What happens when you suppress free speech, is you get lots of hysterical articles like this that regurgitate regime propaganda, and a public that gets so sick of being gaslit by the media and elites that it resorts to "the language of the unherd". What is needed is not frightened elites designating views that scare them as "hate speech". What is needed is radical free speech and an end to elite lying and gaslighting. This is the only way to restore public trust in institutions and return to the politics of debate rather than politics fought out on the streets.
Whose free speech has been taken away? Give me an example of elite gaslighting? We have radical free speech now but no one is required to listen to it OR promote it. Xitter has radical free speech and it a cesspool of lies and gaslighting. The dark web has radical free speech.
Gilgemech, Starmer is not a nice man. Mean-spirited and hates his own race. Just like J-6 committee, hate on people until they break and then wonder why they break? Beyond disgusting.
Thank you, Gilgamech. From what I have experienced as a former Leftist from my youth to early middle age, I saw the heavily emotional method of supreme gaslighting, projection and basic garden variety harrassment. "You do what I tell you to do or you are a fascist, bigot and racist!" Starmer, from what I have observed via news and writing, seems to not remotely care about the sorrow and suffering of the native British population. He could have met with some of them, sat down over food and listened and asked for solutions. Instead, he, right out the gate of his new administration, just flung hatred and threats their way. They were reacting with sorrow and understandable anger at the killing of children and the mass immigration crisis. I suspect this will backfire on Starmer, badly. Sad that Britain has to live under Leftists for so long. I hope the spirit of heartfelt prayer washes across this Christian nation and in the realm of prayer, bring solutions to this.
If only there was some actual connection between the murdered children and the immigration crisis then sitting down with them for a lovely tea and chat might make some sense.
These lads don't give two shits about the dead people. They are all anti-social thugs having fun by inflicting pain and suffering on INNOCENT people.
Apparently you know nothing about Christianity in the UK which leads me to think you might just Be a Russian Troll Doll.
OK, Harley, I get it, you don't like my comments. That is OK, that is free speech. I see from your page that you have no writing pieces, you have no formal Notes. Why are you on Substack to begin with? Are you British? Are you a Christian? I am a flawed human being like everyone else in the world. I do not profess perfection. I am saddened by your seeming hatred of the British people. Why do you aim hatred at me?
Actually I was wondering the same thing about you.
A newsletter called "The UnPopulist" which aims to expose the problem of populist movements around the world and their tendency to turn onto authoritarian regimes seems hardly to fit into your world. So why are you (and Gilgamech which is normally spelled Gilgamesh) even here?
I have no writing pieces because I don't have any desire to be an influencer. I don't even know what "notes" are in the substack world.
My thoughts and opinions are of no more value than the odd comment on newsletters to which I subscribe. Like this one.
I ask for no followers and I don't follow anybody.
You say you are not perfect and you are flawed. Don't be so hard on yourself.
You were born perfect and, like everyone, you have made mistakes as you have aged. But it is our mistakes that truly reveal who we really are, our real character.
Mistakes are an invitation to change, make amends for the wrongs we have done to others and move forward in peace.
I looked at some of your writing and it is clear that you have a dark view of the world. A negative view of human nature. A deep distrust of the universe.
It isn't the world, or others, or political parties, that need to change---it is me who needs to change. I am powerless over people, places, things and situations. People go crazy trying to fix others when the only thing they can fix is themselves.
And so they end up addicted to social media trying to exert influence on others.
I am not a Christian though, having grown up in the western world, the Christian ethos permeates my life (in a good way) and has taught me to be tolerant, truthful, prudent, temperate and modest.
I do not hate the British People as I am of that heritage.
I do not hate you either.
But since you posted publicly the opinion that the Prime Minister hates his own race (which remains a bizarre and weird thing to say) I felt it necessary to point out how absurd that statement was and is. I understand how contradicting some people is considered a form of hate speech.
What is interesting from my reading of UK sources is how this has happened in the first month of the new Labour government and the flow of amplfied social media misinformation has been featured in the official Russian media.
The lads kicking off in the streets are the lads that kick off after football games. Finding an excuse to kick off is what they do. Hooliganism is a performative art a form of street theater. They aren't unheard. They have the same opportunities to advance economically but having wasted their opportunity for education, developing hostile attitudes and behaviors that make them a liability in the workplace, and spending more time on the internet than on being productive citizens. Volunteering to pick up the garbage in their own shitty streets instead of vandalizing the neighborhood of others might be a place to start.
It's the same grievance and blame culture we see here in the US but because the population density of the UK is so great it is far more explosive.
They haven't lost faith in institutions because they never had faith in them to begin with. They are essentially feral and rabid people who have found the solution to the pain of their own self loathing by projecting violence onto others. They are angry because they are powerless and they refuse to take responsibility for themselves.
Social media has empowered, accelerated and amplified their anti-social life-style and their ability to harm innocent others.
Solution? There is none. Too many for law enforcement to handle. Prison only makes it worse. Discipline makes them more surly and so there's no hope of either controlling them or pacifying them. So the rest of us have to band together in mutual aid organization capable of defending our turf, property and people.
You are a lost cause if you believe the Russia BS. Do you still believe the Hunter laptop was "Russian disinfo"? Do you have any critical faculty at all toward billionaire-controlled media? Or do you direct your critical faculty only at the media and billionaires you don't like? I'm guessing the latter.
Russian involvement has been verified by intelligence agencies across the globe.The most valuable thing on Hunter's laptop is probably his dick picks. I don't think his laptop has anything to do with Russia beyond them helping to keep the idea that there "might be something there" circulating.
The laptop is just another Republican conspiracy weirdo thing.
media platforms such as 'X' under Elon Musk must be stopped from carrying lies and peddling Conspiracy Theories in order to create the civil strife we are experiencing. It's bad enough that they carry political disinformation and misinformation to mislead voters on behalf of Putin and Trump.
Actually social media platforms that don't require subscription fees, are unmoderated by human beings should be shut down. Platforms that generate income from advertising alone only exacerbate the problem by actually making anti-social behavior profitable.
This is not good at all; right wing rising worldwide and now an incipient hot war in the Middle East, thanks to BiBi and his genocidal rage. Why sane people think this is the way the world has to work this way is beyond me. It’s looking as though the infection of hate is purulent and spreading rapidly and we don’t seem to be willing to take the steps to stop it.
What happens when you suppress free speech, is you get lots of hysterical articles like this that regurgitate regime propaganda, and a public that gets so sick of being gaslit by the media and elites that it resorts to "the language of the unherd". What is needed is not frightened elites designating views that scare them as "hate speech". What is needed is radical free speech and an end to elite lying and gaslighting. This is the only way to restore public trust in institutions and return to the politics of debate rather than politics fought out on the streets.
Whose free speech has been taken away? Give me an example of elite gaslighting? We have radical free speech now but no one is required to listen to it OR promote it. Xitter has radical free speech and it a cesspool of lies and gaslighting. The dark web has radical free speech.
Guessing you don't live in the UK or Europe?
I asked for examples.
Gilgemech, Starmer is not a nice man. Mean-spirited and hates his own race. Just like J-6 committee, hate on people until they break and then wonder why they break? Beyond disgusting.
That's a weird perspective.
Harley "Griff" Lofton, I respectfully disagree, not weird at all.
People who aren't racist don't hate their own race. That IS a weird idea.
Wendy I agree.
Thank you, Gilgamech. From what I have experienced as a former Leftist from my youth to early middle age, I saw the heavily emotional method of supreme gaslighting, projection and basic garden variety harrassment. "You do what I tell you to do or you are a fascist, bigot and racist!" Starmer, from what I have observed via news and writing, seems to not remotely care about the sorrow and suffering of the native British population. He could have met with some of them, sat down over food and listened and asked for solutions. Instead, he, right out the gate of his new administration, just flung hatred and threats their way. They were reacting with sorrow and understandable anger at the killing of children and the mass immigration crisis. I suspect this will backfire on Starmer, badly. Sad that Britain has to live under Leftists for so long. I hope the spirit of heartfelt prayer washes across this Christian nation and in the realm of prayer, bring solutions to this.
If only there was some actual connection between the murdered children and the immigration crisis then sitting down with them for a lovely tea and chat might make some sense.
These lads don't give two shits about the dead people. They are all anti-social thugs having fun by inflicting pain and suffering on INNOCENT people.
Apparently you know nothing about Christianity in the UK which leads me to think you might just Be a Russian Troll Doll.
OK, Harley, I get it, you don't like my comments. That is OK, that is free speech. I see from your page that you have no writing pieces, you have no formal Notes. Why are you on Substack to begin with? Are you British? Are you a Christian? I am a flawed human being like everyone else in the world. I do not profess perfection. I am saddened by your seeming hatred of the British people. Why do you aim hatred at me?
Actually I was wondering the same thing about you.
A newsletter called "The UnPopulist" which aims to expose the problem of populist movements around the world and their tendency to turn onto authoritarian regimes seems hardly to fit into your world. So why are you (and Gilgamech which is normally spelled Gilgamesh) even here?
I have no writing pieces because I don't have any desire to be an influencer. I don't even know what "notes" are in the substack world.
My thoughts and opinions are of no more value than the odd comment on newsletters to which I subscribe. Like this one.
I ask for no followers and I don't follow anybody.
You say you are not perfect and you are flawed. Don't be so hard on yourself.
You were born perfect and, like everyone, you have made mistakes as you have aged. But it is our mistakes that truly reveal who we really are, our real character.
Mistakes are an invitation to change, make amends for the wrongs we have done to others and move forward in peace.
I looked at some of your writing and it is clear that you have a dark view of the world. A negative view of human nature. A deep distrust of the universe.
It isn't the world, or others, or political parties, that need to change---it is me who needs to change. I am powerless over people, places, things and situations. People go crazy trying to fix others when the only thing they can fix is themselves.
And so they end up addicted to social media trying to exert influence on others.
I am not a Christian though, having grown up in the western world, the Christian ethos permeates my life (in a good way) and has taught me to be tolerant, truthful, prudent, temperate and modest.
I do not hate the British People as I am of that heritage.
I do not hate you either.
But since you posted publicly the opinion that the Prime Minister hates his own race (which remains a bizarre and weird thing to say) I felt it necessary to point out how absurd that statement was and is. I understand how contradicting some people is considered a form of hate speech.
What is interesting from my reading of UK sources is how this has happened in the first month of the new Labour government and the flow of amplfied social media misinformation has been featured in the official Russian media.
The lads kicking off in the streets are the lads that kick off after football games. Finding an excuse to kick off is what they do. Hooliganism is a performative art a form of street theater. They aren't unheard. They have the same opportunities to advance economically but having wasted their opportunity for education, developing hostile attitudes and behaviors that make them a liability in the workplace, and spending more time on the internet than on being productive citizens. Volunteering to pick up the garbage in their own shitty streets instead of vandalizing the neighborhood of others might be a place to start.
It's the same grievance and blame culture we see here in the US but because the population density of the UK is so great it is far more explosive.
They haven't lost faith in institutions because they never had faith in them to begin with. They are essentially feral and rabid people who have found the solution to the pain of their own self loathing by projecting violence onto others. They are angry because they are powerless and they refuse to take responsibility for themselves.
Social media has empowered, accelerated and amplified their anti-social life-style and their ability to harm innocent others.
Solution? There is none. Too many for law enforcement to handle. Prison only makes it worse. Discipline makes them more surly and so there's no hope of either controlling them or pacifying them. So the rest of us have to band together in mutual aid organization capable of defending our turf, property and people.
You are a lost cause if you believe the Russia BS. Do you still believe the Hunter laptop was "Russian disinfo"? Do you have any critical faculty at all toward billionaire-controlled media? Or do you direct your critical faculty only at the media and billionaires you don't like? I'm guessing the latter.
Russian involvement has been verified by intelligence agencies across the globe.The most valuable thing on Hunter's laptop is probably his dick picks. I don't think his laptop has anything to do with Russia beyond them helping to keep the idea that there "might be something there" circulating.
The laptop is just another Republican conspiracy weirdo thing.
Utter nonsense. You really are totally credulous. It's hard to see why you are on this site other than to troll.
Well, in the UK case there is some evidence for Russian involvement in spreading false information. "Channel Three Now", the site that people were screenshotting to coroborate the Al-Shakti story, began as a Russian YouTube channel. (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13695801/The-Russian-linked-fake-news-website-fuelled-lies-Southport-stabbings-sparked-violent-protests) Then Russia Today spread the story. And Russian accounts have since been spreading further fake news (https://x.com/O_Rob1nson/status/1821250845930922213) Someone needs to look into all this and work out what level of involvement Russian actors had
Funny that was my impression of you.
media platforms such as 'X' under Elon Musk must be stopped from carrying lies and peddling Conspiracy Theories in order to create the civil strife we are experiencing. It's bad enough that they carry political disinformation and misinformation to mislead voters on behalf of Putin and Trump.
Actually social media platforms that don't require subscription fees, are unmoderated by human beings should be shut down. Platforms that generate income from advertising alone only exacerbate the problem by actually making anti-social behavior profitable.
This is not good at all; right wing rising worldwide and now an incipient hot war in the Middle East, thanks to BiBi and his genocidal rage. Why sane people think this is the way the world has to work this way is beyond me. It’s looking as though the infection of hate is purulent and spreading rapidly and we don’t seem to be willing to take the steps to stop it.