We have reached a tipping point

[Solid Gold Butt Plug]

I might abstain too if there was an actual box you could mark that said “abstain”.

I can’t stand stand how Biden handles Israel and think he an idiot for his views on gay marriage just 15 years ago but painfully I’ll be voting for him even though my state will be blue no matter how I vote.

[Prawn Connery]

I don't vote here and it costs me $20 in fines every election. It's compulsory to vote in Australia. My argument is true democracies don't force people to vote. So I won't. Until they make it voluntary.

[smokebreaks]

The real kicker is that even if you do vote for their two party system, your vote really doesn’t count except for the party feels.

Insiders are the ones who are picked to make up the states electoral college votes…they’re the only ones whose votes actually do count, and you only get that pick if you’re a party line loyalist or super donor.

It’s pay to play all the way up and down the line.

A congressman gets elected or congresswoman whatever the case may be either a he she or it.

They work three months out of the year, every two years they run for reelection during the course of that two years, only six months is spent working the other 18 months of your term is mostly fundraising. The time away from the capitol is supposedly spent working within their district but unless you consider fundraisers and photo ops work, that never seems to happen.

Stop by your congressional reps office while they’re not in session. It’s a Ghost town guaranteed and it’s like that with the state assembly members and your state senators too.

Other than your federal senators which are 6 year terms for the millionaires club, it’s all about constant fundraising.

US Senators are different animal altogether.

They just collect the checks from the lobbyist to sway their vote because unless they’re getting money handed to them they’re not about to soil their hands asking for it. You go to them with a check in hand when you want something done. Pay the lobbyist to pass the check.

[Lrus007]

plus they have the money backing as not to get primary ed out.
i remember voting for the person that had had more of my views
could have been either party. then things changed. the parties
kind of went lock step. and now even worse is like 2 sports teams.
is no middle ground now.

[Munchy]

[roller24]

Back to the topic.
Munchy posted in MAGA Tears that the congress was briefed today about the shooter's motives.
K+ on the find.
it stated that the kid's phone contained searches on depression, and both candidates itineraries.
If this is true, it's exactly the news that the country needs to hear to cool hot heads. Which is also why I prefaced with "If this is true"
Hopefully they will make the "receipts" public to remove any doubts skeptics will surely make known.... see I just did.

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6358216782112
I'd say this is verification of the public statement.

[Lrus007]

Hillary Clinton says 'the quiet part out loud' during CNN interview

Hillary Clinton called for a government crack down on social media, giving an eerie warning that leaders could 'lose control' if they don't take serious action to censor digital content.

The former Secretary of State spoke with CNN host Michael Smerconish on Saturday, calling for the federal government to imitate states like California and New York to place more controls on social media.

'We need national action and sadly our Congress has been dysfunctional when it comes to addressing these threats to our children,' Clinton said.

Clinton brought up the issue in the context of controlling more of what children were experiencing on social media and getting addicted to content on major platforms.

She called for the repeal of Section 230 of the Communications Act, the keeps online platforms from being held liable for content posted by users on their platforms.

That legal carve out, she argued, was an 'overly simple view' that did not take into account the dangers of social media.

'f the platforms, whether it’s Facebook or Twitter/X or Instagram or TikTok, whatever they are, if they don’t moderate and monitor the content, we lose total control,' she said.

Clinton said her proposed reforms would help protect children.

'It’s not just the social and psychological affects, it’s real harm. It's child porn and threats of violence, things that are terrible dangerous,' she said.

Clinton said that if the legal protections were removed, social platforms would spend more time and money monitoring their own content.

'We need to have guardrails, we need regulation,' she said.

The former failed presidential candidate spoke about her new book to warn about many of the dangers rising up in communities around the country.

She conceded that many of her proposed changes would require Democrats to be empowered in the federal government, so they could turn their focus to issues that she cared about.

'Hopefully the election will turn out the right way, the fever will be broken and we can go back to try and put our families and communities on the right track,' she said.

Since she first lost her life-long dream of becoming the first female president of the United States to former President Donald Trump in the 2016 election, Clinton has blamed the rise of 'misinformation' and 'fake news' for convincing voters not to trust her.

In September, Clinton called for more controls on online activity, specifically against Americans who were paid by foreign countries to spread online propaganda.

'We are only at the beginning of understanding the whole iceberg here,' she said, warning of the Russians to deploy 'more sophisticated' operations to influence the United States.

Clinton proposed during an interview on MSNBC that the United States government to prosecute Americans for sharing information and propaganda on behalf of foreign governments.

'I also think that there are Americans engaged in this kind of propaganda and whether they should be civilly or in some cases criminally charged is something that would be a better deterrence,' she said.

that does not sound very democratic to me sounds like censorship.

noun
The act, process, or practice of censoring.
The office or authority of a Roman censor.
Prevention of disturbing or painful thoughts or feelings from reaching consciousness except in a disguised form.

First Amendment
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

[ben ttech]

News channels are legally responsible for their content. Computer had dozens monitoring their content back before the tele communication act was passed. Passed to help mom and pop little guys get established it’s no business protecting billionaire today.

This has nothing to do with free speech as musks administration has shown. It’s about busting up their private islands where racists zenophobes and women haters think they’re right and know what’s going on.

[Butcher Bob]

...the tele communication act was passed. Passed to help mom and pop little guys get established...

No it wasn't...Clinton passed that shit to allow tele-coms to buy up competitors, resulting in the monopolistic system we have today.

Which is all a far cry from 'town square' social media that we have today. For starters, TV, radio, and print media have owners that dictate content...while the internet's social media started as free-speech centers for folks to interact with each other. But the government didn't like folks having access to such a large soapbox to speak from...and COVID proved the downfall of 'regulating' that speech. Many folks that were giving accurate information had their ability to freely speak taken away, while government, as it turns out, lied to us aboot damn near everything, without consequence.

And then there's the political side, where one party in particular seems to be blatantly saying they need the ability to censor others...



Can you guess which party is doing that?

[ben ttech]

you know good and well bob that i was speaking STRICTLY to the telecommunication acts handling of the internet and absolving its content providers from responsibility for that content.