leaks, but “silences and lies” that put people’s lives in danger, he believes.
And he’s right. Wikileaks is the samizdat of the present 21st century world.
Jeff Jarvis gets it while everyone else plays the role they were handed while walking on set:
The same kind of attacks on publishing that the U.S. (even unto Hillary Clinton) has repeatedly condemned China, Russia (and the former U.S.S.R.), and many others for launching. The behavior of many Wikileaks detractors and defamers defines hypocrisy.
Do we stand against tyranny, or WHAT?
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October 29, 2010
What, Was UnscrupulousDipshit.com Taken?
Not that I needed any convincing that there exists not one shred of integrity or even lip service to the notion of journalistic standards at Nick Denton’s cesspool of a media stable, BUT: here’s yet another reason to stop reading anything published at a Gawker site. The last thing any of us needed was a shit-stain like you giving the C. O’D. license to play the Female Victim Card. Way to go. What do you do for an encore, invade Yugoslavia during a backflip while sticking your cock in the neighbor’s dog? Because I think that may have been a move with less chance of backfiring.
Flip the script and you’re talking about The Clenis over ten years ago, or Gary Hart ten years before that. Tittering about alleged peccadilloes was wrong then, it’s still wrong now, no matter what her platform is or how she goes about talking about “the naughty” while on the stump. If she’s not doing anything illegal, you have no business peeking in her bedroom. Even if you feel she’s trying to peek into yours. If you think you’re informing anyone that politicians don’t always advocate their own behavior, you really need a different fucking job. This move was pure politics of personal destruction, and just because the target isn’t a Democrat doesn’t make that set of tactics right, asshole.
You see, you don’t use the tactics of your enemy that you find abhorrent. That’s not “turnabout is fair play”, no matter how much you beg it to be. That’s called “using ends to justify means”. You aren’t exposing anyone’s lack of character but your own.
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October 9, 2010
Into The Valley Of Death Rode The Three Hundred (Eighty Million)
In which the Light Brigade be the US. All of us.
Hey. Assholes. Yeah, I’m talking to the obstructionist dipshits who want to pretend that all this carnage around us is the victim’s fault. You also may answer to the names, “Republican”, “Blue Dog”, “Conservative”, “Moderate”, or, in doublespeak at its most insidious and modern, “Centrist”. Keep blocking up like this, you’ll just kill the body that you so enjoy polluting by refusing to do your job.
We can go to war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and threaten to blow Iran off the face of the planet. We can conduct a nonstop campaign of drone and helicopter attacks in Pakistan and run a network of secret prisons around the world. We are the mightiest nation mankind has ever seen.
But we can’t seem to build a railroad tunnel to carry commuters between New Jersey and New York.
The United States is not just losing its capacity to do great things. It’s losing its soul. It’s speeding down an increasingly rubble-strewn path to a region where being second rate is good enough.
Addendum: The Krugmaninator weighed in a few days ago, was what I originally wanted to link to, and I blame work and this shitty JJ Abrams Star Trek date rape of a movie on Netflix for all delays.
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What the Fuck Did You Expect, Dipshits?
This is what happens when you trust your clever bullshit to the Libyan government. All you internet geniuses should have known better and seen this coming. Your whole “let’s one up tinyurl.com for no fucking good reason” cuteness has been under Sharia Law since you started.
Anyone else starting to see a parallel between “Newspeak” and “140 characters max”? It appears that Twitter, as the major force in making bit.ly what it is today, might actually be, in a word, EVIL. Or at least an adversary of real communication, the most positive evidence of humanity’s continued cognition and cogitation.
Score one for totalitarianism, with a major assist from the internet. Not exactly the “route around the problem” profile we were all sold on, is it?
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