2825

TIL. Thanks.

2826
2827

Good. If the Nazis want their safe space, more power to them.

2828

I wonder how much of that is folks d/l-ing to troll the nazis.

2829

I don’t know, but it makes me happy to imagine it’s a lot!

2830

Social media is occasionally good!*

*Not Facebook though

2831

Yeah, the BBC has noticed too:

Poor snowflakes. They need a safe space to spew their crap.

2832

Two points:

  1. A lot of these downloads are probably Biden voters wanting to gloat.
  2. If Trumpists want to all hang out on Parler together, more power to them. But nothing is going to change the fact that it’s Nazis/racists/gross shit all the way down.
2833

Editor’s note: substitute “MeinSpace” for Parler".

2834

None of these assholes are going to stick to Parler. They need an audience, and there is none there. They can download away.

2835

The new “tapir”?

2836
2837

I’ve mentioned this before, years ago, but this should still surprise no one: social media and disinformation is free to the readers and listeners while more than a fair bit of critical journalism and quality information is paywalled…so which do we think the masses are exposed to more often?

2838

Very good point. I think the US equivalent of an unbiased public broadcaster / media outlet is NPR? Perhaps their budget really needs a HUGE boost?

2839

Every time I think of NPR I think of late night radio shows peddling crap.

There has to be a better way though than what we’re doing now. Not enough people engage with quality journalism. Locking articles just causes people to flock to other and sometimes inferior sources.

2840

Soo… you’re telling us that you have NPR confused with something else?

2841

Possibly. I’m referring to the AM radio a number of truckers listen to. They call it public radio.

2842

Pretty much every NPR affiliate in the country either plays wall-to-wall classical or jazz music or a live feed of the BBC from midnight to 6 am, so, no, I don’t believe those truckers you’re referring to are listening to NPR.

2843

Whatever happened to Music from the Hearts of Space? I haven’t heard that on any NPR stations in years.

2844

Still airing on bunches of public radio stations. They have a pretty keen website with a pulldown search for stations in your state that carry them: https://v4.hos.com/home