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5:30 pm, September 12th, 2025 - 13 comments
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Daily review is also your post.
This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day.
The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy).
Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
The POTUS 47 exploitation of the violence comes straight from the HUAC era and the way the FBI profiled left wing civil rights groups.
(the regime that pardoned the white race nation identity group invaders of Congress)
Elimination/silencing of opposition to the political right so that there is a non violent society with guns.
1.From removal of foreigners pro Palestinian, towards removal of all foreigners not pro the POTUS 47 regime and related right wing policy agenda
2.The concept that state or federal government employees would be accountable for what they said on social media.
3.Miller (their fascist ideologist) wants there to be definition of foreign ideology, presumably so that censorship of it would not be censorship of the free speech of Americans
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360822704/trump-vows-crackdown-critics-after-slaying-charlie-kirk
Will be interesting to watch because they do value their free speech as much as they value their access to high powered fire arms.
Man we need to seriously police the internet , in the last day I've seen a man shot in the neck and a young woman about to die from being stabbed , i searched for neither, they where just there as scrolled Facebook, my feed is mainly golf tips , dog trials and stupid shit that makes me laugh, so it's not my personal algorithm bringing them in, fuck this world is becoming a cesspool.
I've managed to not see the neck shot, I just read about it but realise I've been just lucky to not have it forced on me. My 17 year old said it was the first thing on her feed yesterday morning in all it's bloody gory, so we had a long talk about that. It's grim.
She told me awhile back there's a thing called the Gauntlet where it's some kind of app or something & it'll keep showing you more & more extreme things until youbpress stop. Don't even want to think of the shit some of these kids hsve seen. I saw an article about some people who stood in front of a class & asked how many had seen a suicide online & at least half put their hands up.
I don't know the answer, I just hope that when these kids have kids they're way more strict about their kids internet browsing than we were. I naively just thought it was like watching tv from when I was a kid. Poor buggers.
BHN from Thursday night are talking about a guy who was going to debate Kirk next month who watched one version of the shooting, no blurring and front on, and he said it was the worst thing he’s ever seen. I’ve seen one version from further away, and that was bad enough.
Didn’t know about the Gauntlet, that’s sick and sickening. I think a fair bit about whether the internet should be burned to the ground.
I’ve been thinking that too, although I’m on twitter, so the videos of both were fed to me. But it seems like a new thing to me, videos of people being murdered outside of a war zone. So casual. I didn’t even know that the video of the woman was going to be of her murder (ironically thanks to Kirk who had posted a still of her and used it politically).
Because I follow a few Palestinian journalists (the few remaining) I'll get the odd horrible image on my feed, I have to scroll fast. Maybe there'll be a movement like the Luddites in the future where they attack data centres & stuff.
There is an episode of Black Mirror where they turn the internet off for a day every week or month.
I'm sure our kids could tell us many appalling stories of things they've seen, to them it's normal, it's not til they tell us & see our faces react with horror. My kids can't even imagine what it must have been like when I was a kid, they were in disbelief when I told them we didn't have personal phones.
Not to sound like an oldy but fuk we were lucky to be kids in the 70s/80s.
I actually think we should show this young generation a bit of slack because they’re utterly traumatised & they have no idea.
Today's parents (and grandparents)have far more hazards to navigate their children through than we did.
That's probably true.
I feel lucky to have grown up in the 70s/80s too (and in NZ).
One of the BHN dudes said he's seen far, far worse from Palestine, and that he is probably now desensitised. I curate my feeds carefully so I don't see any of that. I also think there is a difference between seeing people killed in war where you don't know them, and seeing a single person assassinated where you know the person. I have a family member who works in a US university, there are lots of ways we might feel more depending on the circumstances. I'm sure that people from the Middle East feel far more affected by Palestine imagery.
I'm still in a favour of a social media ban for kids, theoretically at least (I can't see how they can do it without removing privacy)
Brace yrselves…
Delete the app? Surely, by now, FB is net worse than good.
The streaming of the mosque murders was still up after the perp was in custody. I've also heard, from 2 different sources, pretty ugly rumours about Tom Phillips, FB is the common denominator there too.
The observation that if you aren't paying for it, you are the product rings true.
The more we hear about this sort of stuff (as opposed to the comparatively benign Stuff), the more Obtrectatrix and I feel confirmed in our decisions to avoid all social media and to keep nothing whatever in the Cloud beyond what we're forced to. Even YouTube is becoming a minefield these days. Just one view of anything slightly "off", and the algorithms immediately inundate you with click-baiting nasties having serious rabbit-hole potential. I felt compelled to ring my sister in England a week or so back, after being offered yet more flag-fight and "Muslim-invasion" videos, just to find out what the vibe over there actually is. On the whole I was reassured that things are in fact nothing like as bad as they're sometimes painted (but then she does live in a pretty quiet part of the country …. ).