The Daily Blog Open Mic – 10th April 2025
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
The Editor doesn’t moderate this blog, 3 volunteers do, they are very lenient to provide you a free speech space but if it’s just deranged abuse or putting words in bloggers mouths to have a pointless argument, we don’t bother publishing.
All in all, TDB gives punters a very, very, very wide space to comment in but we won’t bother with out right lies or gleeful malice. We leave that to the Herald comment section.
EDITORS NOTE: – By the way, here’s a list of shit that will get your comment dumped. Sexist abuse, homophobic abuse, racist abuse, anti-muslim abuse, transphobic abuse, Chemtrails, 9/11 truthers, Qanon lunacy, climate deniers, anti-fluoride fanatics, anti-vaxxer lunatics, 5G conspiracy theories, the virus is a bioweapon, some weird Bullshit about the UN taking over the world and ANYONE that links to fucking infowar.
In an old book The Boys from Brazil published 1976 written by Ira Levin born 1929 so a teenager through WW2.
At the end he has Rabbi Liebermann say about what happened to the Jews – ‘Nazis made it happen. People who would even kill children to get what they wanted.’ …’I say in my talks it takes two things to make it happen again, a new Hitler and social conditions like in the thirties. But that’s not true.
It takes three things: the Hitler, the conditions….and the people to follow the Hitler.’
It seems that the combination of vile circumstances mixes and solidifies into ‘evil’.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Levin
Ira seems to have been outstanding and perceptive as a writer with a wry humour. This book might have some insights to guide us. In 1970, Levin wrote the science-fiction novel This Perfect Day about a technocratic dystopia, for which he won a Prometheus Award in 1992.
Respect to the volunteer mods—striking the balance between open discussion and keeping out the trolls isn’t easy. With a few major strikes happening this week, anyone got links to ground-level updates?