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You need to stop listening to slanted reporting on how big the supposed far right is. Per this recent article the numbers are very small. From the article:

However, they estimate that the KKK counts between 5,000 and 8,000 members nationwide. Back in the 1920’s, when cities across the south were erecting monuments to Confederate generals, the Klan had 4 million members. As Roger L. Simon points out, this would be an impressive decrease even if the population of the U.S. hadn’t swelled since the 1920’s. Back then, the Klan constituted about 4 percent of the entire U.S. population. Now, the KKK is near its nadir. That would make them less than 0.003 percent of the population, even on the higher end of the SPLC’s estimate. “It’s a small group of real bad people,” Simon writes.

Highlights mine. So I seriously doubt that 0.003% of the population has any say in anything..

Actually they are fascists that think themselves marxists.

Let's review two stories from yesterday's Nazi rally in Florida:

1) Antifa protester hugs Nazi: http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

"The man who hugged a Nazi outside Richard Spencer’s speech at the University of Florida on Thursday said, “I could have hit him, I could have hurt him ... but something in me said, ‘You know what? He just needs love.’”

A man wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with swastikas on Thursday was surrounded by a crowd of protesters who screamed, punched and spat on him before Aaron Courtney gave him a hug.

Courtney, a 31-year-old high school football coach in Gainesville, yelled, “Why don’t you like me, dog?” as he wrapped his arms around the Nazi in a video that quickly went viral on social media.

The Nazi was later identified as Randy Furniss."

2) Three Neo-Nazis charged with attempted murder after firing guns into a crowd of protesters:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/...

"The three men pulled up next to a bus stop while leaving the neo-Nazi talk and started yelling Nazi slogans and cheering Adolf Hitler, according to The Gainesville Sun. That’s when the allegedly victim hit the car with a baton. Tenbrink reportedly pulled a handgun and got out of the car while the other two men yelled, “I’m going to fucking kill you,” and “Shoot them.” The shot missed and struck a nearby building."

No, Antifa is not "as bad as the Nazis". Nobody's as bad as the Nazis. Because they're Nazis.

Nothing of the sort. Your three links are simply examples of the articles I mentioned that have no source but the original BuzzFeed article, itself effectively just saying "a little birdie told me so."

Writing something that the author wishes were true does not constitute journalism.

There is literally no source that would satisfy you, is there? I've posted...let's see...six, no seven different sources and it's still not good enough. Here are some that do not reference the buzzfeed article.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/...

Nothing of the sort. Your three links are simply examples of the articles I mentioned that have no source but the original BuzzFeed article, itself effectively just saying "a little birdie told me so."

Writing something that the author wishes were true does not constitute journalism.

There is literally no source that would satisfy you, is there? I've posted...let's see...six, no seven different sources and it's still not good enough. Here are some that do not reference the buzzfeed article.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/...

Nothing of the sort. Your three links are simply examples of the articles I mentioned that have no source but the original BuzzFeed article, itself effectively just saying "a little birdie told me so."

Writing something that the author wishes were true does not constitute journalism.

There is literally no source that would satisfy you, is there? I've posted...let's see...six, no seven different sources and it's still not good enough. Here are some that do not reference the buzzfeed article.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/...

Moscow has denied involvement with the ads.

Yeah, Moscow has no credibility because it lies so much even when it is incredibly obvious to the non-cynical.

I mean, remember when they invaded Ukraine and said "Nah, that's not us!"

(Not the best source, but an accurate headline:) https://www.thedailybeast.com/...

Interesting that you place the risk of being shot to death at several time higher than dying in an auto accident even though the number of people killed in auto accidents is about the same as the number of people killed with a gun

http://www.iii.org/fact-statis...

(and that includes suicide, which is by far the largest type of firearm death in the USA).

The above quoted statistics refer to deaths from firearm assaults, i.e. suicides and accidents are excluded.
Where there is a bias here, it likely goes the other way, for a couple of reasons:
1: The number includes DUI drivers - about 29% of all traffic related deaths correlate with alcohol-impaired driving according to the CDC. With an additional 16% or so being under influence of other substances. I.e. if you drive sober, the risk is way less.
2: The elephant in the room is the fatal traffic "accidents" that really are voluntary, where the driver either does not want those left behind to know, or hopes insurance will pay out. It's hard to know for sure, but a significant portion of driving fatalities may be vehicular suicides. With around 31% of all fatal crashes being single-vehicle "roadway departures", it's likely a statistically significant number.

So if you don't DUI, and don't drive to kill yourself, the risk of dying in a car crash is significantly reduced, and indeed several times lower than the risk of dying from a firearms assault. Which again prompts the question: Where are the kevlar vests?

Religious extremism has been linked to several genes. So the GMO corporations could surreptitiously edit those genes to eliminate resistance to their other products.

This post is a joke right? American-born, non-Muslims kill more people in a year in mass shootings than all Muslim terrorist attacks combined.

This is a joke right? You know that ISIS were killing faster than statisticians count.

What rubs me in the wrong way is that the school would have criteria for what are considered acceptable plans for the future. They would not only be judging whether the student has thought about the future, but also the decision itself.

That's really scary. Where we have historically seen fuzzy criteria like this in places like crime sentencing, prosecutorial discretion, and voting literacy requirements, they have almost always resulted in higher standards being applied to minorities (particularly African Americans).

Lest you think your skin color makes you immune to this problem, this is just the fairly easily quantifiable effect. Black Americans are the canary in the coalmine for locating an unfair subjective system. If you or your kid manages to get a bad rep, or has a weird hairstyle/color, or heaven forbid, actually ticks off the school administration, that could be you too.

There is no shortage of stories like this. What I find personally enraging is when minors and children are added to the list.

http://www.businessinsider.com...

The teenager was listed as both the victim and the perpetrator on the sexual exploitation charges.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/t...

North Carolina authorities arrested a 16-year-old girl in February for committing two felony sex crimes against herself when she sent a nude photo to her boyfriend

I think the worst one I remember reading about was two 11 year old girls added to the list. Political biases of the links above aside (Not that there is any shortage of similar stories if you search) I think we can all agree this is fucking stupid.

Really? The judiciary "leans conservative" so soon after 8 years of Obama appointments? Of the last 24 years Democrats have had 16 years of making appointments and 8 years of obstructing Republican appointments as best they could.

That's just so wrong, that it is a lie.

Republican obstruction of Obama judicial appointees was unprecedented.

The judicial confirmation rate under the Republican-controlled Senate is less than half of what it was when Democrats held power under George W. Bush. There are so few judges that it’s hurting the country.
It’s Not Just Merrick Garland: Republicans Are Blocking So Many Nominees It’s Caused a Judicial Emergency

The Times editorial board accurately describes the severely deteriorated state of federal judicial selection and suggests that Republican obstruction during President Obama’s two terms in office is substantially responsible for the 100-plus current vacancies.
Anti-Obama Republicans have created a judicial emergency

Since taking control of the Senate in early 2015, Republicans have confirmed only 17 federal judges, a historically low number. The Senate confirmed just 11 judges in 2015, the fewest since 1960. There have been only two appellate court judges approved since Republicans took control, with seven appeals court nominations left pending. If the Senate doesn’t confirm any appellate judges this year, it will have confirmed the fewest since the 1897-98 session, when there were just 25 circuit court judges nationwide, compared with 179 now.
Senate Republicans Are Breaking Records for Judicial Obstruction

I swear, I don't know why people keep modding you up. Every god-damn thing you post is just a manipulative life.

Acutally that isn't true. Historically the weather on the exact days planned for the invasion of Japan would have sunk the US troop carriers and quite a few destroyers. That would have been a new kamikaze in the traditional sense of the typhoon that saved Japan from the Mongols. The other pathway if they had not surrendered would have been problematic as while the US had a third nuclear weapon almost ready, the remaining dozen planned were delayed for a year or so by production problems.

Study...
http://interactives.ap.org/201...

(numbers for specific metros pulled out here)
http://www.chron.com/news/nati...

And this was also interesting...
http://www.thedailybeast.com/5...

You overstate your point about refineries.

Refineries are confined to a highly specific area (mostly the ship channel area).

If you drive an hour north or east, you are in hot muggy forested areas.
If you drive an hour west, you are in dry but wooded farm and ranch land
If you drive an hour northwest, you are in hill country with lots of 30' trees and tons of wildflowers in the spring.
If you drive an hour southwest, you are at the beach. (it's not nearly as pretty as other beaches due to silt from the mississippi and the waves are tepid but it's a beach and even uncrowded (almost desolate) only 15 miles further out.

Let me try to state your point better.

The area around houston is flat for 100 miles in all directions. Other than day tripping for antiques there's not a lot of tourist activity. While there are several state parts that are very nice in the spring and fall, they are pretty hot and miserable during the summer. The gulf is silty and not pretty blue and transparent to the bottom (about 1' transparent on average and 2' on a good day) and has small waves. But it has good fishing.

The areas along almost all the major freeways are unpleasant and fairly ugly with business sprawl and too many billboards.

The city center and is vibrant, well serviced by public transportation, has a vibrant night life, and expensive. Areas just east of the city center are undeveloped and old 1930's shacks.

The lack of zoning allows the city to constantly renew itself. There are no empty, unusable buildings "trapped" by zoning. There are no fat cat developers getting zoning exceptions to put up ugly buildings in residential areas (that has to piss people in zoned cities off to coronary levels).

Houston is unbounded geographically and it has a problem with urban sprawl but that is reflected in lower housing prices. Houston has a problem with flooding. But it has no tornadoes of note and no earthquakes. Roughly every 2 decades it gets wallopped by a hurricane which messes it up for a week( or two for a bad one (longer for a direct hit by a bad one which is about every 50 years)). Smart people get out of the way of hurricanes.

If there is ONE point I would like to make is that people who bring outdoor concerts to houston in the summer are idiots. They could come here in april/may/early october and it would be very pleasant. Even June wouldn't be ridiculous. But July and August- it's an oven. It's still hot at 11pm at night and the high humidity means swamp coolers/misting water won't work well.

If public comments matter this much, that's a clear sign these rules shouldn't be made by a small unelected board. Rather they should be made by the public, by having elected representatives pass a law.

Seriously? Because the public can be whipped up into a frothing mob over an esoteric thing like Title II Oversight of Internet Providers that means that we really need the guiding hand of people like Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, Rep. Hank Johnson or Rep. Nancy Pelosi? (Feel free to add you list of "out there" representatives from the Right)

The real problem is generating data buckets for all the gender pronouns.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...

The other problem is that all the "*" genders confuse the hell out of the regexp searching.

I'll give you Comey, but Gingrich is certainly part of "Trump's team". He worked as a consultant for Trump's campaign, was considered as a VP candidate for Trump and just had his (3rd) wife appointed to an ambassadorship by Trump. Since she has no diplomatic experience, one would assume it is political compensation to Newt. If that's not on Trump's team I don't know what is.

It makes a lot of sense for them to align, after all they both created a Contract with America (Newt's) (Donald's) on which they both failed to deliver.

While the ratings are high, apparently some people want it canceled. Something about it bringing the whole network down.

"I’m a Leninist. Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today’s establishment." -Steve Bannon

It's been some time since Lenin has been brought up in the west as an exemplary leader but it has happened not too long ago: "Lenin is the greatest man, second only to Hitler, and that the difference between Communism and the Hitler faith is very slight." -Joseph Goebbels

Goebbels and his ilk also had great ratings for a while but I've seen that movie and I'd like to avoid a remake, they tend to be even worse than the originals.

I agree completely, but the fact that Matt Furie killed his character to prevent it from being misused is not disputed. Instead, the point that we are making is that Pepe wasn't associated with white nationalism until Olivia Nuzzi wrote an irresponsible article claiming that Pepe was symbol of white nationalism. Her article was based almost entirely on the word of some random guy on the internet (JaredTSwift).

If it weren't for Nuzzi fabricating a white nationalist conspiracy based on the word of a single, unreliable individual, it is likely that Pepe never would have been associated with white nationalism.

Nuzzi created the problem. You can read her article here:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/05/26/how-pepe-the-frog-became-a-nazi-trump-supporter-and-alt-right-symbol.html

Easy: Hillary was corrupt, incompetent, dishonest, war-mongering, and a party-hack. Bozo the Clown would have been a better choice than Hillary.

Remember when we were all worked up about Hillary using her connections to cure malaria?

Kushner Companies Apologizes After Investment-for-Visas Event in China

Nicole Kushner Meyer, Kushner’s sister, urged Chinese investors to put $500,000 into a New Jersey real estate project in return for investor visas and residency in the U.S. Meyer cited the EB-5 immigrant investor visa program to make her pitch, though critics have accused organizers of the event of playing up their ties to the White House. “It’s incredibly stupid and highly inappropriate. They clearly imply that the Kushners are going to make sure you get your visa,” Richard Painter, the former chief White House ethics lawyer in President George W. Bush’s administration, told The Washington Post. Kushner Companies was quick to apologize for how the event was framed.

Stephen Colbert Hits Best Ratings Since 2015 Premiere

It would seem the people enjoy this kind of thing.

got scored at kicking ~24M Americans off their insurance policies (translation: hurry and die)

Health coverage doesn't significantly affect health.

You should still grow up.

It doesn't really matter. "Independent" stations have a short leash already.

It's amazing Trump "won" an election by being completely full of shit. I wish I could do nothing all day and inherit all of my Daddy's money.

Trump won because:
1) Some people believed his lies. It helps that he told so many and so often that only the most dedicated could keep up. That the right wing echo chamber didn't point them out helped with this.
2) Some people didn't care, and letting it all burn was what they wanted. Trump portrayed himself as an outsider, one who was unafraid to blow it all to hell. Some voted for that.
3) Some voted for single issues. I.E. They didn't give a damn about anything but getting another judge to stop abortion. Some of these people tend to call mothers on welfare and such takers. For some that may even be true, but the children are still innocent. If your going to argue that abortion must not be allowed under any costs, then as a result of imposing those ethics, society has a responsibility to take care of those children. You can't say that all human life has infinite value then ignore the child after it is born. Similarly you can't say the right to bear arms is absolute and then pretend that all the information about other countries with lower death rates are lies. Truth is required.
4) Many were brainwashed by the machine that spent so much time and effort to make people hate everything Clinton. Seriously, they elected someone who makes Hillary look like a saint, and they make excuses for him.
5) The Russian efforts at fake news were impressive. Their propaganda fed right into the right wing narrative. It was like a perfect confluence of evil. Did Trump collude? Almost certainly. That much is obvious, though it may not have been directly. All he had to do was some minor research, or just pay attention to know Hillary would not be Putin's pal. (Once Hillary called Putin out that was a foregone conclusion.) The odds of him randomly singling out Russia for preferential treatment, when he singled out no other government for such inexplicably favorable treatment and then continued to do so when every piece of evidence and every agency said these are not good people, well I couldn't begin to calculate them. He certainly is willing to throw anyone else under the bus on much less cause.
6) Hillary failed to inspire as well as she could have. Much of this was the news fascination with all things Trump. Seriously, I recall them covering empty podiums instead of Hillary from time to time. Part of it was that she simply didn't seem to spend enough effort on her own. Trump made himself available more often. Hillary made herself available seldom.

Now, what are the solutions? First Russia is a secondary problem, not a primary one. We have to correctly identify fake articles and make sure people get truth, but guess what, that applies at home first. Sure technically Russia's actions were an act of war, but reality must limit responses. No one wins if this becomes a full war. Cyber responses are certainly possible though. Still if your going to hack email and such, you need to hack everyone's involved and release it all.

More importantly, the solution is to somehow fix our politics. Republicans were silent and even alleged that all the news of Russian hacking was fake during the election. In particular:
Senator McConnell deserves a great deal of blame as well. According to several officials, the Senate Majority Leader, once briefed on Moscow’s threat, said “he would consider any effort by the White House to challenge the Russians publicly an act of partisan politics.” link

Democrats can be guilty of similar behavior, but the worst behavior has been on the far right. Fox News comes to mind. Much of it began there, but it has certainly spread and gotten worse. Sites such as Infowars and such made it worse. I don't keep up with them all,

Sanctuary cities do not exist and nobody on the Progressive left talks about the need for them. Right?

Actually, they don't exist, especially not in the form that the Regressive right insists on falsely portraying them. They're pretty much just a straw-man where the right makes up false claims about lawlessness and crime in order to whip up a frenzy of hysteria.

Instead, what they are, is municipalities deciding that the Federal Government needs to be accountable, and forced to behave in a manner compliant with the law, by a policy of adherence to the strictures of law informing them that the cities won't knuckle under to their capriciousness. Not new, but a lingering problem for a supposed agency enforcing the law.

Of course, I'm old enough to remember when Janet Reno was demonized for returning Elian Gonzalez to his father. The mishandling of policies on Cuba is bad enough, but apparently we're supposed to decide parental rights on a whim?

So it's hypocrisy too. Even ignoring the other protests against the federal goverment, the silence on the failures of the immigration system is very telling.

Oh, I guess you are just another AC who's full of shit. Brave enough to hide in anonymity while claiming that I am being watched, as if you are a threat.

You're confused again, there's no threat to being judged, you're merely being observed, and recognized, for what your public behavior happens to be. It's called responsibility. You should recognize that as a natural consequence of communication. You spea

Do you know how much Methdone costs? Do you think these treatments are well covered in our current system? They are not.

Well its obviously Islamophobic as are so many things like, for example, not wanting to live under Sharia law.

Yes, pretty much.

When you're making up cities and fabricating excuses, you're pretty much confirmed as suffering a delusion.

Right offhand my first thought is "Who are they going to work for next". You might not like the NSA but if all of their top talent goes elsewhere it could be a very serious problem for us.

Not really. In all likelihood they'll go work for private security contractors that specialize in intelligence, but give the US government the plausible deniability it has lost due to checks & balances. A high-level US security clearance carries a LOT of value for employees. Very few people would throw away .gov/DoD private contractor opportunities to go work for Russia/China/etc. for anything less than millions of dollars, IMO.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...

Well, maybe you Mississippi politicians should have chosen to spend their stimulus funds on more useful things.

There have been several recent shows that cast a Hitler, who secretly survived, as a misunderstood hipster old man. I find it highly offensive.
Citation:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...
http://decider.com/2016/04/09/...

in key districts

"Key districts" is part of the problem. Why should votes in South Dakota be worth more than those in San Francisco? Why should votes of black people in North Carolina be worth less than those of white people in Kentucky? Why should the votes of the most productive parts of the country be worth less than those of the least productive parts?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...

People praying for the misery and suffering of others.

No evidence of such prayers being made was offered.

Oh, was that what you wanted? You should have said something to that effect, instead of making this false accusation: "Such is your disdain for people praying which only indicated your attempt to deceptively portray the point being made, which was about a particular kind of prayer.

Not that it's any problem to find them, but you know, if you had a shred of integrity, or even sense, you'd have instead cut the argument off by rejecting such praying and stating that you don't believe in any God that would grant them.

But, even if they were — they are just that, prayers. Words.

Most people would have noticed that key point.

Why? You said "Such is your disdain for people praying" thus making your attempt to discredit someone objecting to prayers, while deliberately failing to consider that the prayers in question were for the misery and suffering of others.

That's the key point you missed. Of course, that means you can't now go back and say that praying doesn't matter. Because that would make you disdainful yourself of praying, making your initial objection invalid on its premises. Which would just combine with your transparent attempt at deceit serves to really discredit you.

You need to sit back, take some time, and think about how badly you fumbled your response.

And no, you can't go around denying their existence any further, not even by quibbling, that'll just make you look bad. The smarter course, is as I said, to denounce the wingnuts and their asinine prayers.

But you couldn't even muster the sense to do that.

Here, let me help you out with the research, scanning the first page of Google results can be difficult:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...

Here's one:

We know that from the platform from where the President was sworn in to 4th Street holds about 250,000 people. From 4th Street to the media tent is about another 220,000. And from the media tent to the Washington Monument another 250,000 people. All of this space was full when the President took the oath of office.

That's not true.

Here, here's another one:

Spicer said 420,000 used the D.C. Metro public transit on Jan. 20, 2017, compared with 317,000 for President Obama’s 2012 inaugural.

Not only is that not true, but both of those numbers are wrong.

Here's another one:

It was the “first time” that floor coverings were used to protect the grass on the National Mall, which had highlighted empty spots in the inaugural crowd, an effect not experienced in past inaugurations, he said.

That's not true either.

You asked for one, but there's three things he said which are demonstrably untrue. But instead of just admit that, she had to double-down and claim that they were alternative facts. If you want to re-watch that video where Conway and Todd discuss those specific statements made by Spicer then let me know so I can look that up for you too.

I have seen people on slashdot accuse you of rape too. Does that make it a fact? Watch, I'll add another: PopeRatzo raped me. Boom! Fact.

Funny thing about the internet. You can check whether stuff has been reported before.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...
http://fusion.net/story/328522...
http://gawker.com/the-time-don...
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
http://www.newyorker.com/magaz...
http://www.inquisitr.com/36114...
http://time.com/4572925/megyn-...
http://www.rollingstone.com/po...
http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/1...

There. That oughtta do it.

Now, where is the evidence that PopeRatzo raped you?

You might enjoy this article.

Trump takes credit for this.

Ha, just kidding, one of his biggest campaign contributors, John Paulson, runs a hedge fund heavily invested in Mylan.

It's not a simple stat which is irrefutable and easy to determine.

Yes, it is.

Some people don't know their birth date.

Some people calculate age differently

Sure. But this has nothing to do with the topic. The accuracy of IMDB's data is not in question, is it?

Besides, why is it even important? Why not just respect people's wishes?

You can only respect "people's wishes" to a point. When a grown man wishes to use a women's bathroom claiming to be a female, or enroll in elementary school claiming to be 20 years younger than he really is, politeness ought to yield to the comfort and safety of others.

But, yes, I am willing to be polite at other situations — as long as we call these people's delusions, what they really are.

Even the daily beast rips apart the report. http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...

Politico, no friend of conservatives or the GOP, has a story about 91% of Trump media as negative.

Keep in mind that Trump is neither a conservative nor a Republican. Only a few short years ago, he was a Democrat and in deep with the Clintons. The GOP nomination process is so broken that a Clinton Democrat got nominated. Go figure.

And Mother Jones, a decidedly left-of-center outlet, shows that Trump got significantly more negative press than Hillary.

With Trump in the White House, we need more investigative journalism. MoJo has in-depth stories that the so-called conservative media won't touch like crony capitalism (i.e., Nestle still bottling water from a California national forest during a drought on an expired 1988 federal permit).

Anyone who claims the media constantly hammered Hillary over her (Wikileaks-proven) lies about her private server and ignored Trump is either ignorant or a partisan whackjob.

You haven't paid attention to the AP and New York Times coverage.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/08/26/associated-press-becomes-latest-get-burned-chasing-clinton-scandal-stories/212690
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/02/is-the-new-york-times-at-war-with-hillary.html

> Really? When you receive a phishing email saying "click here to reset your Gmail password", your first thought is "OMG the Russians are in my network!"? Really? What the hell does "tips them off to the fact that you're in their network" even mean in this case - he gave them his GMAIL password.

You're confusing leaks, which is just sad because I wrote a guide to help people keep the three different leaks clear. This report is related to the DNC leaks which alleged the presence of RATs, etc. being found after an investigation caused by the emails being leaked to Wikileaks. Podesta was phished in a completely separate incident.

Those are two completely separate items, and there were reports of phishing leading to a malware download in some of the reports on the DNC leak, which is the incident I was talking about. I can see why you conflated that with the more famous phishing in the Podesta dump. It's really easy to conflate all this information (by design).

Ironically, even if we go to just the Podesta dump, the actual phishing email specifically claimed that Podesta should worry about Ukrainian hackers from 134.249.139.239. Quoting from the thread in relevant part:

> Someone just used your password to try to sign in to your Google Account
> john.podesta@gmail.com.
>
> Details:
> Saturday, 19 March, 8:34:30 UTC
> IP Address: 134.249.139.239
> Location: Ukraine

(emphasis added)

You're also confused here:

> Due to an unfortunate typo by Charles Delavan

It's more than just a "typo" and we covered that on Slashdot when it came up (including yours truly). He also told him to do a password reset--something completely unnecessary for a fake attack. This also ignores the words of Sara Latham in that thread saying: "The gmail one is REAL" This was discussed extensively in the Slashdot story's comments.

Hackers don't normally want a target to realize they're hacked at all. And they were surely tipped off by these sloppy, noisy attacks. Podesta also had other passwords in his email that got used, including someone from 4chan messing with his Twitter account. They're probably sloppy enough to reuse passwords if they fall for this, too. Usually once they own your email they do password resets and leverage the access against other systems.

> Oh I see, you're an uber fan rooting against the other team.

I'm independent. Go check my Slashdot history for me supporting Obama back in 2008 if you like. I'm more than happy to give Colin Powell (and other Republicans, including that member of Trump's staff) their share of blame for bad OPSEC, too, as can be seen from my Slashdot history. I discussed that back here along with the entire email where Hillary & Colin discuss how to break every rule of operational security and worm their ways around the Presidential Records Act in ways that would make Nixon jealous.

Inasmuch as I am partisan, it's because I hate lying.

I hated it when Bush lied. I hate when Hillary & co. lie. Watching Obama trying to sabotage Israel and keep us from working with Russia to crush Isis murderers in Syria is perhaps the most disappointed I've been with him in his entire tenure. When Islamic militants are murdering Russian diplomats, not to mention this other murder by Isis, you have to quest

> he's already referring to himself in the third person,

Don't you know? That's the sign of a humble, caring man of the people.
After all, that narcissist Obama says "I" way too much in his speeches.

Hillary Clinton, and her cronies in the news media have spread so many lies and so much fake news that when genuine news does happen nobody is going to believe it.

Funny. Fake news is associated with Trump, as he attracts the low-information, poorly educated voters (which is why Trump said, "we love the poorly educated"). Inforwars is pro-Trump. Kremlin propaganda, including Nazis such as Kremlin-linked political philosopher, Dugin, is pro-Trump (do yourself the biggest favor ever, and watch this video of Dugin endorsing Trump). Twitter bots spreading fake news? You guessed it - pro-Trump.

A couple of fake news writers, who made loads of money generating outrageous BS for Trump fans stated that they tried the same tactic on a Democratic leaning audience, but were making far less money, so they decided not to diversify their operation beyond the "deplorables" crowd.

Donald Trump, was elected by the people

He was elected by almost 3 million less people than Hillary. Do go on...

telling the people directly what he plans on doing

Like being friendly with Russia, and starting a trade war with China. "Lock her up," "drain the swamp," "deport them" and his other greatest hits seem to be out of favor, however. Unless, by draining the swamp, Trump meant handing over the country to oil execs.

Russia is feeling dangerously powerful because of it.

Russia is feeling dangerously powerful because Trump was elected. A member of his team was recently in Moscow, talking about unconditionally lifting sanctions; the purpose of this is to enable companies like Exxon, run by people like Tillerson, to make a few billion dollars, at the expense of Ukrainian and Syrian lives. Trump voters have given the presidency to a sociopath who defends Russia against findings by his own country's security agencies. If Trump voters wanted to sell of their country's sovereignty, for the aggrandizement and financial benefit of the Trump clan: mission accomplished.

News flash: people say things in "private" emails that they would know better to say in public.

You can bet that the various Republican counterparts to Podesta have written much, much worse in their own email records; the only reason you don't know for sure is because it suits Russia's purpose to withhold that information from you for the time being.

Since the RNC was also hacked, we have to assume that Putin is sitting on lots of juicy tidbits from the Trump campaign and other RNC officials, and will make use of that information to apply leverage/blackmail as it sees fit. If you're wondering why Trump is so improbably and vocally pro-Putin, consider the possibility that Putin has pictures of Trump having party sex with underage models (or something else that is similarly compromising), and has made Trump aware that he has them and will send them to Wikileaks (or wherever) if Trump displeases him.

So if during the next four years it seems as if Putin is running the Executive Branch by proxy; well, maybe he is.

No, you can convince them to be less racist. Yes, if the neo-Nazis gain a lot of power, then - and only then - is violence the best way to deal with them. It's far preferable, however, to convert them before it gets to that point. Minds can be changed. You're just too fucking eager to incite violence.

Watching Veritas' videos exposing campaign disruptions and voter corruption in the Democrat Party and the shenanigans the Republicans pulled trying to defeat Trump as well.
https://www.youtube.com/channe...

Watch what? Words out of somebody's mouth? Why didn't we get videos of ACTUAL buses being driven around? Why do we never get that?

Critical analysis shows the failure.

No matter how much editing Snopes claims O'Keefe has done, the entirety of all videos are available for examination AND there is no denying that the Democrat operatives said what they said and no reason to disbelieve that they did what they said they did.

Actually, Jerry, based on what O'Keefe's done in the past, including the result of the Planned Parenthood investigations that came out of his lies, there is zero reason to believe anything he produces. That you cite him, so uncritically, is a reason to disbelieve you.

Did you know that Biff Tannen was actually inspired by Donald Trump? http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...

Back to the Future Part II was prophetic. It was just a year off. The Cubs won the World Series, Biff Tannen is the President-elect, and you can buy hoverboards at Target. Sadly the boards don't actually hover.

A lot of liberals in the west are currently labelling conservative websites as "fake news" and demanding they be filtered on Google, Facebook and other sites. The liberals making these censorship demands see themselves as good people and believe that censorship is necessary for the greater good. However, I think they should take a moment to reflect on this article.

No.

They're not.

Conservative but not fake news: Some bluster about how Trump will make life better for black people because their inner cities are hellholes and "what do they have to lose?"

Conservative fake news: Actually taking a joke about how the DNC is literally bathing in the blood of their enemies for truth, and propagating it.

Liberal but not fake news: Some bluster about how Trump's speech and the "what do they have to lose?" line is racially insensitive.

Liberal but fake news: Actually taking the joke about what Glenn Beck may or may not have done 1990 literally.

Here's the problem: Fake news trends more virally amongst conservatives.

And the other problem -- which nobody in the tech community is willing to address, and that nobody in policymaking circles is even aware of -- is this: We're just not good enough at AI yet.. We can create AIs that can tell a pedestrian from a mailbox, and use them to drive autonomous vehicles. We can create AIs that can tell a boob from a cupcake with a cherry on top, and use them to make most image searches safe for work. What an AI cannot yet do is distinguish "plausible" from "implausible," "satire" from "reporting," nor any of the other things that would be required to discern fact from bullshit.

It's the same damn problem from a few threads ago on Slashdot about how Google Account Deletion is a zero-warning permaban: Google's engineers have enough faith in their fraud detection algorithms (and with a billion human customers, they're not willing to hire the millions of human bullshit-detectors that would be required to provide a human-curated appeal) that they not only refuse to admit the possibility of false positives in the fraud detection process, they also completely automate the appeals process and refuse to admit the possibility of a false positive there too.

So, after 10 days of coloring books and crying over Trump's win, you are back to Slashdot — and have already followed-up on 8 of my earlier posts? I think, they let you out of your Safe Space too early...

Most media is Centrist.

Lol. I see somebody is still Correcting the Record.

This is a guy who, as governor of Indiana, when facing a breakout of AIDS in the rural community due to drug use, chose "prayer" as his only solution.

This could be awkward, aren't Christians traditionally the enemies of vampires?