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Monday, December 26, 2022

‘Free speech’ is whatever the rich say it is

 https://therealnews.com/free-speech-is-whatever-the-rich-say-it-is?mc_cid=892bf4dc9d&mc_eid=7b2595b28a

"How much “free speech” do I have if my ability to speak freely is cut short because I’ve died from preventable disease? How much “free speech” do I have if I’m imprisoned by a racist criminal justice system that criminalizes poverty? How much “free speech” do I have if I can’t lobby my co-workers to unionize without getting fired and potentially facing homelessness as a result?"

   

 "... the unchecked, buzzy sanctity of liberal negative rights absent any consideration for how positive rights enhance people’s ability to live free is an inherently bourgeois moral framework, and one shouldn’t fall for the trap of only debating the scope and criteria of this one half of the rights equation. It’s this negative-rights-only framework that dominates these “debates” on both the Trumpist, Muskian, Trigger The Libs right and on the side occupied by mainstream liberal critics. But it’s an incomplete framework designed to uphold the hierarchical societal arrangements that make human rights conditional on one’s place within the hierarchy..."

 
"A more substantive and holistic argument is needed, based on discussions about how we can broaden and make more meaningful “free speech” rights by empowering and platforming marginalized voices, providing people with basic needs, and democratizing media control out of the hands of unaccountable corporations and capricious billionaires. Only then can the cycle of endless “free speech” gotchas move beyond the predictable back and forth and address much more urgent and relevant questions about who owns the platforms people speak on, who has access to them, and who is silenced not only by Twitter shadowbans or FBI content moderators, but also by poverty, racism, incarceration, and preventable death."

 

 

Epidemic is a 1987 Danish experimental meta-horror black comedy film directed by Lars von Trier;

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemic_(film)

Thursday, December 15, 2022

You’re Not Going To Like This



Great show, as always. In New Zealand public hospitals are still mandating their staff, despite being short staffed, and most current employees having had covid more than once. So much cognitive dissonance.
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Yup they are too terrified to face reality.
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Well surely "the only source of truth" (Ardern) wouldn't lie to you....... would she? 🤣
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At this point it's not cognitive dissonance.... It's willful ignorance and narcissism. Nobody likes being proven wrong.
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Yes, I’m an Australian RN, fired for saying no. 35 years as an RN, I can’t work because of the mandate and I’ll hand in my registration next year. No regrets though. Not after what I’ve seen happen to patients and friends after injection.
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