July 25, 2020
Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand:
"We will continue to be your single source of truth. ... Unless you hear it from us it is not the truth."
What do you think Western countries would be like if our governments became our "single source of truth"?
Now imagine the logical conclusion of the UK censorship ban. They now have everyone identified. They have your ID, passport, credit cards, eyeball scans, fingerprints, blood, umbilical cord, hair, and you want to speak out against this disgusting crime against humanity but it goes against their protected people. You make a post online. You want to know why the hell this is allowed. Within an hour someone shows up at your door. You’re now in jail. This creates a chilling effect. Now people are afraid to speak. It’s not worth it. They have no outlet. There is no freedom of speech. So they swallow their anger and accept their fate and allow the humiliation while they lose their society.
I’m sick of reading stock astrology.
It’s time to get back to launching the rockets, putting internet in the sky, and projecting free speech down on the world.
This is the point. Same will happen in all countries that will make social media age restrictions. “Won’t someone think of the children” is usually not about the children
Lmao. And there’s the plan. Right there. Laid bare in your face. Create the problem (stranger danger), sell the solution (more authoritative surveillance state), repeat forever. Everyone owes conspiracy theorists an apology who have been screaming about this for years.
It’s important to know that the social media ban for under 16s is not a ban for under 16s.
It is a ban on *selected* social media for EVERYONE. Until you identify yourself.
SpaceX raised only $12B of capital before going public. With that $12B, they revolutionized the rocket industry, built a global satellite network, and created arguably the most innovative company of all time.
The federal government spends $12B every 15 hours and still can’t get its shit together. Prior to SpaceX, NASA was sending astronauts into space on Soviet-era Russian Soyuz capsules.
So no, I don’t find Elon’s wealth to be a problem, and I wouldn’t trust Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders to allocate a single dollar of it.
No, Elon Musk doesn't suddenly have a trillion dollars. Elon Musk, today, has what he had yesterday.
Today, other people decided that what Elon Musk had yesterday is worth $1 trillion.
The idea that anyone should have to pay more in taxes based upon what others value their assets as is absurd.