WE ARE AT (NEAR) PEAK SOCIAL MEDIA 1/27/21

[TahoeJ]

Blue horseshoe loves GameStop!

[brutah]

for real though, social media isn't going anywhere. It's only going to grow and become more prevalent in our lives. Hoping that it goes away or being anti-social media will only set you up for failure in the future. Embrace it, if even for the memes. shoot i've been looking for a new gig and i've been surprised at how many companies don't even ask for a cover letter and resume, they just want a link to your linkedin and a lot of them only post job openings on linkedin.

[Ted Striker]

^^^ and that's been the case for years now.

Although it's been the most entertaining thing this week, HBM is right about r/wallstreetbets vs wall st. That's going to end bad for someone.

[BmillsSkier]

Can you just shoot them a url to this place and tell em my work there speaks for itself; now lets talk comp plan?

[Benny Profane]

still can't yell fire in a crowded theater, benny. there have always been restrictions on free speech.

Name some specific examples.

[Benny Profane]

This will be a very important SC decision soon.

Like Citizen's United.

Or Scalia saying that flag burning is protected by free speech. Scalia.

[Benny Profane]

I posted this in pollyass this morning:

Thomas Frank weighs in on truthiness and the Coalition of the Aghast.

https://mondediplo.com/2021/02/02usa

"This essay is not a brief for free speech absolutism or an effort to rationalise conspiracy theory or an attack on higher learning. It is about the future of the Democratic Party, the future of the left, and here is the suggestion I mean to make: the form of liberalism I have described here is inherently despicable. A democratic society is naturally going to gag when it is told again and again in countless ways, both subtle and gross, that our great national problem is our failure to heed the authority of traditional elites.
Worse, when those traditional elites come together with unprecedented unanimity to insist their high rank proves their correctness and justifies their privilege ... when they say we are in a new cold war against falsehood ... when the news media dumps its neutrality and likens itself to superheroes and declares it is mystically attuned to truth and legitimacy ... when they do those things and then get the biggest news story of the decade fabulously wrong, a society like ours is going to spot the hypocrisy. And we are going to resent it."

"Ira Glasser, the old ACLU chief, relates how liberal academics embraced speech codes because they ‘imagined themselves as controlling who the codes would be used against’. What these well-meaning liberals didn’t understand, he continued, was that ‘speech restrictions are like poison gas. It seems like it’s a great weapon to have when you’ve got the poison gas in your hands and a target in sight, but the wind has a way of shifting — especially politically — and suddenly that poison gas is being blown back on you.’"

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still can't yell fire in a crowded theater, benny. there have always been restrictions on free speech.

Name some specific examples.

short short answer
https://www.freedomforuminstitute.or...rst-amendment/

• Obscenity
• Fighting words
• Defamation (including libel and slander)
• Child pornography
• Perjury
• Blackmail
• Incitement to imminent lawless action
• True threats
• Solicitations to commit crimes

wiki has more info
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedo..._United_States

[paulster2626]

Is this thread about americans thinking they're the only country in the entire world again?

[Mazderati]

Name some specific examples.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/01/...rst-amendment/

[Benny Profane]

Is this thread about americans thinking they're the only country in the entire world again?

No, it's more like how white, upper class Americans can tell the other 90% how to think and talk.

[Timberridge]

No, it's more like how white, upper class Americans can tell the other 90% how to think and talk.

Are you self identifying as black, low income now?

[Benny Profane]

No, it's African American working class, you racist deplorable.

[Benny Profane]

I mean, look at it this way. If it wasn't for social media, we wouldn't be learning about what a despicable cunt that Greene woman from Georgia really is. So hey, it's a democracy, so let those yahoos vote for scum. She ain't going far after that. Or, if she does, hey, democracy.