SecondJon @SecondJon@qoto.org

Pence not touching women is a thing - a thing of bigotry and sexism and fascism.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/12/entertainment/keanu-reeves-women/index.html

@thj@mastodon.cloud
Not sure if others have expressed this... Thanks for sharing your experiences as you go!

Pinterest just FIRED whistleblower who exposed them…

I guess the attempt to conceal the identity of the whistleblower who exposed Pinterest failed: According to O'Keefe, the whistleblower has already been fired by the big brother social media company.

https://therightscoop.com/pinterest-just-fired-whistleblower-who-exposed-them/

Wow, they're moving fast with political censorship.

Live Action Permanently Banned from Pinterest for Spreading ‘Harmful Misinformation’

The pro-life advocacy organization Live Action announced Tuesday morning it had been permanently banned from the popular social media site […]

https://www.faithwire.com/2019/06/11/live-action-permanently-banned-from-pinterest-for-spreading-harmful-misinformation/

#Salesforce has announced their orwellian Office of Ethical Use, to determine who they won't provide services to.

The same Salesforce that threatened to move all employees out of Indiana and ban travel there if then governor Pence kept the religious freedom law that allowed companies to determine who they wouldn't provide services to.

True champions of freedom of association as long as you associate with who THEY say is ethical.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says Kavanaugh helped boost number of female law clerks on court

 "Thanks to his selections, the court has this term, for the first time ever, more women than men serving as law clerks."
Ginsburg noted that more progress is still needed to ensure equal representation.

Reaction : Because while more of the female gender than the male is good, it's still not enough for equal representation.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/supreme-court-justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-says-kavanaugh-helped-boost-number-of-female-law-clerks-on-court

Another Former Republican State Senator Found Dead with Gunshot Wound for Second Time in 2 Days

Senator Jonathan Nichols' death comes just two days after former Arkansas state senator Linda Collins-Smith was found dead, also with a gunshot wound

https://people.com/crime/former-state-senator-found-dead-gunshot-second-time-2-days/

As a Black Pastor, I Must Speak Out on Abortion Because 19 Million Black Babies Have Been Killed

While blacks only make up 13% of the population, they account for over one-third of all abortions in the U.S.

https://www.lifenews.com/2019/06/06/as-a-black-pastor-i-must-speak-out-on-abortion-because-19-million-black-babies-have-been-killed/

#abortion #infanticide #democrats

@goto
The conflict seems to me to be : the tool is built for federation. The culture is about isolation.

Seems like an inherent conflict from the source.
@doliu666

@doliu666
Agreed. It seems apparent that he likes to think that he's for freedom and federation, when he's really in favor of using his position and power to lock down the fediverse to only voices he likes.

I've never seen gab. But I'm bothered by his demands, which have been met, for the app developers to build in blocks so no one can use any apps to connect to instances he doesn't like. It seems a fascist way to run a platform, going by the dictionary definition as far as it can fit in a context like this - centralized authority, using that power for blocking diversity of opinion, etc.

But it's said to be anti fascist. And maybe there are fascists he's opposed to ( but I'm not sure... Are they centralizing power to shut down opposing views, or is there some other expression of fascism that applies to them?), but even so, being a fascist to stop fascists doesn't seem to be the right approach. Being X to stop people who are X in general seems to be a silly idea, whatever the X is.

Disappointed at the lack of logic in the new censorship discussions here on mastodon. The argument goes something like :

If you disagree with me in any way, you're a fascist/white supremacist /etc.

If you support people's ability to voice their opinion that differs from mine, even if I can't prove that you actually disagree with my opinions, then you're supporting fascists.

The only right response to fascists is to implement an authoritarian view of mastodon, with a strong centralized governance to have no tolerance for opposing opinions.

I don't know much about gab, I don't like trolls (on the "I disagree with you" side or in the "disagreeing with me is FASCISM!!! 1!11" side), they are an annoying thing but are easy for individuals to block, but I thought the idea of mastodon was against this type of governance of social media, which is getting pretty close to an application of Mussolini's governing philosophy, whatever that was called.

Planned Parenthood founder :

"The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it."

"We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population"

“I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan... I was escorted to the platform, was introduced, and began to speak...In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered.”

https://www.tfpstudentaction.org/blog/margaret-sanger-quotes

#abortion #infanticide #racism #uspol

What do you think of this idea from author Andrew Klavan on a recent podcast? The left consistently identifies an enemy and then adopts the enemies values.

Examples include feminism's push for women to adopt traditionally male values (work over family, career first, family later, hands on hips aggressiveness), instead of elevating traditional female values of being a mother, etc., and on race (using race against whites after identifying white racists as the enemy).

23 Weeks.

Saybie, Born At 8.6 Ounces, Is Now Believed To Be The World's Tiniest Surviving Baby

She was born at a San Diego hospital prematurely at 23 weeks of gestation weighing about as much as a large apple.

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/29/728118503/saybie-born-at-8-6-ounces-in-san-diego-is-now-the-worlds-tiniest-surviving-baby