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Pentagon Wants To Predict Anti-Trump Protests Using Social Media Surveillance (vice.com)
Alice Marshall shares an excerpt from Motherboard: The United States government is accelerating efforts to monitor social media to preempt major anti-government protests in the U.S., according to scientific research, official government documents, and patent filings reviewed by Motherboard. The social media posts of American citizens who don't like President Donald Trump are the focus of the latest U.S. military-funded research. The research, funded by the U.S. Army and co-authored by a researcher based at the West Point Military Academy, is part of a wider effort by the Trump administration to consolidate the U.S. military's role and influence on domestic intelligence.
The vast scale of this effort is reflected in a number of government social media surveillance patents granted this year, which relate to a spy program that the Trump administration outsourced to a private company last year. Experts interviewed by Motherboard say that the Pentagon's new technology research may have played a role in amendments this April to the Joint Chiefs of Staff homeland defense doctrine, which widen the Pentagon's role in providing intelligence for domestic "emergencies," including an "insurrection."
The vast scale of this effort is reflected in a number of government social media surveillance patents granted this year, which relate to a spy program that the Trump administration outsourced to a private company last year. Experts interviewed by Motherboard say that the Pentagon's new technology research may have played a role in amendments this April to the Joint Chiefs of Staff homeland defense doctrine, which widen the Pentagon's role in providing intelligence for domestic "emergencies," including an "insurrection."
The synagog shooter was a left-wing anti-Trump nut job who was mad at Trump for being too friendly to Israel and the "pipe bomber" is a pretty blatant left-wing false flag. Sounds to me like spending some more time investigating the left-wing violence machine is a practical idea.
I'm just thinking that Trump wears the Secret Service like a cheap suit. And then again, how did all Caesars lose their jobs?
Trump feels harm when one ignores him. I smell the curse of General Santa Ana growing on Trump.
and other right wing outlets. They've been caught multiple times suggesting the shooter was an anti-Trump lefty. It's gas lighting. They've been called out on it (Geraldo even backed down) but the people they're speaking to are in a bubble and just hear what they say.
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"No you can take your false equivalence and shove it."
Careful, don't let your bigotry rat you out in the first sentence.
"I've always thought political parties were a bad idea, and nobody is a saint, but the degree of lying and cheating that people in the current US republican party will stoop to is unacceptable in a civil society."
Then welcome to agreeing to me, why is the way that I said it not acceptable to you? And since you seem to agree with me then why are you telling me to shove it?
"Your one example shows your argument is hollow. The GOP was all for repealing the ACA because it sounds good in a campaign slogan but didn't do it because they have no real alternative policy, just talking points."
I literally said that the Republican promises to complain for ACA repeal were empty... you are literally AGREEING WITH ME! Why are you hostile? And if my argument was hostile then double for yours!
"Then you say some random squishy crap about Obama not sticking to "hope and change". Nothing concrete."
Lets see, the "increased" prosecution of whistles blowers beyond that of Bush... a bunch of moth breathing about shutting down gitmo... total support of the Patriot Act and Domestic Surveillance programs...
"but the ACA was a concrete improvement to the status quo that could be put into law at the time despite an obstructionist opposition party."
That is your opinion... meanwhile the poor members of my family have WORSE health care now than before ACA. So apparently you lie just as much as Obama... if you like your doctor you can keep them. Some people benefit, others suffer, both sides cherry pick the the data that supports their bullshit claims and you obviously are busy buying the baloney you like the taste of. When it is all said and done the ACA or whatever form it next takes will consolidate more power into the head of the ruling elite and you will happy give them that power in a vain attempt to get what you 'think' you want.
"Your claim that both of these are parties saying one thing and doing another is simply false equivalence."
Just admit you are a democrat and like the other poster say that you cannot be held to the impossible standard of not being a hypocrite. You are not prepared to follow any rules and you want blame the other side for doing what you yourself are doing.
Here is a hint... as long as you think you are free to break the rules, they are going to think the same. Stop breaking the rules, follow the constitution and stop trying to force others through force of law to live like you think they should. It was not good when the Christians did it, it will not be good when you try it either.
The two sides are not the same though. Not by a long way.
Have a look at the Wikipedia article on domestic terrorism in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Scroll down a bit to the post 2001 table and count how much terrorism is coming from either side. It's basically non-existent from the far left, and excluding non-politically motivated incidents almost everyone on the list is far right.
Yes, there are incidents at some protests. But one side has a real problem with more than just idiots and vandals, it has people convinced that there is a literal war and that they are soldiers in it.
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