AOC Continues to Mock Musk

Part of what has made New York Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez such a political star is her total lack of fear of speaking truth to power—and that includes one of the richest, and arguably most powerful, men in the world, Elon Musk.

AOC has been mercilessly dragging the new billionaire owner of Twitter, who acquired the platform last month for $44 billion in a purported bid to strengthen "free speech" and make the virtual "town square" a place where discourse is exchanged more freely.

In practice, this has mostly resulted in free-flowing racial, ethnic and anti-LGBTQ+ slurs and disinformation by the far-right figures to whom he has become a hero, and a desperate plan to charge verified users for their blue check marks.

If charging public figures for their only means of ensuring rogue account holders don't imitate and speak for them online seems antithetical to Musk's stated goals, you're not alone.  READ MORE...

Kanye West Wants to Buy Parler

Kanye West has entered into a deal to buy Parler, a social media site that bills itself as a "free speech platform," the company said Monday.

Parlement Technologies announced the news via a press release, saying that the deal would help create "an uncancelable ecosystem where all voices are welcome."

Quoted in the press release, West said: "In a world where conservative opinions are considered to be controversial we have to make sure we have the right to freely express ourselves."

Parlement Technologies CEO, George Farmer, said the company would be "honored to help him achieve his goals."  READ MORE...

Free Speech or Disinformation?

In a Friday piece for Time magazine, the outlet’s national correspondent Charlotte Alter dismissed Elon Musk’s quest for free speech on Twitter as a white male "obsession," and merely an entrepreneurial way to acquire influence and power in the world.

She also claimed that Musk’s idea of free speech is about the right to spread "disinformation" and has nothing to do with the Founding Fathers' original intent.

Alter began her piece by insinuating that Musk should have put his $44 billion into something more worthwhile than what he sees as "free speech," a phrase she put in scare quotes throughout the piece.

She wrote, "They say that something is worth what someone will pay for it. If that’s true, then protecting ‘free speech,’ which Elon Musk has cited as a central reason he agreed to buy Twitter for $44 billion this week, may be worth twice as much as solving America’s homelessness problem, and seven times as much as solving world hunger."

She added, "It’s worth more (to him, at least) than educating every child in nearly 50 countries, more than the GDP of Serbia, Jordan, or Paraguay."

The author then proceeded to wonder why a rich techie like Musk would even care about freedom of speech and how it "had become paramount concern of the techno-moral universe."

She asked, "Why does Musk care so much about this? Why would a guy who has pushed the boundaries of electric-vehicle manufacturing and plumbed the limits of commercial space flight care about who can say what on Twitter?"

She then cited professor of communication at Stanford University Fred Turner for the answer, who agreed, "It does seem to be a dominant obsession with the most elite." He stated, "[F]ree speech seems to be much more of an obsession among men," and part of "the entrepreneurial push: I did it in business, I did it in space, and now I’m going to do it in the world."  READ MORE...

First & Second

America is supposed to be a civilized nation when compared to other countries around the world and yet, I believe we are no better than any other country....  our only difference really are the First and Second Amendments to the Constitution.  Freedom of speech and the right to bear arms even though there is some justification to believe that our right to bear arms was temporary and only necessary until we were able to form a military and subsequent local police...  yet, our FOUNDING FATHERS did not remove the right once our military was formed, so most everyone believes that right was meant to stay...

However, our Freedom of Speech has never been challenged to the degree that our right to bear arms right has and while we can question why that might have been, it really is not necessary because our LIBERAL side of the house wants to censor ALL CONSERVATIVE VIEWS, so there is no need to question its existence.

This really annoys me because like so many closeted transgenered people, I straddle the fence between being LIBERAL and being CONSERVATIVE...  I like the idea of a balance budget, the elimination of debt, and I am against welfare because it is typically abused by Americans.  Sometimes, people need some help and I think that we should help them...  but, many welfare people have been on welfare for years...  shouldn't we try to help them off?

I am in favor of abortion in the sense that a woman has the right to choose what she wants to do with her body and not the government 

I favor the right to bear arms but I will never own a firearm myself

I want a strong, KICK ASS military, but I am against war, especially endless wars where nothing is achieved

I am against discrimination in all forms, such as:

• against blacks
• against whites
• against women
• against Muslims
• against Russians
• against Chinese

I am in favor of free education but not watered down education just so everyone can earn a degree.

I want our federal government to balance our bedget

I want our federal government to pay down the debt

I want a small federal government and low taxes

I want the BILLIONAIRES to take us into outer space

I want a flat tax with no exzemptions

I don't want American to fight anymore foreign wars

I don't think the wealthy should bear the tax burden

IN OTHER WORDS I AM NEITHER REPUBLICAN NOR DEMOCRATIC AND I AM PROUD OF IT BECAUSE I KISS NO ONE'S ASS FOR FAVORS...  I AM SPIRITUAL AND HAVE LOADS OF FAITH AND BELIEFS, I JUST DON'T GO THE CHURCH BECAUSE I DON'T BELIEVE IN INSTITUTIONALIZED RELIGION.  I BELIEVE IN ANCIENT ALIENS AND THINK THAT ALL OUR MYTHOLOGIES ALL OVER THE WORLD IS BASED UPON ANCIENT ALIENS VISITING US INCLUDING CHRISTIANITY...

MY KINGDOM IS NOT OF THIS WORLD...  is a phrase Iwill never forget.