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Fear of the_Donald: Reddit's treatment of Trump's fanbase is atrocious

Micah Curtis
RT
Fri, 28 Feb 2020 22:04 UTC

Reddit seems to have decided that special rules need to be enforced for the most popular pro-Trump subreddit, the_Donald. Subredditors there claim half their moderators have been purged and new ones are being installed from above.

There aren't many bigger gathering places on the internet for Trump fans than Reddit's the_Donald subreddit. Boasting over 790,000 subscribers, it is a massive hub of fans of Trump. Like all subreddits, it serves as a forum to share and discuss news, in this case political stories related to the United States president or to his policies. Threads will commonly be created to discuss immigration policy, the media's issues with Trump, anti-socialism rallying calls, and so forth. The most distinctive feature is that the board has always had a strict "no cucks or leftists" policy, meaning they don't tolerate people of the extreme left politically, or people they deem to be political sellouts. It's a sort of He-Man Trump-Lovers club.

The decline of the great American family saga

Kevin Mims
Quillette
Fri, 28 Feb 2020 19:51 UTC

In February, the Atlantic published a much discussed essay by David Brooks entitled "The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake." Brooks noted that the conditions that once made nuclear families viable — strong unions, plenty of jobs that paid living wages, inexpensive housing and transportation and education costs, stay-at-home mothers, high numbers of churchgoers — were products of a very brief window of time that only lasted from about 1950 until about 1965. For centuries prior to that, Americans tended to divide themselves into extended families, vast networks of grandparents, aunts, uncles, and other relatives, all of whom remained connected to one another by some sort of family enterprise. Here's how Brooks sums up the extended American family:

In 1800, three-quarters of American workers were farmers. Most of the other quarter worked in small family businesses, like dry-goods stores. People needed a lot of labor to run these enterprises. It was not uncommon for married couples to have seven or eight children. In addition, there might be stray aunts, uncles, and cousins, as well as unrelated servants, apprentices, and farmhands...Extended families have two great strengths. The first is resilience. An extended family is one or more families in a supporting web. Your spouse and children come first, but there are also cousins, in-laws, grandparents — a complex web of relationships among, say, seven, 10, or 20 people. If a mother dies, siblings, uncles, aunts, and grandparents are there to step in. If a relationship between a father and a child ruptures, others can fill the breach. Extended families have more people to share the unexpected burdens — when a kid gets sick in the middle of the day or when an adult unexpectedly loses a job.

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Thousands of kids skip school for Greta's address to a huge crowd, amid police warnings and a coronavirus risk. What can go wrong?

Damian Wilson
RT
Sat, 29 Feb 2020 22:00 UTC

Up to 30,000 people were estimated to have seen Greta Thunberg's 'School Strike for Climate' in Bristol. But with police warnings and the shadow of coronavirus looming over Europe, should parents be condoning their kids' activism?

As sporting events around the world are canceled and schools across the UK weigh up the prospect of closing their doors for two months due to fears of coronavirus infection, the idea of 30,000 people, many of them schoolchildren, gathering in Bristol for a Greta Thunberg rally on Friday seems a bit irresponsible on behalf of the organizers.

Bearing in mind that most schools only finished their mid-term holidays last week and Friday of this week would mean another day skipping school, police also warned parents that the expected number of people flocking to hear the 17-year-old Swedish activist speak puts children in danger of tripping, falling or being crushed.

Opposition activists flock to central Moscow to commemorate slain politician Nemtsov and condemn constitution amendments

RT
Sat, 29 Feb 2020 21:52 UTC

Thousands of people attended marches in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, on Saturday, to commemorate Russia's former Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov, who was murdered five years ago in the capital.

The memory of Nemtsov, a veteran politician who became a leading figure in the western-leaning opposition after the turn of the century, is a unifying point for various anti-Kremlin political groupings who are frequently at odds with one another.

Leaders of the march, who have described themselves as "pretty much the entire democratic spectrum" in Russia, expected that as many as 30,000 people would participate in the Moscow event, according to their application to the mayor's office. The opposition-aligned "White Counter" monitor claimed 22,300 took part, while authorities estimated the number of attendees at 10,500. News outlet 'Znak' said 1,500 were at the Saint Petersburg commemoration.

Comment: As you can see, Russia is clearly led by the dictator Vladimir Putin who crushes any and all dissent. But wait a second. There are no black-clad police forces engaged in a brutal crackdown of the thousands who rallied in Moscow. There are no molotov cocktails or tear gassed citizens running around in a craze. Anyone who views the Russian leader as a dictator is clearly not paying any attention to reality.

Media Whipping Covid19 Panic to Unprecedented Heights

Kit Knightly
Off-Guardian
Sat, 29 Feb 2020 21:26 UTC

Is this just mass hysteria, or is a major play in the pipeline?

Coming to a street corner near you soon? Soldiers 'protect citizens against Coronavirus' in northern Italy

Another day, another round of shrill headlines. The coronavirus could spread to "every country in the world" (like chickenpox), we might have to cancel the Olympics. Ban handshakes! We're running out of masks!

We've been over the statistics, there's no need to go over them again. Thus far, scientifically speaking, the Coronavirus is nothing all that remarkable.

And yet... here we are. A world on the verge of all-out, no-holds-barred panic.

Two days ago the scare was related to a woman in Japan who allegedly got the disease twice.

Today the authoritarians' mouths are watering over discussion of stadium quarantines in Australia and the possibility of the military having to aid the struggling NHS in the UK.

Comment: It's probably both. Certain elites are capitalizing upon a crisis, but it's also that people generally are so far gone from reality, they're teetering on the edge of insanity.

Whatever you do, do NOT join the herd by falling for this. Focus your mind in the opposite direction by watching the documentary Vaxxed and learning how evil the vaccine industry is.

Over 100,000 flock to watch exiled ex-Catalan leader Puigdemont speak

RT
Sat, 29 Feb 2020 21:39 UTC

© Reuters / Nacho Doce
Catalan separatist supporters hold Esteladas (Catalan separatist flags) during a rally in Perpignan, France

Catalonia independence supporters flocked to the French town of Perpignan for a huge rally to listen to former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont speaking to them in person for the first time since his exile.

The small southern French town of Perpignan is located in what Catalan independence supporters consider to be Northern Catalonia. With a population of 120,000, Perpignan suddenly witnessed just as many Catalonians flooding its streets. The town, located just 30 kilometers from the French border with Spain, became the venue for an event featuring a speech by Carles Puigdemont, the former Catalan pro-independence leader who fled his home country following the ill-fated 2017 referendum.

Over 100,000 people joined the rally at a Perpignan Exhibition Center parking lot, according to various estimates. The organizers put the number at as many as 150,000. Some demonstrators went to the city the day before to not miss anything. The number of those trying to attend the event, organized by a group called the Council for the Catalan Republic and headed by Puigdemont himself, was so big that thousands of people were still stuck in traffic on the border when the exiled pro-independence leader was about to begin his speech.

Potential voter fraud in Pennsylvania: Lawsuit claims voter rolls have multiple registrations, dead voters

WTAE Pittsburgh
Sat, 29 Feb 2020 20:43 UTC

Allegheny County is being sued after being accused of not properly clearing voter rolls.

The Public Interest Legal Foundation filed the lawsuit that claims the voter rolls have more than 7,000 voters registered multiple times and lists more than 1,500 voters who are now dead.

The group also says one voter was registered seven times to vote.

"We are not assigning any kind of bad intent to the registered voters of Allegheny County. We don't even really believe they know this is happening. This appears to be errors that are occurring inside the four walls of the elections office," Public Interest Legal Foundation spokesman Logan Churchwell said.

This is not the first time that Allegheny County has been accused of not clearing records.

Action News Investigates found some of the same issues in 2004, including thousands of voters being registered twice and multiple votes being cast by the same people in the same elections.

The legal foundation is asking the county to increase its efforts to maintain voter lists.

Israelis' support for freedom of speech and human rights groups declining

Middle East Monitor
Fri, 28 Feb 2020 12:11 UTC

© Mostafa Alkharouf - Anadolu Agency
Israeli people gather to protest against Israeli security forces' violences in Isawiya district of Eastern Jerusalem on 7 December 2019.

In a major international survey, only 37 per cent of Israelis said human rights groups should be able to operate freely, as reported by the Times of Israel.

The 34-nation poll, conducted by the US-based Pew Research Centre from May-October 2019, focused on views of, and support for, democracy and democratic institutions.

Support in Israel is "significantly lower than in most countries for freedom of expression, including an uncensored press, internet freedom and freedom for human rights groups to operate freely."

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Teenager tricks Twitter into verifying fake 2020 candidate with blue checkmark

Hanna Lustig
Insider
Fri, 28 Feb 2020 18:51 UTC

Comment: Meanwhile real, intelligent long-time commentators languish in Twitter no-man's land...

fake twitter blue check president candidate teenager

© Twitter/Screenshot; Manipulation/Ben Goggin
An archived screenshot of the fake Andrew Walz account that Twitter verified.

Never underestimate the power of tech-savvy teenagers with some time on their hands. A 17-year-old high school student from upstate New York tricked Twitter into verifying a fake 2020 candidate, and now, his experiment is forcing the company to re-examine its much-talked-about election integrity measures.

"I want Twitter to succeed," the student said. "I love Twitter. I think it's a great platform and I've learned so much from it," the teen said in an interview with CNN Business, who agreed not to name the teen.

Here's how he brought Andrew Walz, a Republican businessman from Rhode Island, to life.

Conservatives 'censoring themselves in the age of censorship'? CPAC kicks out InfoWars reporter, triggering conference row

RT
Fri, 28 Feb 2020 18:33 UTC

InfoWars was shown the door at this year's CPAC and journalist Owen Shroyer decided to hold court as he was being removed, demanding answers and calling the group hypocrites for censoring his outlet's voice.

Online censorship of conservative voices has been a major topic on panels at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Donald Trump Jr. told a crowd on Friday morning at the convention that censorship and bias against conservative voices is "probably a top three issue" with his father's "base" of voters.

Ironically, that very afternoon CPAC took part in some censorship themselves by kicking journalist Owen Shroyer of InfoWars out of the event.

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Society's Child

Fear of the_Donald: Reddit's treatment of Trump's fanbase is atrocious

The decline of the great American family saga

Thousands of kids skip school for Greta's address to a huge crowd, amid police warnings and a coronavirus risk. What can go wrong?

Opposition activists flock to central Moscow to commemorate slain politician Nemtsov and condemn constitution amendments

Media Whipping Covid19 Panic to Unprecedented Heights

Over 100,000 flock to watch exiled ex-Catalan leader Puigdemont speak

Potential voter fraud in Pennsylvania: Lawsuit claims voter rolls have multiple registrations, dead voters

Israelis' support for freedom of speech and human rights groups declining

Teenager tricks Twitter into verifying fake 2020 candidate with blue checkmark

Conservatives 'censoring themselves in the age of censorship'? CPAC kicks out InfoWars reporter, triggering conference row

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