Sacha Baron Cohen:
Facebook spreads hate, conspiracy and lies.
Those who deny the Holocaust, for example, help enable the next one.
Facebook should be legislated by governments.
Category: human rights
Nazi Party rally grounds, Nuremberg
Recall the egomaniac psychopath who convinced normal people to elect him?
The ‘great and unmatched’ wannabe dictator.
Trump is not Hitler. Hitler was worse. Hitler was smarter.
Trump is a pathetic comedy version — more like Charlie Chaplin.
Much of the NAZI rally footage we’ve seen comes from Nuremberg.
Trump dreams of rallies like this.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
An estimated 200,000 people each year visit the Nazi party rally grounds. It’s crumbling, in fact.
Germans documented everything and most of that documentation survived.
I visited the Nazi Party Rally Grounds Documentation Center, one of those storehouses. They have the name of every Jew, Gypsy, Homosexual, political opponent put on a train to a death camp, for example.
IF you’ve been somehow duped into believing the Holocaust didn’t happen, NEVER speak to me again. You are a moron.
related – Like it or not, Nuremberg’s Nazi past is a tourist attraction
Spineless American Republicans
When Trump is finally gone, these same GOP politicians will suddenly say they were against him the whole time.
It won’t work. They will be #TrumpToxic.
What don’t you UNDERSTAND about Straight Pride?
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The Confession by John Grisham
John Grisham is an activist and board member for the Innocence Project, an organization that fights to exonerate prisoners it deems wrongfully convicted.
This 2010 book looks at the issues of the death penalty through the wrongful conviction of 17-year-old Donté Drumm. He is a star on the high school football team and loved by the girls.
Donté’s is accused of murdering Nicole Yarber, a cheerleader.
It’s set in football mad Slone, Texas.
It’s a very good book. Well told. Some might find it a bit preachy. Repetitive in places.
Travis Boyette is the real killer. The most memorable of the characters, for me. Seems Grisham is skilled at writing complex, weird and evil bad guys.
I agree with Grisham on the death penalty. I’m against it. And still recall the day I made that decision. It was in a High School class in the 1970s where we were discussing the topic.
I’ll consider the USA a backwards nation until they ban it.
The USA will be backwards until the Republican Party finally starts to evolve their platform in the area of human rights.
United States, Japan, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, Belarus, Oman, and Taiwan are some of the most prosperous nations that still have it.
Much of the fictional case presented in the novel is taken from some real-life cases involving defendants on death row.
Handmaid’s Tale – season 2
What can be said that hasn’t already been said?
It’s fantastically well done.
Elisabeth Moss as June Osborne must win every acting award.
Madeline Brewer as Janine should win the rest. And Ann Dowd as Aunt Lydia, of course.
In season 2 I could finally relate to Yvonne Strahovski as Serena Joy Waterford. Her backstory is fascinating.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
… That all said, I’m not sure I can continue with season 3. It’s too violent. Too sad. Too believable in an age where a potential leader of the Gilead theocracy is VP. ☹️
Time’s Person of the Year 2018 – JOURNALISTS
Great decision in an era where dictators and toddler-dictator-wannabes call all criticism FAKE NEWS.
Time magazine’s 2018 Person of the Year title goes to the “guardians and the war on truth.”
The honour has been given to four journalists and a newspaper that Time says “are representatives of a broader fight by countless others around the world. …
The “guardians” are:
- Jamal Khashoggi, the prominent Saudi journalist who was killed in that country’s consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2.
- The Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Md., where five people were shot and killed at the newspaper’s offices in June.
- Maria Ressa, a detained Philippine journalist who is head of independent news website Rappler.
- Reuters journalists Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, who have been jailed in Myanmar for nearly a year.
CBC – Time names killed, jailed journalists as 2018 Person of the Year
