Yes, “mandatory national service” is a live topic — again!
Mandatory National Service? on Vimeo.
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Social media is a jungle. The most popular platforms are engaged in gate-keeping practices we usually associate with edited publications, not open platforms. And now it is proven that Facebook is conspiring against some of its users for the benefit of an ideology. Proven? Well, there is this, courtesy of Project Veritas:
Meanwhile, Andrew Torba of Gab.com fame — a platform committed to open and free speech — has introduced a new news comment service plugin, Dissenter. Here Dave Cullen of Computing Forever discusses it:
Styxhexenhammer666 talks it up, too:
Interestingly, the Southern Poverty Law Center is pushing a story that Gab founder Andrew Torba and his wife are “going to go to prison” for SEC violations. The story is being pushed also on Gab:
Caveats. It sure looks like the SPLC is very concerned . . . about Gab, or maybe Dissenter.
With talk of forcing young people to provide a year of “national service” to the government, why was Paul Jacob offering this exalted congressionally-established Commission advice about their website address?
You must watch to discover.
Sure, Congress may not be quite on the verge of legislating a mandatory year of national service for those guilty of being young, but Congress is certainly looking into the idea through the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service.
On Thursday, Paul Jacob traveled to American University to address the Commission, where for three minutes he implored them to recognize the not-so-subtle difference between inspiring citizens to serve and enslaving them, forcing citizens to serve. “Forswear any forced service whatsoever,” he urged. “That shouldn’t happen in America.”
Oh, and consider changing your website address. Just watch.
Event: National Commission Hearing on Mandatory Service Policy (second hearing)
Date: Thursday, February 21, 2019
Location: American University, Washington College of Law; Claudio Grossman Hall; 4300 Nebraska Ave NW, Washington, D.C., 20016
Make your voice heard: contact the commission here: https://thisiscommonsense.org////dont-draft-our-kids/
The full video can be viewed at the C-SPAN site: National Commission Hearing on Mandatory Service Policy.
Paul Jacob would like to thank two great young people (pictured above), Sophia and Marquis, for volunteering to travel with him into Washington. “May they never
In Britain, the police are now arresting people for saying controversial things on Twitter. The controversy, in this case, is the subject of “misgendering” — a mother was taken into custody for calling a “trans woman” . . . “a man.”
We live in interesting times, as aliiances reshuffle their political commitments and ideas. Here is one.
Why the major social media platforms ban some people and not others remains something of a mystery. Why they will not explain themselves is probably not a mystery, though: if they explained themselves their inconsistencies would be even plainer yet. Or their disregard for their own ways of doing business, their own terms of service.
Here one excellent journalist and vlogger makes a challenge:
The Covington high schooler’s triggering smile, discussed here on Thursday, got the full Greg Gutfeld treatment on Fox’s The Five this week:
Andrew Klavan begins his show with satire, but then segues into a serious discussion of abortion. Oh, and Google, evil Google:
Thomas Sowell’s many books on race and discrimination haven’t made a dent in whole sectors of the body politic; Larry Elder may have convinced Dave Rubin that the standard model of “systemic racism” no longer applies, but he has not convinced everybody; and, generally, there is much work to be done.
Racism will always be with us, but this may very well be the least racist period in human history — so we need to deliver, more widely, a more truly liberal, tolerant perspective that is not driven by victim narratives where victims are scarce, and does not identify racism even where it does not exist.
Here is a video in critique of the standard Racism Everywhere victim narrative, one white guy criticizing another: