re: #108 Kragar

“I’m so made about the idea of the government knowing about me that I’m going to rant about it on Facebook for days at a time!”

Today I had someone link to a Veteran’s Today article that claimed the police could shut down iPhones to keep you from filming them. They had no idea what Veteran’s Today was, and immediately pulled it down, but apparently the article is trending. [It was actually pretty freaky calling them out, because it was an old friend I hadn’t seen in awhile, and his politics (gun-toting libertarian with Ron Paul crush) and location (Colorado) maybe meant “turned racist.” It turns out he didn’t know, and deleted it while thanking me]

A no-citations piece on an openly racist, anti-Semitic website.

The older and more studied I get, the more I think that ideology is a secondary matter. Your stated philosophy is meaningless if you’re a rube. Hence the right-left convergence of derp.