Lone Candle
Champion of Truth
If Thailand maintains its low fertility rate for 200 years, it will have a population of 2 million. That’s smaller than Houston right now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F7_qa-XLBg
Former MAGA influencer tells how she fell into a hole of lies and bullshit and then became a lie and bullshit spewer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcmZUpCUf7I
The right’s dishonest response to violence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANWsT2I6iMY
Democrats have a difficult media arena because Republicans have a synergistic bullshit ecosystem that globs onto the same messages and is naturally integrated from biased news to biased think tanks to biased pundits and influencers. It even ropes in people whose content isn’t focused on politics, but they fall for the bullshit, and then become bullshit spreaders themselves, like Joe Rogan.
People say don’t clickbait, but they only click the clickbait, so they are voting with their clicks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvNTseFey68
A Biden tweet about football was doing better than a Musk tweet, so Musk had engineers come in on off-hours and “fix it” so that his own post would do better.
Musk has turned Twitter/X into his personal propaganda machine that leans right wing.
After Shirley’s daycare video accusing specific day care centers of fraud simply because they didn’t open up their doors to a group of men, the state checked on those centers and found they were all operating normally.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7ZG_xWYLzI
“Paul is understandably upset about a video about him that has been posted to YouTube.
The video “is a calculated lie, falsely accusing me of taking money from Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro,” wrote Paul in the Post. “It is, of course, a ludicrous accusation, but paid trolls are daily spreading this lie across the internet. This untruth is essentially an accusation of treason, which then leads the internet mob to call for my death.”
In short, it is “a provably false defamatory video,” according to Paul.
Defamation is a crime. And Paul is not without options for addressing it.
For one, he can use his own speech—as he is doing—to counter the false information. Paul has his own channels of communication, huge audiences on social media, and relatively easy access to mainstream media outlets, like the Post. He is not without options for correcting the record here.
He could also threaten to sue the creators(s) of the video. Sometimes, the threat of legal action is enough to get results—and in fact, that’s what happened here.
“The individual who posted the video finally took down the video under threat of legal penalty,” per Paul’s Post op-ed.
If the mere threat hadn’t worked, Paul could have actually sued the creator(s) of the video. If he successfully proved the video was defamatory, a court would order the creator to remove it.”
https://reason.com/2026/01/21/rand-paul-turns-against-section-230-citing-youtube-video-accusing-him-of-taking-money-from-maduro/
The guy who attacked Ilham Omar had a sad life of divorces, estrangement from family members, 10 DUIs, and limited money. He supported Trump and followed right wing podcasts. He posted racist stuff online. It’s possible that he blamed his crappy life on the left and blacks, and that motivated his attack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MnQNcbA3QM
There’s a good chance that the Chinese company ByteDance still controls the TikTok algorithm, so Trump’s deal does not solve the national security concerns, yet it makes some of Trump’s friends a lot of money.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Jvd4avDcys
“In a recent op-ed for The Wall Street Journal, Ohio gubernatorial hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy announced his plans to log off of X, citing its “warped projection of reality.” And Ramaswamy isn’t alone in heading for the digital exits. During a recent appearance on Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast, the conservative commentator and former Breitbart editor Raheem Kassam bleakly proclaimed that he was deleting the app from his phone.
“X is a post-apocalyptic cesspool of bots, pedophilia and political illiteracy,” Kassam wrote in a text message when asked about his decision. “I deleted it from my phone because it was making me dumber.”
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A new feature rolled out earlier this year displaying the country where an account is based inadvertently revealed that many of the most active pro-Trump and MAGA accounts are based abroad.”
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/01/18/conservatives-x-twitter-musk-00734196
A lot of internet posts and comments about the ICE shooting are bots or foreign trolls trying to weaken America by riling up its people. Social media companies make money when these bots, trolls, and foreign adversaries are successful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_crFFBfnJo