Can’t “like” this, so I’ll just say thanks for the sobering reminder. We must not let evil acts pass without protest.
“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.” - Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Putin has done this forever. During the holocaust, the lies comforted the Jews right up to the point where they were faded. Many lie about that historical time period too saying it never happened. I can’t imagine losing a child, let alone like that and then spending years hearing how it didn’t happen while this horrible man continues to spew hate. I’m sorry but I blame our judicial system for this too. If someone can just file for bankruptcy and move on, something is VERY wrong with our system.But there is always karma and we all
Have to face ourselves when this life is complete. I truly believe that.
As some convicts are denied the right to vote or bear arms, cretin of this bend should be denied communicating with the general public in any form, at any time, by any means. Deny them the right to free speech.
Thank you for the article. I can certainly agree Alex Jones was, and probably still is, the worst that social media has to offer. I do not think I could watch the docu on Max. Alex needs to devote himself to children's causes and find a way to apologize to the Country. Its a tall ask for the Sandy Hook community to forgive, but somehow, maybe its a little easier as we approach the end of the Lenten season.
The National Shooting Sports Foundation, NSSF, a gun “safety”/ gun rights group was headquartered in Newtown, CT home to Sandy Hook child massacre Alex Jones didn’t believe happened. Here is what they said in 2013: “Who among us has not been moved by that unspeakable tragedy that was inflicted by a deranged man upon the children of Newtown, Conn., our very home as the NSSF?"
They later moved their headquarters but said it was because they needed a better facility, not because the Newtown address was awkward.
Speaking of awkward, Elise Stefanik’s husband, Matthew Manda, works for NSSF as a communications guy. NSSF and other gun rights groups have lobbied against every major piece of legislation intended to make guns safer. The gun groups even supported a boycott against Connecticut based Smith & Wesson because S&W supported mandating gun locks to help prevent (among other things) accidental deaths of children who might find their parents gun and shoot themselves or a playmate with it.
it is incomprehensible that someone would lie for power...and that people believe lies if they are repeated enough...and how that is true about the "stolen election," about "fake news," about Jan. 6 as a peaceful protest, about the "increase in violent crime," about what is coming out by Maga and Stefanik that I get in my mail everyday. . Goebbels, the propagandist for Hitler says that if you repeat a lie enough it becomes "the truth," that you can make people believe a circle is a square, you can take people's aggression and direct it to a certain group.... How important it is to question...to look closely...to find out what is true......Thanks, Ken.....The pain of lies repeated again and again, when people know what is true and have suffered the reality...
"It's about how if you lie with enough charisma, and you're funny enough, and you're a big enough personality, and you come across as authentic even if you're not because you're trying to sell the product, that people don't want to believe that you're lying because you're entertaining them.”
It's about Donald Trump. It's about lying trash Elise Stefanik. It's about MAGA Republicanism. They lie and the democracy dies.
I have never heard this vivid description of the bodies piled in the bathroom. I gather that, for some reason, such descriptions are "too disturbing."
Don't look, you'll have nightmares.
And the gun lobby continues to convince many people that the Second Amendment guarantees this right to almost everybody, whether they are in a well-regulated militia or not. For profit!
Clinton uttered the phrase in 1998 about defining what is is.
First time in my adult life I recall my ears ringing. Thinking, did this fool just pull that off?
Now we've endured the phrases alternative facts and fake news. Sadly these lies have been sustained by people not wanting to stir up feelings. Bull.. there lies call them lies.
“Lest we forget…” Thanks for the reminders, as hard as they are to hear/read. Your point is well taken that those who seem to talk and complain most about “fake news” are the very perpetrators of it. What is even more disturbing to me are the large numbers of those who believe the lies, accepting what is fake as fact.
Clemson basketball: Joe III attempted only five FGs. He is surely an unselfish, team player. Leads in assists. Personally, I would like to see him shoot more—to get into the groove.
To me, Sandy Hook was the worst. Not to trivialize all of the other mass shootings this country has endured, but there was just something about those little kids… before Christmas- a Christmas they never got to see. I had students who believed it was a hoax… and there was nothing I could do to convince them otherwise. I thought that after Sandy Hook, something drastic would happen to American gun laws… How foolish I was.
The injustice of the American justice system. Why has Alex Jones not only escaped accountability (he hasn't paid a dime!) but been able to keep broadcasting his lies? Why is Steve Bannon's appeal taking so long, allowing him to keep broadcasting his lies? Why can Trump get break after break, allowing him to keep grifting and lying.
I'm disheartened that powerful white Republicans seem to break laws with impunity.
And the gun violence goes on, fueled by cash from the NRA and gun manufacturers, others seemingly beyond accountability.
The problem with conspiracy theories is that many of them are plausible. Our government has done some shady things over the years - much in secret that is now public knowledge. and whose veracity is not disputed. CIA backed coups, for example, or FBI infiltration of left of center groups. You throw this at people who do not have the critical thinking skills to understand that just because something is plausible doesn't necessarily make it true. It is aided by an industry of people like Alex Jones who surely know better but make lots of money suckering these low critical thinking folks.
I find things like this so deeply disturbing. Last night I was listening to the White Supremist, anti-Semite, right-wing podcast influencer Nick Fuentes talking about going back to the year 1099, to the time when women were burned at the stake, which kept them in line. He spoke of all the problems women are causing and then actually said we should start burning women again----all with a smile, which helps you know he's really a "good guy". If you suspect I am exaggerating, I don't blame you. You'll find it about 2:12 minutes into this: https://twitter.com/adammocklerr/status/1775639492872884231
Can’t “like” this, so I’ll just say thanks for the sobering reminder. We must not let evil acts pass without protest.
“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.” - Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Putin has done this forever. During the holocaust, the lies comforted the Jews right up to the point where they were faded. Many lie about that historical time period too saying it never happened. I can’t imagine losing a child, let alone like that and then spending years hearing how it didn’t happen while this horrible man continues to spew hate. I’m sorry but I blame our judicial system for this too. If someone can just file for bankruptcy and move on, something is VERY wrong with our system.But there is always karma and we all
Have to face ourselves when this life is complete. I truly believe that.
As some convicts are denied the right to vote or bear arms, cretin of this bend should be denied communicating with the general public in any form, at any time, by any means. Deny them the right to free speech.
Ken,
Thank you for the article. I can certainly agree Alex Jones was, and probably still is, the worst that social media has to offer. I do not think I could watch the docu on Max. Alex needs to devote himself to children's causes and find a way to apologize to the Country. Its a tall ask for the Sandy Hook community to forgive, but somehow, maybe its a little easier as we approach the end of the Lenten season.
The National Shooting Sports Foundation, NSSF, a gun “safety”/ gun rights group was headquartered in Newtown, CT home to Sandy Hook child massacre Alex Jones didn’t believe happened. Here is what they said in 2013: “Who among us has not been moved by that unspeakable tragedy that was inflicted by a deranged man upon the children of Newtown, Conn., our very home as the NSSF?"
They later moved their headquarters but said it was because they needed a better facility, not because the Newtown address was awkward.
Speaking of awkward, Elise Stefanik’s husband, Matthew Manda, works for NSSF as a communications guy. NSSF and other gun rights groups have lobbied against every major piece of legislation intended to make guns safer. The gun groups even supported a boycott against Connecticut based Smith & Wesson because S&W supported mandating gun locks to help prevent (among other things) accidental deaths of children who might find their parents gun and shoot themselves or a playmate with it.
(Shameless plug: I wrote a little about it. https://mikeparwana.substack.com/p/mr-elise )
it is incomprehensible that someone would lie for power...and that people believe lies if they are repeated enough...and how that is true about the "stolen election," about "fake news," about Jan. 6 as a peaceful protest, about the "increase in violent crime," about what is coming out by Maga and Stefanik that I get in my mail everyday. . Goebbels, the propagandist for Hitler says that if you repeat a lie enough it becomes "the truth," that you can make people believe a circle is a square, you can take people's aggression and direct it to a certain group.... How important it is to question...to look closely...to find out what is true......Thanks, Ken.....The pain of lies repeated again and again, when people know what is true and have suffered the reality...
"It's about how if you lie with enough charisma, and you're funny enough, and you're a big enough personality, and you come across as authentic even if you're not because you're trying to sell the product, that people don't want to believe that you're lying because you're entertaining them.”
It's about Donald Trump. It's about lying trash Elise Stefanik. It's about MAGA Republicanism. They lie and the democracy dies.
I have never heard this vivid description of the bodies piled in the bathroom. I gather that, for some reason, such descriptions are "too disturbing."
Don't look, you'll have nightmares.
And the gun lobby continues to convince many people that the Second Amendment guarantees this right to almost everybody, whether they are in a well-regulated militia or not. For profit!
Clinton uttered the phrase in 1998 about defining what is is.
First time in my adult life I recall my ears ringing. Thinking, did this fool just pull that off?
Now we've endured the phrases alternative facts and fake news. Sadly these lies have been sustained by people not wanting to stir up feelings. Bull.. there lies call them lies.
“Lest we forget…” Thanks for the reminders, as hard as they are to hear/read. Your point is well taken that those who seem to talk and complain most about “fake news” are the very perpetrators of it. What is even more disturbing to me are the large numbers of those who believe the lies, accepting what is fake as fact.
Clemson basketball: Joe III attempted only five FGs. He is surely an unselfish, team player. Leads in assists. Personally, I would like to see him shoot more—to get into the groove.
We need to counteract the Alex Jones in our social media everyday. We can't "let them slide".
It’s absolutely horrific that he’s still on the air. May I remember his name.
To me, Sandy Hook was the worst. Not to trivialize all of the other mass shootings this country has endured, but there was just something about those little kids… before Christmas- a Christmas they never got to see. I had students who believed it was a hoax… and there was nothing I could do to convince them otherwise. I thought that after Sandy Hook, something drastic would happen to American gun laws… How foolish I was.
The injustice of the American justice system. Why has Alex Jones not only escaped accountability (he hasn't paid a dime!) but been able to keep broadcasting his lies? Why is Steve Bannon's appeal taking so long, allowing him to keep broadcasting his lies? Why can Trump get break after break, allowing him to keep grifting and lying.
I'm disheartened that powerful white Republicans seem to break laws with impunity.
And the gun violence goes on, fueled by cash from the NRA and gun manufacturers, others seemingly beyond accountability.
The problem with conspiracy theories is that many of them are plausible. Our government has done some shady things over the years - much in secret that is now public knowledge. and whose veracity is not disputed. CIA backed coups, for example, or FBI infiltration of left of center groups. You throw this at people who do not have the critical thinking skills to understand that just because something is plausible doesn't necessarily make it true. It is aided by an industry of people like Alex Jones who surely know better but make lots of money suckering these low critical thinking folks.
I find things like this so deeply disturbing. Last night I was listening to the White Supremist, anti-Semite, right-wing podcast influencer Nick Fuentes talking about going back to the year 1099, to the time when women were burned at the stake, which kept them in line. He spoke of all the problems women are causing and then actually said we should start burning women again----all with a smile, which helps you know he's really a "good guy". If you suspect I am exaggerating, I don't blame you. You'll find it about 2:12 minutes into this: https://twitter.com/adammocklerr/status/1775639492872884231