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If I were a crisis PR firm who worked with Northam on this, I'd be putting Alan Smithee on that shit.
Northam based his belief that he was not in the yearbook photo on his recollection that he had separately darkened his face to resemble Michael Jackson in 1984 during a dance contest in San Antonio."I intend to continue doing the business of Virginia," he said, adding that resigning would be the easier way out."I could spare myself from the difficult path that lies ahead. I could avoid an honest conversation about harmful actions from my past," he said. "I cannot in good conscience chose the path that would be easier for me in an effort to duck my responsibility to reconcile."
Virginia limits governors to one term!
Regulate social media now. The future of democracy is at stake.By Anne Applebaum...There is a precedent for this historical moment. In the 1920s and 1930s, democratic governments suddenly found themselves challenged by radio, the new information technology of its time. Radio’s early stars included Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin: The technology could clearly be used to provoke anger and violence. But was there a way to marshal it for the purposes of democracy instead? One answer was the British Broadcasting Corp., the BBC, which was designed from the beginning to reach all parts of the country, to “inform, educate and entertain” and to join people together, not in a single set of opinions but in the kind of single national conversation that made democracy possible. Another set of answers was found in the United States, where journalists accepted a regulatory framework, a set of rules about libel law and a public process that determined who could get a radio license.The question now is to find the equivalent of licensing and public broadcasting in the world of social media: to find, that is, the regulatory or social or legal measures that will make this technology work for us, for our society and our democracy, and not just for Facebook shareholders. This is not an argument in favor of censorship. It’s an argument in favor of applying to the online world the same kinds of regulations that have been used in other spheres, to set rules on transparency, privacy, data and competition.We can, for example, regulate Internet advertising, just as we regulate broadcast advertising, insisting that people know when and why they are being shown political ads or, indeed, any ads. We can curb the anonymity of the Internet — recent research shows that the number of fake accounts on Facebook may be far higher than what the company has stated in public — because we have a right to know whether we are interacting with real people or bots. In the longer term, there may be even more profound solutions. What would a public-interest algorithm look like, for example, or a form of social media that favored constructive conversations over polarization?...If we don’t do it — if we don’t even try — we will not be able to ensure the integrity of elections or the decency of the public sphere. If we don’t do it, in the long term there won’t even be a public sphere, and there won’t be functional democracies anymore, either.
2 hours agoThank you Anne, for your always insightful and thought provoking essays.
I teach marketing and communication. I tell my students that the media is an important defense against totalitarianism. And I mean it,. But I'm not talking about social media, That is a different animal altogether, one without a human conscience or any kind of rational temperance. That is a danger. This is not about freedom of speech,. It's about a clear and present danger. If we don't recognize it as such, we are in real trouble.
Absolutely essential and long overdue. But the challenge is enormous because there are so many issues and they change at lightspeed. Identity is the single biggest problem and has to be the initial focus.
The need for such regulation could not be more obvious, nor the fact that Facebook and the others have an inherent conflict of interest that prevents them from doing it.Unfortunately, we don't do obvious anymore; especially when it comes to anything where an issue of "free speech" can be raised, even though it isn't really 'free' and is almost always raised by those whose real (often 'self') interest is money, power, influence, etc. And for this ideological triumph over reality, liberals and conservatives are equally to blame.
I couldn't agree more. Government security experts knew this long ago. This current presidency and meddling by the Russians should teach us all that it is time to regulate!
There's at least one other photo in Northam's 1984 yearbook of a man in blackface, dressed as a woman with the caption: "who ever thought Diana Ross would make it to Medical School!"
$522 a month Patreon?I’ll double that for anal. She can choose the strap on.
All he has to do is not resign for like a week and everyone will forget about this when Trump invites the Congressional Black Caucus to the White House for KFC or something.
Quote from: riotous on February 02, 2019, 06:08:23 PM$522 a month Patreon?I’ll double that for anal. She can choose the strap on.the only strap she's choosing is a MAC-11
oops sorry i buried the lede probably, she works for info wars
“Now that I have a clear conscience and have no desire to continue my employment with Turning Point, I will have the time to find a real job, something I recommend for you,” she wrote in her resignation letter, which she posted on conservative outlet Liberty Hangout.She added: “Maybe answering to business professionals rather than college dropouts, egotistic enough to put their face on stupid memes, will give you the leadership skills you desperately need for your positions.”
Quote“Now that I have a clear conscience and have no desire to continue my employment with Turning Point, I will have the time to find a real job, something I recommend for you,” she wrote in her resignation letter, which she posted on conservative outlet Liberty Hangout.She added: “Maybe answering to business professionals rather than college dropouts, egotistic enough to put their face on stupid memes, will give you the leadership skills you desperately need for your positions.”mmm spicyglad agrajag hijacked this from actual journalist Hobbes (no, don't ask Mandark you don't want to know)
Don’t k ow why everyone is so upset at Ralph Northam dressing up in gamer face.
Inside the White House, aides describe a chaotic, freewheeling atmosphere reminiscent of the early weeks of Trump’s presidency.
For instance, Trump plans to talk about infrastructure development and prescription-drug pricing, two issues with broad bipartisan appeal, according to a senior White House official.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-watershed-moment-trump-faces-crossroads-amid-mounting-threats-on-all-sides/2019/02/02/0f019554-2587-11e9-81fd-b7b05d5bed90_story.htmlQuoteInside the White House, aides describe a chaotic, freewheeling atmosphere reminiscent of the early weeks of Trump’s presidency.This has been the case since he took office. At this point, it's been used with such frequency that it is devoid of all meaning or weight.QuoteFor instance, Trump plans to talk about infrastructure development and prescription-drug pricing, two issues with broad bipartisan appeal, according to a senior White House official.Lol same. It's been infrastructure week for 2 years.
She's going in pretty hard against israel, saudi arabia and the military industrial complex. no way in hell she's getting the nomination or positive MSM coverage.
The only other so-called “expert” cited by NBC in support of its claim that Russian accounts are supporting Gabbard is someone named “Josh Russell,” who NBC identified as “Josh Russel.” Russell, or Russel, is touted by NBC as “a researcher and ‘troll hunter’ known for identifying fake accounts.” In reality, “Russel” is someone CNN last year touted as an “Indiana dad” and “amateur troll hunter” with a full-time job unrelated to Russia (he works as programmer at a college) and whose “hobby” is tracing online Russian accounts.So beyond the firm that just got caught in a major fraudulent scam fabricating Russian support to help the Democratic Party, that’s NBC’s only other vaunted expert for its claim that the Kremlin is promoting Gabbard: someone CNN just last year called an “amateur” who traces Russian accounts as a “hobby.” And even there, NBC could only cite Russel (sic) as saying that “he recently spotted a few clusters of suspicious accounts that retweeted the same exact text about Gabbard, mostly neutral or slightly positive headlines.”
A White House source has leaked nearly every day of President Trump's private schedule for the past three months.Why it matters: This unusually voluminous leak gives us unprecedented visibility into how this president spends his days. The schedules, which cover nearly every working day since the midterms, show that Trump has spent around 60% of his scheduled time over the past 3 months in unstructured "Executive Time."Show lessWe've published every page of the leaked schedules in a piece that accompanies this item. To protect our source, we retyped the schedules in the same format that West Wing staff receives them.What the schedules show: Trump, an early riser, usually spends the first 5 hours of the day in Executive Time. Each day's schedule places Trump in "Location: Oval Office" from 8 to 11 a.m.But Trump, who often wakes before 6 a.m., is never in the Oval during those hours, according to six sources with direct knowledge.Instead, he spends his mornings in the residence, watching TV, reading the papers, and responding to what he sees and reads by phoning aides, members of Congress, friends, administration officials and informal advisers.
