RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/August 2020

August 2020
Queer Eye, Jordan Peterson and the battle for depressed men On "Black Ribbon Day", Canadian politicians whitewash the Holocaust based on the Black Book of Communism, which includes Nazi–collaborating fascists, anti-Semitic White Army fighters and czarist officers who oversaw genocidal pogroms against Jews in its list of “victims of communism.” How Do Celebrity Conspiracy Theorists Become Who They Are?Tea Krulos on Richard McCaslin and the Origins of Alex Jones A deep dive into 40 years of right-wing attempts (The Raw Story) to privatize the Post Service Manufactroversy 101, it has been suggested by a few that the BBC should stop playing Elgar’s “Land of Hope and Glory” and Arne’s “Rule, Britannia!” during the Last Night of the Proms. Female-led countries handled coronavirus better, study suggests: Analysis points to earlier lockdowns and lower death rates under likes of Jacinda Ardern and Angela Merkel The Unraveling of America: Or How the cult of rugged individualism sees the social safety net as a sign of weakness WaPo economics reporter Jeff Stein analyzes Trump's new executive orders and it turns out they are not that good Ignore the cancel culture bullshit, free speech fights always targeted the left Open letter to [[Sean David Morton], Federal inmate 1708301081] A testimony on how senior staff at Labour Party worked to prevent a Labour government under Jeremy Corbyn Body bags and enemy lists: Germany is waking up to a broad neo-nazi infiltration of institutions (warning, paywall bitching) Britain First's primo dickhead, and outright moron Paul Golding attempts to storm the BBC in Salford. Resulting in comedy gold. (Would it annoy him even more to know that lesbians successfully stormed the BBC news rooms on air back in the 80's?) Center for Countering Digital Hate's analysis on how effective deplatforming is, using David "They fuck invisible 10 foot lizards, you know. I've seen them" Icke's recent situation as a shining example. (TL;DR It works. And it's wonderful too.) The top 11 jaw-dropping moments of Donald Trump's Axios interview (also a Twitter thread fact checking all of Trump's lies in the interview which number over 100 at this point) The political economy of bullshit: The truth is paywalled but the lies are free How compulsory unionisation makes us more free A timelapse gif of today’s march in Khabarovsk, Russia