Nikki Haley vows to abolish anonymous social media accounts: ‘It’s a national security threat’::WPDE covers news, sports, weather, and local events in and around the Grand Strand, Pee Dee, and the Border Belt.

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      But that’s different you see. Because money is speech and therefore needs to be protected, including by allowing total anonymity of donors. Whereas we’re talking about online accounts, where people of course never engage in speech or express ideas. Hey, wait a second that can’t be right. Hmmm, okay maybe it’s because she’s saying it’s a security risk, because you don’t know if they’re a foreign national spreading propaganda online. This is totally different from political donations, which of course have never been bribes from foreign powers masked by anonymity… Hey wait! She got us again. Almost like she’s some kind of shill who wipes her butt with the constitution while trying to create a crony supported facist state. No that can’t be.

      But yeah, according to Republicans, money is speech, but speech is not speech. I’m expecting their next campaign platform to be 2+2=5.

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    Republicans really hate privacy don’t they. In 20 years theyre gonna ban bathroom doors so they can make sure the “right” people are in the “right” bathrooms.

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      We really aren’t that far removed from codified segregation. I have parents, who grew up in the NE US, not even in the South, and they remember living with segregation. Separate bathrooms, separate water fountains, different entrances (if people of color were allowed in the establishment at all), etc etc

      And they’re really not that old. Go ask your parents (or grandparents if you’re a little younger. Or both).

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    I agree with Nimarata Hailey, everyone should use their real names in social media and everywhere

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        Hey, you never know, maybe their real name is Meridian Longitude. I’ve never heard of Longitude as a last name but I wouldn’t put it past some parents to name their kid Meridian.

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          lol that was sarcasm. I’m not putting my real name on lemmy but I do think it’s funny she doesn’t use her real name either because her maga supporters would go nuts

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      I looked it up, and it’s actually spelled Nimrata. Which is funny, because it sounds like it would be a romantic language’s feminine form of nimrod.

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        That could be close to the actual etymology. I believe “Nimrod” is the name of a person in the Bible.

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          Nimrod is a biblical figure mentioned in the Book of Genesis and Books of Chronicles. The son of Cush and therefore a great-grandson of Noah, Nimrod was described as a king in the land of Shinar. The Bible states that he was “a mighty hunter before the Lord [and]… began to be mighty in the earth”.

          Some funny trivia with “might hunter”: Bugs Bunny called Elmer Fudd nimrod, saying something like “nice shot, nimrod!” – the insult was that Elmer was a bad hunter. But the obscure reference was lost on most people, much less a child audience (myself included), and so nimrod became a generic insult akin to “idiot” or "imbecile.

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            Maybe I’ve been playing too much Dwarf Fortress lately, but that quote reads so much like something you’d read in Legends mode lol

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    Such a move would lead to an increase in “civility,” Haley believes. “When they know their pastor, their family members can see it, it’s going to help our kids and it’s going to help our country," she said.

    That’s what everyone said about posting next to your real name on Facebook. How did that turn out?

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      Always has been. I remember when the people losing their damn mind about drag were horrified at North Korea’s approved haircut list.

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    Terrible idea. Look, the nerds set up the internet and from the beginning never used their real names. There’s a reason for that.

    So if these genius’ knew better, Hayley should learn from that.

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      “I’m an internet Originalist. What did the founding nerds think? That’s all that matters.”

      I enjoy this take quite a lot and will be using it myself.

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    Why even bother? It’s not like anything is ever done about the non-anonymous threats we currently see. Ffs.

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    The dumb part is this vow doesn’t even make sense on the face of it to protect national security.