Canadian e-commerce platform Shopify is defending the right of its clients to sell antisemitic, Holocaust-denying merchandise on its platform.
As Bloomberg reports, a store identified by the Anti-Defamation League is selling anti-Jewish propaganda, including parodies of the likeness of Anne Frank. Naturally, the store is marketing the problematic wares on Elon Musk's X-formerly-Twitter, a place that has become the de facto online forum for hate speech and disinformation.
The seller fired back, arguing in an email to Bloomberg that "Free speech is our inalienable right and extends to what we wear."
But Shopify maintained an icy silence in response to multiple requests for comment. In other words, the company seems glad to take a cut from sales of fascist propaganda.
He specifically attributed the probable creation of "some of the original viral lines" to a researcher at the University of North Carolina, although conceded that he couldn't actually prove it.
A long while back, 1969-75, I "studied" with the frenzied cult of Jehovah's Witnesses. Looking back I'm fucking embarrassed about the whole thing. There was 2 anxious reasons for it that had significant influence excluding my religious family environment.
The 1st anxious reason was the overwhelming abundance of hot good looking "witness" girls who, for some reason, dressed as slutty as they could, fuck, I can't think of one set of legs that wasn't appealing...and they wanted boyfriends ASAP. Second anxious reason, the Hall Elder is a former cop appointed Crown Prosecutor, he was also my neighbor and fishing buddy of my father...he also informed me that I'm going to be a cop. He hands me a yellow paper and tells me to sign it. No interviews and review committee, no character reference etc, just show up at the department on the date and prepare for 6weeks training in Aylmer Ontario. That's how close I was to becoming a cop...I pulled out at the last moment, long story short, I was to begin undercover in Hamilton. I just wanted a regular officer job that demanded only driving around processing detainees.
There was eventually the time when I started asking questions, things were getting complicated. I like to figure things out or learn how to figure them out..."God works in mysterious ways" wasn't cutting it anymore. There was no logic in the "GREATEST STORY EVER SOLD" anymore. So I walked.
BUT....I would like this one explained, it's from the King James Version
Kings 1:1
36 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, "AMEN": the Lord God of my lord the king say so too.
The "LORD GOD OF MY LORD"
The way I read it is that Benaiah's LORD, has a LORD GOD over him.
A direct, logical explanation without nuance or delusion would be great.
