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Has The Bachelorette finally gone too far?
Politics tamfitronics Watching Tuesday night’s finale of The Bacheloretteone phrase kept ringing in my mind: The cruelty is the point.The Atlantic’s Adam Serwer wrote those words in 2018 to explain the appeal of Donald Trump’s particularly mean-spirited brand of politics. But the same ethos can be applied to The Bachelor franchise. That has always been true to some extent; as the audience, you are signing up to watch a bunch of hot, over-served 20-somethings fight for the right to get engaged to the lead character over the course of just two months.Nothing about it is natural. You might even say none of it is real.But last night’s conclusion to Jenn Tran’s season, in which the show so callously tore its lead character down, should be all the evidence you need that drama this brutal requires...
Finally, a Federal Court Hits Back Hard at Big Tech on Section 230
Top Stories Tamfitronics This week saw a dramatic turn inour nation’s desperate efforts to clean up the increasingly poisonous onlinesewers that we call social media.First, the backstory. If youpublish a newspaper or newsletter and you publish “illegal” content—encouragecrimes or homicide, offer to sell drugs, promote child porn, advocateoverthrowing a government—you can go to jail. If you publish things that defameor lie about persons or corporations, you can be sued into bankruptcy.If you own a bookstore or newsstandand distribute books, magazines, and newspapers and offer for sale illegalcontent—child or snuff porn, stolen copyrighted material, instructions formaking illegal drugs or weapons—you can also go to jail. And if you sellmaterials that openly defame individuals or corporations, you can be sued intobankruptcy.In the first category, you’d be apublisher. In the second, you’d be a distributor.But what is social...
Finally, Shekarau Breaks Silence On Kano Emirate Tussle
Politics tamfitronics Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, the former Governor of Kano State has revealed why he does not want to meddle in the Kano Emirate tussle.Speaking further on the programme, the political stalwart blamed the crisis on politicians in the state.Shekarau who spoke on Channels TV’s Politics Today said despite being so worried about the emirship crisis in the state he decided not to comment on it, stating that it would be resolved soon.He said, “I am a very senior member of the emirate council and apart from that I governed the state. So, I am a very senior citizen of the state. The day the matter went to court, I said I would not discuss or interfere no matter what.“This bothers me. I am from Kano. I want everything in Kano to be peaceful. We are...
Democrats Finally Have Their Answer to Martyr Trump
Politics tamfitronics Jurisprudence Joe Biden has created a mirror image of Trump’s mythological ascent born of violence.Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images. Earlier this month, but what now seems like a lifetime ago, after the horrific attempted assassination of Donald Trump, the mythologizing bordering on deification of the former president began.Impeachments, indictments, convictions, even an attempted...
