if that were true then BLM would speak out against black-on-black crime. In 2016 there were 232 black persons killed by a police officer. A vast majority of those were armed and shooting at the police. Only 16 of them where classified as 'unarmed'. This is across the entire US. This is straight from The Washington Post, a source I dare anyone accuse of being right-wing, alt-right, etc. That same year, 7,881 black persons were killed by another black, non-police person. If black lives matter, why don't they matter when another black person kills them? Why do only these 16 people matter? Or is it the 232, even though most were armed and dangerous? Is it really about black lives? Or is it really about promoting lawlessness?
then maybe he should have abandoned his 'my side good, your side bad' montra. Both parties, since 2000, have experienced spans where they control the house, the senate, and the executive branch. Yet nothing gets done and they themselves get richer. Someone meeting your criteria of rationalizing violence would realize that both sides and working together to get nothing accomplished. There is no law giving member of congress, or its staff, a free pass from Insider Trading prosecutions. Yet not one charge has EVER been filed. Martha Stuart went to jail because her boyfriend couldnt keep his damn mouth shut after sex one night, and its impossible for someone to just let their money tank, so she sold her shares. She goes to jail for insider trading. Its not her company, its not her personal knowledge. She got the information second hand. Members of congress sit on committee's and APPROVE spending or kill spending, then IMMEDIATELY make financial trades based on the very policies they just manipulated. There has never been nor will there ever be a clearer case of prosecution for Insider Trading than one goes on on capitol hill. if this hate was a byproduct of not representing the people, why arent both sides under attack from all sides? Why still the entire 'my side good.... your side bad' horseshit that the media keep fanning the flames of?
how in the world do you get jewish from ny paymasters? The first thing that came to my mind was wallstreet and the 'sell their own mothers to save their asses' types that work there. By that measure of your logic, the entire Occupy WallStreet movement is inherently anti-semitic. I believe Carl Jung might say you were projecting? Does NY have some exclusivity on financial backers being jewish? Im confused here.
antifa means anti fascist not anti-nazi. There is a huge difference. They became facists when they decided violent protests to supress speech of ANYONE not deemed 'liberal enough'. They are now the very thing they claim to despise. I had no fucking clue who Mark Shapiro was when they violently protested, hoping to get it cancelled. So I went to youtube and watched his speech. I saw and heard NOTHING that promoted ANY sort of 'concentration camps' or 'genoside'. I saw and heard nothing anti-Semitic (he points out that he is deeply jewish). So how is this a 'no nazi problem'? this is a thinly veiled attempt at thought control and thought police.
when I built my house in 2002, I put in the speaker wire runs for wall speakers before the drywall went up. Once we closed on the house I used a fox and hound to find the ends inside the wall by connecting the tone generator to the junction box where all the wires converged. I then installed in-wall speakers that I got for a deal on ebay in white so I could dry brush the wall color paint on them to remove that plastic look. I have a simple zone selector switch that bridges the audio to all the channels and lets me determine which ones are on or off (currently its all manual selection as the electronic remote ones are still more than I really want to spend, especially since I rarely, if ever, alter the selections). Several years ago (5?) I acquired a Sonos:Connect and am feeding that into my receiver which I like a lot better than the previous ipod+playlist method. I find the iphone app of Sonos a lot more feature rich than the PC app. This works well for playing the same music in every room like when hosting dinner parties etc. For an individual room solution, there are tons of streaming apps you can use to play on devices like appletv, roku, firetv, etc and utilize your surround sound speakers for music.
Agreed, they're having a huge continuity problem here. This is supposed to be a prequel to the original series (aka 5yr mission). Replicators? They didnt show up until TNG. These pistol shaped phasers? That didnt appear until Season 1 ep 26 (devil in the dark). Until then everyone was using 'type 1 phasers' not these new upgraded 'type 2'. And why do they feel the need to incorporate all these lesser TOS characters like Harry Mudd into the show? Completely not necessary. A jump drive? Why spend all that time working on the transwarp drive on the Excelsior class if they could just jump anywhere.
I dont care what anyones position is regarding is there, or isnt there, any sort of man made effect on global warming, I really dont. But most of these Corporations whine ad nauseam about the impact of global warming and insisting someone do something about it. Yet they put their offices in some of the most densely populated areas which 1-2hr commute times. Then they kill telecommuting and put that many more cars on the road, often idling, for 1-2hrs. Fuck them. They should be called out for the 2faced sacks shit that they are. Piss or get off the pot. If you want to stick everyone in an office for face time, move to some fucking town in the midwest with a population under 200k people. Otherwise, let them telecommute so you can continue to hang out at overpriced dinner parties where you tell your fellow hypocrites what a great human being you are.
Its not the contents of the house that concerns me. Its the integrity of the delivery driver. Since the inception of homeland security, there have been multiple TSA agents arrested for groping children. There have also been thousands of accusations of rape / sexual assault involving Lyft and Uber over the past two years. I really don't trust _anyone's_ screening process enough to give that person the keys to my house. There are a lot worse things that can happen to somebody other than someone managing to get inside your home and steal stuff. Kidnappings, rape's, spycams, sexual assaults other than rape. Most states have some form of Castle Doctrine so should someone break into your home you have immunities allowing the use of force, up to and including deadly force, to protect yourself from an attacker. The very concept of giving someone else free access to your home goes against the basis of the Castle Doctrine, in that you have an expectation of privacy within your own home. And now that I mention expectation of privacy, what about all the laws that prohibit police and/or K-9 from entering your home without a warrant? Would a lawyer be able to argue that by having said device you no longer were entitled to having an expectation of privacy?
After I read about the Vault 7 stuff from wikileaks, I'm not even for automation of my home any more. Whats to stop the government (or for that matter criminals using government leaked tools) from getting Alexa to unlock the front door for them and deactivate the house alarm and turn off the surveillance?
with only a couple exceptions, damn near _every_ Philip K Dick story has been renamed and often changed to only be loosely based in the real story.
Some exceptions: A scanner darkly - damn near the exact same story. Also a really fucked up thing to do to a cop just to figure out where the drug was being grown.
Imposter - very close to the same, then again it was a pretty short story
Radio Free Albemuth - I didnt get to see this one but the summary sounds nearly the same as my memory of the book
Im still waiting for The Man in High Castle to eventually getting around to its conclusion. Theyved added a ton of other shit to fill up a tv series. The trade minister medatating his way into our version of the 1960s SF was a good indication that they may, eventually, delve more deeply into the parallel universes.
I think the cop retiring androids was merely a sub plot for android acceptance and people have really screwed our planet up to the point the animals are all dying
purely a guess, but perhaps Ridley Scott drew a parallel between this dystopia of a dying world painted by Philip K Dick, and its off world colonies, and the dying world in the book about universal healthcare where everyone is being culled via sterilization?
it was much more loosely based. The big scandal in the book was that replicants were treated differently, but one of their big radio Icons was revealed to be a replicant and it was part of an underground movement for acceptance. What happened in Blade Runner is basically a story that takes place during the universe created by Philip K Dick. The protagonist ends up sleeping with one of the replicants (they used relationships and sex as tools to gain equal status). The 'electric sheep' actually appears in the story, as the protagonist had allowed their sheep to get sick and die and to spare them the scrutiny and loss of status, they replaced it with an android/replicant. In the book, the earth is a dying world and the evolving religion is based around caring for the animals. This is touched on briefly in the first movie where Harrison Ford is searching for a replicant in a marketplace and you see Ostrich and other animals being sold. It's also touched on with the mention of the Off World Colonies advertisements and the reference to the replicant snake the dancer used in her performance when the scales were being analyzed.
I dont know, i mean lying about crowd size is clearly still a lie, but its a lie fed by an Ego. Lying about whether or not American troops are in Cambodia and Laos is a completely different magnitude of wrong. If the only lying being done is related to his Ego, then things are not as bad off as I feared.
Its called legal precedence. If we go around inventing new reasons why people aren't to be held accountable, you cant go back and say 'well this time its the POTUS so we are going to have a different rule of law'. In my example there was clear evidence of the Secretary of State conducting illegal acts, then attempting to tamper with evidence (ie deleting), and then lying as well. All 3 things were acts committed while holding a sworn office in the cabinet of the executive branch. Now we have another case of claims of coverup, and evidence tampering. However, unlike the email server case, we do not yet evidence as damning as what they found when the missing mail messages were discovered. If/When that happens then the crime will most likely be the evidence tampering. Technically even if he HAD colluded with russia to place political ads, there was no law that prevented it, much like the SCOTUS backing of Citizens United. However, to coverup evidence, well thats an obstruction of justice charge. It wasnt the breakin at Watergate that screwed Nixon, it was his attempt to bail out his campaign manager and tamper with the investigation that screwed him. However, now we have a new precedence of "I never actually intended to do X, it was an accidental bumbling on my part" defense that Hillary started. Otherwise now you have yet another divisive hot-button topic to deal with. Why do some candidates get a get-out-of-jail-free card for their illegal actions but others do not?
You are aware that she's still not done yet right? She just said the other day that she intends to challenge the election results if it turns out Russians meddled. So why shouldn't she get prosecuted under the espionage act? Normally it would go, Impeach and remove Trump -> Mike Pence becomes the new president. She thinks she can slide right in and undo the election because the russians ran ads that caused people to cast a vote a certain way. Thats clearly not the same thing as actually altering the election tally.
an article I read, speaking only of the ad promoting Black Lives Matter, and specifically targeting people that live Ferguson, said it was bought by a company called Internet Research Agency. Then they, in same sentence, describe it as a company with links to the Kremlin.
Here is what I know about these so-called links. I have seen claims of affiliation, ties, links, etc based on some of the thinnest of evidence. Let me give you an example of how you can have ties to Russian spies.
Lets pretend I am a Russian agent. I do covert things in countries playing these political games that nations do. This year I live in San Francisco. Aside from doing devious KGB stuff, I like to surf, fish, and have grown fond of some of the Microbrews here in the USA. I decide I'm going to take the day and visit Pier 39, check out the food, and have some Anchor Steam beer. While riding the trolly, I notice someone reading a paper, you, and ask about the final results of last nights baseball game. We then chat a bit about you being on vacation and not actually from California. I get off at Pier 39 and go about my day. You however, if ever investigated for _any_ reason, will now be labled as having Ties to the Kremlin.
Im not saying that there are not clear ties here, since I have not seen the evidence, but the general population of society seems to think when someone says it has ties, that some document was found that says 'here are our members, keep this with you in case you need assistance' and this persons name is on it.
not the late 80s. I enlisted in 1989 and there still was a USSR. It wasnt until the 90s when the soviet union collapsed. I was actually surprised when it happened. After that it seemed like the new Russia was going to be our friend. We foot most of the bill for the International Space Station, because we were concerned that former Soviet scientists would, in need of work and food, help countries like Iran with missile development. So we foot the bill and had them build the ISS instead.
dont even get me started on legal loopholes. Since when is intent required for prosecution? IE the supposed intent to distribute classified information to unsecure recipients. She sent classified email in plain unencrypted text to here insecure, public, email server, then lied, lied, lied again, deleted, and lied some more that there never was classified information in the first place. After all that coverup and lying, suddenly we get the 'we wont proscute because even though she's a complete bumbling idiot, it was never her intent to hand them over to foreign actors' crap. I'm pretty sure nobody intends to run someone over when they are so drunk they cant make sane decisions like whether they are OK to drive, yet they get sentenced. Its just more proof that the people doing the most to screw up the world never have to pay for their actions. Hillary had Mens Rea. She knew since even as her days as a Senator how the classified documents laws are written. At no time are you to lose control of these documents. To tell your staff to remove the classified markings and re-mail it to her personal account is proof of Mens Rea. She knew it was wrong and was trying to hide the fact it was classified information. Had she used a tool in her mail like PGP or similar, so that as the bits and bytes floated across routers all over the internet, it couldnt be read in plain text, she might have gotten some benefit of the doubt. She was careless, wreckless, and dangerous. Honestly I really dont think we would be in any less of a mess than we are in right now. Both are driven by misplaced Narcissism which causes them to make countless mistakes. Yet these are the two people the MSM decided needed extra help to get them to the semi-finals.
Even worse, it takes advantage of the 'go with the crowd' types (aka most of FB users) and then tell them the crowd thinks X. Suddenly they change their view to X, believing that everyone else does too. In reality its possible that hardly anyone thought X was right, but now that _everyone else_ supposedly does (ie nobody) it now becomes their opinion too.
If he stayed the hell off of Twitter his damn approval rating would not be so low. Twitter is a medium for dimwits and halfwits, those who cannot write persuasive argument papers and lack the fluency to support statements with evidence, reason, and facts. Facebook is no different. How much can you really say in 150 characters without pissing off half or more of everyone who reads it? If I were to post that I decided to have pancakes instead of waffles without any explanation as to why, via twitter, I'd have half the world convinced I was anti-waffles and promoted their extermination; simply because I said I was picking one and not the other.
When they announced they were going to invent a real-time system to catch 'fake news' and delete it I became awoken to yet another fear. What makes them the purveyors of what is 'Real' and what is 'Fake'. Suddenly they now delete anything remotely anti-facebook in agenda. If Facebook decides for themselves that they want a total ban and confiscation of guns, and they delete every pro-gun post and inflate the anti-gun posts, they will claim that 90% of america is for the removal of guns. Its worse than State Controlled Media, its Corporatocracy controlled Media.
you do realize the media was trying to rig the election from the beginning right? There was no objective journalism. The hacked DNC email proved they colluded with the DNC to put Hillary into the front seat. They did the same for the Republicans after their first attempt at cherry-picking Jeb Bush fell flat on its face. The RNC voters were already sick of dynasties. When Jeb fizzled out they started helping Trump. It wasnt until AFTER he got the RNC nomination that they went on the attack. It was about manipulating the election in order to give the perceived choice that of Hillary (their cherry pick for president) and some no experience guy they thought didnt stand a chance even against someone as unlikeable as Hillary. Had this entire election been free of tampering and meddling, from both Russians AND the media, you would have had a COMPLETELY different result in both RNC and DNC nominated candidates. Stop letting the MSM off the hook. Honestly what the MSM did disgusts me more than the Russian tampering. At least in the case of Russia, its not our own people trying to fuck us over.
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if that were true then BLM would speak out against black-on-black crime. In 2016 there were 232 black persons killed by a police officer. A vast majority of those were armed and shooting at the police. Only 16 of them where classified as 'unarmed'. This is across the entire US. This is straight from The Washington Post, a source I dare anyone accuse of being right-wing, alt-right, etc. That same year, 7,881 black persons were killed by another black, non-police person. If black lives matter, why don't they matter when another black person kills them? Why do only these 16 people matter? Or is it the 232, even though most were armed and dangerous? Is it really about black lives? Or is it really about promoting lawlessness?
then maybe he should have abandoned his 'my side good, your side bad' montra. Both parties, since 2000, have experienced spans where they control the house, the senate, and the executive branch. Yet nothing gets done and they themselves get richer. Someone meeting your criteria of rationalizing violence would realize that both sides and working together to get nothing accomplished. There is no law giving member of congress, or its staff, a free pass from Insider Trading prosecutions. Yet not one charge has EVER been filed. Martha Stuart went to jail because her boyfriend couldnt keep his damn mouth shut after sex one night, and its impossible for someone to just let their money tank, so she sold her shares. She goes to jail for insider trading. Its not her company, its not her personal knowledge. She got the information second hand. Members of congress sit on committee's and APPROVE spending or kill spending, then IMMEDIATELY make financial trades based on the very policies they just manipulated. There has never been nor will there ever be a clearer case of prosecution for Insider Trading than one goes on on capitol hill. if this hate was a byproduct of not representing the people, why arent both sides under attack from all sides? Why still the entire 'my side good.... your side bad' horseshit that the media keep fanning the flames of?
how in the world do you get jewish from ny paymasters? The first thing that came to my mind was wallstreet and the 'sell their own mothers to save their asses' types that work there. By that measure of your logic, the entire Occupy WallStreet movement is inherently anti-semitic. I believe Carl Jung might say you were projecting? Does NY have some exclusivity on financial backers being jewish? Im confused here.
antifa means anti fascist not anti-nazi. There is a huge difference. They became facists when they decided violent protests to supress speech of ANYONE not deemed 'liberal enough'. They are now the very thing they claim to despise. I had no fucking clue who Mark Shapiro was when they violently protested, hoping to get it cancelled. So I went to youtube and watched his speech. I saw and heard NOTHING that promoted ANY sort of 'concentration camps' or 'genoside'. I saw and heard nothing anti-Semitic (he points out that he is deeply jewish). So how is this a 'no nazi problem'? this is a thinly veiled attempt at thought control and thought police.
when I built my house in 2002, I put in the speaker wire runs for wall speakers before the drywall went up. Once we closed on the house I used a fox and hound to find the ends inside the wall by connecting the tone generator to the junction box where all the wires converged. I then installed in-wall speakers that I got for a deal on ebay in white so I could dry brush the wall color paint on them to remove that plastic look. I have a simple zone selector switch that bridges the audio to all the channels and lets me determine which ones are on or off (currently its all manual selection as the electronic remote ones are still more than I really want to spend, especially since I rarely, if ever, alter the selections). Several years ago (5?) I acquired a Sonos:Connect and am feeding that into my receiver which I like a lot better than the previous ipod+playlist method. I find the iphone app of Sonos a lot more feature rich than the PC app. This works well for playing the same music in every room like when hosting dinner parties etc. For an individual room solution, there are tons of streaming apps you can use to play on devices like appletv, roku, firetv, etc and utilize your surround sound speakers for music.
Agreed, they're having a huge continuity problem here. This is supposed to be a prequel to the original series (aka 5yr mission). Replicators? They didnt show up until TNG. These pistol shaped phasers? That didnt appear until Season 1 ep 26 (devil in the dark). Until then everyone was using 'type 1 phasers' not these new upgraded 'type 2'. And why do they feel the need to incorporate all these lesser TOS characters like Harry Mudd into the show? Completely not necessary. A jump drive? Why spend all that time working on the transwarp drive on the Excelsior class if they could just jump anywhere.
I dont care what anyones position is regarding is there, or isnt there, any sort of man made effect on global warming, I really dont. But most of these Corporations whine ad nauseam about the impact of global warming and insisting someone do something about it. Yet they put their offices in some of the most densely populated areas which 1-2hr commute times. Then they kill telecommuting and put that many more cars on the road, often idling, for 1-2hrs. Fuck them. They should be called out for the 2faced sacks shit that they are. Piss or get off the pot. If you want to stick everyone in an office for face time, move to some fucking town in the midwest with a population under 200k people. Otherwise, let them telecommute so you can continue to hang out at overpriced dinner parties where you tell your fellow hypocrites what a great human being you are.
Its not the contents of the house that concerns me. Its the integrity of the delivery driver. Since the inception of homeland security, there have been multiple TSA agents arrested for groping children. There have also been thousands of accusations of rape / sexual assault involving Lyft and Uber over the past two years. I really don't trust _anyone's_ screening process enough to give that person the keys to my house. There are a lot worse things that can happen to somebody other than someone managing to get inside your home and steal stuff. Kidnappings, rape's, spycams, sexual assaults other than rape. Most states have some form of Castle Doctrine so should someone break into your home you have immunities allowing the use of force, up to and including deadly force, to protect yourself from an attacker. The very concept of giving someone else free access to your home goes against the basis of the Castle Doctrine, in that you have an expectation of privacy within your own home. And now that I mention expectation of privacy, what about all the laws that prohibit police and/or K-9 from entering your home without a warrant? Would a lawyer be able to argue that by having said device you no longer were entitled to having an expectation of privacy?
After I read about the Vault 7 stuff from wikileaks, I'm not even for automation of my home any more. Whats to stop the government (or for that matter criminals using government leaked tools) from getting Alexa to unlock the front door for them and deactivate the house alarm and turn off the surveillance?
actually I thought it was only the ones marked US Mail that are illegal to be used by other carriers.
with only a couple exceptions, damn near _every_ Philip K Dick story has been renamed and often changed to only be loosely based in the real story.
Some exceptions:
A scanner darkly - damn near the exact same story. Also a really fucked up thing to do to a cop just to figure out where the drug was being grown.
Imposter - very close to the same, then again it was a pretty short story
Radio Free Albemuth - I didnt get to see this one but the summary sounds nearly the same as my memory of the book
Im still waiting for The Man in High Castle to eventually getting around to its conclusion. Theyved added a ton of other shit to fill up a tv series. The trade minister medatating his way into our version of the 1960s SF was a good indication that they may, eventually, delve more deeply into the parallel universes.
I am serious... and don't call me Shirley.
I think the cop retiring androids was merely a sub plot for android acceptance and people have really screwed our planet up to the point the animals are all dying
purely a guess, but perhaps Ridley Scott drew a parallel between this dystopia of a dying world painted by Philip K Dick, and its off world colonies, and the dying world in the book about universal healthcare where everyone is being culled via sterilization?
it was much more loosely based. The big scandal in the book was that replicants were treated differently, but one of their big radio Icons was revealed to be a replicant and it was part of an underground movement for acceptance. What happened in Blade Runner is basically a story that takes place during the universe created by Philip K Dick. The protagonist ends up sleeping with one of the replicants (they used relationships and sex as tools to gain equal status). The 'electric sheep' actually appears in the story, as the protagonist had allowed their sheep to get sick and die and to spare them the scrutiny and loss of status, they replaced it with an android/replicant. In the book, the earth is a dying world and the evolving religion is based around caring for the animals. This is touched on briefly in the first movie where Harrison Ford is searching for a replicant in a marketplace and you see Ostrich and other animals being sold. It's also touched on with the mention of the Off World Colonies advertisements and the reference to the replicant snake the dancer used in her performance when the scales were being analyzed.
I dont know, i mean lying about crowd size is clearly still a lie, but its a lie fed by an Ego. Lying about whether or not American troops are in Cambodia and Laos is a completely different magnitude of wrong. If the only lying being done is related to his Ego, then things are not as bad off as I feared.
Its called legal precedence. If we go around inventing new reasons why people aren't to be held accountable, you cant go back and say 'well this time its the POTUS so we are going to have a different rule of law'. In my example there was clear evidence of the Secretary of State conducting illegal acts, then attempting to tamper with evidence (ie deleting), and then lying as well. All 3 things were acts committed while holding a sworn office in the cabinet of the executive branch. Now we have another case of claims of coverup, and evidence tampering. However, unlike the email server case, we do not yet evidence as damning as what they found when the missing mail messages were discovered. If/When that happens then the crime will most likely be the evidence tampering. Technically even if he HAD colluded with russia to place political ads, there was no law that prevented it, much like the SCOTUS backing of Citizens United. However, to coverup evidence, well thats an obstruction of justice charge. It wasnt the breakin at Watergate that screwed Nixon, it was his attempt to bail out his campaign manager and tamper with the investigation that screwed him. However, now we have a new precedence of "I never actually intended to do X, it was an accidental bumbling on my part" defense that Hillary started. Otherwise now you have yet another divisive hot-button topic to deal with. Why do some candidates get a get-out-of-jail-free card for their illegal actions but others do not?
You are aware that she's still not done yet right? She just said the other day that she intends to challenge the election results if it turns out Russians meddled. So why shouldn't she get prosecuted under the espionage act? Normally it would go, Impeach and remove Trump -> Mike Pence becomes the new president. She thinks she can slide right in and undo the election because the russians ran ads that caused people to cast a vote a certain way. Thats clearly not the same thing as actually altering the election tally.
an article I read, speaking only of the ad promoting Black Lives Matter, and specifically targeting people that live Ferguson, said it was bought by a company called Internet Research Agency. Then they, in same sentence, describe it as a company with links to the Kremlin.
Here is what I know about these so-called links. I have seen claims of affiliation, ties, links, etc based on some of the thinnest of evidence. Let me give you an example of how you can have ties to Russian spies.
Lets pretend I am a Russian agent. I do covert things in countries playing these political games that nations do. This year I live in San Francisco. Aside from doing devious KGB stuff, I like to surf, fish, and have grown fond of some of the Microbrews here in the USA. I decide I'm going to take the day and visit Pier 39, check out the food, and have some Anchor Steam beer. While riding the trolly, I notice someone reading a paper, you, and ask about the final results of last nights baseball game. We then chat a bit about you being on vacation and not actually from California. I get off at Pier 39 and go about my day. You however, if ever investigated for _any_ reason, will now be labled as having Ties to the Kremlin.
Im not saying that there are not clear ties here, since I have not seen the evidence, but the general population of society seems to think when someone says it has ties, that some document was found that says 'here are our members, keep this with you in case you need assistance' and this persons name is on it.
not the late 80s. I enlisted in 1989 and there still was a USSR. It wasnt until the 90s when the soviet union collapsed. I was actually surprised when it happened. After that it seemed like the new Russia was going to be our friend. We foot most of the bill for the International Space Station, because we were concerned that former Soviet scientists would, in need of work and food, help countries like Iran with missile development. So we foot the bill and had them build the ISS instead.
dont even get me started on legal loopholes. Since when is intent required for prosecution? IE the supposed intent to distribute classified information to unsecure recipients. She sent classified email in plain unencrypted text to here insecure, public, email server, then lied, lied, lied again, deleted, and lied some more that there never was classified information in the first place. After all that coverup and lying, suddenly we get the 'we wont proscute because even though she's a complete bumbling idiot, it was never her intent to hand them over to foreign actors' crap. I'm pretty sure nobody intends to run someone over when they are so drunk they cant make sane decisions like whether they are OK to drive, yet they get sentenced. Its just more proof that the people doing the most to screw up the world never have to pay for their actions. Hillary had Mens Rea. She knew since even as her days as a Senator how the classified documents laws are written. At no time are you to lose control of these documents. To tell your staff to remove the classified markings and re-mail it to her personal account is proof of Mens Rea. She knew it was wrong and was trying to hide the fact it was classified information. Had she used a tool in her mail like PGP or similar, so that as the bits and bytes floated across routers all over the internet, it couldnt be read in plain text, she might have gotten some benefit of the doubt. She was careless, wreckless, and dangerous. Honestly I really dont think we would be in any less of a mess than we are in right now. Both are driven by misplaced Narcissism which causes them to make countless mistakes. Yet these are the two people the MSM decided needed extra help to get them to the semi-finals.
Even worse, it takes advantage of the 'go with the crowd' types (aka most of FB users) and then tell them the crowd thinks X. Suddenly they change their view to X, believing that everyone else does too. In reality its possible that hardly anyone thought X was right, but now that _everyone else_ supposedly does (ie nobody) it now becomes their opinion too.
If he stayed the hell off of Twitter his damn approval rating would not be so low. Twitter is a medium for dimwits and halfwits, those who cannot write persuasive argument papers and lack the fluency to support statements with evidence, reason, and facts. Facebook is no different. How much can you really say in 150 characters without pissing off half or more of everyone who reads it? If I were to post that I decided to have pancakes instead of waffles without any explanation as to why, via twitter, I'd have half the world convinced I was anti-waffles and promoted their extermination; simply because I said I was picking one and not the other.
When they announced they were going to invent a real-time system to catch 'fake news' and delete it I became awoken to yet another fear. What makes them the purveyors of what is 'Real' and what is 'Fake'. Suddenly they now delete anything remotely anti-facebook in agenda. If Facebook decides for themselves that they want a total ban and confiscation of guns, and they delete every pro-gun post and inflate the anti-gun posts, they will claim that 90% of america is for the removal of guns. Its worse than State Controlled Media, its Corporatocracy controlled Media.
you do realize the media was trying to rig the election from the beginning right? There was no objective journalism. The hacked DNC email proved they colluded with the DNC to put Hillary into the front seat. They did the same for the Republicans after their first attempt at cherry-picking Jeb Bush fell flat on its face. The RNC voters were already sick of dynasties. When Jeb fizzled out they started helping Trump. It wasnt until AFTER he got the RNC nomination that they went on the attack. It was about manipulating the election in order to give the perceived choice that of Hillary (their cherry pick for president) and some no experience guy they thought didnt stand a chance even against someone as unlikeable as Hillary. Had this entire election been free of tampering and meddling, from both Russians AND the media, you would have had a COMPLETELY different result in both RNC and DNC nominated candidates. Stop letting the MSM off the hook. Honestly what the MSM did disgusts me more than the Russian tampering. At least in the case of Russia, its not our own people trying to fuck us over.
isn't that exacty what I said? It wasn't about rigging an election as much as it was creating a shit storm within society.