The FBI et al might have been investigating the links between the Trump campaign and Russia, but the only campaign intentionally attacked was Clinton's. Did you forget that?
You know who is more credible that the collective whole of the DNC, the Clinton campaign, and their sympathizers in the intelligence agencies? It's NSA whistleblower William Benny and his associates at the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, when they say there's no proof the DNC was hacked.
But sure, pretend the DNC is the problem.
They are the driving force behind this misinformation campaign, and even their namesake is a lie.
Which is why "russian trolls" may actually be working at the behest of our own political action groups, since they work cheap and money spent in election cycles is measured in the billions.
This may also help explain why these adds seemed to target both sides of an issue. Why would they care if their clients were politically opposed; rather that would only help keep their services in demand.
Lies by omission is the very least one can expect from the sources driving this narrative.
So what should be the proper term be for the 'reputation management' firms that are employed by our own political factions? I'd also like to know how to properly classify Media Matters, Moveon, the Forval group, Heartland, etc.
Where is the distinction when groups such as these act on the behest of the US government, as a result of the repeal of the Smith Mundt act, which restricted propaganda campaigns being conducted on the public? How many 'internet research agencies' of our own are operating with seven or eight figure budgets?
Because it seems that those drumming up concern about 'Russian agents' spreading memes would also like us to think that such efforts are conducted purely in a vacuum. Seldom does anyone make a comparison to what these agents are competing with.
Forensics at the trial showed that Martin had straddled Zimmerman, with the latter being on his back, when the shooting occurred. This position is what is colloquially known as a 'ground and pound', with the explicit purpose of limiting the range of motion and ability of someone to defend themself.
This is why 'stand your ground' never even entered into this particular case. Martin had blocked Zimmerman's ability to escape.
The example that comes to mind is the George Zimmerman case. Never was there a more obvious example of a media determined to drive a narrative for the sake of maintaining public interest and thus profits, and at the extreme cost of the individuals involved.
North Korea is ripe for unfettered capitalism and indentured slave labor, though. Surely that has to factor in somehow.
So the Job Creators get to fatten themselves that much more, Kim skims off the top and stays in power to live like a Saudi prince, this frees us up for a war with Iran to the delight of the military industrial complex, and Trump gets to crow that he accomplished something. What's wrong with that plan?
With Trump making noises about putting tariffs on Chinese imports and adding to the cooling off of Chinese growth, support for North Korea may have come up on the bargaining table.
There is also the matter of the collapse of the nuclear test facility with unknown repercussions within N Korea.
It didn't seem clear that appeasement through saber rattling was going to work with Trump. With peaceful overtures comes a way to ease sanctions and dependence on Chinese support.
Demonitization is also driven in part by corporate 'news' organizations. It wasn't enough for youtube to adjust their recommended algorithm to favor corporate mouthpieces for propaganda, they want to eliminate income for independent news commentators as well.
And before you say "but infowars!", CNN is also targeting Jimmy Dore with this hatchet piece.
"it's a private company not government!" shall be the excuse of tyrants working feverishly to silence dissent and opposition, and to put down the monsters of their own creation.
Meanwhile, a grade student struggles in understanding the meaning of their reading assignment:
“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
Again, edge providers are not the government. Under your apparent definition, you are equally authoritarian -- you want to force privately held businesses to host and distribute messages that they do not want to carry because you, an authority, dictate so to them.
I should be so thankful that an internet lawyer showed up to put me in my rightful place for daring to even question my corporate better's ability to decide and influence the nature of political discourse in modern society.
How silly to think that when such 'private businesses' handle, process and regulate the speech between hundreds of millions of individuals in a country, and become the authority of who will be allowed to participate, that the line between it and government could become blurred.
Since you appear to prefer legal terms, then you should understand what de facto means and how it applies in these situations. Expecting equal protection is not an authoritarian position.
Just wait till general AI is available, or something sufficiently similar to it.
Then every minute of every day will be tracked and cataloged. You won't be able to step out onto the street without it being registered. It'll be like a political officer assigned to every person, watching, carefully scrutinizing for any sign of thoughtcrime.
And then, only those who have a sufficient social score will be allowed to have children.
Yeah, those assholes for making shit up and ruining people's lives.
Hmm, that reminds me. I wonder what deplorable is being kicked off Twitter or Facebook today. Probably yet another racist sexist xenophobe misogynist transphobic fascist nazi who absolutely deserved it by expressing a harmful or divisive opinion that disagreed with our political stance. It's amazing how many of these dumbasses don't realize that Free speech has its consequences.
I sense you're trying to pair atheism to a complete lack of morals and human decency, and given past abuses from those who claimed moral superiority and divine right, it's sadly ironic.
Religious authoritarians have already demonstrated how they deal with those with low social credit scores, and it involves excommunication and being being burned alive at the stake.
However, there's been no indication that china's sesame score accounts for religious preference, but then the exact method of how the score is generated has been kept secret.
If privately held businesses are going to operate under the assumption of acting as a common carrier, then that is exactly how they shall operate. First amendment rights shall not be abdicated to the whims of silicon valley executives under the pretense of hosting an impartial platform. Arbitrary enforcement of 'community standards', algorithm changes to suppress certain individuals but promote the approved messages of others, and squashing 'harmful' ideas is just another form of authoritarianism.
Not evidence that it influenced McCabe has ever been release much less proof that McCabe didn't fully investigate Hillary because of it.
He didn't recuse himself for a conflict of interest. He lied multiple times under oath and got fired as per recommended by the OIG. There's the matter of intentionally misleading with "extremely careless" rather than "gross negligence".
The investigation was a sham, and that will become increasingly clear as information is dragged out of the justice dept. via FOIA lawsuits.
If Isreali spies can infiltrate Kaspersky, it stands to reason that the Russian Federation would be able to have spies as well. Their corporate management doesn't necessarily have to have any ties to the Russian government, only that the employees that work there are easily accessible, such as the Kaspersky executives being arrested for treason.
I'm pretty sure that in Russia, treason means anything they want it to mean so that you do what they want.
You'll end up having to pay in dogecoins or whatever, since you're going to have trouble using normal payment systems to pay for that Kaspersky subscription. If they can't take you head on, they will always come at you sideways.
Now you're bitching, not because you can't say what you want, but because you can't say what you want on somebody else's podium. Get your own. The Daily Stormer could do it, and so can you.
And when independent candidates run for office and can't get their message out for being shadow banned, and the corporatist candidates are always the number one trending subject, you'll be there to finger wag for not bothering to set up their own world-class content distribution system first.
Rules for thee, not for me. Such are the excuses of an authoritarian.
Try going to a vendor conference for technology. Major brands will often have some hottie that will lure the neckbeards in, then pass them off to their partner that actually knows something about the product other than what's on the sales brochure.
Sure, it's a ploy. But it's also something to be expected when dealing with sales, along with their fake smiles and bait-and-switch tactics. At least the roses smell nice.
On the opposite extreme is gender quotas. Lowering requirements in hiring for one sex, yet still calling it equal opportunity while enforcing a double standard.
The issue with the physical requirements for NYC firemen is an example, with women failing the exam but still being given the job.
So in theory, a person can burn to death in a house fire because of political correctness that put people unsuitable for job in a position to rescue them, due to some unwritten formula for the ideal combination of genitals among firemen.
That seems just as counterproductive and detrimental to the society as unfettered capitalism. If jobs exists that are unsuitable for the disabled, or women who lack the physical strength do a fireman carry, why should laws exist to enforce their participation?
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The FBI et al might have been investigating the links between the Trump campaign and Russia, but the only campaign intentionally attacked was Clinton's. Did you forget that?
You know who is more credible that the collective whole of the DNC, the Clinton campaign, and their sympathizers in the intelligence agencies? It's NSA whistleblower William Benny and his associates at the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, when they say there's no proof the DNC was hacked.
But sure, pretend the DNC is the problem.
They are the driving force behind this misinformation campaign, and even their namesake is a lie.
Which is why "russian trolls" may actually be working at the behest of our own political action groups, since they work cheap and money spent in election cycles is measured in the billions.
This may also help explain why these adds seemed to target both sides of an issue. Why would they care if their clients were politically opposed; rather that would only help keep their services in demand.
Lies by omission is the very least one can expect from the sources driving this narrative.
So what should be the proper term be for the 'reputation management' firms that are employed by our own political factions? I'd also like to know how to properly classify Media Matters, Moveon, the Forval group, Heartland, etc.
Where is the distinction when groups such as these act on the behest of the US government, as a result of the repeal of the Smith Mundt act, which restricted propaganda campaigns being conducted on the public? How many 'internet research agencies' of our own are operating with seven or eight figure budgets?
Because it seems that those drumming up concern about 'Russian agents' spreading memes would also like us to think that such efforts are conducted purely in a vacuum. Seldom does anyone make a comparison to what these agents are competing with.
Forensics at the trial showed that Martin had straddled Zimmerman, with the latter being on his back, when the shooting occurred. This position is what is colloquially known as a 'ground and pound', with the explicit purpose of limiting the range of motion and ability of someone to defend themself.
This is why 'stand your ground' never even entered into this particular case. Martin had blocked Zimmerman's ability to escape.
The Information Dominance Center can't be complete without some kind of interactive AI system.
I appreciate such a thoughtful verbal flaying from someone opining about the snark on slashdot in general being tiresome.
The snark is likely the result of "in order to improve the user experience" and "a fresh, clean new look" becoming such dreaded phrases.
The example that comes to mind is the George Zimmerman case. Never was there a more obvious example of a media determined to drive a narrative for the sake of maintaining public interest and thus profits, and at the extreme cost of the individuals involved.
North Korea is ripe for unfettered capitalism and indentured slave labor, though. Surely that has to factor in somehow.
So the Job Creators get to fatten themselves that much more, Kim skims off the top and stays in power to live like a Saudi prince, this frees us up for a war with Iran to the delight of the military industrial complex, and Trump gets to crow that he accomplished something. What's wrong with that plan?
With Trump making noises about putting tariffs on Chinese imports and adding to the cooling off of Chinese growth, support for North Korea may have come up on the bargaining table.
There is also the matter of the collapse of the nuclear test facility with unknown repercussions within N Korea.
It didn't seem clear that appeasement through saber rattling was going to work with Trump. With peaceful overtures comes a way to ease sanctions and dependence on Chinese support.
Demonitization is also driven in part by corporate 'news' organizations. It wasn't enough for youtube to adjust their recommended algorithm to favor corporate mouthpieces for propaganda, they want to eliminate income for independent news commentators as well.
And before you say "but infowars!", CNN is also targeting Jimmy Dore with this hatchet piece.
"it's a private company not government!" shall be the excuse of tyrants working feverishly to silence dissent and opposition, and to put down the monsters of their own creation.
Meanwhile, a grade student struggles in understanding the meaning of their reading assignment:
“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
Again, edge providers are not the government. Under your apparent definition, you are equally authoritarian -- you want to force privately held businesses to host and distribute messages that they do not want to carry because you, an authority, dictate so to them.
I should be so thankful that an internet lawyer showed up to put me in my rightful place for daring to even question my corporate better's ability to decide and influence the nature of political discourse in modern society.
How silly to think that when such 'private businesses' handle, process and regulate the speech between hundreds of millions of individuals in a country, and become the authority of who will be allowed to participate, that the line between it and government could become blurred.
Since you appear to prefer legal terms, then you should understand what de facto means and how it applies in these situations. Expecting equal protection is not an authoritarian position.
Just wait till general AI is available, or something sufficiently similar to it.
Then every minute of every day will be tracked and cataloged. You won't be able to step out onto the street without it being registered. It'll be like a political officer assigned to every person, watching, carefully scrutinizing for any sign of thoughtcrime.
And then, only those who have a sufficient social score will be allowed to have children.
Yeah, those assholes for making shit up and ruining people's lives.
Hmm, that reminds me. I wonder what deplorable is being kicked off Twitter or Facebook today. Probably yet another racist sexist xenophobe misogynist transphobic fascist nazi who absolutely deserved it by expressing a harmful or divisive opinion that disagreed with our political stance. It's amazing how many of these dumbasses don't realize that Free speech has its consequences.
I sense you're trying to pair atheism to a complete lack of morals and human decency, and given past abuses from those who claimed moral superiority and divine right, it's sadly ironic.
Religious authoritarians have already demonstrated how they deal with those with low social credit scores, and it involves excommunication and being being burned alive at the stake.
However, there's been no indication that china's sesame score accounts for religious preference, but then the exact method of how the score is generated has been kept secret.
If privately held businesses are going to operate under the assumption of acting as a common carrier, then that is exactly how they shall operate. First amendment rights shall not be abdicated to the whims of silicon valley executives under the pretense of hosting an impartial platform. Arbitrary enforcement of 'community standards', algorithm changes to suppress certain individuals but promote the approved messages of others, and squashing 'harmful' ideas is just another form of authoritarianism.
Not evidence that it influenced McCabe has ever been release much less proof that McCabe didn't fully investigate Hillary because of it.
He didn't recuse himself for a conflict of interest. He lied multiple times under oath and got fired as per recommended by the OIG. There's the matter of intentionally misleading with "extremely careless" rather than "gross negligence".
The investigation was a sham, and that will become increasingly clear as information is dragged out of the justice dept. via FOIA lawsuits.
If Isreali spies can infiltrate Kaspersky, it stands to reason that the Russian Federation would be able to have spies as well. Their corporate management doesn't necessarily have to have any ties to the Russian government, only that the employees that work there are easily accessible, such as the Kaspersky executives being arrested for treason.
I'm pretty sure that in Russia, treason means anything they want it to mean so that you do what they want.
Apparently it was discovered by Isreali spies. So it fits the pattern of accuse others of that which you are guilty.
You'll end up having to pay in dogecoins or whatever, since you're going to have trouble using normal payment systems to pay for that Kaspersky subscription. If they can't take you head on, they will always come at you sideways.
Now you're bitching, not because you can't say what you want, but because you can't say what you want on somebody else's podium. Get your own. The Daily Stormer could do it, and so can you.
And when independent candidates run for office and can't get their message out for being shadow banned, and the corporatist candidates are always the number one trending subject, you'll be there to finger wag for not bothering to set up their own world-class content distribution system first.
Rules for thee, not for me. Such are the excuses of an authoritarian.
Heretics and blasphemers should not only be silenced, they should fear us as well.
Try going to a vendor conference for technology. Major brands will often have some hottie that will lure the neckbeards in, then pass them off to their partner that actually knows something about the product other than what's on the sales brochure.
Sure, it's a ploy. But it's also something to be expected when dealing with sales, along with their fake smiles and bait-and-switch tactics. At least the roses smell nice.
On the opposite extreme is gender quotas. Lowering requirements in hiring for one sex, yet still calling it equal opportunity while enforcing a double standard.
The issue with the physical requirements for NYC firemen is an example, with women failing the exam but still being given the job. So in theory, a person can burn to death in a house fire because of political correctness that put people unsuitable for job in a position to rescue them, due to some unwritten formula for the ideal combination of genitals among firemen.
That seems just as counterproductive and detrimental to the society as unfettered capitalism. If jobs exists that are unsuitable for the disabled, or women who lack the physical strength do a fireman carry, why should laws exist to enforce their participation?