Nikki Haley vows to abolish anonymous social media accounts: ‘It’s a national security threat’::WPDE covers news, sports, weather, and local events in and around the Grand Strand, Pee Dee, and the Border Belt.
But she’s fine with continuing the anonymous donations to all the PACs that fund her.
But that’s different you see. Because money is speech and therefore needs to be protected, including by allowing total anonymity of donors. Whereas we’re talking about online accounts, where people of course never engage in speech or express ideas. Hey, wait a second that can’t be right. Hmmm, okay maybe it’s because she’s saying it’s a security risk, because you don’t know if they’re a foreign national spreading propaganda online. This is totally different from political donations, which of course have never been bribes from foreign powers masked by anonymity… Hey wait! She got us again. Almost like she’s some kind of shill who wipes her butt with the constitution while trying to create a crony supported facist state. No that can’t be.
But yeah, according to Republicans, money is speech, but speech is not speech. I’m expecting their next campaign platform to be 2+2=5.
How could speech be speech? Money is speech.
Ah yes, one step closer to a totalitarian state. Let’s go.
Fortunately it’s just empty, laughable rhetoric designed for Faceboomers who don’t understand the internet.
I pull uuuuuup
Republicans really hate privacy don’t they. In 20 years theyre gonna ban bathroom doors so they can make sure the “right” people are in the “right” bathrooms.
We really aren’t that far removed from codified segregation. I have parents, who grew up in the NE US, not even in the South, and they remember living with segregation. Separate bathrooms, separate water fountains, different entrances (if people of color were allowed in the establishment at all), etc etc
And they’re really not that old. Go ask your parents (or grandparents if you’re a little younger. Or both).
I agree with Nimarata Hailey, everyone should use their real names in social media and everywhere
Ohhh the irony
Hey, you never know, maybe their real name is Meridian Longitude. I’ve never heard of Longitude as a last name but I wouldn’t put it past some parents to name their kid Meridian.
lol that was sarcasm. I’m not putting my real name on lemmy but I do think it’s funny she doesn’t use her real name either because her maga supporters would go nuts
I looked it up, and it’s actually spelled Nimrata. Which is funny, because it sounds like it would be a romantic language’s feminine form of nimrod.
That could be close to the actual etymology. I believe “Nimrod” is the name of a person in the Bible.
Nimrod is a biblical figure mentioned in the Book of Genesis and Books of Chronicles. The son of Cush and therefore a great-grandson of Noah, Nimrod was described as a king in the land of Shinar. The Bible states that he was “a mighty hunter before the Lord [and]… began to be mighty in the earth”.
Some funny trivia with “might hunter”: Bugs Bunny called Elmer Fudd nimrod, saying something like “nice shot, nimrod!” – the insult was that Elmer was a bad hunter. But the obscure reference was lost on most people, much less a child audience (myself included), and so nimrod became a generic insult akin to “idiot” or "imbecile.
Maybe I’ve been playing too much Dwarf Fortress lately, but that quote reads so much like something you’d read in Legends mode lol
I would love to see how the Trump base would try to pronounce her real name.
Such a move would lead to an increase in “civility,” Haley believes. “When they know their pastor, their family members can see it, it’s going to help our kids and it’s going to help our country," she said.
That’s what everyone said about posting next to your real name on Facebook. How did that turn out?
Pretty good, actually. It was nice of the traitors to upload pictures of themselves in the act on Jan 6.
I don’t have a pastor 😎
Well she’s right. But I don’t think anyone has an obligation to be “civil”. Posting anonymously is exactly what allows me to have honest discussions without fear of backlash from family and friends. For better or worse.
It’s telling that pastors are the first people she wants to see what people are saying. Got to keep those sinners in line.
Civility is code for “stop complaining about how we treat you”. Jesse Gender has a pretty good video about civility politics (2hrs 21mins): https://youtu.be/-1TL9id26Ec
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Yes yes think of the children how can we not when it’s all you ever talk about
Uh oh, social credit system coming from…the same people who bitched the loudest about the social credit system?
Always has been. I remember when the people losing their damn mind about drag were horrified at North Korea’s approved haircut list.
lol I’d love to see how the US Government would be able to enforce such a thing.
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Ah yes, more of that American freedom I hear so much about as an American.
Oh fuck off, would ya?
How will she round up all the minorities if they’re anonymous online?
She IS a minority.
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Why even bother? It’s not like anything is ever done about the non-anonymous threats we currently see. Ffs.
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The dumb part is this vow doesn’t even make sense on the face of it to protect national security.
National security is now anyone’s feelings about mean things.
Republican feelings. About anything really.
What insecure nation
Someone doesn’t understand the internet…
The gop is a national security threat
