I read the summary of this article and read the previous summary and...
The US and the rest of the "free world" (such as it is) is bitching and moaning about APT10, a so-called hacking collective. Whilst the "free world" goes on hacking sprees against their own citizens (five-eyes, etc).
It's not about catching criminals (the ACLU is falling into the semantics trap). It's about "instant dossiers" on people who might upset "the system" - i.e., the incumbent powers that be. Everyone has skeletons, and without "second chances" (the US since its founding had been the land of second chances - ability to re-invent oneself, until recently, with this data collecting bullshit tied to Real ID), there is not a politician in the US that can effect change.
The future is a mishmash of Big Brother, Little Brothers (private companies collecting data to sell you things, for example) Brave New World, and GATTACA, in the worst possible way. Because every time I think something has gotten as worse as it can get, it gets worser by orders of magnitude, so my ruminations here and in my head can't possibly imagine the tyrannical dystopia coming down the road.
NUMBER: 1593 AUTHOR: Benjamin Franklin (1706â"90) QUOTATION: âoeWell, Doctor, what have we gotâ"a Republic or a Monarchy?â
âoeA Republic, if you can keep it.â ATTRIBUTION: The response is attributed to BENJAMIN FRANKLINâ"at the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, when queried as he left Independence Hall on the final day of deliberationâ"in the notes of Dr. James McHenry, one of Marylandâ(TM)s delegates to the Convention.
Actually, no. The Democratic Party has been running away from the failed campaign of McGovern learning all the wrong lessons and tying themselves to concepts like "electablity" and doing everything they can to not appear "too leftist" whatever that is at the time. They abandoned the unions, losing all those votes and set the stage or the deundustrialisation of America through lopsided trade agreements. Shit like this has let the Republicans drive every argument all the way down to the vocabulary used. So as the Republicans have drifted into insanity, Dems have become "Republican Lite"
Trump didn't spring fully formed from the head of Zeus.
They have been pulling this shit for 50 years. Why stop now?
>trump's crimes
The American public doesn't give a shit. The American public, by and large, assumes all politicians are on the take..
The American public wants someone to at least pretend to care about their bread and butter issues. As stated above, the par\\Democratic Party has been running away from that sort of stuff since McGovern. Trump won the clown car because out of all the other candidates on the R side he at least mouthed the concepts even though he was lying.and when the DNC riggged it so that someone who had awful negatives, it was only inevitable that trump won the presidency.
Now w are stuck with him and fucking morons like you think that impeachment is going to fix things. It will ifx nothing and if successful, we will wind up with pence.While Trump is a little kid pretending to be dictator, pence will be the real deal and will use things embedded in the ndaa and such, that Obama and his predecessors signed off on, to silence critics.
Regards to the article and especially Chuckles Schumer: I guess tackling utterly trivial issues such as this and chasing after purely apocryphal russians is better than actual real issues.
longer answer: the dnc is tied to incrementalism, which means giving lip service to the rabble at the EFF and then doing nothing. because they are just as bought as the republicans, except they are paid to lose.
"I mean the Egyptians, in their hieroglyphs, didn't have this problem with darker skin, go figure."
This is fucking late, but...
They had to come up with makeup for Lena Horne, and they called it "light Egyptian." They couldn't call it "makeup for dark skin" or "Lena's Makeup" or some such because it was that "exotic."
I remember the interview she had on 60 Minutes and she chuckled about the absurdity.
There are so many other causes of childhood depression (wrong school system, etc.) and the fact that childhood depression existed long before desktop computers of any kind existed that no, social media, as such, is such a small part. Indeed, social media is sometimes the only connection left a depressed person has with the world at large (and if this is you, seek help *right now*^`1) that removing access to it (because parents are going to only read the title) would be harmful.
-- BMO
1. That was me back in 2012. The only things I did were food shopping and going to the pharmacy. If that. But not enough. I lost a bunch of weight due to anorexia (anorexia is not just teenage kids with body image problems, it's also adults or anyone else that just doesn't feel the need to eat). While losing weight this way was effective, it's not recommended by me. My world shrunk to my apartment and the only connection with the outside world was my computer and my property manager who insisted that I come over and sit around the barbecue roughly every Saturday and he wouldn't take no for an answer. (he had a key, of course)
About that. I was pretty good at putting on the mask, so nobody would know that anything was wrong, just that I wasn't around much.
By the time December rolled around and my brother rescued me, I was an almost-suicidal mess and didn't care what happened to me because I didn't think anyone would miss me. Steve probably kept me alive long enough for that to happen. Without the two Steves (my brother is also named Steve), I'd probably be dead from the heart attack in Feb 2013.
Which leads me to today. I am still alive, and I have an actual life again. It took a lot of work and a lot of visits to the head shrinker, but I am mostly functional and/married/ to a wonderful person who doesn't think I'm as awful as I think I am.
The tl;dr of this footnote is that life changes and if your only connection to the outside world is social media, you are in a depressive episode and you need help immediately. You cannot drag yourself out of it alone. But if you get help, you will get the time for life to change for the better (because it can't get much worse). Help doesn't have to be professional help, but it can be a friend or your local DBSA. Google that organization and find a group close to you and go.
Political channels because they're political, and things like AvE (Arduino versus Evil) because of language.
Because machinists, engineers, toolmakers, technicians of any type ranging from your corner store tech to the guy you call because you can't get your cruise ship out of port because X bearing is busted, don't ever swear.
The political channels and (especially) the above want you to actively block the ads and just use Patreon to throw a coupla bucks their way.
And if you're not watching This Old Tony, you're doing it wrong.
>Social media is a dream come true for the practitioners of the Soviet-style dark arts of mass brainwashing and information-attack
Two words:
Dulles brothers.
>social media almost destroyed a republic
That's like blaming radio, TV, the telephone system, printing presses, etc. And how do you propose that such propaganda be stopped? You can't without tearing the First Amendment to shreds.
It's like blaming violent video games for school shooters.
"Russia gets no respect, because it is run by a bloodthirsty fascist who is morally depraved on just about every axis you want to compare with the West."
There is not a day that goes by that Trump doesn't exhibit himself to be a sort-of dumb Mussolini, without the dignity or humility.
You may call Putin a fascist, but Trump is also that, without being able to get the trains to run on time.
Respect is to be earned. It's hard won and easily lost. Whatever respect we had as a nation, is fucking gone.
>epic punishment beating
This is not how you earn respect. You are mistaking fear for respect. They are completely two different beasts altogether.
Bullies think that fear is respect. Bullies have rude awakenings of their own when people stop fearing them.
The Hillary viewpoint with the DNC and Podesta Emails boils down to this:
"We would have won if those meddling kids didn't expose our lies"
It's literally something out of Scooby Doo.
Trump and trumpism isn't the result of the goddamned Russians, it's the result of 40+ years of stultification of the American Public. Ever since the Southern Strategy. The Republicans have been courting the idiots ever since then, and don't fucking argue this point with me, because it was Nixon's own words as to what rubes he was going after.
And ever since then, they've become the Republican Base.
Gone are the Barry Goldwaters. The GOP (grand?) is now composed of grifters, wannabes, assholes, racists, and tools. Since this matches much of the American Public, it's no wonder that Trump won, because he is all of that, and more.
And what gets me is that the Democrats should be/hammering/ the Republicans on policy. Except that it's "Russia Russia Russia." Which the American Public doesn't give two shits about. So we have tools like Tom Perez in charge of the party, someone who would stab you in the back (politically) as much as look at you.
But we do carpet bomb them with smart ordinance, like cluster bombs. Cluster bombs where the bomblets look like toys to children. So when it's unexploded ordnance, they can play with the bomblets. Until they go boom.
So that's different, right?
But they hate us for our freedoms.
"They're American bombs. They hug you to death." -- Jimmy Dore
He is unable to get anything done. Even Republicans within his own party balk at the idiocy that comes out of the WH as a "budget" And that's being nice.
His 4am shitter tweets are a sight to behold. I'm not talking about the new Scrabble 7 letter word - I'm talking about all the rest of them that any sensible PR person would be screaming at him about.
He is a disgusting human being who is only liked as he is because he can play the media like Perlman plays the fiddle and sometimes he's funny. But beyond that, his overall behavior that I have seen since the 80s has been atrocious.
I could go on.
Yes, we could remove him. He's arrogant enough to leave a trail a mile wide, thinking nobody will walk down it.
Yes, we could remove him, but next in line are Pence and Granny Starver Ryan. And if you look at the list, it's assholes all the way down. But they're competent politicians. They know how to say the nice things while stabbing you in the back and you'll thank them for the stab. Trump is fucking incompetent, as we have seen over the past months (it feels like years). The only people left who truly support him are impervious to facts.
As a member of the opposition (I am no longer a dem, because they are Reaganism in Drag, with the drag getting a little threadbare, but as such they are slightly less evil), I want Trump to be stuck to the Republican Party and have them own him at least until the 2018 elections and hopefully to the 2020 elections (to be tossed on his ass by the R party or him rage-quitting)
Because he is so/useful/ to the opposition as an idiot. He brings the media. The media, being stenographers these days, sometimes shines light on the shenanigans unwittingly. More so now than in the past because Trump is entertainment and ratings. For example, we've had Darrel Issa trapped on a rooftop at his town-hall, and similar things have been happening to other congressdroids. People are pissed. I want them to remain pissed. Anger directed in a useful direction is good. They're now getting angry at the people who wish them harm. In order for this to keep going, Trump must remain in office to generally draw attention to government.
Russiagate is a distraction from the real issues - that both the Democratic and Republican parties are Neoliberal economically and considering the last administration, the Democrats are Neoconservatives on foreign policy (we're in how many wars now?) and Heaven Forfend that the public actually gets wind of this.
But then since that's all they've used to prove it was ZOMG RUSSIANS, and that even US courts now know that an ip address != an entity, then the actual evidence that has been presented is....
I wrote a post earlier about the US population getting lied into every war for the duration of my life on this planet so far, which is over half a century. They are lying/again/.
And they're not hiding it well. They're just recycling the old arguments. Because it hasn't changed since Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler wrote "War is a Racket."
Slashdot Mirror
Tell that to Humon of SATW.
https://satwcomic.com/the-rake
I read the summary of this article and read the previous summary and...
The US and the rest of the "free world" (such as it is) is bitching and moaning about APT10, a so-called hacking collective. Whilst the "free world" goes on hacking sprees against their own citizens (five-eyes, etc).
It's not about catching criminals (the ACLU is falling into the semantics trap). It's about "instant dossiers" on people who might upset "the system" - i.e., the incumbent powers that be. Everyone has skeletons, and without "second chances" (the US since its founding had been the land of second chances - ability to re-invent oneself, until recently, with this data collecting bullshit tied to Real ID), there is not a politician in the US that can effect change.
The future is a mishmash of Big Brother, Little Brothers (private companies collecting data to sell you things, for example) Brave New World, and GATTACA, in the worst possible way. Because every time I think something has gotten as worse as it can get, it gets worser by orders of magnitude, so my ruminations here and in my head can't possibly imagine the tyrannical dystopia coming down the road.
NUMBER: 1593
AUTHOR: Benjamin Franklin (1706â"90)
QUOTATION: âoeWell, Doctor, what have we gotâ"a Republic or a Monarchy?â
âoeA Republic, if you can keep it.â
ATTRIBUTION: The response is attributed to BENJAMIN FRANKLINâ"at the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, when queried as he left Independence Hall on the final day of deliberationâ"in the notes of Dr. James McHenry, one of Marylandâ(TM)s delegates to the Convention.
https://www.bartleby.com/73/15...
"This tribble is dead, Jim" -- Dr. McCoy
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BMO
I saw a meme go by in my feed and it had a picture of a star, a tree ornament, a candy-cane, and Benito Mussolini.
"Which of these don't belong?"
"Right, you don't hang a star"
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BMO
...I'm back in the 80s
Excuse me while I cue up some XTC and Cure.
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BMO
Google has been doing censorship "fuck you" pages for *forever*
How is this different? Oh, I see, Google has money.
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BMO
>silly talk
Actually, no. The Democratic Party has been running away from the failed campaign of McGovern learning all the wrong lessons and tying themselves to concepts like "electablity" and doing everything they can to not appear "too leftist" whatever that is at the time. They abandoned the unions, losing all those votes and set the stage or the deundustrialisation of America through lopsided trade agreements. Shit like this has let the Republicans drive every argument all the way down to the vocabulary used. So as the Republicans have drifted into insanity, Dems have become "Republican Lite"
Trump didn't spring fully formed from the head of Zeus.
They have been pulling this shit for 50 years. Why stop now?
>trump's crimes
The American public doesn't give a shit. The American public, by and large, assumes all politicians are on the take..
The American public wants someone to at least pretend to care about their bread and butter issues. As stated above, the par\\Democratic Party has been running away from that sort of stuff since McGovern. Trump won the clown car because out of all the other candidates on the R side he at least mouthed the concepts even though he was lying.and when the DNC riggged it so that someone who had awful negatives, it was only inevitable that trump won the presidency.
Now w are stuck with him and fucking morons like you think that impeachment is going to fix things. It will ifx nothing and if successful, we will wind up with pence.While Trump is a little kid pretending to be dictator, pence will be the real deal and will use things embedded in the ndaa and such, that Obama and his predecessors signed off on, to silence critics.
We are so fucked.
I do see it as a viable political football, like schools, health-care and other civilization building issues.
BUT...
The dems have failed at every turn over the past 50 years, running away from McGovern.
Even the ACA is a failure and capitulation to "republican values"
I am almost all out of fucks to give.
I had high idealistic hopes for the Internet last century.
And I look at a president that uses the most important vehicle for the spread of knowledge for his own personal alt.flame.
Burn. It. All. Down.
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BMO
"we see you are using an ad blocker"
click on back arrow,
Regards to the article and especially Chuckles Schumer: I guess tackling utterly trivial issues such as this and chasing after purely apocryphal russians is better than actual real issues.
*spit*
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BMO
no.
longer answer: the dnc is tied to incrementalism, which means giving lip service to the rabble at the EFF and then doing nothing. because they are just as bought as the republicans, except they are paid to lose.
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bmo
"So I guess they really did find the cock for Dolly"
--
BMO
"I mean the Egyptians, in their hieroglyphs, didn't have this problem with darker skin, go figure."
This is fucking late, but...
They had to come up with makeup for Lena Horne, and they called it "light Egyptian." They couldn't call it "makeup for dark skin" or "Lena's Makeup" or some such because it was that "exotic."
I remember the interview she had on 60 Minutes and she chuckled about the absurdity.
--
BMO
What's the difference between porn and erotica?
Lighting.
--
BMO
I read the title and the answer is "no."
There are so many other causes of childhood depression (wrong school system, etc.) and the fact that childhood depression existed long before desktop computers of any kind existed that no, social media, as such, is such a small part. Indeed, social media is sometimes the only connection left a depressed person has with the world at large (and if this is you, seek help *right now*^`1) that removing access to it (because parents are going to only read the title) would be harmful.
--
BMO
1. That was me back in 2012. The only things I did were food shopping and going to the pharmacy. If that. But not enough. I lost a bunch of weight due to anorexia (anorexia is not just teenage kids with body image problems, it's also adults or anyone else that just doesn't feel the need to eat). While losing weight this way was effective, it's not recommended by me. My world shrunk to my apartment and the only connection with the outside world was my computer and my property manager who insisted that I come over and sit around the barbecue roughly every Saturday and he wouldn't take no for an answer. (he had a key, of course)
About that. I was pretty good at putting on the mask, so nobody would know that anything was wrong, just that I wasn't around much.
By the time December rolled around and my brother rescued me, I was an almost-suicidal mess and didn't care what happened to me because I didn't think anyone would miss me. Steve probably kept me alive long enough for that to happen. Without the two Steves (my brother is also named Steve), I'd probably be dead from the heart attack in Feb 2013.
Which leads me to today. I am still alive, and I have an actual life again. It took a lot of work and a lot of visits to the head shrinker, but I am mostly functional and /married/ to a wonderful person who doesn't think I'm as awful as I think I am.
The tl;dr of this footnote is that life changes and if your only connection to the outside world is social media, you are in a depressive episode and you need help immediately. You cannot drag yourself out of it alone. But if you get help, you will get the time for life to change for the better (because it can't get much worse). Help doesn't have to be professional help, but it can be a friend or your local DBSA. Google that organization and find a group close to you and go.
It's already been happening.
Political channels because they're political, and things like AvE (Arduino versus Evil) because of language.
Because machinists, engineers, toolmakers, technicians of any type ranging from your corner store tech to the guy you call because you can't get your cruise ship out of port because X bearing is busted, don't ever swear.
The political channels and (especially) the above want you to actively block the ads and just use Patreon to throw a coupla bucks their way.
And if you're not watching This Old Tony, you're doing it wrong.
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BMO
That's because it started out as Star Office. Star Office is old as dirt, so they had all those formats from the get-go, back when they were valid.
It is literally as old as Photoshop.
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BMO
I read that as "defiles."
Wishful/hopeful thinking.
But can you even defile a shitstain like Ajit Pai?
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BMO
>mentally vulnerable people
The American Public are retards? That's your argument?
>looks at Trump
I think you have a point.
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BMO
>Social media is a dream come true for the practitioners of the Soviet-style dark arts of mass brainwashing and information-attack
Two words:
Dulles brothers.
>social media almost destroyed a republic
That's like blaming radio, TV, the telephone system, printing presses, etc. And how do you propose that such propaganda be stopped? You can't without tearing the First Amendment to shreds.
It's like blaming violent video games for school shooters.
--
BMO
"Russia gets no respect, because it is run by a bloodthirsty fascist who is morally depraved on just about every axis you want to compare with the West."
There is not a day that goes by that Trump doesn't exhibit himself to be a sort-of dumb Mussolini, without the dignity or humility.
You may call Putin a fascist, but Trump is also that, without being able to get the trains to run on time.
Respect is to be earned. It's hard won and easily lost. Whatever respect we had as a nation, is fucking gone.
>epic punishment beating
This is not how you earn respect. You are mistaking fear for respect. They are completely two different beasts altogether.
Bullies think that fear is respect. Bullies have rude awakenings of their own when people stop fearing them.
--
BMO
I'm a libtard.
The Hillary viewpoint with the DNC and Podesta Emails boils down to this:
"We would have won if those meddling kids didn't expose our lies"
It's literally something out of Scooby Doo.
Trump and trumpism isn't the result of the goddamned Russians, it's the result of 40+ years of stultification of the American Public. Ever since the Southern Strategy. The Republicans have been courting the idiots ever since then, and don't fucking argue this point with me, because it was Nixon's own words as to what rubes he was going after.
And ever since then, they've become the Republican Base.
Gone are the Barry Goldwaters. The GOP (grand?) is now composed of grifters, wannabes, assholes, racists, and tools. Since this matches much of the American Public, it's no wonder that Trump won, because he is all of that, and more.
And what gets me is that the Democrats should be /hammering/ the Republicans on policy. Except that it's "Russia Russia Russia." Which the American Public doesn't give two shits about. So we have tools like Tom Perez in charge of the party, someone who would stab you in the back (politically) as much as look at you.
No platform. No policy. Just skulduggery.
--
BMO
But we do carpet bomb them with smart ordinance, like cluster bombs. Cluster bombs where the bomblets look like toys to children. So when it's unexploded ordnance, they can play with the bomblets. Until they go boom.
So that's different, right?
But they hate us for our freedoms.
"They're American bombs. They hug you to death." -- Jimmy Dore
--
BMO
Mrs. May's statement: "Good encryption costs too much."
Like good building practices.
And the Tories wonder why Labour kicked their asses.
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BMO
regarding your last paragraph:
I don't want our sitting president, DJT, ousted.
He is unable to get anything done. Even Republicans within his own party balk at the idiocy that comes out of the WH as a "budget" And that's being nice.
His 4am shitter tweets are a sight to behold. I'm not talking about the new Scrabble 7 letter word - I'm talking about all the rest of them that any sensible PR person would be screaming at him about.
He is a disgusting human being who is only liked as he is because he can play the media like Perlman plays the fiddle and sometimes he's funny. But beyond that, his overall behavior that I have seen since the 80s has been atrocious.
I could go on.
Yes, we could remove him. He's arrogant enough to leave a trail a mile wide, thinking nobody will walk down it.
Yes, we could remove him, but next in line are Pence and Granny Starver Ryan. And if you look at the list, it's assholes all the way down. But they're competent politicians. They know how to say the nice things while stabbing you in the back and you'll thank them for the stab. Trump is fucking incompetent, as we have seen over the past months (it feels like years). The only people left who truly support him are impervious to facts.
As a member of the opposition (I am no longer a dem, because they are Reaganism in Drag, with the drag getting a little threadbare, but as such they are slightly less evil), I want Trump to be stuck to the Republican Party and have them own him at least until the 2018 elections and hopefully to the 2020 elections (to be tossed on his ass by the R party or him rage-quitting)
Because he is so /useful/ to the opposition as an idiot. He brings the media. The media, being stenographers these days, sometimes shines light on the shenanigans unwittingly. More so now than in the past because Trump is entertainment and ratings. For example, we've had Darrel Issa trapped on a rooftop at his town-hall, and similar things have been happening to other congressdroids. People are pissed. I want them to remain pissed. Anger directed in a useful direction is good. They're now getting angry at the people who wish them harm. In order for this to keep going, Trump must remain in office to generally draw attention to government.
Russiagate is a distraction from the real issues - that both the Democratic and Republican parties are Neoliberal economically and considering the last administration, the Democrats are Neoconservatives on foreign policy (we're in how many wars now?) and Heaven Forfend that the public actually gets wind of this.
--
BMO
But then since that's all they've used to prove it was ZOMG RUSSIANS, and that even US courts now know that an ip address != an entity, then the actual evidence that has been presented is....
0.
Nothing, zero, zip, nada, void, zilch, aught, nil, zot.
I wrote a post earlier about the US population getting lied into every war for the duration of my life on this planet so far, which is over half a century. They are lying /again/.
And they're not hiding it well. They're just recycling the old arguments. Because it hasn't changed since Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler wrote "War is a Racket."
I suggest you read it.
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BMO
Supposedly you havtah be smaht to get intah Hahvahd.
They weren't smart enough to use different accounts or just plain aliases, instead of using their real names.
Pretty dumb.
Go somewhere else, kid.
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BMO - Veritas