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On May 11, 1996, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 took off from Miami International Airport bound for Atlanta. A little over one hour into the flight, an improperly stored oxygen generator exploded in the airplane’s cargo hold. Seconds later, a fire broke out in the passenger cabin and the plane began rapidly losing electrical power. At this point, a fateful decision was made to open the cockpit and, as the plane banked hard toward the nearest airport to make an emergency landing, the flight crew became incapacitated by smoke. All 110 people on board ValuJet Airlines Flight 592 died when the plane crashed into the Florida Everglades.
Although it was perhaps unfair, the carrier took the blame for this incident. The brand “ValuJet” had always been “vaguely unsettling,” according to TIME magazine , in part because it evoked in the minds of consumers corner-cutting measures that only reduced the cost of flying at higher risk to passengers. Within a year, “ValuJet” was gone. The carrier bought out the smaller competitor AirTran Airways, assumed its name, and resumed normal business operations. But the carrier’s fleet continued to suffer malfunctions associated with “an array” of “maintenance problems.” The problem was the product, not the brand. In 2010, Southwest bought out the airline, and the troubled carrier had ceased all operations by 2014.
I was reminded of this story by a spasm of outrage on the progressive left over the term “woke.” Amid the dawning realization among Democratic political professionals that the uncompromising, absolutist, and illiberal brand of social-justice activism overtaking their party is an electoral drag, the party’s youngish activists are trying to anathematize the word that describes this phenomenon. But the problem is the product, not the brand.
“What went wrong is this stupid wokeness,” said Democratic strategist James Carville when asked why Democrats lost winnable races in places like Virginia, New Jersey, Minneapolis, Buffalo, and Seattle. Everything from the movement’s race essentialism to its hostility toward law enforcement is a proven political loser. The party’s activist class, Carville suggested, “need to go to a woke detox center or something.” To this, one of […]
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Most “Conservative” News Outlets Are on the Big Tech Teat
Not long ago, conservative media was not beholden to anyone. Today, most sites are stuck on the Big Tech gravy train.
I’ll keep this short. The rise of Pandemic Panic Theater, massive voter fraud, and other “taboo” topics have neutered a majority of conservative news sites. You’ll notice they are very careful about what topics they tackle. Sure, they’ll attack Critical Race Theory, Antifa, and the Biden-Harris regime, but you won’t see them going after George Soros, Bill Gates, the World Economic Forum, or the Deep State, among others.
The reason is simple. They are beholden to Big Tech, and Big Tech doesn’t allow certain topics to be discussed or they’ll cut you off. Far too many conservative news outlets rely on Google, Facebook, and Twitter for the bulk of their traffic. They depend on big checks from Google ads to keep the sites running. I don’t necessarily hold it against them. We all do what we need to do to survive. I just wish more would do like we have, which is to cut out Big Tech altogether.
We don’t get Google checks. We don’t have Facebook or Twitter buttons on our stories. We don’t have a YouTube Channel (banned), an Instagram profile (never made one), or a TikTok (no thanks, CCP). We’re not perfect, but we’re doing everything we can to not owe anything to anyone… other than our readers. We owe YOU the truth. We owe YOU the facts that others won’t reveal about topics that others won’t tackle. And we owe America, this great land that allows us to take hold of these opportunities.
Like I said, I don’t hold other conservative sites under too much scrutiny over their choices. It’s easy for people to point fingers when we’re not the ones paying their bills or supporting their families. I just wish there were more who would make the bold move. Today, only a handful of other major conservative news outlets have broken free from the Big Tech teat. Of course, we need help.
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