When Threads launched on Wednesday, numerous right-wing users shared(opens in a new tab) their dissatisfaction(opens in a new tab) with Twitter’s biggest competitor — on Twitter of course — over having their accounts flagged for disinformation. As of Friday, however, it seems the warning label on accounts that reported the issue has since disappeared.
That depends on your definition of “right winger.” Your average Republican is likely a fine person, but your average fascist isn’t. If you:
You’re probably not a good person. But if you merely believe in smaller government and think the GOP will give that to you, then you’re probably fine. I don’t have a problem with people who support the GOP (I do have a problem with the GOP itself), but I do have a problem with the right wing of the GOP and especially the few who the GOP consider “too radical” for the party.
The same is true for the left end of the spectrum as well. Basically, once you go too far down one end of the spectrum, there’s a good chance you’re self-selecting as a bad person.
If you want to use the might of government to right some “social wrong,” we’re probably not going to agree. Government should merely exist to maintain order and protect the vulnerable, it shouldn’t be used to regiment society in any real way.
Is phrenology a big thing? I know it’s was popular a couple hundred years ago but did it make a comeback? This is the 2nd time I’ve heard it brought up in the last week and I just didn’t realize that was popular these days.
I can’t speak to phrenology per se, but phrenology’s modern analogue is, in my opinion, the “genetics” argument. Whereas phrenology was some attempt to “explain” how the apparent shape was indicative of underlying brain structure, contemporary “scientific” racists will use genetic differences to “explain” whatever behavior they want to attribute to it.