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That would be the U.N. Alliance of Civilizations, also known the U.S.-Muslim Engagement Project. Your tweets will be moderated by the likes of Dalia Mogahed and Generation Obama national co-chair Jeremy Goldberg. If you don't like it you can try appealing to the board of directors which includes Omar Kordestani, Marjorie Scardino, Model View Culture promoter Peter Fenton, and a board member of Chelsea Clinton's employer InterActiveCorp, David Rosenblatt.

You got me curious with that statement, so I checked. It seems you're wrong in more than one respect. Breitbart carried a story on it, and there seems to be a bigger game at play.

Kudlow on Administration’s China Trade Actions: ‘Don’t Blame Trump, Blame China’

We now know why Trump suddenly reversed course on sanctions against a Chinese tech giant

For context:
3,393 advertisements purchased (a total 3,519 advertisements total were released after more were identified by the company);
More than 11.4 million American users exposed to those advertisements;
470 IRA-created Facebook pages;
80,000 pieces of organic content created by those pages; and
Exposure of organic content to more than 126 million Americans.
Half of Americans saw their content.

I have to think that the MSM is partly to blame here.

There is really no trusted news authority one can go to for verification or accurate information any more. I suppose there used to be only a *perception* of accurate reporting, but even that has vanished in the age of internet fact-checking.

During the run-up to the presidential election, otherwise legitimate news sources spewed a torrent of contempt, insults, and partisan framing. After the election, those same news sources went absolutely ballistic over the results.

Even today, highly regarded sources such as MSNBC and CNN post factually incorrect statements and politically misleading facts, that have to be quietly walked back a few days later.

Is it any wonder that people look to alternate sources?

You used to be able to go to online fact-checking sites such as Snopes.com and politifact, but even these have been taken over by partisan views. I've researched a couple of Snopes articles myself and found them to be either completely wrong, whitewashed, or highly misleading.

You used to be able to trust polling results: the polling companies made it their business to be accurate. Even now polls that report inconvenient truths are being suppressed.

If the news organizations started simply reporting what happened, instead of trying to get emotional engagement by emotionally framing the facts, people might leave the fringe sources and go back to regular news.

(Of note: CNN's ratings are down 20% compared to a year ago. I cannot understand how they believe what they're doing is in their best interests. I thought it was the fiducial responsibility of a corporation to make money, and pushing a political agenda seems to be a poor strategy for that.)

For context:
3,393 advertisements purchased (a total 3,519 advertisements total were released after more were identified by the company);
More than 11.4 million American users exposed to those advertisements;
470 IRA-created Facebook pages;
80,000 pieces of organic content created by those pages; and
Exposure of organic content to more than 126 million Americans.
Half of Americans saw their content.

I have to think that the MSM is partly to blame here.

There is really no trusted news authority one can go to for verification or accurate information any more. I suppose there used to be only a *perception* of accurate reporting, but even that has vanished in the age of internet fact-checking.

During the run-up to the presidential election, otherwise legitimate news sources spewed a torrent of contempt, insults, and partisan framing. After the election, those same news sources went absolutely ballistic over the results.

Even today, highly regarded sources such as MSNBC and CNN post factually incorrect statements and politically misleading facts, that have to be quietly walked back a few days later.

Is it any wonder that people look to alternate sources?

You used to be able to go to online fact-checking sites such as Snopes.com and politifact, but even these have been taken over by partisan views. I've researched a couple of Snopes articles myself and found them to be either completely wrong, whitewashed, or highly misleading.

You used to be able to trust polling results: the polling companies made it their business to be accurate. Even now polls that report inconvenient truths are being suppressed.

If the news organizations started simply reporting what happened, instead of trying to get emotional engagement by emotionally framing the facts, people might leave the fringe sources and go back to regular news.

(Of note: CNN's ratings are down 20% compared to a year ago. I cannot understand how they believe what they're doing is in their best interests. I thought it was the fiducial responsibility of a corporation to make money, and pushing a political agenda seems to be a poor strategy for that.)

Hillary was trying to make black mad with #BLM stuff.

Oh bullshit. Fuck your RWNJ projection.
Right-wing identity politics are all about excluding anyone who isn't white, evangelical, straight and male from from full citizenship. The list of examples is endless - "war on christmas", Nixon's "silent majority", birtherism, democrats are the enemy of americans, "liberalism is a disease", Falwell's "moral majority", "feminazis", arizona "show-your-papers" law, crisis actors, muslim brotherhood has infiltrated the government, support for Sherif Arpaio, "Obamaphones", etc, etc.

Left-wing identity politics are all about including those people. It's not about making them mad, its about welcoming them as full participants in society by acknowledging their cares and concerns. Much like Dr King said: "Integration...is the welcome participation of Negroes into the total range of human activities."

They want Mexicans coming in waving the Mexican flag chanting "Viva Mexico" while working-class Americans get angry and scared.

The russians and the GOP absolutely want that. While they conveniently ignore identical celebrations of foreign roots like all of the St Patrick's day parades, polish fairs and polka festivals, german oktoberfests, etc because those immigrants are now considered fully "white" (when they originally were half-castes like white hispanics are today).

Describe to me the new tech they're using to enrich uranium. Or encryption methods used to communicate between countries. Or laws and embargo that are going to affect tech and equipment. Or at least something interesting.

Otherwise skuttle away to breitbart or huffpost or somewhere else that suits your fancy.

Just because Obama did it doesn't automatically make it right; just because Trump is doing it doesn't automatically make it right either. Go away and do something useful -- like come up with ideas, not just complain, to your mayor or state representatives. Otherwise, like talk radio, we're just wasting each other's time. I'm not going to convince you, you're not going to convince me, and neither one of us knows what's really going on.

BTW, in the '70s, the world was all "going to soon come to an end" as well. I just wish that this time they'd hurry up and do it before next Christmas so I won't have to shop.

...how many years Trump, sons and lawyers are going to collectively get lol?

Um... none?

You do realize that the Republicans sent a recommendation for prosecution to the AG for Hillary Clinton,
James Comey, Andrew McCabe, and Loretta Lynch, right?

And unlike nebulous charge of "collusion", the recommendation letter lays out the specific actions these people took and the specific federal laws that were broken.

You probably didn't hear about that - the MSM was pretty quiet about it.

And also note that Rep. Dana Rohrabacher claims to have physical proof that the Russians did not hack the DNC.

You knew about that, right?

Also, you do know that the original FISA court warrant was invalid on its face, so any evidence Mueller uncovers would be thrown out, right?

Also, there's been no leaks of evidence from the Muller investigation, even though everything *else* seems to have been leaked. Even when those leaks are a violation of federal law, they still happen, and yet none of them have been about evidence.

Also note that impeaching the president is an extremely high bar to clear. President Clinton was caught on camera in a baldfaced lie to congress and the people of the US ("I did not have sexual relations with that woman"), and was acquitted.

Do you think saying “I hope you can let this go” rises to that level?

You're mad.

So give in to a nut with a gun? Why not take away her her gun?

Did anyone even know she had a gun? Did she show criminal tendencies in the past? Or have a history of poor mental health? I'll admit to ignorance here but I saw nothing on how she got the gun. As far as I know nobody knows yet how she got the gun and therefore nobody can claim any kind of gun control would have been effective.

Gun control in Australia slashed gun crimes.

And banning bridges would prevent people from jumping from them. I see your argument but I think it's a very stupid one.

How about instead of focusing on guns and "gun crime" we look at ALL CRIME? I've seen the argument before on how banning guns would prevent people from shooting themselves in suicides. That did happen in every nation in which it was tried, but total suicides didn't go down, people just found different ways to kill themselves. The problem here was a bat guano crazy lady that wanted to inflict physical harm on people at YouTube. If we find out how she go the gun and put in place a law against it then we'll just see some other kind of violence take its place. I see in Europe it has become popular to run people over with vehicles and slash people with knives, a gun ban didn't stop that. I don't see people calling for bans on vehicles. We did see some crazy laws on the buying of knives in some nations, where now people have to show ID and sign a log to buy a pizza cutter.

Trump might be shit scared on the NRA, but the kids in the schools aren't.

I don't believe Trump is scared of the NRA, he spoke at NRA conventions before. Trump and NRA leadership don't agree on everything but they seem to get along just fine. Seems to me that the school kids are scared of the NRA. They'll talk about how the NRA will get them killed. Well the NRA runs the most popular child gun safety programs and few people even know about it. They don't emblazon the NRA logo on the gun safety program because it's not about getting members, it's about keeping kids safe in school. The Brady Campaign likes to call themselves a "gun safety" organization but where are their animated cartoons telling kids to not touch a gun?

What's needed is gun control.

That's presuming an outcome not supported by the evidence. Alaska and New York have similar murder rates. We know why the murder rate in Alaska is so high, depression is a serious problem. That kind of happens in a place where the sun might shine for only three hours per day in the winter, and it's brutally cold. The state also attracts a lot of young men with not much better to do than turn a wrench on a far off oil well, or spend days at sea fishing. They get in fights, they get drunk, and they tend to kill each other. What's New York's excuse? Or London? London just passed New York City in the number of murders for the first time in a long time.

http://www.breitbart.com/londo...

What's London's excuse for such high rates of crime? They already banned all the guns? Are they going to ban them again? Maybe we need crime control to control the crime. Seems sensible to me.

As much as people hate Breitbart on this forum, their coverage style for breaking news is actually pretty good

It's a page with minute-by-minute updates of what's generally going on in the situation.

As of right now (2:05 CA local time), reports that the shooter is female.

You have to be careful.

The president of the United States intentionally hired a guy into the White House as his Chief Strategist who said this:

"Let them call you racists, let them call you xenophobes. Let them call you nativists. Wear it as a badge of honor."

And bookended his political career running a "news" website that hosts articles like these:

The Solution To Online 'Harassment' Is Simple: Women Should Log Off - Breitbart

How To Make Women Happy: Uninvent The Washing Machine And The Pill - Breitbart

Birth Control Makes Women Unattractive and Crazy - Breitbart

If it were *just* policy differences we can talk, but it's not. It's the people in the highest positions of power in our country intentionally being as racist and misogynistic as possible.

You have to be careful.

The president of the United States intentionally hired a guy into the White House as his Chief Strategist who said this:

"Let them call you racists, let them call you xenophobes. Let them call you nativists. Wear it as a badge of honor."

And bookended his political career running a "news" website that hosts articles like these:

The Solution To Online 'Harassment' Is Simple: Women Should Log Off - Breitbart

How To Make Women Happy: Uninvent The Washing Machine And The Pill - Breitbart

Birth Control Makes Women Unattractive and Crazy - Breitbart

If it were *just* policy differences we can talk, but it's not. It's the people in the highest positions of power in our country intentionally being as racist and misogynistic as possible.

You have to be careful.

The president of the United States intentionally hired a guy into the White House as his Chief Strategist who said this:

"Let them call you racists, let them call you xenophobes. Let them call you nativists. Wear it as a badge of honor."

And bookended his political career running a "news" website that hosts articles like these:

The Solution To Online 'Harassment' Is Simple: Women Should Log Off - Breitbart

How To Make Women Happy: Uninvent The Washing Machine And The Pill - Breitbart

Birth Control Makes Women Unattractive and Crazy - Breitbart

If it were *just* policy differences we can talk, but it's not. It's the people in the highest positions of power in our country intentionally being as racist and misogynistic as possible.

Bad example, the Koch brothers hate Trump
https://www.vanityfair.com/new...

When they agreed with Trump on something Politico actually found it newsworthy and posted a story about it
https://www.politico.com/story...

Trump has a low opinion going back to at least the election
https://twitter.com/realdonald...

Their strong dislike of Trump is still very current
http://www.breitbart.com/big-g...

Other countries like Venezuela, and Australia removed guns from the plebes... and mysteriously the mass shootings stopped. Gee whiz.

Strange, it looks like the number of homicides rose steadily after the gun ban in Venezuela.

Oh look, Maduro is giving guns to his supporters

Here's an example of responsible government gun usage

And another

It's a good thing that they have a ban in Venezuela, it keeps candidates in elections from getting shot

The Gun ban is working so well with petty crime too.

Facebook rolled out its new algorithm in January.

Due to the algorithm, Trump's total engagement dropped by about half, while the engagements of left-wing people such as Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren stayed largely the same.

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You are linking to BREITBART!!!! I could try to argue this issue logically, and with facts, but I conclude there's no chance when you're quoting Breitbart form the start.

Facebook rolled out its new algorithm in January.

Due to the algorithm, Trump's total engagement dropped by about half, while the engagements of left-wing people such as Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren stayed largely the same.

I don't mind healthy competition between political viewpoints, but why does "oops, we're having some trouble with the algorithm" always seem to be in favor of the left?

Really?

http://www.judicialwatch.org/w...

https://thepoliticalinsider.co...

https://lasvegassun.com/news/2...

https://www.ice.gov/news/relea...

https://www.ice.gov/news/relea...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

https://www.justice.gov/usao-w...

http://www.breitbart.com/big-g...

https://www.snopes.com/cascade...

It is harder to trick college educated people into believing false statements.

Is it?

Both of your links (breitbart.com - campusreform.org) are in the "list of the all junk news sources used for this analysis" (source: http://comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/93/2018/02/Polarization-Partisanship-JunkNews-OnlineSupplement.pdf)

In my country (Greece) we have the saying "the smart bird is caught by its nose"...

In this "Oxford study", some "Oxford researchers" decided that some news sources are junk... and the rest is history (now it is "scientifically proven" that Clinton voters are good/smart and Trump voters are bad/dumb)...

I highly doubt that the person you replied to, and most left-wing persons that will use this "study", will ever read it - it is just good for them that they can remain in their darkness satisfied with their-selves...

Has been busted fabricating news ON VIDEO, no less than 2 DOZEN times in the past decade alone... This "Study" is likely just more leftist BS.

I'm just going through the paper right now, but there's a ton of sketchy and indefensible assumptions.

For example, the study relies on a list of sites known to have fake news, with a "representative article" for each site.

Taking one at random, apparently this news article was enough to get Breitbart listed as a "fake news" site.

The problem is that the article in question is completely and totally accurate, but was probably branded "fake news" because it went against the narrative of many Hillary supporters.

Another entry shows hannity.com, and the link (no longer working at Hannity) was about an undercover journalist who managed to impersonate Huma Abedin at the polling station; effectively, able to vote as someone else.

A quick search shows that this actually happened, it's a Project Veritas sting, and there's a youtube.com video of the incident.

It is immediately apparent that neither of these "representative" articles is fake in any way. I couldn't even find inaccuracies or bad framing in the articles - there's no sound reason to say that these are examples of fakery.

This paper does not at all rise to the level of quality and fact-checking that a published paper should have!

It's nothing more than a leftist hit piece.

Note: Check out the people who post one-line insults as a response to an organized argument with links. To mis-quote Chris Farley: "They're awesome"! :-)

It is harder to trick college educated people into believing false statements.

Is it?

but the breaki.n happened and was done by russians was never disputed

Ha ha. You must only get your information from those fake news places. Real Americans who get their information from totally legitimate journalists know that the hack was an inside job and that Trump and Russia are blameless.

And we are supposed to believe that the owner of Fox News is the guardian of quality information presented in an unbiased format? Really?

During the election, I actually had no trouble finding Fox's coverage of the same stories Trump supporters refused to read because it came from the "biased liberal media". Of course, once I posted a link to Fox, they still wouldn't read it, because that's cognitive dissonance for you.

Heck, it wasn't even that hard to find an article on Breitbart where they're not exactly singing the praises of Trump's tax plan. But I'm sure those drinking the kool aid just see it as an acceptable casualty of making sure the country isn't ruined by those damned snowflake liberals, or something like that.

California is currently failing in many respects.

The national economy is up around 3%, and California revenues are also up about 2.9 %.

That's about a 1:1 ratio, but CA grew at twice the rate of the economy in 2016. Their growth is significantly slowed since about two years ago. Also, that 2.9% increase in revenues is offset by about 2% increase in expenses, so it's not going to reduce their deficit a lot.

The CA population has lost about 930,000 people(*) according to census data (linked in the article), mostly middle class. The middle-class in CA have moved away to Arizona, Washington, and Texas leaving the poor and ultra-rich behind. Not completely, of course, but losing that much middle class has gotta put stress on the CA economy.

Their labor force shrank from 62.1% to 59.1% in that same time - a huge decrease to happen in just over a year.

CA is dead last (50th out of 50) in economic freedom.

Some analysts are suggesting that CA is already in a recession.

So... yeah. It's entirely reasonable to predict that California is facing very bad times in the near future.

And by extension, the California management.

(*) Don't bitch about linking to Breitbart. The link to the census bureau report is right there in the linked article.

It wasn't at such a level that they would have to start women only carriages, water parks, and new year's parties. I know it's all nice and PC to pretend that Islam is the religion of peace and all religions and cultures are as good, but it just isn't true

Dhillon recently won an abuse-of-process case against a Berkeley Antifa leader. Sorry about the Breitbart link, but while some of the mainstream media reported the suit when it was filed, I didn't find a mainstream source for the _outcome_ in a quick search. Odd, that.

Twitter admitted under oath that they tried to bury #DNCLeaks tweets calling attention to the fact that Hillary controlled the DNC and rigged the primary for herself.

https://www.washingtontimes.co...
http://www.breitbart.com/big-g...

The numbers of asylum seekers who are likely to find work is minimal. Of the million plus migrants who arrived in 2016 only 54 found a job

http://www.breitbart.com/londo...

Funny that you think that, given that the source linked in the Breitbart article mentioned 400 full time jobs and 1800 interns. And that is from the companies that responded, not all did. Besides, why would you imagine that people who don't speak German and who have little in the way of relevant qualifications would be working in the top few companies in the country? How many people working in top Silicon Valley companies today arrived in America as asylum seekers within the past 18 months?

EU is just as capable as Turkey at controlling their border so if Turkey tried EU would just close the border to Turkey and then Turkey is fucked.

EU countries all signed up to the ECHR which says

1) They can't just shoot migrants arriving

2) They're not allowed to return them because that would violate the principle of 'non-refoulement'

https://eulawanalysis.blogspot...

Basically, the dogmatic point of departure is simple: the EU principle of non-refoulement is anchored in Article 19(2) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU, which contains a prohibition to remove, expel or extradite any person to a State where there is a serious risk that he or she would be subjected to the death penalty, torture or other inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. The Charter should govern the uniform interpretation of the principle of non-refoulement in Union law, both in the Treaties and in secondary legislation (like the Returns Directive and the Qualification Directive). As the prohibition of refoulement is absolute in the ECHR, it should universally be interpreted to be absolute regardless of the legal context of EU law in which it appears. Article 19(2) of the Charter corresponds to Article 3 ECHR, and so must be interpreted the same way (Article 52(3) of the Charter). See the ECtHR ruling in Chahal, and more case law in Kees Wouters, International Legal Standards for the Protection from Refoulement, Intersentia, 2009, p. 307 - 314. The Court of Justice has recognized the absolute nature of the rule in its judgment in Aranyosi (paras 85-87).

https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/eu-...

3) Inside the EU the migrants can claim asylum and even if they are refused they're unlikely to be deported

https://www.express.co.uk/news...

4) The numbers of asylum seekers who are likely to find work is minimal. Of the million plus migrants who arrived in 2016 only 54 found a job

http://www.breitbart.com/londo...

In a survey by the Frankfurter Allgemeiner Zeitung, however, most of the top 30 companies on the German stock exchange (DAX) said they were unable to employ any of the new arrivals. The companies said migrants lacked the necessary qualifications needed to fill any of their roles.

Although the companies surveyed employ four million workers, FAZ reported that between them, they had only hired 54 migrants.

Fifty of these are employed by the German post office, and the vast majority of top German companies hired none at all. Software giant SAP reported having two migrants working for them, and pharmaceutical manufacturer Merck also said they had hired two.

I.e. if Turkey or Libya open the floodgates then there's nothing the EU can do legally to stop large numbers of people being dependent on benefits in the EU indefinitely.

And yet here you are writing things and I'm reading them without any of those companies being involved. But my ISP is still in the loop.

Check the news some time.

Google was recently caught reading the content of documents stored online, and locking people out of access to their own files because Google felt the content was inappropriate.

Twitter bans, shadow-bans, and permanently deletes accounts that have inappropriate content.

Reddit got rid of lots of conversations that had inappropriate content. Note that those conversations are opt-in; meaning, you have to seek them out to view them. People who don't participate in those conversations got those conversations banned because they don't like other people talking about certain things.

It seems conservative viewpoints are overwhelmingly censored for nothing, while liberal viewpoints that flagrantly violate the rules are given a wink and a smile (viz: "let's kill all white people").

Ajit Pai's recent video defending the NN decision was censored by YouTube.

You can post 1-line vanilla text is an anecdote.

The plural of anecdote is not "data".

Here's a graph of the number of illegal immigrants crossing the Hungarian border. Guess what happened on the 18th of October?

http://media.breitbart.com/med...

Here's a graph of suicide attacks before and after the border fence. Suicide bombers being a particularly unwelcome form of illegal immigrant.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibra...

It's insane that foreigners need to go through multiple checks if they enter the US at an airport or port but if they walk across the border no one even knows who they are or what they're carrying.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

The only reason this is even controversial in US politics is because the Democrats know Hispanics vote 70%:30% for them and so they know letting in more Hispanics makes it easier for them to win.

They've even let illegals vote in CA thanks to the Motor Voter law. And if anyone objects the Democrats can call them 'racist'.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca...

Existing law makes it a crime for a person to willfully cause, procure, or allow himself or herself or any other person to be registered as a voter, knowing that he or she or that other person is not entitled to registration. Existing law also makes it a crime to fraudulently vote or attempt to vote.

This bill would provide that if a person who is ineligible to vote becomes registered to vote by operation of the California New Motor Voter Program in the absence of a violation by that person of the crime described above, that person's registration shall be presumed to have been effected with official authorization and not the fault of that person. The bill would also provide that if a person who is ineligible to vote becomes registered to vote by operation of this program, and that person votes or attempts to vote in an election held after the effective date of the person's registration, that person shall be presumed to have acted with official authorization and is not guilty of fraudulently voting or attempting to vote, unless that person willfully votes or attempts to vote knowing that he or she is not entitled to vote.

Plus of course illegals force down wages, and that helps the sort of companies who donate to the Democrats. I.e. they've decided that open borders is in their long term interest. And in their short term interest due to things like Motor Voter. And if anyone objects the Dems can call them 'racist'. I.e. it's in the Dems interest to have open borders. And not have a border wall.

The feminists find they miss it because it means men either don't find them attractive anymore or are at least just flat out ignoring them.

I have to admit I don't see the connection with this one... Yeah, having people delude themselves and acting like assholes isn't harassment, it's being an asshole.

A normal man who flirts with a normal woman isn't being an asshole, even if he doesn't immediately stop. Plenty of women who end up in happy LTRs will laugh and say "his persistence is what got me" or something to that effect. Women usually don't respect men who obediently go away the moment she says "not interested."

Granted, there may be a cultural difference here. I'm a southerner working in a big metropolitan region in the south. I have never seen ANY of the sort of in-your-face behavior in our offices that one would believe is par for the course on the West Coast. So my assumption is normal flirting and push-pull, not "hey babe, wanna fuck in the bathroom?" to a female colleague.

Of course you only hear this from the usual suspects on the alt-right: Breitbart, Alternet, Counterpunch, World Socialist Website, etc...

They're all alt-right now, along with feminists who support women and gays who oppose getting thrown off rooftops and Jews who oppose being exterminated from their own homeland. If you didn't get the memo, expect to lose your job and be blacklisted across Silicon Valley while they import foreigners to replace you.

Of course you only hear this from the usual suspects on the alt-right: Breitbart, Alternet, Counterpunch, World Socialist Website, etc...

They're all alt-right now, along with feminists who support women and gays who oppose getting thrown off rooftops and Jews who oppose being exterminated from their own homeland. If you didn't get the memo, expect to lose your job and be blacklisted across Silicon Valley while they import foreigners to replace you.

...or in Sweden

http://www.breitbart.com/londo...

If not for double standards, the left would have no standards at all.

He "self identifies" as autistic. According to the left's rules, that's good enough for him to qualify as a woman or black. But not autistic?

If I self-identify as Muslim then can I rape your daughter?

If not for double standards, the left would have no standards at all.

He "self identifies" as autistic. According to the left's rules, that's good enough for him to qualify as a woman or black. But not autistic?

MPAC dossier, page 9

Its July 1999 issue featured Ayatollah Khomeini and Osama bin Laden on its cover, with a headline "The Spirit of Jihad." Inside, bin Laden was identified as a "freedom fighter and philanthropist."

After 9/11 made Osama too much of an embarrassment, they did portray him as a villain.. as a puppet controlled by Dick Cheney or working with The Jews.

What's the relevence? This is the group that runs Twitter, Reddit, Wikipedia, Mozilla, Metafilter, BoingBoing, etc, as part of a federally funded Internet censorship program called "Viral Peace" that is run out of the Berkman Center at Harvard University. Gamergate happened when they rolled out the censorship machine two years early to cover up a racketeering scandal. (It was supposed to be a secret weapon against Hillary's opponents in the 2016 election.) The autistic gamers have spent three years finding out what happened, and the signs pointed back to the feds protecting a censorship bureau run by Islamists.

MPAC was placed there by Lisa Monaco. Yes, the Department of Homeland Security put Islamists in charge of censoring the Internet. No one in the MSM considers this a scandal but everyone wants to talk about Russia buying ads on Facebook.

Now take a look at who is often accused of being "alt-right" and "white supremacist." Steve Bannon, Sebastian Gorka, Ben Shapiro, Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, Cathy Young, Phyllis Chesler, Melanie Phillips, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Milo Yiannopoulos, Bill Maher, Julian Assange, Jordan Peterson, Dave Rubin, David Auerbach, and then there are a few open Nazi LARPers like Richard Spencer that they point at to justify censoring the rest. Many of the people who are accused of being "alt-right" are not White Supremacists. They are anti-terrorist, or they are aligned with Hillary Clinton's political opponents, or they just got in the way of the censors. Take a hint, if the Zionist Organization of America or the Jerusalem Post honors somebody then they are probably not a Nazi.

You give the electorate way too much credit. The situations are often nuanced and most won't investigate the nuances such that over-simplified sound-bites "work".

I agree that the current electorate is like this, by liberal progressive design. 150 years ago, people were focused like a laser on politics and far better informed and educated than today. As a result, today the idiots votes can be persuaded with enough air time, and that is the only way the liberal progressives who want to abridge half the bill of rights ever get elected. My point was, eliminate the state run public schools, teach students how to think, and they will no longer be easily manipulated by the media or political ads.

As far as CNN, you can start with this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

And this: http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/2...

Off the top of my head, CNN predicted that Comey would testify that he did not tell Trump he was in the clear regarding Russia, the next day Comey testified that he did in fact tell Trump that he was not under suspicion.

CNN has played this Trump Russia collusion thing non stop for 9 months, and it turns out the people getting indicted are Democrat operatives and they are being indicted for actions taken before joining the Trump campaign and in collusion with the Democrats... including Hillary Clinton.
http://www.nationalreview.com/...

Oh, and you probably haven't even heard about this if you watch CNN (Bill and Hillary's bribery scheme to sell and illegally export 20% of US Uranium reserves to Russia) where they made over $100M for their foundation, that pays for all their living expenses except their house and their meals... http://www.breitbart.com/radio...

Look, if you really wanted to hurt my feelings, you'd say that while wearing an adult diaper.

Well then, Trump and his apologists like yourself, will have nothing to worry about now, won't they...

I agree with this sentiment entirely.

I would *love* to have our two parties compete for leadership in this country, but by now I'm convinced that it's never gonna' happen.

I'm dismayed that we (the government, through our taxes) are paying for an investigation with negligible chances of finding anything, but at the same time I realize it keeps "them" busy and out of trouble.

I'm also dismayed that there's an apparent double standard in legal consequences, where James Comey can admit to leaking and gets to write a book about it, while Reality Winner (a commoner) sits in prison denied bond.

I think we may be seeing the death of the Democratic party, to be quickly followed by the death of the Republican party.

It used to be that "money buys votes", through advertising and endorsements, but the internet has managed to break through that barrier. Looking at the recent Alabama special election (to replace Jeff Sessions' vacant Senate seat), the "establishment" candidate spent about $137 per vote on the election, and still lost. Hillary Clinton spent about $1.4B against Trump's $1B and still lost.

No longer can people get away with outright lies - it's too easy to look up the primary source. No longer can people get away with puffery or exaggeration - it's too easy to look up the primary source. News sources who have previously survived on making exactly those sorts of techniques are becoming irrelevant.

We seem to be transitioning from "Republican vs Democrat" to "Populist vs Globalist".

Let them have their investigation, it doesn't really matter. They're not taking responsibility for their actions, they're not making any change to *themselves* to compensate.

They're not going to evolve, and we all know how that works out.

Facebook's discrimination against anyone that isn't progressive or liberal is very well documented. Unfortunately this is an issue as they have a monopoly on social media the likes of which the world has never seen. This gives them the ability to manipulate public discussion and discord that is the envy of many nation states. An example of Facebook abusing their monopoly is their attempts to redefine the truth using progressive political activists as fact checkers.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016...
http://dailycaller.com/2016/12...
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2...
http://www.breitbart.com/radio...

People are waking up and realizing that the facebook ministry of truth is more focused on propaganda than facts. It hasn't even been a year and their fact checking efforts are having only a very slight difference or even backfiring.

https://www.theatlantic.com/te...

However, Facebook will unquestionably learn to be more subtle in their political manipulations in the future. When you privatize the public square you also effectively privatize constitutional rights. Should facebook be broken up or regulated? Their position, power and propensity to abuse their power has created a threat to our democracy.

Facebook banned Bosch Fawstin, winner of the Draw Mohammed contest that was attacked by terrorists

Facebook censored war correspondant Michael Yon

Facebook bans Arab atheist pages

Facebook banned Anonymous Germany for posting police statistics about immigrant crime

Facebook suspended a Dutch MP for criticizing Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Facebook suspended Syrian blogger PartisanGirl for making fun or ISIS

Facebook banned a guy for calling the Muslim Brotherhood liars

Facebook banned a liberal Muslim Shireen Qudosi for insulting a member of the Muslim Brotherhood front CAIR.

Facebook suspended Stop Islamization of America for opposing the massacre at an Orlando gay bar

Facebook banned Gaystream for opposing the massacre at an Orlando gay bar

Facebook banned a researcher for reporting on crime by Muslim immigrants in Sweden

Facebook censors a news article exposing the racist words of a Muslim activist.

Facebook finds that the page Stab Zionists meets their community standards and refuses to remove it.

If someone wants to look for foreign interference in Facebook, they should start with the moderation staff.

Facebook banned Bosch Fawstin, winner of the Draw Mohammed contest that was attacked by terrorists

Facebook censored war correspondant Michael Yon

Facebook bans Arab atheist pages

Facebook banned Anonymous Germany for posting police statistics about immigrant crime

Facebook suspended a Dutch MP for criticizing Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Facebook suspended Syrian blogger PartisanGirl for making fun or ISIS

Facebook banned a guy for calling the Muslim Brotherhood liars

Facebook banned a liberal Muslim Shireen Qudosi for insulting a member of the Muslim Brotherhood front CAIR.

Facebook suspended Stop Islamization of America for opposing the massacre at an Orlando gay bar

Facebook banned Gaystream for opposing the massacre at an Orlando gay bar

Facebook banned a researcher for reporting on crime by Muslim immigrants in Sweden

Facebook censors a news article exposing the racist words of a Muslim activist.

Facebook finds that the page Stab Zionists meets their community standards and refuses to remove it.

If someone wants to look for foreign interference in Facebook, they should start with the moderation staff.

Facebook banned Bosch Fawstin, winner of the Draw Mohammed contest that was attacked by terrorists

Facebook censored war correspondant Michael Yon

Facebook bans Arab atheist pages

Facebook banned Anonymous Germany for posting police statistics about immigrant crime

Facebook suspended a Dutch MP for criticizing Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Facebook suspended Syrian blogger PartisanGirl for making fun or ISIS

Facebook banned a guy for calling the Muslim Brotherhood liars

Facebook banned a liberal Muslim Shireen Qudosi for insulting a member of the Muslim Brotherhood front CAIR.

Facebook suspended Stop Islamization of America for opposing the massacre at an Orlando gay bar

Facebook banned Gaystream for opposing the massacre at an Orlando gay bar

Facebook banned a researcher for reporting on crime by Muslim immigrants in Sweden

Facebook censors a news article exposing the racist words of a Muslim activist.

Facebook finds that the page Stab Zionists meets their community standards and refuses to remove it.

If someone wants to look for foreign interference in Facebook, they should start with the moderation staff.

Facebook banned Bosch Fawstin, winner of the Draw Mohammed contest that was attacked by terrorists

Facebook censored war correspondant Michael Yon

Facebook bans Arab atheist pages

Facebook banned Anonymous Germany for posting police statistics about immigrant crime

Facebook suspended a Dutch MP for criticizing Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Facebook suspended Syrian blogger PartisanGirl for making fun or ISIS

Facebook banned a guy for calling the Muslim Brotherhood liars

Facebook banned a liberal Muslim Shireen Qudosi for insulting a member of the Muslim Brotherhood front CAIR.

Facebook suspended Stop Islamization of America for opposing the massacre at an Orlando gay bar

Facebook banned Gaystream for opposing the massacre at an Orlando gay bar

Facebook banned a researcher for reporting on crime by Muslim immigrants in Sweden

Facebook censors a news article exposing the racist words of a Muslim activist.

Facebook finds that the page Stab Zionists meets their community standards and refuses to remove it.

If someone wants to look for foreign interference in Facebook, they should start with the moderation staff.

Today I go to Breitbart first, to find out what's going on.

By "what's going on", I assume you mean, "brown people and feminists are trying to kill me", "jews are devils and you know they're bad because their names are always surrounded by emojis of globes" and, "Nazis aren't really bad, it's the people who are against Nazis who are bad".

http://www.breitbart.com/big-g...

https://www.democraticundergro...

http://www.breitbart.com/big-g...

[Note: the original Breitbart typography to denote jews was the triple-parentheses, as in, "(((Jared Kushner)))". The switch to globe emojis is one of their more recent innovations. I assume that they'll eventually just go straight to using yellow stars.]

Today I go to Breitbart first, to find out what's going on.

By "what's going on", I assume you mean, "brown people and feminists are trying to kill me", "jews are devils and you know they're bad because their names are always surrounded by emojis of globes" and, "Nazis aren't really bad, it's the people who are against Nazis who are bad".

http://www.breitbart.com/big-g...

https://www.democraticundergro...

http://www.breitbart.com/big-g...

[Note: the original Breitbart typography to denote jews was the triple-parentheses, as in, "(((Jared Kushner)))". The switch to globe emojis is one of their more recent innovations. I assume that they'll eventually just go straight to using yellow stars.]

Two storms of unusual magnitude, exceptional temperatures in parts of CA, but hey, climate change is worldwide con, right?

Not a con, closer to a religion.

Scientists who want to speak out are threatened in various ways, the arguments are made by insult and bullying, some (read: some) of the methods are sketchy, and some of the data has been manipulated.

I used to be a climate change believer, until about a year ago when it was highlighted as a political issue, and not an issue of science. I had been blinded by everyone saying things like "the science is settled" and "all scientists agree" and so on. It was an epiphany to discover that something I held as "obviously correct" was based on, effectively, nothing.

Well, the science is not settled, the "all scientists agree" is taken out of context and doesn't refer to what you think it does, the data has been manipulated, and most importantly critique and debate are not allowed.

The whole issue also conflates the political decisions with the science. Anyone who disagrees with the political policy, such as carbon credits or reducing US birth rate, is called stupid for not believing in science.

Interpretation by a chosen elite, evidence in either direction supports the conclusion, disbelievers are harassed and threatened, discussion and disagreement are not allowed... that sounds like a religion.

Climate change is a religion.

Two storms of unusual magnitude, exceptional temperatures in parts of CA, but hey, climate change is worldwide con, right?

Not a con, closer to a religion.

Scientists who want to speak out are threatened in various ways, the arguments are made by insult and bullying, some (read: some) of the methods are sketchy, and some of the data has been manipulated.

I used to be a climate change believer, until about a year ago when it was highlighted as a political issue, and not an issue of science. I had been blinded by everyone saying things like "the science is settled" and "all scientists agree" and so on. It was an epiphany to discover that something I held as "obviously correct" was based on, effectively, nothing.

Well, the science is not settled, the "all scientists agree" is taken out of context and doesn't refer to what you think it does, the data has been manipulated, and most importantly critique and debate are not allowed.

The whole issue also conflates the political decisions with the science. Anyone who disagrees with the political policy, such as carbon credits or reducing US birth rate, is called stupid for not believing in science.

Interpretation by a chosen elite, evidence in either direction supports the conclusion, disbelievers are harassed and threatened, discussion and disagreement are not allowed... that sounds like a religion.

Climate change is a religion.

We have to vote agaisn't our own self interests as those guys on AM radio and Fox make seem voting for anyone who favors us as pretty scary. If we give them some more free money they will be nice to us.

Our side has been actually doing something about it.

Lots of Republican congress seats are coming up in 2018, and many of them realize that if they don't get off their butts and do something, they're going to be voted out. There's a mood running through the population right now to that specific effect: people are saying "do something or we'll kick your butt to the curb in next year's elections".

Many Republicans are worried that they'll lose to a challenger in the upcoming primary if they don't start doing things.

Some are planning to use the upcoming debt-limit deadline (end of Sept) to force the Democrats to fund building the wall(*).

And Trump is being selective with his support for certain campaigns, with the result that not having POTUS support makes it increasingly difficult to win reelection. Karma for RINOs.

All these things are putting pressure on Republicans to start making decisions that favour the American people.

You might try asking your side to do that as well. I'd *love* to see the two sides compete for the role of "best leadership".

Here's a hint: marketing tag-lines such as "a better deal" without specific policies to back them up simply won't work.

(*) But with Hurricane Harvey in Texas there's talk of putting that off a few months so that the government doesn't shut down and leave Texas in the lurch.