Thought For the Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
This is not America. This is a nightmare. There is no longer any peaceful solution the Democrats will accept.
What distinguishes a MAGA rally from any other? Red hats?
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DJH: Yes, but mostly “wrongthink.”
Parler is now shutdown. John Matze last night reported that other web hosting companies will not do business with Parler. He can’t even apparently get servers and other IT equipment to run the conservative replacement for Twitter.
Now the Democrats want to declare us MAGA supporters terrorists. Where do you think this is going to end? Peacefully? And how long till blogs like our TAC are removed for being subversive? Why is violent action by BLM & Antifa acceptable, but all of conservativism takes the blame of a few score of people who broke into the Capitol building on January 6th? And why is a policeman’s death in defending that building against supposedly MAGA protesters such a tragedy, but murder of policemen (and police women) by BLM & Antifa is acceptable? And remember Ashli Babbitt, an Air Force veteran. What of her death at the discharge end of a policeman’s handgun? Why isn’t she a martyr and heroine as drug addled, woman-beater, criminal George Floyd has been made a martyr and hero?
We have got to defend ourselves, folks. Remember 1st Maccabees chapter 2. Was it Pakistani Tariq Ali who said, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it echoes?”
I am very afraid of the possibility of civil war. I don’t want violence. But the Democrats understand nothing else except a bloody nose and a knock out punch. God forbid!
Summary of the situation:
Gab: Slow to the point of uselessness. Unclear at the moment if this is just due to sudden increase in demand or if it is outside interference.
D-Live: Joining in the censorship game by freezing accounts.
BitChute: Apparently doing pretty well!
MeWe: I don’t know. Haven’t heard anything, and don’t use it myself.
Parler: Servers gone, no one is willing to give them new servers. Not only are they effectively dead but their communication service “accidentally” revealed all their administrator accounts and stopped authenticating e-mails, allowing hackers full access to the site. So not only can you not use it if you did use it your personal information (very possibly including your driver’s license, if you were dumb enough to send them an image of it) have been leaked.
It’s not just MAGA that has drawn the ire of our Tech Overlords, social media is taking this time to strangle other WrongThink such as the WalkAway movement and pro-life groups like LifeNews.
Parler is now shutdown. John Matze last night reported that other web hosting companies will not do business with Parler. He can’t even apparently get servers and other IT equipment to run the conservative replacement for Twitter.
He said other web hosting vendors weren’t doing business with him. I’m not interpreting that as saying he cannot get servers. My wager would be that Twitter, Amazon, and Apple are threatening other vendors.
Gab apparently has their own servers.
If anti-trust law means anything, he should have a cause of action against these companies.
Imagine what a world we would be living in if Microsoft had actually been broken up, instead of appealing and settling.
No clue. I hardly know how any of this works.
One curio I do not understand is Monovox – why people in word-merchant occupations are so uniform in their thinking. It’s now spread to tech, which was libertarianish 20-odd years ago.
I remember the parody advertisements from 1997 likening Microsoft to The Borg, but Microsoft seems quite benign in comparison with these others.
“See the wicked bracing their bow;
they are fixing their arrows on the string
to shoot upright men in the dark.
Foundations once destroyed, what can the just do?’
Psalm 11, from Evening Prayer, 11 Jan, 2021. Folks, let’s learn to do without Facebook, Tweets, etc. Prayer and abandoment to Divine Providence is what will help, I hope. Or, as a fellow member of Calix emailed me:
Don’t let the evil one succeed! There are 75 million of us! We may not know what the future holds but we know Who holds the future…..
Looks like cloudflare might have dropped Gab. No confirmation yet, but currently trying to access brings up an error from cloudflare. There have been people trying to get cloudflare to ditch Gab and they have done this sort of thing before, so while it is not confirmed that they have ditched Gab, it is highly plausible.
To be assured that your website will remain up you now need your own servers, DNS service, DDOS protection and payment processors. That’s before even getting into any video hosting or social media tie ins.
The people I really want to punch are the “conservatives” who respond to this by saying “Oh, every corporation simultaneously blacklisted you with the support of the government? That’s just the free market, you have no right to complain.”
Gab has its own servers.
@Rudolph Harrier
I doubt Cloudfare dropped Gab. Thedonald(dot)win still uses Cloudfare. If Cloudfare were to drop someone TheDonald(dot)win would be the first.
Also Gab is reporting a 750% increase in signups, they had over 600,000 signups yesterday alone. Surprising since their website is down from being flooded with users.
Further surprising they’ve only survived from users purchasing membership with only mailed checks, bank transfers or bitcoin