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  1. Re: irreversible on France To Shut Down All Coal-Fired Power Plants By 2023 (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Explain to me how nationalism valuing America first is anti American

    Because it is counterproductive and leaves the country in a worse place than being a responsible member of the international community does. Also, it is too easily leveraged into white nationalism.

    Bullshit! Every country in the world protects it's borders and puts it's own citizens first, or they fail. Every country that recently harmed their populaces by importing tons of immigrants has lost elections and had to reverse direction. Merkel, Brexit, Trump are three easy examples, but most other EU countries have reversed directions on things like massively importing refuges. Swiss people demanding a halt were not doing so because "white supremacy", nor were Germans, Brits, or US people. The argument that it's racism and xenophobic are lies, bold faced lies.

    For them to put the interests of foreign nations or even the international community above the interests of the US seems treasonous on its face.

    We have many conflicting interests as a nation, many of which are the same interests as the international community (like defeating ISIS.) In order to make progress on some of our national interests, it is necessary to compromise on others.

    In other words, you can wish really hard that America exists in a vacuum, but wishing does not make it so.

    Having fair dealings with other nations does not mean you want to exist in a vacuum. China makes trade deals with all other nations focusing on Chinese interests first. The same can be said for virtually any other Country in the world. The minute they don't, they end up with collapsing economies and massive debt. Your claim is hyperbole.

  2. Bill Clinton accepted 500,000.00 US from Moscow for speaking fees. Is he also a Russian Puppet making Hillary a Russian puppet by marriage? You also happen to ignore every other country which has held the Ms. Universe pageant in your argument. Is Trump also a puppet of those states, or just the one that fits your hyperbole? Your argument is stupid, you are stupid.

    Your master should not pay you, you suck at shilling.

  3. Quoting Opinion pieces on left wing rags hardly establishes facts. Trump has the Ms. Universe pageant in the US more often than not, so I guess he's pro US. Then again, they voted a Japanese model Ms. Universe in 2007, so I guess he's a Japanese puppet.

    Your argument is stupid, which says much about the author. Keep reading those left wing rags though, it's great for your mental health to live in an echo chamber.

  4. The majority of the damaging links came with DKIM and other forms of verification. That is why the guilty parties exposed could not claim they were fabricated without facing legal actions and sanctions from numerous parties. $FOREIGNENTITY is simply a straw man that has been used to distract from the evidence, instead of discounting the evidence. Facts do not discount the evidence.

    To your second point, it's a red herring. $FOREIGNENTITY replaced with $WHISTLEBLOWER makes the argument a little more valid. If Government actors behaved as they are legally required, for the best interests of their citizens, then we would not have need for Whistle blowers. The fact is, and will remain, that people holding positions of power often use that power for personal gains without consideration for the people they are supposed to be representing. In fact we find very often that those actions are done to spite the people they are supposed to represent.

    The moral of every story of Utopia is that it can not exist because humans are not all altruistic and honest. Humans are imperfect and full of flaws. Fantasies about a Western Utopia under the current administrations are exactly that. They have damaged the middle classes of the UK and US considerably, hence we have Brexit and Trump. Of course we also have a whole lot of that same power structure trying to push back against both of those things.

  5. Re:phrased questionably on LinkedIn Blocked By Russian Government (pcworld.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not only are you not a lawyer (I am not either), but you refused to read the Russian Law brought into question with the LinkedIn ban which explicitly states that data on Russian people must be housed inside of Russia. In fact if you read the article you would see this law articulated in exactly that way. You don't have to be a lawyer, you simply have to spend a few minutes of time to read.

    You then flat out lie (intentional or otherwise) about the EU law which absolutely applies to companies outside of the EU. US Companies must house data inside the EU and all data handling must be compliant with both EU and local laws regarding data handling.

    Your opinion is of no value, thanks for playing.

  6. phrased questionably on LinkedIn Blocked By Russian Government (pcworld.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Your phrasing shows the fragmentation from Countries like Russia and China, but omits regulations and requirements put forth by the EU as a whole and many other independent countries after it was revealed that the US was snooping on everyone all the time (including our allies). This includes the UK, Canada, Australia, and obviously more. Many of the Countries within the EU want tighter restrictions, forcing ISPs to house data for the German Government and people in Germany. Though this is not currently EU law there is pressure to go this way.

    Some information is certainly worth being able to be shared with the world, but some data is not. Security experts have been saying this for decades.

    If LinkedIn wanted to do business in Russia I'm sure they could lease data center space and house Russian PII information in Russia as they have been requested to do. If you are in the UK, would you want your data housed in China? How about Iran? I'm sure you could get a great deal on DC costs there, but it's not worth the risk to most.

  7. I don't see any real confusion on Royal Navy Giving Up Anti-Ship Missiles, Will Rely On Cannons For Naval Combat (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The US pays for wars all over the place which have been very expensive. 7-9 Trillion in the Middle East with nothing in return except destabilized countries with a populace that hates and is more aggressive to the US and its allies. Stop giving arms to rebels who turn those weapons on you, close bases that don't do us any good and bring troops to bases that do, and if we are defending a country we should receive compensation instead of paying a country to have a base. Further, there can be cuts to BS departments of money grubbing and lobbying, but that would be a secondary issue to tackle.

    The US Defense budget is massive, but we sure don't spend it on troops and weapons. Way too much overhead and far too many pet projects.

  8. The Republicans are not the ones sequestering and cutting Defense budgets, that's Democrats. Republicans have attempted to stop the bullshit spending and takeover of health insurance. Get your facts straight!

  9. There goes my fantasy of making the UK our 51st State...

    Thanks, I think..

  10. Live here != Work here on Steve Bannon Suggests Having Too Many Asian Tech CEOs Undermines 'Civic Society' (theverge.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So yes, and I gather from context that the "Live" here is the concern. Work here is important too, but if the talent stays for a couple years and moves home to India, or China, or South Korea (etc..) with their fortune has our society received as much benefit from the arrangement? Cherry picking context for some for of "ism" or "obia" has become so old that I am simply ignoring MSM. Boycott is your only leverage to change this shit from the media oligarchs who are pissed that their crony lost.

    6% trust rating my ass, Huffpo has gone into negative range along with those other stations which I won't even mention.

  11. Apples to school of sharks comparison on Cybersecurity CEO Gets Fired After Threatening To Kill Trump On Facebook (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    You are attempting to conflate a direct statement of intent to assassination of an individual, with Trump saying that people can prevent the loss of their 2nd amendment rights against tyranny (as the 2nd amendment was designed). You may not see the establishment as tyrannical, but Progressives have threatened to rid the people of their 2nd amendment rights for years. Thankfully we will never know what would have happened if Clinton won the election, but speculation that the 2nd amendment would be gone is fair game based on her own statements. Her own words on Supreme Court judges was that she wanted people with "feelings", not knowledge and respect for the US Constitution.

    FWIW, Progressives hate all of the amendments but the 2nd needs to go before others are attacked. Group think does not live when people have rights to individual liberty. Plenty of Politicians on the other side calling themselves a different brand have similar perspectives, but that is not the platform at least.

  12. Doubling down on Twitter Says It's Cracking Down on Hate Speech (usatoday.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Obviously certain tech companies hate that their censorship and propaganda failed, so they are doubling down. Time for competing products to rise up, assuming you don't get sued out of business for the next couple months at any rate.

  13. Do you mean things like wanting to secure the border and vet immigrants makes you racist and xenophobic? Deporting criminals is racist? Saying that the inner cities are hell and education is broken makes you racist? Be specific, I can prove you wrong on virtually any of the progressive talking points because Leftists refuse to look at facts.

  14. Amazingly, we don't. Conservatives talk about how Welfare has become a tool of control instead of a hand up. That has nothing to do with someone cheating on welfare, but has everything to do with them lacking social mobility and having welfare as their only option. Leftists phrasing the actual argument as "welfare cheats" just shows who the real racists are. Leftists declared Peter Thiel was no longer gay simply because who he voted for. A mother of a 7 year old kicked him out of the house for voting in a mock election for Trump. Black Americans, Hispanics and Latino's voted 33% for Trump even considering the amount of intimidation and actual violence against them.

    The Left have become extremist whackos doing anything they can for power including violence, bigotry, xenophobia, homophobia, and every other thing they accuse others of doing. Look at facts and see who does this stuff, it sure as hell ain't the right. In fairness it's not even people in the democratic party, it's the whackadoo people pushing communist ideology.

  15. Nope, watching his show. There are the same Democratic talking points repeated with little to not rebuttals. Same thing with Kelly as a matter of fact. They provide enough conservatism to claim being conservative and nothing more.

  16. Most members of the Republican party are not really Republicans. In fact we gave them their own name "RHINO" quite a while back because the leftist tactic of stacking both sides of the deck was pretty obvious.

  17. CNN, ABC, MSNBC, Huffpo, and every other media outlet in the country. Lie and Deny has worked pretty well against the masses for a long time. People do eventually catch on though. Hence, just before the election 76% of people said that the US was going the wrong way, media has a 6% trustworthy rating (probably lower now). The first stat was a dead giveaway that Hillary did not have a 99.8% chance of winning as polsters proclaimed on those same media outlets.

    In fairness, there is certainly some bias in the little tiny bit of Right leaning media (Kelly and O'Reilly are left of center but for the sake of argument lets call them "fair"). It's so little though, very few people noticed.

  18. And it won't stand on Children Can Now Sue The US Government Over Climate Change (vice.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    This will be overturned, and it should be. This ruling falls right in line with allowing people to sue gun makers when a person gets shot. People in general should be very worried about this type of ruling because as you state, it is simply a waste of tax payer money.

  19. Re:Poor summary and incomplete story on Uranium-Filled 'Lost Nuke' Missing Since 1950 May Have Been Found (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know why the poster/editor put in the last line "The crew says they dumped their bomb-like cargo into the ocean first to avoid a detonation on land" as it adds confusion to the story. If you read TFA, it seems like the bomb was dropped into the water to avoid the problems of the TNT exploding and not the BOMB detonating (which doesn't seem possible).

    Given our knowledge of nuclear weapons at the time, I'm guessing there was concern about TNT blowing up next to uranium causing a reaction. I'm not a weapons person, and in my ignorance wonder that possibility myself.

    I'd be interested in finding out why the USAF didn't try to recover the bomb if they thought they knew where it was.

    A saucer shaped big-ass weight would have lots of cool ways to travel. Logistics on finding it would have probably put it out of reach..

  20. To your last point on Peter Thiel Is Joining Donald Trump's Transition Team (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    She's got some fairly serious congenital health issues that might someday require an abortion of a non-viable fetus to save her life.

    Mike Pence has repeatedly stated, and even voted for measures, which protect the right for a mother to have an abortion when her life is at risk.

    The left tends to twist this wording to be "health" risk which includes everything from serious medical problems to minor depression.

    What I find completely batshit crazy is that both the President and VP Elect said this was a State issue, not a Federal issue. Both want to remove Federal funds from the process, and return the options to the State. If you really want abortions to be legal and funded you are free to petition your State to enact laws you agree with. Limiting Federal powers is a good thing.

  21. SHUT UP ALREADY! on Peter Thiel Is Joining Donald Trump's Transition Team (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Within 24 hours of being the confirmed President Elect the leaders of both Canada and Mexico willingly made it public that they are willing to renegotiate NAFTA. US Stocks have soared with the same, more gains than at any other time in history.

    Prior to the election 3 of 4 Americans said that the Country was headed in the _WRONG_ direction. 4 out of 5 Americans said that our Justice system was broken. In California, a State where the Democratic candidate won and voter intimidation is high only 3 out of 5 voters voted for the Democratic candidate. US wide, 2 out of 3 Hispanic/Latinos, Black Americans, Asian Americans voted for the Democratic candidate, and women overall barely broke 50% in voting for the Democratic candidate.

    Instead of silencing opinions you dislike and intimidating voters, look at what happened in the Democratic Party! YOU SHOULD BE PISSED OFF AT YOUR PARTY! Massive amounts of corruption and collusion with media to prop up a candidate that nobody really wanted to lead the party! Outright lies about popularity and fake polls giving false hope that that same candidate would win. Right up to election day Democrats were lied to by the people leading them. When you have to bring out free concerts by huge names and have the sitting President campaign several times a day you should have known that it was looking much worse than they were telling you!

    And if your party lied to you about Clinton what on Earth gives you any faith that what they were saying about Trump was true? MSM has a whopping 6% trust rating for a good damn reason!

    As a Constitutional Conservative I am happy to watch the party continue to collapse. Democrats are losing more and more support every day these pathetic protests occur. Just like the NFL who has allowed anti-Americanism to become showcased, more and more people will become fed up with the lack of respect you have for others.

    I am boycotting any MSM station that plays lip service to these "protesters", and recommend that all people do the same. I'm not impressed by fake protests full of paid protesters and supported by pure propaganda. Democrats need to get their shit together and put this in check if they ever want to win another election. Americans tend to support those being oppressed, and the Democrats are oppressing their own.

  22. 1. They had 2 warrants and judges approve the tactic. If you want to complain about the judges that is fair game, but the FBI did follow the rules. 2. The FBI did not setup these sites, they seized them through legal process.

    I am extremely pro US Constitution and don't see what they did as wrong. They followed the legal process as they should. What I wish we could see is how many arrests they made from the tactic.

  23. You should really investigate the term Monopoly and what the Sherman act has to do with it. Is it pressing charges? Technically yes, but not the same thing as most people would relate to. Deregulation in the 80s allowed monopolization, and we end up with the propaganda we have today. Just like people predicted back then.

  24. In fairness on Alibaba Breaks Records, Sells $17.7 Billion on Singles' Day (techinasia.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The one child policy led to a form of gender genocide. The disparity is as high as 1 woman for every 1.4 men in the major cities . Still today you have people killing female babies in mass numbers. Strangely Wiki claims this is a "birth imbalance" instead of what it really is. They also don't remove or mention the sex slaves from the numbers, so there is most certainly favorable Chinese bias in the page. Human rights groups can't investigate this either, so the numbers given are from the Government.

  25. Your analogy is wrong on Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic To Lead EPA Transition (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    You are attempting to compare apples to a literally hundreds of disparate communities. No, ou won't be able to do it with a car analogy either, because it's a complex social issue.