A
Cancer on the Presidency
This is not exactly a new idea but in the face of Russian
intrusion into American social media it's clearly
become necessary that anyone on the internet who wants
to be taken seriously must use their real name.
Suppose you go to a party and you meet a guy who's
blabbing new and controversial information about
this or that public figure. If you knew, for a fact,
that
this
man's name
is Bill Johnson and that he lives
in Sacramento, California you might allow him greater
credence than if his name-tag read "Hello, I'm RippedPex96".
Yeah, we all get our panties in a ridiculous privacy
wad that thugs from the other side of the aisle will
doxx
us
and subsequently threaten violence if we espouse something
that questions their limited
world view but that happens every goddamn day.
Friends, family, business acquaintances, even the check-out
girl at the A&P, they all have an inkling about
your perverse liberal or conservative ideologies
but you still manage to get through the day without
a knife in your back.
Yes, there are those who will be resistant to this
idea but these people are cowards, unable to support
the weight of their convictions in a public forum.
Sadly, sites like Reddit would never institute such
a "RealName" policy
as it thrives on back alley information. Twitter,
on
the
other hand, already has a huge user base that goes
by its real, verified names so a requirement that
all users follow this rule would be easy to enact and
would, hopefully, reject all those Russian 'bots. And
that'd be a start.
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I'm thankful for the Great Orange Turd's 9-Day Magical
Misery Tour as it has shown the entire world exactly
how much Melania hates his fucking guts.
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Senator Al Franken has a new book out. Here's a small
sample:
"Here’s the thing that you have to understand
about Ted Cruz. I like Ted Cruz more than most of my
colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz."
I love Al Franken.
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Finally, to all of the graduates of Notre Dame who
walked out on VP Mike Pence: "You rock!"
=Lefty=
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