The fact that Steele was hired by the Free Beacon is confirmed by literally the sentence before the one you quoted in your link: "Previously, the conservative Washington Free Beacon hired Fusion GPS to investigate Trump and other Republican primary candidates"
I think you either fail at reading comprehension or are purposely lying. The paragraph in question.
In 2016, a law firm representing Hillary Clinton’s campaign for president and the Democratic National Committee hired Fusion GPS, which subsequently hired Steele.Previously, the conservative Washington Free Beacon hired Fusion GPS to investigate Trump and other Republican primary candidates. It says that “none of the work product that the Free Beacon received appears in the Steele dossier.”
In case you missed it, "subsequently" means "afterward".
There's good reason to believe someone - likely multiple people - have a lot of leverage on Trump. There's a decent chance he's being straight-up blackmailed.
There's also a decent chance he's caught up in various illegal activities with the Russian mafia. Specifically there have been allegations that his properties were/are used to launder money.
=Smidge=
Oh, we're making shit up now?
There's good reason to believe someone - likely Xenu - sent Trump to Earth to destabilize it. There's a decent chance he's being straight-up mind-controlled.
There's also a decent chance he's caught up in various interstellar prostitution rings with the Omicron Persei 8 mafia. Specifically there have been allegations that he likes to grab alien pussy.
You do realize who Devin Nunes is, right? He was part of the Trump transition team, right in the middle of the Flynn mess. He is ostensibly recused from the Russia investigation - and not for that, but for his little escapades sneaking off into the White House in the middle of the night to coordinate conspiracy theories and give them information about the investigation against them. But he puts out some congressional fan fiction, which even Senate Republicans have been expressing hesitation about, and blocks the Dems from contradicting him, and... viola!
So, just to confirm:
You're saying the memo can't be trusted because Nunes is associated with it?
Additionally, you're saying that Nunes made up the evidence in the memo and is not just a retarded fan fiction writer, but also a Russian Ninja Bond-villain?
And because such an unperson wrote this memo, we should completely ignore any possible factual information it may contain?
Right... you're totally unbiased and clear thinking.
It's not evidence, it's Devin Nunes spin. [...] McCabe was under oath, so it should not be difficult to prove one way or the other.
Why has NO ONE disputed the facts on this then? If McCabe didn't say that, why wouldn't he immediately and publicly do an interview stating so? Why wouldn't the Democratic members of the Intel Committee go on record stating that?
Just because you don't want to believe it, it doesn't make it not true. Just because the source is partisan, it doesn't mean its wrong.
Andrew McCabe confirmed that no FISA warrant would have been sought from the FISA Court without the Steele dossier information.
Not quite. Devin Nunes SAYS Andrew McCabe confirmed that. In a document that the FBI director (appointed by Trump) and the Justice Department (run by someone appointed by Trump) say is inaccurate.
Did you really just respond "Nuh uh!" to evidence that was vetted through the House Intelligence Committee (and later the FBI) because it disagrees with you?
Have you considered that perhaps the Republicans are thinking "what's good for the goose is good for the gander"?
I mean, with all of the abuses of federal agencies to go after political opponents in the Obama-era, why wouldn't power-mad Republics salivate at their chance to do the same? The only way to prevent power from being abused is to make it so no one has the power in the first place.
The dossier wasn't even the reason for the warrant.
Somehow, I don't think you're arguing in good faith. Either that or you failed to read the memo.
Regardless, Deputy Director McCabe disagrees with you (from the memo that you totally read):
While the FISA application relied on Steele's past record of credible reporting on other unrelated matters, it ignored or concealed his
anti-Trump financial and ideological motivations. Furthermore, Deputy Director McCabe testified before the Committee in December 2017 that no surveillance warrant would have been sought from the FISC without the Steele dossier information.
It was frequently used as a term of offense during the slave trade...
While Gorilla has been used as offensive term for blacks, you shouldn't make up facts. Just stick to the truth - it's bad enough as it is.
Gorillas weren't even known in the Western world until 1847. There's only a 14-year overlap with American Slavery (trans-atlantic slave trade having been abolished almost a half century before the discovery), and it's not like the American South was tapped into the latest ecology news out of Africa.
If this Cloudflare CEO really means what he says, then he needs to stop blocking Tor exit nodes, making us solve recaptchas (at best) and blocking us completely (at worst). Seriously, stop even noting someone is using a known Tor exit node and treat the traffic like you would anything else!
This is probably because they're commonly used as relays for DDOS attacks. I commonly use a privacy VPN and have this issue, but as someone who deals with hosting some high volume sites I understand.
[...] there was far more variation between any pair of human brains than there was between the averages of gender groups. Or, to put it another way, given an fMRI image of a brain, it's impossible to classify it as male or female and be significantly more likely to be correct than if you randomly assigned them male/female labels [...]
Your example of identifying a specific individual case is a non-sequitur. You're either purposely misrepresenting the argument,
or incapable of understanding the concept of separating the individual from group.
While there is more variability within a group than between groups, there is still in fact variability between group averages. This means when looking at issues of group representation, group averages become relevant.
That is the longest-winded way I've ever seen to say "Republicans and Conservatives are stupid and reject reality".
It's lovely that it acts like it's conservatives that reject facts, but sadly the Right do not hold the monopoly on crazy. For example, in the instance we are talking about right now, it's not conservatives rejecting reality.
When speaking about group averages, and NOT about individuals, there exists different distributions in physical and mental ability. That is what the "Anti-Diversity Memo" stated that caused the leftists / liberals / pro-diversity people / sjws / non-conservatives (whatever you want to call them) to flip out. They are flat out rejecting science.
Here is a simple set of questions that will guarantee the asker will be called a racist, sexist nazi:
- Do genetics have any effect on a person's biology?
- Does biology affect physical and/or mental ability?
- Does biology have any bearing on expressed gender or sex?
- Are there any biological components to racial identification (skin color, eye shape, etc)?
- As a group distribution (not at an individual level), do all races share equal ability in physical endeavors (running, weight lifting, etc)?
- As a group distribution (not at an individual level), do all races share equal ability in mental endeavors (math, science, programming)?
- As a group distribution (not at an individual level), do genders share equal ability in physical endeavors?
- As a group distribution (not at an individual level), do genders share equal ability in mental endeavors?
The answer to these questions are obvious and uncomfortable. The only question is "how far" does biology determine ability. However, the side that pretends to worship science is the one rejecting it in this case.
Note: variability within groups is almost(?) always greater than variability between groups, meaning race and sex do not determine an individual's ability. However, when pushing diversity programs that categorize groups of people, it is unscientific to ignore data about group distribution.
The bogeyman, of course! Depending on who you are pandering to, it's conservatives, alt-right, the NRA, GamerGate, MRAs, Fascists, KKK, Nazis, Neo-Nazis, etc.
Most of these people calling for "free speech" in the case of Gawker would be the first to decry it when it comes to sites like Breitbart, infowars, and Drudge Report. They're the same crowd that loves to point to this XKCD (which completely misunderstands the principle of free speech) when they push for corporate censorship of opposing political views whilst mocking defenders of free speech with the phrase "freeze peach".
3. The "swamp" being drained is evidently people who are reporting on wildly unethical things the government is doing.
Pray tell, what "wildly unethical things the government is doing" were uncovered by her leak? Is it unethical to have an ongoing investigation into hack attempts?
b) (and more importantly) the Republicans invest heavily in a content and narrative engine (Fox News, InfoWars, Beitbart, etc, etc) to drive their narrative.
You're saying the GOP establishment was coordinating with Breitbart and InfoWars? Clearly you have no idea what you're talking about considering both were essentially at war with the GOPe. Not sure if you remember, but Trump lost TONS of every-single-election donors like the Koch brothers. Additionally, all of the standard GOPe newspapers either withheld endorsement, or endorsed Hillary.
Face it, Hillary was a shit candidate with a terrible track record of corruption.
And the Orange Prince also wants to put exploding laptops of businessmen in the cargo hold, apparently explosions there don't matter.
While I hate the concept of a laptop ban as much as anyone (baggage throwers have destroyed so much of my shit), most explosives that one can sneak through inside of a laptop would need to be placed strategically against the side of the aircraft if they were actually trying to bring it down. So yeah, explosions matter less inside of the cargo hold.
Reddit is a HUGE site full of many different forums (subreddits), so you can't paint them all with the same brush.
... but there's literally hundreds of thousands of subreddits so there should be some on there to suit whatever odd interest you may have.
Every subreddit is totally different, with different moderators;
You're right. The front page is especially diverse with tons of unique subreddits. For example, if you don't like Trump, here is a small selection of completely unique subreddits that frequent the front page (/r/all):
I do like how reddit became a universal forum, but over the last 18 months it's become unbearable with spam and astroturfing. I try to filter anything with "Donald" or "Trump" or "President" but they keep coming up with new subreddits to get past people's filters. I wish the admins would clamp down on this a bit.
Slashdot Mirror
I think that's what's called a paradox.
Shitty people ruin good things for everyone. News at 11.
A lot of these have dropped in the last few days.
YouTube Bans Firearms Demo Videos
Citi sets restrictions on gun sales by retail clients by adding arbitrary rules (can only sell to 21+ years-old, no standard capacity magazines, etc)
The fact that Steele was hired by the Free Beacon is confirmed by literally the sentence before the one you quoted in your link: "Previously, the conservative Washington Free Beacon hired Fusion GPS to investigate Trump and other Republican primary candidates"
I think you either fail at reading comprehension or are purposely lying. The paragraph in question.
In 2016, a law firm representing Hillary Clinton’s campaign for president and the Democratic National Committee hired Fusion GPS, which subsequently hired Steele. Previously, the conservative Washington Free Beacon hired Fusion GPS to investigate Trump and other Republican primary candidates. It says that “none of the work product that the Free Beacon received appears in the Steele dossier.”
In case you missed it, "subsequently" means "afterward".
It's much more than just memes. Americans went on rallies organised by Russians.
That's true, including a "'Trump is NOT my President' rally in New York the week after the election and one in Charlotte, North Carolina, the following week."
There's good reason to believe someone - likely multiple people - have a lot of leverage on Trump. There's a decent chance he's being straight-up blackmailed.
There's also a decent chance he's caught up in various illegal activities with the Russian mafia. Specifically there have been allegations that his properties were/are used to launder money. =Smidge=
Oh, we're making shit up now?
There's good reason to believe someone - likely Xenu - sent Trump to Earth to destabilize it. There's a decent chance he's being straight-up mind-controlled.
There's also a decent chance he's caught up in various interstellar prostitution rings with the Omicron Persei 8 mafia. Specifically there have been allegations that he likes to grab alien pussy.
During the last election, Steele was hired - first by Republicans, then Democrats - to research Trump.
Repeating this debunked claim makes the credibility of the rest of your post dubious. "None of the work product that the Free Beacon received appears in the Steele dossier."
You do realize who Devin Nunes is, right? He was part of the Trump transition team, right in the middle of the Flynn mess. He is ostensibly recused from the Russia investigation - and not for that, but for his little escapades sneaking off into the White House in the middle of the night to coordinate conspiracy theories and give them information about the investigation against them. But he puts out some congressional fan fiction, which even Senate Republicans have been expressing hesitation about, and blocks the Dems from contradicting him, and... viola!
So, just to confirm:
You're saying the memo can't be trusted because Nunes is associated with it?
Additionally, you're saying that Nunes made up the evidence in the memo and is not just a retarded fan fiction writer, but also a Russian Ninja Bond-villain?
And because such an unperson wrote this memo, we should completely ignore any possible factual information it may contain?
Right... you're totally unbiased and clear thinking.
It's not evidence, it's Devin Nunes spin. [...] McCabe was under oath, so it should not be difficult to prove one way or the other.
Why has NO ONE disputed the facts on this then? If McCabe didn't say that, why wouldn't he immediately and publicly do an interview stating so? Why wouldn't the Democratic members of the Intel Committee go on record stating that?
Just because you don't want to believe it, it doesn't make it not true. Just because the source is partisan, it doesn't mean its wrong.
Or, maybe, your very premise is incorrect and Trump does not, actually, want to be an authoritarian despot?
I dunno. I mean, Trump did get 2 scoops of ice cream, when everyone else gets 1.
If that isn't authoritarian despot behavior, what is?
Not quite. Devin Nunes SAYS Andrew McCabe confirmed that. In a document that the FBI director (appointed by Trump) and the Justice Department (run by someone appointed by Trump) say is inaccurate.
Did you really just respond "Nuh uh!" to evidence that was vetted through the House Intelligence Committee (and later the FBI) because it disagrees with you?
Have you considered that perhaps the Republicans are thinking "what's good for the goose is good for the gander"?
I mean, with all of the abuses of federal agencies to go after political opponents in the Obama-era, why wouldn't power-mad Republics salivate at their chance to do the same? The only way to prevent power from being abused is to make it so no one has the power in the first place.
The dossier wasn't even the reason for the warrant.
Somehow, I don't think you're arguing in good faith. Either that or you failed to read the memo.
Regardless, Deputy Director McCabe disagrees with you (from the memo that you totally read):
While the FISA application relied on Steele's past record of credible reporting on other unrelated matters, it ignored or concealed his anti-Trump financial and ideological motivations. Furthermore, Deputy Director McCabe testified before the Committee in December 2017 that no surveillance warrant would have been sought from the FISC without the Steele dossier information.
It was frequently used as a term of offense during the slave trade...
While Gorilla has been used as offensive term for blacks, you shouldn't make up facts. Just stick to the truth - it's bad enough as it is.
Gorillas weren't even known in the Western world until 1847. There's only a 14-year overlap with American Slavery (trans-atlantic slave trade having been abolished almost a half century before the discovery), and it's not like the American South was tapped into the latest ecology news out of Africa.
If this Cloudflare CEO really means what he says, then he needs to stop blocking Tor exit nodes, making us solve recaptchas (at best) and blocking us completely (at worst). Seriously, stop even noting someone is using a known Tor exit node and treat the traffic like you would anything else!
This is probably because they're commonly used as relays for DDOS attacks. I commonly use a privacy VPN and have this issue, but as someone who deals with hosting some high volume sites I understand.
I don't disagree but I'm yet to see any of the race hatred (or white male hatred on the other side) being "reasoned out"
Have you heard of the civil rights movement? It was responsible for tearing down huge bulwarks of racism. You should look into it sometime.
The only part of crime that matters is the dollar amount, silly!
[...] there was far more variation between any pair of human brains than there was between the averages of gender groups. Or, to put it another way, given an fMRI image of a brain, it's impossible to classify it as male or female and be significantly more likely to be correct than if you randomly assigned them male/female labels [...]
Your example of identifying a specific individual case is a non-sequitur.
You're either purposely misrepresenting the argument, or incapable of understanding the concept of separating the individual from group.
While there is more variability within a group than between groups, there is still in fact variability between group averages. This means when looking at issues of group representation, group averages become relevant.
That is the longest-winded way I've ever seen to say "Republicans and Conservatives are stupid and reject reality".
It's lovely that it acts like it's conservatives that reject facts, but sadly the Right do not hold the monopoly on crazy. For example, in the instance we are talking about right now, it's not conservatives rejecting reality.
When speaking about group averages, and NOT about individuals, there exists different distributions in physical and mental ability. That is what the "Anti-Diversity Memo" stated that caused the leftists / liberals / pro-diversity people / sjws / non-conservatives (whatever you want to call them) to flip out. They are flat out rejecting science.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Here is a simple set of questions that will guarantee the asker will be called a racist, sexist nazi:
- Do genetics have any effect on a person's biology?
- Does biology affect physical and/or mental ability?
- Does biology have any bearing on expressed gender or sex?
- Are there any biological components to racial identification (skin color, eye shape, etc)?
- As a group distribution (not at an individual level), do all races share equal ability in physical endeavors (running, weight lifting, etc)?
- As a group distribution (not at an individual level), do all races share equal ability in mental endeavors (math, science, programming)?
- As a group distribution (not at an individual level), do genders share equal ability in physical endeavors?
- As a group distribution (not at an individual level), do genders share equal ability in mental endeavors?
The answer to these questions are obvious and uncomfortable. The only question is "how far" does biology determine ability. However, the side that pretends to worship science is the one rejecting it in this case.
Note: variability within groups is almost(?) always greater than variability between groups, meaning race and sex do not determine an individual's ability. However, when pushing diversity programs that categorize groups of people, it is unscientific to ignore data about group distribution.
Who's "they"?
The bogeyman, of course! Depending on who you are pandering to, it's conservatives, alt-right, the NRA, GamerGate, MRAs, Fascists, KKK, Nazis, Neo-Nazis, etc.
These days, it's all about whipping up a mob, and if you define the "enemy" too closely you can't get a big enough mob. It's why you have things like the "women's march" with no clear goals or message, with pro-sharia leaders, speakers who were convicted for torture and murder, and literal terrorists as organizers.
Most of these people calling for "free speech" in the case of Gawker would be the first to decry it when it comes to sites like Breitbart, infowars, and Drudge Report. They're the same crowd that loves to point to this XKCD (which completely misunderstands the principle of free speech) when they push for corporate censorship of opposing political views whilst mocking defenders of free speech with the phrase "freeze peach".
The 1st Amendment says nothing about "newsworthiness".
And the 2nd Amendment doesn't say anything about "assault weapons", yet here we are.
There have always been "reasonable" exceptions and limitations on constitutional rights.
3. The "swamp" being drained is evidently people who are reporting on wildly unethical things the government is doing.
Pray tell, what "wildly unethical things the government is doing" were uncovered by her leak? Is it unethical to have an ongoing investigation into hack attempts?
b) (and more importantly) the Republicans invest heavily in a content and narrative engine (Fox News, InfoWars, Beitbart, etc, etc) to drive their narrative.
You're saying the GOP establishment was coordinating with Breitbart and InfoWars? Clearly you have no idea what you're talking about considering both were essentially at war with the GOPe. Not sure if you remember, but Trump lost TONS of every-single-election donors like the Koch brothers. Additionally, all of the standard GOPe newspapers either withheld endorsement, or endorsed Hillary.
Face it, Hillary was a shit candidate with a terrible track record of corruption.
And the Orange Prince also wants to put exploding laptops of businessmen in the cargo hold, apparently explosions there don't matter.
While I hate the concept of a laptop ban as much as anyone (baggage throwers have destroyed so much of my shit), most explosives that one can sneak through inside of a laptop would need to be placed strategically against the side of the aircraft if they were actually trying to bring it down. So yeah, explosions matter less inside of the cargo hold.
Reddit is a HUGE site full of many different forums (subreddits), so you can't paint them all with the same brush.
... but there's literally hundreds of thousands of subreddits so there should be some on there to suit whatever odd interest you may have.
Every subreddit is totally different, with different moderators;
You're right. The front page is especially diverse with tons of unique subreddits. For example, if you don't like Trump, here is a small selection of completely unique subreddits that frequent the front page (/r/all):
/r/EnoughTrumpSpam
/r/Impeach_Trump
/r/ImpeachTrump
/r/AntiTrumpAlliance
/r/BlueMidterm2018
/r/drumpf
/r/esist
/r/MarchForScience
/r/MarchAgainstTrump
/r/Trumpgret
/r/Trump_Watch
/r/Fuckthealtright
/r/OurPresident
/r/BannedFromThe_Donald
/r/ShitThe_DonaldSays
/r/the_duped
/r/thenewcoldwar
/r/hillaryclinton
/r/democrats
I do like how reddit became a universal forum, but over the last 18 months it's become unbearable with spam and astroturfing. I try to filter anything with "Donald" or "Trump" or "President" but they keep coming up with new subreddits to get past people's filters. I wish the admins would clamp down on this a bit.
And by the way, Obama is not the left. He may be the center-right, but he has nothing to do with the Bernie Left. The spy agencies are all right wing.
Sure, Obama was "right wing" if you define "right wing" as everything bad, and "left wing" as everything good.
The authoritarian left is a thing. Unless you think Stalin and Mao were card-carrying Republicans?