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While I've got no idea whether this site is a reliable source for such information...

DefenseOne is owned by Atlantic Media, the 700-person company which also publishes The Atlantic magazine (and Quartz).

Hours after their story ran online it was confirmed by:

The Washington Post
The New York Post
Newsweek
Popular Mechanics.

"It doesn't cause riots (because most white people assume the white youth did something stupid, like fight with the cop or try to grab his gun)"

Odd, because i you take the word white out of the sentence, I think it's still true. In fact, I think that most of the people killed by cops did the most stupid thing they could do: pointed a gun at a cop.

The headline cases are only those where a white cops shoots a black man. Never see much when a white cop shoots a white guy, or a black cops shots a black guy, or a black cop shoots a white guy. Those don't fit the "all cops are racist murderers" narrative pushed by BLM.

For example, there has been virtually no media coverage of the situation and whites have not rioted after the verdict in the Derrick Stafford trial (and his partner Norris Greenhouse). Stafford and Green are the two black cops who shot at an unarmed white man with his hands raised (the video shows) and killed his 6-year old autistic son in the process.

http://nypost.com/2017/03/25/c...

"Video from a police officer’s body camera shows the father, Christopher Few, had his hands raised inside his vehicle while the two deputies collectively fired 18 shots. At least four of those bullets tore into Jeremy, who died within minutes."

"Stafford testified Friday that he shot at the car because he feared Few was going to back up and hit the other deputy, Norris Greenhouse Jr.

“I felt I had no choice but to save Norris. That is the only reason I fired my weapon,” Stafford said.

"Jurors heard testimony that Stafford fired 14 shots from his semi-automatic pistol. Stafford said Greenhouse stumbled and fell to the ground as he tried to back away from Few’s car.

"Stafford and Greenhouse are black. Few is white, and so was his son.

"Before the shooting, Stafford and Greenhouse both had been sued over claims they had used excessive force or neglected their duties as police officers. The Marksville Police Department suspended Stafford after his indictment on rape charges in 2011, but reinstated him after prosecutors dismissed the charges.

That's not to say that there's not steroid-pumped, twitchy cops ready to shoot dogs or people at the drop of a hat, who are probably inclined to profile young black men (per FBI statistics indicating huge skew in rates at which young black men commit violent crimes) and hence are likely to be wrong somewhat more often in their dealing with young black men.

Washington Post:

Police have shot and killed a young black man (ages 18 to 29) — such as Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. —175 times since January 2015; 24 of them were unarmed. Over that same period, police have shot and killed 172 young white men, 18 of whom were unarmed. Once again, while in raw numbers there were similar totals of white and black victims, blacks were killed at rates disproportionate to their percentage of the U.S. population. Of all of the unarmed people shot and killed by police in 2015, 40 percent of them were black men, even though black men make up just 6 percent of the nation’s population.

The most secure system is to host it yourself, and encrypt the contents with a key you only have access to.

"Is that you Hillary?"

Sorry, my jokes are 6 months behind, I meant,"Is that you Jared?"

The mega cities and their suburbs rely on an energy return on energy invested of about 50:1. That ratio currently stands at about 30:1 with the other 20:1 being financed from future generations. As the ratio continues to fall, the systems and services which make the mega cities feasible will cease to function. When the Federal Government no longer exists, there will be no one to transfer wealth from once place to another. The wealth gap is created by borrowing money from children while only redistributing it to a few specific constituencies.

If those places don't adjust their way of life, they will disappear. Which makes the world a better place.

Rural America is dying, but anyone with the means is getting out of those mega cities too.

http://nypost.com/2017/04/01/p...

Many roads on the island remain washed out or blocked by debris, and authorities have had trouble reaching out to truck drivers who can deliver supplies. “When we say that we don’t have truck drivers, we mean that we have not been able to contact them,” Rosselló said.

(ie, Clinton's campaign manager)

Also Trump WH staff, former Chief of Staff; six in total, so far.

Everything's a goddamn political discussion on Slashdot these days, eh?

Well I think I'm a centrist (maybe?)

You do realize we can read your other posts, right?

Like that one, minutes ago, where you quote articles claiming they show how "ads were plugging Black Lives Matter, Hillary's widespread support, and similar topics" and "If those messages helped get Donald Trump elected, why are all the Democrats colluding with Russia?".

When the very articles you "source" report COMPLETELY OPPOSITE.
I.e. They were literally posting fake ads in order to defame "Black Lives Matter, Hillary's widespread support, and similar topics".

You are soooooo far away from center and into radical right-wing bias that the "right" is on the other side of "Here there be dragons", "Here there be serpents", "Copyright 1891, Confederate Press Ltd." and "FREE sandwich with every purchase" signs of your political map.
You're not even blind. You literally hear or read one thing and understand something completely different.
That's moving beyond delusion and all the way into hallucination territory.

http://nypost.com/2017/09/27/r...

Russian internet trolls bought Facebook ads promoting the Black Lives Matter movement to stir up fear and cause political chaos in Baltimore and Ferguson, Missouri, during the 2016 presidential election, a report says.
Sources tell CNN that a Kremlin-backed group known as the "Internet Research Agency" used geographically targeted advertising to fuel political discord in various parts of the US as tensions rose between the black community and police last year.
At least one of the roughly 3,000 ads that the agency bought during the election promoted Black Lives Matter specifically, the outlet reports.
The ad, which was first posted in late 2015 or early 2016, appeared to support the social justice movement - but sources said it could also be seen as depicting it in a negative light.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/2...

The Black Lives Matter ad appeared on Facebook at some point in late 2015 or early 2016, the sources said.
The sources said it appears the ad was meant to appear both as supporting Black Lives Matter but also could be seen as portraying the group as threatening to some residents of Baltimore and Ferguson.

Facebook did not comment for this story but did point to a statement from Facebook's chief security officer, Alex Stamos, who said earlier this month that "the vast majority of ads run by these accounts didn't specifically reference the U.S. presidential election, voting or a particular candidate."
"Rather," Stamos said, "the ads and accounts appeared to focus on amplifying divisive social and political messages across the ideological spectrum -- touching on topics from LGBT matters to race issues to immigration to gun rights."
Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said this week that the aim of the ad-buyers "was to sow chaos."
"In many cases, it was more about voter suppression rather than increasing turnout," he told reporters.

except that it is.. http://nypost.com/2017/09/27/r... Even admitted to by CNN itself, which you can watch live here http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/2...

According to the link you posted, it said that the Russians trolls purchased ads purportedly plugging Black Lives Matter "to stir up fear and cause political chaos in Baltimore and Ferguson, Missouri, during the 2016 presidential election." That was the very first sentence in the link you posted. These ads were not "Democrats colluding with Russia," they were Russians attempting to foment discontent and disruption.

Further down in the link you posted: "The ad, which was first posted in late 2015 or early 2016, appeared to support the social justice movement — but sources said it could also be seen as depicting it in a negative light. “This is consistent with the overall goal of creating discord inside the body politic here in the United States, and really across the West,” explained Steve Hall, former CIA officer and CNN National Security Analyst.... In addition to the BLM posts, sources told CNN that the Russians were pushing ads that promoted gun rights and the Second Amendment — as well as warnings about undocumented immigrants."

In other words, they looked for the issues causing division in America, and hammered on them.

except that it is.. http://nypost.com/2017/09/27/r...

Even admitted to by CNN itself, which you can watch live here http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/2...

but its easier to think it was all one sided and pro-trump, which goes to the heart of the claimed goal in the first place. To divide and heat up tempers.

Why do you hide behind AC posts? That seems pretty cowardice if you ask me. Grow some balls man..

what the hell does "The site believes the ads were [probably] purchased by Russian entities .." mean? Either there is clear evidence that <madeupname> Nikoli Polityetski </madeupname> purchased an add that linked back to an account with the Bank of Moscow, or there isn't. To say that any anti-clinton add _probably_ was purchased by Russian entities, and no body else, is nothing but hearsay and speculation. I hope its not a 'probably' but instead a clearer link than that. Otherwise this is nothing but Jury tampering before a trial (figurative or literal, whatever the case may be)

3000 ads doesn't really seem like a large number to me. I'm pretty sure the 3 or 4 days right before any election, I see nearly that many ads of all the local political races like judges, magistrates, city council, etc. And why is it that most of these articles make it look like all the Russian tampering was pro-trump, when just a day ago there was another article that suggested that these 'Russian entities' were buying a lot of pro Black Lives Matter, as well as anti-immigration ads, in equal amounts. That article suggested these 'Russian entities' where deliberately trying to divide the populace and create racial tensions.

Here is a link to one of the papers re-capping the information. http://nypost.com/2017/09/27/r... Ironically the NYPost cites sources at CNN, which I went back and watched the video with Wolf Blitzer, and yet CNN keeps beating the "Russians cheated to get Trump elected" drum.

It tends to make things inconvenient for people who legitimately bought a song or movie while failing to stop piracy.

A Brittish kayaker was killed by pirates this week, so it is very clear that they do the most serious of harm.

To compare pirates to people who infringe copyright is a travesty which dishonors the real victims of piracy. It is the equivalent of Colbert calling Mitt Romney a murderer. Only Colbert isn't serious when he makes the accusation.

msmash's continued insistence on using the word pirate in lieu of copyright infringement in article after article reinforces the framing language desired by the MPAA and RIAA. It is used to demand harsh punishments for minor crimes. It is also indicative of the biases which tarnishe the reputation of objective news reporting as a whole.

A Brittish kayaker was killed by pirates this week, so it is very clear that they do the most serious of harm.

To compare pirates to people who infringe copyright is a travesty which dishonors the real victims of piracy. It is the equivalent of Colbert calling Mitt Romney a murderer. Only Colbert isn't serious when he makes the accusation.

BeauHD's continued insistence on using the word pirate in lieu of copyright infringement in article after article reinforces the framing language desired by the MPAA and RIAA. It is used to demand harsh punishments for minor crimes. It is also indicative of the biases which tarnish the reputation of objective news reporting as a whole.

Hillary and her supporters spent an estimated $1.2 Billion, roughly twice what Trump spent. And she lost. And she blames the Ruskies for her loss. Seriously?

I can't seem to find the words "Hillary Clinton" or "blame" in this article. I think maybe you're the obsessed one...

Hillary and her supporters spent an estimated $1.2 Billion, roughly twice what Trump spent. And she lost. And she blames the Ruskies for her loss. Seriously?

This is just a dry run by Google to see what they can get away with

"Lots" and "relatively few" can both easily be true depending on the actual numbers.

If they rented 10,000 cameras out, and 100 were damaged this way, 1% of the rentals sounds "relatively few" yet 100 cameras still is a lot.

Still, seeing as hundreds of people went to the hospital after the eclipse, not due to looking up at the sun, but due to *putting sunscreen directly on their eyeballs*, such epic ignorance and/or stupidity doesn't surprise me in the least.

http://nypost.com/2017/08/28/people-reportedly-put-sunscreen-on-their-eyes-to-watch-eclipse/

Sure. They're going to do that.

I am not certain where you are from, but yes, that happens. Google is your friend in this matter, but here's one person who called the police and ended up dead http://nypost.com/2017/07/25/w...

Police training today is a bit messed up, with requirements to unload on a person if they are frightened. To the point where many people are more afraid of the police than thugs. Just how it is.

Meanwhile, your neighbour may have just bled to death.

Yeah, isn't that messed up?

Depending which state you're in, you might well have broken the law.

Now there's a good one to try to prosecute. Maybe you were asleep.

What's wrong with calling the police, heading over the valley, assessing the situation and providing aid? Oh no, might get hurt? Fucking cowardly piece of shit.

You might get killed, as happened to Justine Damon, the woman from Australia who was shot and killed in Minnesota after calling in a disturbance. Supposedly she "slapped" the police car, frightening one of the officers inside, who then shot and killed her. But whatever she did, he found it necessary to terminate her life.

after a decade and a half, and at a cost of about $12 million annually (around one percent of the state's education budget), Maine has yet to see any measurable increases on statewide standardized test scores.

But government — unlike those greedy KKKorporations — just could not possibly have made such a mistake! Unaffected by profit and other ulterior motives, benevolent and omniscient government officials know better than their naive and easily-excitable subjects ever could.

A corporation making a boondoggle investment like this would've replaced the CEO and, possibly, even gone bankrupt — who wants that? But the government officials responsible for the wasted million$ are all safely employed and/or receiving their well-earned pensions. Per-pupil costs have quadrupled since 1960ies — while the education-quality remained the same (or worsened, depending on who you ask).

Be it a school or a hospital, is not it much nicer, when the government is running something?

Proof.

. . . refuses to call the "burger" safe for consumption.

To wit, the ingredient of soy leghemoglobin:

"arguments presented [by its creators] ... do not establish the safety of soy leghemolgobin for consumption.”

Interestingly enough, Impossible Foods asked the FDA to STOP the approval process on their cultured meat substitute.

Something like this has been done

Yeah, you tell 'em brother, because nothing like that would ever happen in the United States. No religion would carve out its own enclave in this country or force women to submit to its "teachings". Nor would they harass girls or demand their religious take precedence.

WTF do "success traits in more nomadic societies" have to do with modern human life?

This is a facile argument.
The point is not that we need nomads in modern society. It's that such deviant personalities and traits allow humanity to adapt to new situations. You're not trying to say that human evolution is and should be at a complete halt are you?

Except your god seems to be some vague feeling that "nature knows best".

Straw man. Try again.

John McAfee would disagree with you. Don't miss his insane twitter rant about it either.

But seriously, we have no idea what the upper limit of bitcoin is. Some people laughed at suggestions it would be worth $1, and now it's worth nearly $3,000.

I'm not saying DSLRs are going away, nor am I saying an iPhone will shoot as well as a DSLR in all conditions, but serious photography CAN be done with an iPhone, as these three magazine covers show.

http://nypost.com/2017/04/15/c...

http://bgr.com/2017/02/17/ipho...

https://techcrunch.com/2017/04...

As always, the talent matters more than the tool.

http://nypost.com/2017/06/13/d...

If you Google it, you will find it was made by Reuters and copied by newspapers, e.g. nypost.

In the US?

http://nypost.com/2013/11/18/c...
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com...

And so on, as long as you dig.

The number have been manipulated since Nixon (at least) and maybe as far back as The New Deal. The imaginary numbers are generally misrepresented in language as a "unemployment", when referring to the unemployment rate. This is known by anyone who starts to mentally track them. This unemployment rate is itself, of little use in relation. It is simpler to falsify, serving the political winds without needing to worry about concrete census/CBO data at times. I contend that the unemployment gimmick is as obvious as the ignorance of legislators, in service of their own sponsored bills ("we have to pass the law to know what's in the law"). This is business as usual in the US.

Live streaming to "da cloud", with read/copy access by family and friends. Cops are going to turn everyone into glassholes.

Hillary's White House Would be No Different From Trumps

Or Dubai will just annex it and build a city on top of it, because they'll need to replace their artificial sea level islands with something that is resistant to changes in sea level. It only makes sense that they build it on top of something that floats, even if it will only last as long as their existing artificial islands.

Captcha: sustain

I know New York ships their homeless out to the rest of the country. http://nypost.com/2014/09/06/d...

I've not heard of South Carolina shipping theirs out to California... but you never know.

Personally, I prefer the older ones.

... not all Muslims, so far as I'm aware, throw homosexuals off of buildings.

True, it is mainly the ones that are in Islamic countries under Sharia law. Of course even Turkey isn't completely receptive at present either.

Turkish riot police crack down on banned Pride parade

Half of all British Muslims think homosexuality should be illegal, poll finds

Poll reveals 40pc of Muslims want sharia law in UK

Half of the Countries Where Same-Sex Acts Are Prohibited Are Islamic; Death Penalty in 13

What can you say about this?

Not that devout Muslims clearly don't have issues with homosexuals, but then again, I can go to a conservative Catholic forum and see the same anti-gay vitriol.

I doubt that you do, and to the extent that you could in a Catholic forum it wouldn't be consistent with church dogma which I expect will be more along the lines of homosexuality is an error, and disordered - hate the sin but love the sinner.

Every airport in the US I go to I already get pulled aside already and have for years as well as having all of my checked luggage opened and searched manually every time. I am probably on some list somewhere as if this were truly random I would have a better chance of winning the powerball and megamillions in the same week at this point even if the odds of a search were 50% which they aren't. No I am not kidding there either with over 100 trips over the last 15 years with the bags being searched on the outbound and return flights that puts me well beyond the ~ 1 in 2^56 of winning the powerball and megamillions. The random odds of this happening to someone are ~1 in 2^200 assuming 50% chance of manual checked bag search but in reality it is only a 5% chance of the manual checked bag search so the numbers get even worse. How much worse, well it looks like this might be approaching the never going to happen before the heat death of the universe level given that at a 5% chance you have about a 1 in 1.6x10^260 chance or 1 in 2^780

Having gone through real airport security what is in the US is an absolute joke and does nothing but employ otherwise unemployable people to violate others' rights. When I fly with my old film SLR and lenses I also get to play 20 questions and everything gets swabbed for explosives because well they employ the otherwise unemployable.

While no union is going to officially come out and phrase it that way, the rules that they make essentially result in that consequence. Look no further than the New York teachers union which ends up keeping teachers in "rubber rooms" where they are paid to do anything other than teach because they were complete fuck ups in some way. We see the same thing when people invariably complain about some recent incident involving the police and why some cop isn't in jail or hasn't at least been fired. The answer is that the police union shields them. Perhaps this is more of a problem in the U.S. than Germany.

In the end it doesn't matter if a union props wages up if foreign companies can undercut prices. The American autoworkers eventually found out that you can't just keep demanding that the rest of the world support your costs when cheaper alternatives exist. Sure we can always go the protectionist route, but other countries respond in turn and almost no economic school thinks wide-scale protectionism is a good idea. Everyone likes it when the protectionism really only benefits them, but suddenly gets pissed when they have to pay more for a local product that has the costs jacked up in turn because it's not as efficient to make here.

Unions aren't inherently good or bad, but I don't think they make a lot of sense in a global market where a lot of countries are still industrializing and are more than willing to take what we'd consider dog scraps because to them it is a banquet. Economic osmosis is going to be painful to the countries where the wealth was concentrated, but eventually its going to reach a new equilibrium. I also think unions make less sense in fields where the individual differences between workers is larger. For assembly line workers, etc. changing one for another isn't going to matter much, but with something like programming where some coders are far beyond others, there isn't a lot of incentive for the best programmers to join a union because their talents are always going to be required somewhere and they'll be able to get work. Code monkey jobs on the other hand are easier to outsource, but I don't see it as a big problem because we're getting tools that are sophisticated enough so that the computer can do some of the lowest level code monkey work for us and let programmers focus on the more important tasks.

Comey also just declared under oath that the former head of the DOJ directly interfered in his investigation. On top of that Comey also said there was no investigation into Trump regarding Russia. And the actual testimony didn't say that Trump asked him to drop the Flynn investigation. He asked for it to "go away" he didn't order him to stop it. That wording is the difference, you can try and split hairs however you want but all this actually did was implicate the previous administration in subverting justice and if I was Loretta Lynch, I'd be very worried right now that a special prosecutor is going to be named.

So, let's do nothing?

Yes. Until we can agree on what to do...

Are you that worried it might delegitimize your guy?

Yes, that is a valid concern. The constant talk of "treason" — despite no one being able to even state a coherent accusation, much less prove it — slows down his agenda and keeps him from fulfilling his promises. You know this and quite deliberately keeping up the talk and the shitposting on the subject.

we're so partisan we can't repel a foreign invader

Yes, we are. Such is the Illiberals' hatred towards Trump, it even made them switch their opinion of Russia.

What "illiberals"? This 25 year-old progressive, for example, who "resisted" Trump by, apparently, leaking this very story to the press. She is, obviously, more interested in "repelling" Trump, than Putin...

Anything else? LAWBREAKERS!!!!

You may already be a weiner!

Are you referring to the Attorney General who had a private meeting with Hillary's husband shortly before that decision?

Name one scandal that's based in reality?

Comey? He testified two months ago saying that Trump didn't affect the investigation, so his letter now means that he either committed perjury before or is doing so now.

Really? Where?

On May 3rd Comey told the senate judiciary committee that "he was never told to stop an investigation for political reasons" and last week after being fired he claimed that Trump asked him in February to stop the investigation of Fynn. One of those is a lie.

Wrong. He was asked if anyone in the justice department had asked him to stop an investigation for political reasons.

Trump being wire-tapped? There are dozens of articles from January saying that intelligence services were spying on Trump, and when the moment he said that the leaks were illegal they started back-tracking.

There were (and still aren't) any (reputable) articles saying that Trump, personally, was surveilled or otherwise "wiretapped".

The NYT changed their headline from "wiretapping" to "surveilled" once Trump's accusation came out. http://www.headlinepolitics.co...

Good on them, keeping the word "wiretapping" might have confused casual readers who didn't recognize the fundamental differences between what the NYT article was talking about and Trump's claims.

Also, Susan Rice, Obama's national security adviser, claimed in an interview "to know nothing" about incidental eavesdropping on the Trump administration but then was later revealed to be the person (or one of the people) that was unmasking them. At the very least the investigation should continue as it's been doing. http://nypost.com/2017/04/03/s...

Again, nothing about wiretapping Trump.

As for the rest.

1) I haven't seen any reliable accounts of Flynn's transcripts, but the consensus has been that a) they left Russia with the idea that Trump would lift the sanctions and b) Flynn was definitely and deliberately deceiving people about what was discussed.

2) I don't give a damn about the fact that Obama's promise about "keeping your doctor" didn't hold up, though it's orders of magnitudes better than how many promises Trump would break if he signed the GOP bill. As for the penalties.

Remember the GOP bill keeps the ban on pre-existing conditions, so... if you don't have a ban on pre-existing conditions and you don't have a penalty for being uninsured then how do you encourage people to buy insurance? The GOP's solution is to give a 30% penalty on the first year you sign up.... which is not that bad.

So as a young healthy person I'll just go without insurance! And if I get sick I'll eat the 30% for a year... Remember that "death spiral" thing people ewere complaining about?

As for some of the ACA woes you have an administration who is publicly goating about the idea it could fail, the idea that Trump will deliberately sabotage the markets is scaring a lot of insurers (and thus forcing rates up).

3) Here's a hint, if your source contains sentences like "To recap, Corsi’s analysis showed that Congress explicitly declined to appropriate any funds to Section 1402 of the Affordable Care Act," then your source is trying to deceive you.

Congress most certainly did not "explicitly decline to appropriate" funds for section 1402, what happened is they directed the government to spend the money but forgot to include the explicit appropriation (not dissimilar to a software bug). The question before the courts right now is whether the government is allowed to spend that money, as was intended, or whether they should adopt a stricter interpretation and block the spending.

4) As for Pai he's a Republican who was extolling his party's ideology.

You're just jealous because after they banned you from New York, people started getting healthier. Though I'm not quite sure why they did that, my guess is because you had your first initial installed on your back and were cited for indecent exposure, B-B-B-Barbara.

Though in all seriousness, what you have are in fact not genitals, otherwise you may as well define an anus as genitals. Instead what you have is an open wound that, as we sit here, is trying to heal itself, and requires constant intervention to prevent that from happening. Sure, it may be fashioned to look similar to genitals, but it's really only a facsimile.

Does Harvard have a secret history as a major force for evil?

You are correct

http://nypost.com/2017/03/17/b...

Fired US Attorney Preet Bharara was investigating a key member of President Trumpâ(TM)s cabinet, a new report Friday revealed.

Bharara was looking into allegations that Tom Price, the health and human services secretary and the administrationâ(TM)s point man on efforts to repeal and replace ObamaCare, improperly traded health care stocks while he was a member of the House of Representatives, ProPublica reported.

Price maintained that he broke no laws when he traded health care stocks even as he was involved in legislation relevant to the health care sector. He traded over $300,000 worth of shares of relevant companies during a four-year period in the House.

The issue played a significant role in Priceâ(TM)s confirmation process, and he was asked about it numerous times during his Senate hearing.

The revelation that Bharara was investigating Price comes as many were surprised the US attorney from the Southern District of New York was not retained by the Trump administration.

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Preet was investigating cabinet members of Mr. Trump's administration. And it was in his jurisdiction to investigate Mr. Trump in new york and there were rumors that he might do so about the time he was fired after Mr. Trump had said personally given Preet assurances that would preet be retained.

As a Sanders supporter I'm quite happy to answer those questions.

And yet, you didn't...

the devil is always in the execution. You learn from failure

Communism killed 94 million people in the 20th century directly — plus tens of millions deaths due to Communism-induced famines.

And what was the result of that coercion? Millions of survivors with neither human rights nor material wealth. Nor health care, for that matter.

It is the deadliest school of thought known to humanity so far — even Hitler's peculiar variation of Fascism is a distant second. That is what's to learn from its failure.

Ah, but Socialism is not Communism, you'll say? Bullshit. Socialism is Communism-lite. And, besides, Bernie Sanders is an actual Communist, full monty, anyway.

We practiced Laissez-faire and it led to robber barons

Bullshit. None of it was worse, than what's happening in Venezuela today, for example.

Meanwhile, the last guy who stole code from Wall Street, Sergey Aleynikov, who inspired the book, "Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt" by Michael Lewis, is still in the legal system after eight year.

http://nypost.com/2017/02/23/ex-goldman-programmer-appeals-court-conviction/

I guess that's why they had so many cases where people were suddenly "cut off" when they started talking about things that CNN considered forbidden. And they did so, so many times that it became a meme. As for CNN trying to shape the election? Remember their reporters(along with politico, nbc, and several other publications) getting caught sending drafts to the DNC? Then there were the other cases where they directly published stuff from the DNC. You can find those both in the wikileaks dumps. Then there was the case where someone under their employ(Donna Brazile) fed Clinton debate questions. Oh you bet your ass they tried to shape the election and got caught doing it.

The US on the other hand, interfered with so many European elections that it's scary. And Russian elections, and in Canadian elections, and Israeli, and, and, and, and....

Hey did you catch that bit about the Steele thing? You know where they're refusing to answer any questions regarding it to the senate intelligence committee? No? That's okay. It's not like something doesn't stink there.

I for one am so glad we gave AT&T $6.5 billion. I mean, they have such a beautiful track record for emergency service.

Where is equality mentioned in the bible?

Quite a few places. Just a couple search results

http://bible.knowing-jesus.com...
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/c...

"Equality" is not part of Christianity.

Except, of course, in all the parts where it talks about it.

But only retarded leftist westerners believe we're equal in the eyes of Mother Nature.

"Retarded leftist westerner" is a pretty accurate description of Christians.

In the same way most organized criminals in Sweden are of certain ethnicities, most leftist westerners are of Christian tradition. You might even go as far to say that it's only in Christian nations do you find retarded leftist westerners

Remember MLK? Christian. He also said this

This Christian teaches Sunday school. He also plays political blackface to mock conservatives.

And then there's the Catholic Pope himself getting into a little twitter spat with Trump.

And then they'll turn around and spit at Christians for "not believing in science,"

Well, that's another funny thing about Christians (though they aren't the only religion that does this, of course): they love to turn on their own. The one thing Christians hate more than a non-Christian is another Christian who doesn't follow the exact same sect or interpret the Bible the exact same way as they do.

Your fake bolded insertions would make my real story into a fake story.

The TLC police force is totally legal in NYC, and operates as a special-purpose police force for taxi regulations. It has a long history of thuggish abuse:
http://nypost.com/2014/11/27/d...
https://www.dnainfo.com/new-yo...

The second link contains additional citations of its own.