Tuesday Links - 20 December

The Post Millennial is up first with BREAKING: Elon Musk joins Twitter space with woke journalists, informs them they’re not special—doxxing rules apply to them. The HORROR! They are not special.

Elon Musk joined a Twitter Spaces on Thursday and told journalists that despite their noble and storied profession they will get “no special treatment” when it comes to policies on doxxing, or sharing real-time location information of others.

“As I’m sure everyone who’s doxxed would agree,” Musk told listeners to the Spaces, “drawing real time information about somebody’s location is inappropriate.

Blazing Cat Fur - Qatargate in Europe: The Left’s ideological pact with Islam is far beyond corruption

“Political Islam: How the Muslim Brotherhood Gained a Foothold in Brussels”. The weekly Marianne’s investigation on newsstands recounts a scandal that goes far beyond corruption and which has just led to the arrest and searches of numerous MPs and politicians and parliamentary assistants in the European Parliament, accused of corruption in dealings with Qatar.

The Other McCain - Propaganda, ‘Misinformation’ and Other Lessons From Communist History

Everything you need to know about the motives and methods of the 21st-century Left can be learned from studying 20th-century Communism. What Mises said about Marx and Engels, and the ad hominem quality of their rhetoric — slander and insults, rather than actual arguments — was even more true of Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, et al. Having once seized power, the Bolsheviks immediately proceeded to suppress all potential rivals.

Pirate's Cove - Democrat Denver Mayor Upset Over Illegals In His Town

Well, hey, don’t complain, you supported illegal immigration when it was just a few showing up in Denver. You were all in because Trump was trying to dramatically reduce illegals. Denver is an unofficial sanctuary city, but, they did pass an ordinance in 2017

The Other McCain also has Last-Minute Christmas Gift Ideas

We all remember that fateful Christmas Eve in 1988, when the nation was gripped by fear as notorious international terrorist Hans Gruber (who was German, you know, despite speaking with a distinctly British accent) and his gang held dozens of hostages inside LA’s famous Nakatomi Plaza. Those of us who watched it still remember the feeling of shock — it was so incredible that we couldn’t believe it was actually happening — followed by the sense of relief and gratitude as we learned that the hostages (most of them, anyway) had been rescued by the heroic New York City Police Lt. John McClane.

Steve MacDonald at Granite Grok - Truth

The decline and fall of truth is, sadly, our legacy in the 21st Century. Science is defined by political rhetoric, and opposing the popular thing is labeled as misinformation or disinformation.

Don Surber is fighting the good fight. I paused Google Ads

I am too old for games. Someone needs to tell these Internet Overlords that they are not our masters. If I believe in free speech it requires me to speak freely. If I will not stand up for myself, who will?

Wombat-socho - A Book Post For Hanukkah

You know it’s been too long since the last book post when you have to go back and look at the archives to see when you did the last one and what you covered. I’ll try to do better next year.

Again from The Other McCain - Crime Is Not Just a Statistic

A friend sent me the video of a robbery in Chicago this week in which the victim was his mother-in-law. The robbers stole her $50,000 Jeep Grand Cherokee, and police tell CWB Chicago that this gang of robbers is believed to be responsible for many other such recent crimes.