The Nation: Arrest of Journalists & Filmmakers Covering the Dakota Pipeline, a Threat to Democracy

[Cerridwen]

4. Oh, obviously. It's all over my posting history.

Oh, obviously. It's all over my posting history. Go check it out. You should be able to find nones of posts supporting corporations and siding with arrests of journalists. Just nones and nones of them. /sarcasm (note to any jury called because I just "confessed" to being a corporatist anti-free-press poster; it's called dry and sarcastic and means the opposite of what was written as evidenced by the "nones and nones" comment.)

Or, it could be as I posted: "I prefer to win my battles honestly. I appreciate it when my allies do the same. I am of the opinion the writer for The Nation failed in that respect."

You see, I've worked in politics and I know how easy it is for your adversaries to make up shit about you. I know how easy it is for them to take words out of context and twist them into something else. I know how they create guilt by association. I know how easy it is for them to smear you with words of your allies taken out of context.

I know from personal experience and from what I've helped friends fight, as well as a few decades of watching the press tear down Democrats and activists. I prefer not becoming that which I fight. I also prefer to not have to back-pedal if an ally comes up short. So, I watch what my allies say.

eta: updated and completed thought