The Boot Is Coming Down Hard And Fast
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com
A lot's been happening really fast. It's a white noise saturation day and it's impossible to keep track of everything going on, so I'm just going to post my thoughts on a few of the things that have happened. ❖ Biden has announced plans to roll out new domestic terrorism laws in the wake of the Capitol Hill riot.

Biden has announced plans to roll out new domestic terrorism laws in the wake of the Capitol Hill riot.

Did you know that Biden has often boasted about being the original author of the US Patriot Act?

[...] Accounts are vanishing quickly, including some popular Trump supporter accounts. I myself have lost hundreds of followers on Twitter in the last few hours, and I've seen people saying they lost a lot more.

It also wasn't just Trump supporters; leftist accounts are getting suspended too. The online left is hopefully learning that cheering for Twitter "banning fascists" irrationally assumes that (A) their purges are only banning fascists and (B) they are limiting their bans to your personal definition of fascists. There is no basis whatsoever for either of these assumptions. [...]

[...] "The post 9/11 era is over," Slotkin [CIA 'analyst'] tweeted while sharing a clip of her appearance. "The single greatest national security threat right now is our internal division. The threat of domestic terrorism. The polarization that threatens our democracy. If we don't reconnect our two Americas, the threats will not have to come from the outside." [...]

This is the urge to bring the draconian policies from abroad home.

[...] Supporting the censorship of online speech is to support the authority of monopolistic tech oligarchs to exert more and more global control over human communication. Regardless of your attitude toward whoever happens to be getting deplatformed today, supporting this is suicidal. [...]

See full linked article, not a long read.

Remember, Biden loves to brag about being the author of the first Patriot Act. We are 100% going to get another one that's much worse and seeks to clamp down on "dis-information" which will mean Russia hysteria and Sinophobia being used to justify silencing of any opinions too far outside the mainstream consensus.

  • glimmer_twin [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    You're not trying to make things better, you're trying to make them worse. You're not trying to restore peace and order, you're trying to force a confrontation so your political enemies can be crushed. You're accelerationist.

    If this is referring to the Silicon Valley types, I don’t think that much thought goes into it. I think they see this as an opportunity to get a little PR win.