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The Twitter Gulag Defense Network – the New TCOT?
Maybe not a replacement for #TCOT (Top Conservatives on Twitter), but rather in addition to, and in defense of, that original concept.
First, some history of #TCOT, you can go there and come back or check it out later.
Today Todd Kincannon had a good idea to prevent conservatives on Twitter from constantly being attacked by leftists and tossed into “Twitter Gulag.” Twitter, to keep the spam to a relative minimum, suspends first and asks questions later. Actually, they don’t ask questions at all, it’s up to the person suspended to appeal the suspension, and there’s no guarantee the leftists won’t simply mark you as a spammer again and cause you to have to go through the appeals once more:
Although it has not happened to a great degree some account have been completely banned from Twitter because they were suspended so many times. Not an account disobeying Twitter rules, but an account attacked and ruined because automated leftist run accounts suspended it time after time.
As mentioned earlier there are a variety of people responsible for these suspensions. They come from different liberal groups who support leftist ideals. Most are loosely (a few closely) united with the goal to silence opposition. Some conservatives on Twitter would suggest that there is a deeper reason for these suspensions. The leftists certainly do not hurt Obama and his administration with their actions– quite the opposite and it is likely that this is at the heart of this.
But it goes beyond the suspension of relatively obscure conservatives on Twitter sharing their personal views. There is an agenda. The entire purpose is to silence anyone who does not laud what is deemed ‘politically correct’ and is not supportive of the current Obama administration. Recently we have learned of other ways liberals are seeking to silence alternative new media. Red State’s Erick Erickson and other bloggers received surprise visits from law enforcement after being falsely reported for committing violent crimes. Someone (believed to be the same person in each case and likely to be instigated by Brett Kimberlin Bomber turned left-wing activist) called 911 impersonating the particular blogger claiming he had killed his wife. The SWAT team then shows up at the family’s home. Of course this was illegal and could easily have led to the death of a family member in one of those households. Quite a dirty trick which shows how the leftists are playing this year: win at all odds, forget the means and casualties.
So what did Todd do to combat this? He had an idea:
Today I’m going to announce a method of Twitter Gulag defense. It involves reciprocal following to get folks above certain thresholds.
— Todd Kincannon (@ToddKincannon) January 5, 2013
Here’s how it’ll work. If you want to be in the Gulag defense network, I’ll show you how to register for it. Still working that out.
— Todd Kincannon (@ToddKincannon) January 5, 2013
You’ll follow everybody in it. And everybody in it will follow you. If we get about 3,000 people, then Twitter Gulaging will be done for.
— Todd Kincannon (@ToddKincannon) January 5, 2013
It’s almost impossible to gulag accounts with more than 3,000 followers. So if all of you have that many, no more Gulag.
— Todd Kincannon (@ToddKincannon) January 5, 2013
It’s also a good way to connect up conservative activists. But if some liberals want in, that’s fine too. They shouldn’t be Gulaged either.
— Todd Kincannon (@ToddKincannon) January 5, 2013
The original TCOT kind of fell apart over egos, but is still used daily to disseminate information between conservatives who use Twitter. The TCOT website is still up and running, too. You can go there and see most of the original TCOT bunch, arranged by follower count.
What I’ve learned over the last several years, though, is your sheer number of followers means nothing, except as a way to keep from getting “Gulaged” by leftists marking you as a spammer. Once you get over 1,000 active followers, you Twitter Home Feed starts moving so fast (on Tweetdeck anyway) you can’t follow it anymore. And what good are followers if some are spammers or leftists who can DM you with malware links or lib vitriol?
Quality matters, I think, so I read the bios and the first few tweets before following back. SEO gurus and schmucks, I ignore and eventually they go away. If they get obnoxious, I block ‘em. I NEVER mark lib trolls as spammers, unless they actually do start spamming, I don’t like the idea of buggering up the anti-spam system. You can do what you want, but blocking is more than enough for me.
To join the Twitter Gulag Defense Network, click on the #TGDN search or just go to Twitter and search for “#TGDN, then just send the tweet “Join #TGDN.” That simple. Then read bios, follow a few, and follow back those that follow you that aren’t spammers, pornbots, or leftist trolls.
UPDATE: Here is the list Todd Kincannon created.
Crossposted to Unified Patriots
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Heritage Foundation Welcomes Jim DeMint as New President
I’ll miss Jim DeMint in the Senate, but here’s hoping he’ll make some progress at the Heritage Foundation
Meanwhile, little Chuckie at Little Green Snotballs has his panties in a wad because DeMint might yet make a living.
The nerve!
h/t Michelle Ray
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Raise taxes on the rich? They didn’t GET to be rich by being stupid
With all the clamoring to soak the rich to avoid forcing the fortunate poor* going to work and getting less for free, Great Britain played the “fair share” game and went after more of the income of the evil rich. The rich, not being stupid, simply said ”Tax THIS!” and took measures to keep what they earned:
In the 2009-10 tax year, more than 16,000 people declared an annual income of more than £1 million to HM Revenue and Customs.
This number fell to just 6,000 after Gordon Brown introduced the new 50p top rate of income tax shortly before the last general election.
The figures have been seized upon by the Conservatives to claim that increasing the highest rate of tax actually led to a loss in revenues for the Government.
It is believed that rich Britons moved abroad or took steps to avoid paying the new levy by reducing their taxable incomes.
George Osborne, the Chancellor, announced in the Budget earlier this year that the 50p top rate will be reduced to 45p from next April.
Note: what Obama leftists want to do has been tried. It failed. But of course, they’re smarter leftists in America.
*Fortunate to be in America. Where else on Earth but America do the “poor” have big screen TVs, new cars, video games, cell phones. etc?
Imagine a faraway land that was so prosperous that almost every inhabitant had their own personal Rolls Royce parked inside the garage of a 5,000 square foot house, and had personal chefs that whipped up whatever food they wanted.
Now, imagine about 15 percent of the population of that fictional country only had a 2,000 square foot house, a low-end BMW or Mercedes, and had to go to restaurants to get what they wanted to eat. Would it seem silly to call this group “poor”?
It would seem so to people from less prosperous countries who struggle to find food and warmth on a daily basis, as well as people in the rich country who had the presence of mind not to be fooled by the laughable idea of relative poverty.
Relative poverty is not quite the same as actual poverty, as the story about the faraway land illustrates. No matter how rich a person is, he can always be considered relatively poor when compared to someone wealthier.
Just as the person with more is considered “rich” by the person with less, there’s going to be a leftist Democrat somewhere willing to pit the one against the other in exchange for votes and more power for himself/herself.
Crossposted to Unified Patriots
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“God Bless the Alliance of Free English-Speaking Nations” Daniel Hannan, CPAC 2012 (Full Speech)
European nations have been on a quick march to socialism for many years. Openly socialist nations such as Greece are bankrupt and taking bailouts to stave off the inevitable crash that is to come. They spend the bailout money given them and demand still more.
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Daniel Hannan is a member of the UK Conservative Party, and is well known to conservatives on this side of the pond for a speech he gave as a rebuttal to then Prime Minister Gordon Brown (excerpted below);
You cannot spend your way out of a recession or borrow your way out of debt. And when you repeat, in that wooden and perfunctory way, that our situation is better than others, that we are well placed to weather the storm, I have to tell you, you sound like a Brezhnev era apparatchik giving the party line.
You know and we know and you know that we know that it’s nonsense. Everyone knows that Britain is worse off than any other country as we go into these hard times.
The IMF has said so. The European Commission has said so. The markets say so, which is why the pound has lost a third of its value.
In a few months, the voters will have their chance to say so, too.
They can see what the markets have seen: that you are the devalued Prime Minister of a devalued Government.’
It’s no wonder conservatives in the US, after the video of the speech went viral on YouTube [watch it if you haven't seen it], became enamored of Daniel Hannan the politician – no – the statesman. Quite a few on the right these days are able to articulate what US conservatives believe, but still fewer posses any real power to effect real change. The ones who do posses that power seem weak-willed or to be actually collaborating with the same left which is today reshaping this country into a crumbling shell of its former self. This is why Mitt Romney remains at basically the same poll numbers today he started with at the beginning of the GOP Primaries. This is why conservatives pick up one candidate after another, inspect him or her, and toss them aside to inspect still another. We want not only to believe the politico will do what America needs him or her to do, but we want to hear from their own lips that they understand what trouble we’re in, that they can articulate conservative principles that we believe in.
Daniel Hannan is one who is able to articulate those principles, and though he’s from the United Kingdom, his views, especially in light of his beloved UK going down a failing path, are an apt warning to us in the United States as we struggle to keep arrogant leftist politicians from dragging us kicking and screaming down that same failing path.
From the CPAC website;
“Europe sees you in the rearview mirror,” European Parliament member Daniel Hannan in his address to CPAC today warning that America is headed down the same disastrous road as the European Union.However, Hannan said, “there is still time to turn aside.”
Hannan spoke of the unique and special nature of America’s constitutional order and the prosperity it has created, and that American principles are what makes America exceptional. If America was to adopt European style policies we would become less prosperous and less free.
Hannan said, “To see what makes the US constitution special just look at the others.”
Read the rest-
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