Category: Opinion/ Ramble

The top of google news this Monday, 10-25-2021 is:

I rarely use facebook.  And there are times–many, many, many times–I don’t much like Zuckerberg.  But the coordinated attack on Zuckerberg  and Facebook is disturbing.  The Washington Post article begins with talking about how Vietnam forced Facebook to censor political dissent or risk losing $1 billion.  I am kind of shocked that the Vietnamese market earns Facebook a billion dollars.  But regardless, what makes the article so evil is not that they oppose censorship in Vietnam–they don’t–but their issue is that Facebook does not do a better job of censorship all over the world.  The article focuses on that bullshit, staged, deep state whistle blower. [opinion] and her her claims that Facebook is doing harm to young people.

But that claim is mostly garbage.  Young people have always had to deal with self-image and doubting ones self.  That issue stays with a person until they mature enough to realize most people are assholes, most people aren’t perfect, shit happens, and get the hell over it.   Most people aren’t beautiful.  Most people aren’t smart.  Most people are not funny.  Most people are not good in sports. Most people are average at most things and less than average regarding many things.  We all make mistakes and say stupid shit at times. But none of that shit matters.  What matters is that you don’t dwell on shit and you enjoy life moment to moment.  There is no reason to define yourself, much less allow some asshole to define you.

Is Facebook built on the insecurity of humanity in general?  No.  It is built on the desire of people to connect, play games, share pictures, hook up for time away from the computer, and have conversations.  That elite media and google want to control those conversations and prevent people from talking about the stupidity of google and the Washington Post and others is disturbing.

They pretend that all time cliche, “Won’t someone think about the children.”  When in truth google does not give a flying freak about young people.  I tell  you what really hurts a young person.   When the accounts of their social activity are snooped on by schools, employers ( current or future) or some asshole like at twitter labels their post this or that in an insulting way.  What hurts not just young people but everyone is when the elite even go so far as to take payment processing away from someone because they are involved in some kind of wrong think.

These propaganda articles talk about hate speech.  Here is a freaking clue.  I have the God given right to hate anyone I damned well please or to like anyone I damned well please.  I don’t have the right to physically hurt anyone.  But here is the fucking upside down insanity of what the elite are doing.  They call other people haters for wrong speak but then they actually do set out to harm people by kicking them off platforms, denying them payment processing, calling them names, giving them social credit scores, and ultimately driving them to suicide or perhaps even driving other people to murder them which is what the leaders of lynch mobs do.  Too often the elite are no better than the old wild west lynch mobs of old days and that is in fact very disturbing.

Some young person trying to earn street cred by using the n word does not really hurt anyone.  But shaming, blacklisting, and trying to push that young person to suicide goes beyond the point of hurtful to just plain fucking evil.

That we have so much media run by upside down crazy, evil people is by far more disturbing than any lack of censorship at Facebook.

The absolute crap that google puts at the top of their news pages is by far more disturbing than any lack of censorship at Facebook.

Update:  It does look like the trending topic was demoted.  It has vanished from being visible on the side.  That is a good thing. So maybe I overreacted but it was a crappy situation, and it happens too often with those top tweet list.

If I had any doubts on how evil Twitter and the Ecosystem it has established is, then those doubts were ended today.  Alabama and Georgia were devastated by tornadoes.  Both facebook and twitter intentionally demoted, if not shadow banned, content related to that devastation.  Then on twitter a trending topic developed called FEMA that blasted Trump for saying FEMA would give Alabama first rate treatment.  Actually FEMA doesn’t give anyone first rate treatment but that is a different subject.  Under the FEMA trending topic the top tweets blasted Trump for saying he would help Alabama.  The ignorant shits (I include Jack Dorsey in that number because his people seem to encourage ignorant trending topics … opinion) inserted the word whites in Alabama.  Actually blacks make up 25% of Alabama’s population.  Some of the ignorant shits suggested how the brown people of Puerto Rico had not been helped.  Actually only 12% of Puerto Ricans identify as black though most are mixed race. (Many people are mixed race in Alabama as well.)  But besides that, the Trump administration & FEMA have spent roughly $3 billion to help Puerto Rico.  But Twitter doesn’t think we Southerners deserve to be helped.

Seriously Democrats who run twitter, go fuck yourselves.

So anyway, at this point Twitter is obviously evil.   That is my opinion.

This editorial contains strong opinion in which many people may rightly disagree.

Facebook is adding a new feature that allows users to leave feedback about their shopping experience after viewing a Facebook advertisement. [Will Facebook verify purchase or simply allow liberal or elite bots to kill conservative / indie businesses???] The report on the Facebook change originated from the Wall Street Journal. [The WSJ previously stirred sh*t with Facebook regarding legitimate arbitrage where people buy deals and conduct a sale to make a profit from buying low and selling high aka the free enterprise system.] The WSJ cited product marketing director Sarah Epps in their report. If a business receives a significant volume of negative feedback, the social media company will allow the business a chance to address the complaints but if feedback does not improve over time, Facebook will reduce the number of ads they can deliver and could also eventually ban them from the platform.

In some cases there have been legitimate complaints from sellers drop shipping from China. In some cases the shipping has taken too long and the products have been received in an unacceptable condition. But given this Facebook change comes three weeks after a Wall Street Journal hit piece like was done against independent, libertarian Pewdiepie one can assume the change is to promote the elite. That was the point of the hit piece against Pewdiepie. The WSJ and the elite want to help the elite (who once turned up their nose at the internet) to take over the internet in business, entertainment, and propaganda at the expense of ma & pa & junior.

The WSJ hit piece that was done against arbitrage sellers three weeks ago has already resulted in Facebook warnings to arbitrage sellers. Unlike the later WSJ article which was basically to brag about their success in getting Facebook to f the little guy, Facebook is in fact trying to work with honest sellers with negative feedback so as to help them to set more realistic customer expectations such as with shipping times. Facebook does not want to chase away advertisers but obviously they also don’t want their users to be misled or cheated.

Although the change was largely put in place because of the WSJ attack against arbitrage sellers, the change may impact local businesses as well eBook sellers and others. It will impact everyone who advertises on Facebook because there is no one who does not get some negative feedback of some kind; including the WSJ. It would be funny if they were among the first to be banned from advertising on Facebook.

Sarah Epps is trying to do a good job for everyone involved. Still, we all know how the Internet’s review/feedback system is abused from bots to competitors to weekend drunks to teens having a party to the kindly little old lady who secretly hates everyone.

This editorial contains strong opinion. If you disagree, cool.

Edited:
Yeah, I am back tweeting. LOL.

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Twitter has announced yet new ways on how it will allow its darling leftist hate groups to treat its other users badly.

Twitter will now use thousands of behavioral signals when filtering search, replies, and algorithmic recommendations. If it believes you are trying to game its system, or simply acting like a jerk, it will push your tweets lower down. …. buzzfeed

One of the signals will be if a user tweets to a lot of users that user has not followed.  I started to say that might be a good thing.  Then I had second thoughts.  The leftist hate groups will simply follow you before they attack you and then they will block you right after you respond to that account that you have not followed.  Even before the change to use these so called signals, blocking you with bots is how a lot of leftist hate groups have worked to hurt your account.  Being blocked by leftist bots is a signal that twitter will use to target you even more than before to push you down.

Indeed, bias twitter, thinks they have figured out how to hurt libertarians and conservatives on their platform even more.

But the thing is that people like me don’t care.  I’ve been on twitter since 2009 but for the life of me, I don’t know why except for a few users that I like and to link to stuff such as this opinion piece.   Yes, twitter is addictive to want to scream about some hash or something that you have read or seen on TV but that addiction really is not healthy.  It is not like writing a full article/editorial where you articulate in a more meaningful way on why you agree or disagree with something.  It basically makes your thinking process lazy which of course is what leftists love.  They really don’t want their advocates to fully think things out.  Leftist movements thrive on lazy, half-baked, reactionary thoughts which makes twitter perfect for them.

[Edit: I am just leaving below for reference. I am not sticking to it. #shrugs]

On twitter in the future I will probably read some users’ profiles that I like there as long as those people are tweeting.   Visiting profiles is my preferred way of reading tweets.   I may tweet links to something I have written or a video that I have done.  But will I continue to use twitter in the way that I have done in the past?  No. I will not scream thoughts on some hash or something from news or TV.  I will not debate people.  I will not engage with people; even those that I like.   Those days are over.  Twitter has turned itself into a hurtful, bully, minefield that I do not wish to navigate.  They can play all the games they want to hurt their users.  I do not care.  I will not play.

Twitter could go out of business tomorrow.  I would not care.  They have no loyalty to me.  I have no loyalty to them.   That is the way they want it.

Reports are that Alpha will be used to found a new football league and hold the intellectual property of that league. The original XFL, a joint venture between WWF and UIS television company NBC, was a brainchild in 2001 but lasted only one season. In that one season it lost $35 million.

The XFL should not be confused with the United States Football League (USFL) that lasted 3 seasons, from 1983 through 1985. The idea behind the USFL dated back to 1965.  It was the dream child of New Orleans businessman David Dixon, who saw a market for a professional football league that would play in the summer, when the National Football League and college football were in their off-season.

The XFL was conceived as an outdoor football league that would take place during the NFL off-season, and promoted as having fewer rules and encouraging rougher play than other major leagues.  Its failure was in large part due to NBC sabotaging its relationship with the WWF.  It was far different from the polished and rather plastic NFL.  It was more rough and gritty and used personalities from wrestling to promote.

If the reports are true to what is behind Vince McMahon creating the new company Alpha, this time he is separating it out from his wrestling business.  Given the change in the way content is now delivered–the networks are no longer in a position to play God–the reason can’t be totally related to his experience with NBC though that may play a part.  The XFL could provide content for youtube, amazon, facebook, twitter, its own subscription service, and so on.

To stand a chance it will have to have pay caps  offset by revenue sharing.  And with those pay caps it will have to create personalities beyond the normal skills of an NFL player.  It will have to pull from the showmanship of the WWE even if McMahon wants to keep  the XFL and the WWE separate.  Recruitment could be more like American Idol than scouting.  The recruitment can NOT be seen as rejects from the NFL but rather as men and perhaps even women who have some skill and who have a whole lot of ambition.  It can’t be seen as a cheaper plastic, but still plastic, version of the plastic–rich man’s–NFL.  The players must be people with whom the audience can identify.

Can it succeed? Yes.

Will it succeed? Well, we don’t really even know the full plans of Vince McMahon. So…  That is an open question.

But if they create an environment where everyday people think they might can play, and advance to a higher level, then yeah.  If they try to be a poser acting all NFL like, then no.