Thanks Ralph 129, Groucho edition
Since I'm focused on online ads this week for some reason....

Here's an ad that is distinctly INAPPROPRIATE and self-extinguishing.

When I hit RealClearScience just now, I got a big banner for Integral Ad Sciences. This outfit wants to help me advertise to "carefully selected" audiences, keeping my ads away from contamination by "hate speech".

Whether it’s adult content, alcohol, gambling, hate speech, illegal downloads, illegal drugs, offensive language, or violence, we’ll work closely with you to set brand safety thresholds for each campaign, and save you from wasted impressions.

BUT: By all the usual standards, I'm "hate speech". Solidly populist and anti-Soros and anti-Deepstate, ferocious "climate change" "denier", supporter of FACTUAL science in every way, pro-Muslim, pro-Natural Law, and hardass RUSSIAN_BOT.

A nearly perfect score.

What would the "selected audiences" think of their selection system being offered to a DENIER_BOT? Isn't that the exact definition of brand contamination? What does it say about the efficiency of this company's algorithms?

(I tacked on a huge pile of tags below, just to show my normal range of interests.)

Labels: #DeplorableLivesMatter, #StandwithIlhan, Carbon Cult, defensible spaces, Emersonian justice, Make or break, Natural law = Sharia law, Natural law = Soviet law, skill-estate, Sorosia

  ¶ 10:22 PM

  Good, by god 3
Ilhan briefly yielded to bullies, then gathered her strength and resumed telling the truth.

The monsters of "both" "parties" passed a nearly unanimous and perfectly illegal "resolution" attempting to silence her, and she responded by speaking even more truth.

BRAVO, BRAVO, BRAVO.

Labels: #StandwithIlhan, infinite GOOD

  ¶ 3:04 PM

  More misunderstood Franklins
Thinking about Franklins and the Tribe led sideways to a new thought about those two subjects.

Henry Ford was allegedly anti-Tribe, but in fact his love of Germany was typical of US industrialists at that time. We have always loved and emulated Krauts, except for the brief moments when we were fighting them.

Henry was DIFFERENT from other industrialists in his respect for the Soviet experiment. He tried to open a factory in Russia but ran into problems because he didn't understand that Russians are more individualistic and freedom-loving than Americans.

Henry respected the Soviet experiment and hated Wall Street for a consistent FACTUAL reason. His business AND his product were aimed at serving the needs of poor people. He understood that Wall Street enriches stock traders and kills poor people. When NYC controls capital allocation, capital slaughters the poor. The Soviet experiment attempted to allocate capital for the benefit of ordinary people, and mostly succeeded.

Henry was correct in those beliefs and biases.

BUT he also hated Franklin Roosevelt because FDR was a "socialist".

This contradicted Henry's genuine socialism, and contradicted all the facts about Henry and Franklin. In fact Henry and Franklin were on the same side in every important way.

1. Henry and Franklin were both non-interventionists. Henry's dislike of war was called anti-Tribal. Franklin's dislike of war was not.

2. Henry and Franklin both hated Wall Street. Henry couldn't do much about it, so he refused to participate. His refusal was called anti-Tribal. Franklin did EVERYTHING about it, bringing the demonic predators under harsh control. His crackdown was not called anti-Tribal.

3. Henry and Franklin provided useful employment for poor whites and blacks.

4. Henry and Franklin trained poor people to organize their lives outside of work.

5. Henry and Franklin were especially concerned about farmers. The T was optimized for farm use, and later Ford cars and trucks continued the tradition. Franklin saved farmers from destruction, enabling them to continue buying Fords.

6. Franklin bought a '38 Ford for his own use and had it fitted with hand controls. In '38, Buick and Olds had semi-auto transmissions that would have been more suited for hand controls, but Franklin wanted to be seen in the working man's car.

7. Even if we think of Henry as a crass capitalist, he should have appreciated the CCC's roads and parks and tourist destinations, which vastly expanded the market for cars.

Labels: #StandwithIlhan, Natural law = Soviet law

  ¶ 11:54 PM

  Proving the point
The young Muslim politician made a light-hearted and ACCURATE comment on the influence of the Tribe, including a common and NON-TRIBAL metaphor about Ben Franklin. Franklin was a Mason, not a Tribal.

In response, Franklin percent of Repooflicans and Franklin percent of Democrats tackled her and piled on, INTENTIONALLY misinterpreting the innocent Franklin reference.

Thus proving her point 1000000000000000000000000000000 times more strongly than she intended.

Unfortunately she surrendered to the squashing.

I'm still waiting for JUST FUCKING ONE politician to stand up against the crowd, to stick with the truth on ANY issue. I would love to hear:

"No, I won't apologize for speaking plain and obvious facts. You need to apologize for being tyrannical monsters."

But I'll never hear it. Never never never. Nothing will change, nothing will improve. We're fucked.

= = = = =

Update: She may have apologized once, but by god she's standing UP now against the same neocons who tried to silence her.

BRAVO!

Labels: #StandwithIlhan

  ¶ 1:04 AM