{"id":76489,"date":"2021-01-18T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76489"},"modified":"2021-01-18T06:15:59","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T12:15:59","slug":"against-the-woke-mob-before-it-was-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76489","title":{"rendered":"Against The Woke Mob Before It Was Cool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to say I&#8217;m the world&#8217;s biggest Angela Merkel fan.  American fans of Merkel tend to be be the kind of people who think soccer is a gripping watch and that Governor Walz&#8217;s knobs and levers are a great metaphor for communicating complex public health policy to the knaves.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Er&#8230;people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But she was born in East Germany &#8211; and, unlike today&#8217;s woke mob, understands the inevitable result of their philosophy.  So she earned the woke mob&#8217;s ire last week by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/01\/11\/germanys-merkel-hits-out-at-twitter-over-problematic-trump-ban.html\">coming out against Twitter&#8217;s canceling of the Trump twitter account<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unexpectedly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now, Poland &#8211; a nation that was fighting for its freedom back when America was arguing over whether Miller Lite tasted great or was less filling, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/14\/poland-plans-to-make-censoring-of-social-media-accounts\">firing a shot across Silicon Valley&#8217;s bow<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What do they know that thousands of Bernie Bros and Oberlin grievance studies grads don&#8217;t? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not going to say I&#8217;m the world&#8217;s biggest Angela Merkel fan. American fans of Merkel tend to be be the kind of people who think soccer is a gripping watch and that Governor Walz&#8217;s knobs and levers are a great metaphor for communicating complex public health policy to the knaves. Er&#8230;people. But she was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76491,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76489\/revisions\/76491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}