Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 23 Nov 2021 @ 7:21am
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"Why should I care about their rights?"
Because at some point the shitheels of the GQP will be right back in power. 2022 doesn't look good for democrats, and Trump will do better than in his jan 6 beer hall coup come 2024.
Any rights you take away from even the most egregious shitwanker today will be used to pull your pants down and screw you tomorrow.
THAT is why you need to guard the rights of everyone. Even the fuckwits of the alt-right.
But i feel you. It's hard to see the alt-right persistently voting against their own interests because they simply don't care if the leopard-eating-faces party sees their face chomped clean off as long as some liberal somewhere gets angry about it.
Don't advocate a tool of government unless you feel it's safe even in the hands of those who would use it against you.
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 23 Nov 2021 @ 7:05am
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Credebility Loss
"...at least the skinheaded bigot has the guts to own their abhorrent position when they're waving that flag around whereas Koby always seems to get remarkably scarce any time someone tries to nail them down..."
Which is why I personally hold the cowardly shills unwilling to own the position they're taking as more dangerous than the thug waving the swastika or odal.
Koby and his peers know damn well the very second they let slip their honest political allegiance the game is up for that persona - and then they'll have to build another one. They're at least smart enough to realize that.
They still aren't smart enough to realize that in some online communities, like this one, the forum has proven highly resistant to rhetoric tricks and persistent nagging after having had to put up with copyright maximalist trolls of all types for a long damn time.
On the one side I'd like for Koby to realize he'll never make headway here and go away. On the other side he does serve as a good weathervane showing the current trend on stormfront for any given topic without anyone sane having to visit that place.
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 23 Nov 2021 @ 4:39am
Re: Stealing a Diary
" Even if it's 100% true and someone did steal it and give it to Veritas, how in the name of Zeus's butthole is that FBI jurisdiction?"
It is if they want it to be.
There's also the case to make that the relative of a sitting president may have written stuff in that diary which exposes bits and pieces of national security. Hence the FBI would start marching to the tune of "counterespionage" rather than "theft".
Granted, they could be indulging in those grand old traditions of the FBI - raiding everyone they think has dirt on politicians to make sure they've got plenty of blackmail material on the guy holding the budget strings for next year.
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 23 Nov 2021 @ 3:02am
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"You're just so used to attacking anyone who thinks differently than you do that it's a reflex action at this point. "
Around these forums anyone bringing up certain classic alt-right talking points will simply be assumed to be one of those alt-right sock puppets we keep finding here. After ten years of people trying to wedge in a red herring, false analogy or straw man to derail the debate most people here have run out of patience to check twice if a commenter was making a genuine mistake or not.
Defense of Project Veritas tends to be one of those talking points. Now, If Little Cupcakes really isn't yet another run by people like Koby or Shel10 to present that same talking point under a new nick once again then I can only apologize for blowing my top.
This is why most long-time posters here make an account. Credibility and benefit of doubt in this place relies heavily on your posting and comment history since everyone who's been here for a few years has found themselves rolled by one-man armies sockpuppeting a topic into oblivion.
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 23 Nov 2021 @ 2:45am
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"I was more referring to those who came to him and offered to work for him, as in one or more lawyers who solicited his business. He never gave them the promised cash, check or money order. IOW, he welched on his debts..."
Oh, I know his history. To be fair though the chance does exist that as a loyal longtime friend of Russia most of what he did was quite in accordance with his calling. I don't see many russians among those he stiffed. Mainly americans. Why go after him for sucker-punching the enemies of his country?
I mean, he was the best US president Russia ever had. You can't take that away from him.
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 23 Nov 2021 @ 2:42am
Re: Re: Re: Re: So lame
"These window-licking red hat morons have been given plenty of opportunities to not be dumb fucking assholes. At some point, you need to cut bait and move on."
That, too, is true. Just not constructive. At some point you're going to face the fact that rehabilitating the US is impossible enough when a full 25% have already declared themselves A-OK with a fascist and narcissistic racist in charge without also closing the door on those trying to jettison that ship before it hits the iceberg.
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 23 Nov 2021 @ 2:30am
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"It was clearly a justifiable reaction."
What it was is a travesty...but not for any of the reasons currently being debated.
Here's what Reuters has to say about it:
Nov 19 (Reuters) - Under the laws of self-defense in Wisconsin, prosecutors in the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse faced a tricky legal challenge: proving a negative.
Rittenhouse's testimony that he acted in self defense when he killed two men and wounded another during a chaotic night of protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last year required the state to convince a jury that the then-17-year-old did not have a reasonable belief his life was in danger, legal experts said.
Rittenhouse prosecution faced difficult task: proving a negative, Nov 20, 2021.
It basically follows that if an american picks up a firearm and walks off looking for someone to shoot, finds such a person and then shoots them the prosecutor will be facing the bizarre issue of more often than not having to prove a negative.
Because no matter what actually happened it's over as soon as the defendant can say they "feared for their life" and make the jury believe that.
Rittenhouse could have walked towards those men screaming "I'm gonna kill ya <N-word> GOOD!!" and still walked away scot free as long as he could successfully make the claim that he was feeling threatened.
The opposite would hold true, of course. The men he killed could have walked away the same way, for the same reason, with the same claim. Although given both statistics and that courtroom in question I'm not positive that a black person would have as good a chance of doing so.
There is no reasonable doubt that Rittenhouse took an AR-15 and walked into a hot zone full of angry black people with the intent to find and kill some "bad guy". And in any other country with proper self-defense law and gun regulations that would have settled it.
The issue here is that in the US it's just legally accepted that if two armed people meet both parties will escalate what would have been an angry exchange of words into gunfire.
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 23 Nov 2021 @ 1:26am
Re: Re: Re: This is why people hate you you scum
"Exactly. The right to vote should not go away at all though. You should be voting from prison."
This actually screams out for clarification - because the disenfranchisement of voters in the US is one of the biggest contributors to the democratic deficit.
Where I live prisons take pains to ensure that convicts are involved in the political process and encouraged to vote. The reason, as it was explained to me, is that should an unjust government come to power the very first people to be sent to prison will be those trying to reverse that course.
Disenfranchising convicts is the first step a dishonest government can strip all political power from its adversaries. And in most elections that can be a tie-breaker. Especially so as if, in the US, the prison population is in the millions.
Meanwhile the usual fears of convicts voting - decriminalizing violent or repulsive offenses of various kinds - is never and never has been a threat in the first place, because you'll never see a situation where the vast majority of people will ever find, say, trafficking acceptable. Not even most convicts.
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 23 Nov 2021 @ 1:07am
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"In what way is he damaged by the Pulitzer board refusing to strip the awards, such that he'd have standing for a lawsuit?"
Because it'd be a judging against him, obviously. Trump has never in his lifetime been shy of dropping lawsuits at anyone daring to not give him a public reacharound. It's the trusted way he used to make himself feel important before he a horde of fuckwits saw fit to make him president.
Narcissism is his drug of choice and the way he now insists the pulitzer committee is morons unless they withdraw prizes from those who've dared criticize him is just typical behavior from him.
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 23 Nov 2021 @ 12:51am
Re: Re: Re: Credebility Loss
Yeah, I'm afraid that word has lost usability. We do need some new ways of defining people who have voluntarily crippled themselves mentally the way the red hat Qanon cult and the nurgle cultists have.
I tend to fall back on the term Fuckwit - but that language just isn't usable in many forums either.
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 23 Nov 2021 @ 12:48am
Re: Re: Re: Male Pattern Credebility Loss
As That One Guy has it, yes, Koby did start out with credibility, pushing a number of reasonable arguments for anything beyond his actual interests.
Then as soon as it came to Trump, section 230, free speech in general, or anyone tossing nazis and bigots out of the door, there was Koby, using his "reasonable" voice to shove a hot mess of false premises, false equivalence, red herrings, straw man arguments and other troll rhetoric down everyone's throat.
Koby is the quintessential shill. He'll weigh in on other issues using normal smarts but as soon as the topic is about his friends in the KKK and neo-nazi party he swings right back to the stormfront talking points.
That tactic of building credibility in order to sell a selective piece of bullshit is as old as speech but the most infamous user of the tactic in modern times is still Goebbels - in whose footsteps Koby has spent some time walking, on these boards.
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 23 Nov 2021 @ 12:43am
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Credebility Loss
"I have more than enough savvy to understand..."
Obviously not.
Koby, you've repeatedly demonstrated around here that concepts as stunningly simple as the difference between private property and government property is beyond you.
And that you can't spot the difference between people refusing to listen to you and government throwing you in jail for speaking.
And that you don't understand that there is no both sides argument going on between the got damn american nazi party and civil rights activists.
People demanding equal rights to everyone else are not comparable to those wishing to enshrine the right to treat others as lesser because of race, sexual or gender identity, or nationality.
You've kept trying to make the bigot comparable to the humanitarian. That is evil, Koby. As are you. No matter how "reasonable" you like to appear there's little difference between you and the shaven-headed thugs swinging the odal banners in the streets of Charlottesville.
Just fsck right back to the very fine people you keep carrying water for.
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 23 Nov 2021 @ 12:31am
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The one leads to the other.
The WCry virus was originally part of the NSA online espionage kit but was "liberated" and leaked to the online community as a whole by russian hackers. Cue networks all over the world locking up when script kids started pushing out a hundred trojan variants using that mode of attack.
Even in this, the best of all possible worlds, my dear Tartúffe, where government is wholly benevolent and their alphabet soup agencies composed of idealists...You are still screwed if the nice guy in the NSA obtains the keys to the kingdom.
Because if they obtain the keys to everyone's devices that information always ends up in the WRONG hands eventually.
It's something you can't solve by nerding harder either, which is why when some US intel puke stands up and screams they want <manufacturer X> to build a backdoor only the cops can use, they're lying. That backdoor will eventually become the private preserve of organized crime.
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 23 Nov 2021 @ 12:24am
Re: Even a person
"it could be explained to them How it can be done."
His job literally depends on him not realizing that fact so it'll be uphill work convincing him.
I too could spend some time briefing that "expert" on how any IoT device can act as a bridgehead. Your OS may be hardened and firewalled against exterior intrusion but not so much when it concerns the shoddily coded app connecting to your toaster, fridge and thermostat, all of whom connect themselves to their respective OEM - which is unlikely to be all that hardened against a persistent cracker.
A few likely scenarios include;
The NSA knocking at your door after tracing the hack against a military facility or government contractor to your fridge.
Your tesla won't start until you fork over a moderate amount of bitcoin to the people with the ransomware keys.
Some troll finds out how to tune every smart-TV from Grundig or Apple permanently to redtube and locks it there playing random porn clips 24/7 at max volume.
Your toaster hacks your laptop. Next time you log on to the corporate intranet while working from home you've got a trojan riding in it.
The average old school internet user accesses the internet through two weak point only - their router and their end device. 99% of the time access online is granted via browsers who are in many ways hardened by browser manufacturers long used to being the very first target of any attack. Not secure by any means but usually good enough to stand up to a casual probe.
The same can't be said if you've bought goods from a hundred different OEM's, many of whom won't be security experts or have bothered to secure their goods in any way, shape or form.
If I were a betting man I'd put money on there already being national efforts made by every country and computer-savvy criminals, to perfect and optimize script-attacking badly secured IoT devices én másse, for a multitude of uses.
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 22 Nov 2021 @ 9:04am
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I may just have lost it for a second there. Let me first begin with an apology, Because your statement...
"You do of course, and being part of that tribe requires you to state, fact-free, that every fifth person in America is racist simply because they voted for an asshole."
...Set me off completely. Yes. The guy who votes for someone who is that openly a fascist and racist as Trump has been for 40 years or more - has sent a statement clearer than any you can make that they are OK with a racist becoming their Dear Leader. That is literally how it works. 25% of the US stood and voted that they were OK with that.
Because over here in Europe we still remember - those are the people who in the end catapult a Hitler into power. Not the rabid morons marching waving odal banners. Not the guys with tiki torches wearing bedsheets.
It's the people who looked at Trump and said "Not my first, second or third choice, but OK" rather than "No, Hell NO". Historically? Those people are what enables an autocratic fascist state to emerge. Because they are not like Röhm's Sturmabteilung - so steeped in the religion of hate they can hardly function in ordinary society - but simply don't give more of a shit about the consequences of their actions than "Well, I'm not jewish..", or in this case "black or latino".
So yeah, I blew my top here. For which I apologize.
You, however, are in a worse quandary. Because if you believe those 25% aren't that bad then the future will have grim and unwelcome news for you.
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 22 Nov 2021 @ 8:46am
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"The fact is dirt differs no matter who they are are vital to democracy. Be it the one sided hits of PV or the fu world idea of wikileaks. "
Problem is that PV isn't reporting facts as such. They report a narrative often only loosely associated with what facts they've found, if that. Their behavior during the election, walking in literal lockstep with Giuliani demonstrates as much. Now if they are going balls to the wall claiming grand malfeasance and voter fraud is a thing then they really need to show why they think so to a judge. But so far all we ever got from them was promises of a grand revelation and then, like with Giuliani, zip, zero, nada. It's a damn shame Ilmar Omar didn't sue for discovery - it might have seen O'Keefe pulling the Tucker Carlson defense.
Wikileaks, meanwhile, issued the bulk of their revelations after publisher's curation only. And that evidence stood as pretty damning on its own. The fact that wikileaks was instantly branded a threat to national security and had the NSA taking down every webpage and copy of the material they could find was an indicator what was released was fairly legit.
I'm inclined to the belief that the FBI is acting out of no more lofty premises than their own hides. Judging by their past behavior, much of which came up through the Church commission, If I were a betting man I'd put good money on a number of feds in high office being in a bit of a precarious position for various overreaches between 2016 and 2021 when the people giving the marching order were less enamored of details such as the law of the land.
I mean, consider the border family separations under Trump. Those were so heavily against US law Biden had to quick fix by settle quickly in the hopes of not losing the nation multiple times that amount to a slew of slam-dunk lawsuits.
If that's what the Border Patrol did I can only imagine what the FBI was up to.
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 22 Nov 2021 @ 8:25am
Re: Re: Re: Justice done
[addendum]
point being, on the opinion of the alt-right that the cop shooting someone tends to merit itself by the circular argument that said someone must have deserved it if the cop shot them...that would normally be correct. That's the way it currently works nine times out of ten. Especially if you're poor, black, latin, or otherwise in the target range of a police force increasingly enmeshed with right-wing extremism.
Your opinion, then, would be that it shouldn't be this way. Because deeming by the facts at hand it currently is this way.
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"Why should I care about their rights?"
Because at some point the shitheels of the GQP will be right back in power. 2022 doesn't look good for democrats, and Trump will do better than in his jan 6 beer hall coup come 2024.
Any rights you take away from even the most egregious shitwanker today will be used to pull your pants down and screw you tomorrow.
THAT is why you need to guard the rights of everyone. Even the fuckwits of the alt-right.
But i feel you. It's hard to see the alt-right persistently voting against their own interests because they simply don't care if the leopard-eating-faces party sees their face chomped clean off as long as some liberal somewhere gets angry about it.
Don't advocate a tool of government unless you feel it's safe even in the hands of those who would use it against you.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Credebility Loss
"...at least the skinheaded bigot has the guts to own their abhorrent position when they're waving that flag around whereas Koby always seems to get remarkably scarce any time someone tries to nail them down..."
Which is why I personally hold the cowardly shills unwilling to own the position they're taking as more dangerous than the thug waving the swastika or odal.
Koby and his peers know damn well the very second they let slip their honest political allegiance the game is up for that persona - and then they'll have to build another one. They're at least smart enough to realize that.
They still aren't smart enough to realize that in some online communities, like this one, the forum has proven highly resistant to rhetoric tricks and persistent nagging after having had to put up with copyright maximalist trolls of all types for a long damn time.
On the one side I'd like for Koby to realize he'll never make headway here and go away. On the other side he does serve as a good weathervane showing the current trend on stormfront for any given topic without anyone sane having to visit that place.
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Re: Stealing a Diary
" Even if it's 100% true and someone did steal it and give it to Veritas, how in the name of Zeus's butthole is that FBI jurisdiction?"
It is if they want it to be.
There's also the case to make that the relative of a sitting president may have written stuff in that diary which exposes bits and pieces of national security. Hence the FBI would start marching to the tune of "counterespionage" rather than "theft".
Granted, they could be indulging in those grand old traditions of the FBI - raiding everyone they think has dirt on politicians to make sure they've got plenty of blackmail material on the guy holding the budget strings for next year.
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"You're just so used to attacking anyone who thinks differently than you do that it's a reflex action at this point. "
Around these forums anyone bringing up certain classic alt-right talking points will simply be assumed to be one of those alt-right sock puppets we keep finding here. After ten years of people trying to wedge in a red herring, false analogy or straw man to derail the debate most people here have run out of patience to check twice if a commenter was making a genuine mistake or not.
Defense of Project Veritas tends to be one of those talking points. Now, If Little Cupcakes really isn't yet another run by people like Koby or Shel10 to present that same talking point under a new nick once again then I can only apologize for blowing my top.
This is why most long-time posters here make an account. Credibility and benefit of doubt in this place relies heavily on your posting and comment history since everyone who's been here for a few years has found themselves rolled by one-man armies sockpuppeting a topic into oblivion.
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Re:
"America is the only country with Section 230."
...because America is one of the very few countries which doesn't have third-party neutrality built right into their basic telecommunications acts.
This has been explained to you quite a few times, Baghdad Bob and yet somehow you persist in flogging that dead horse.
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"I was more referring to those who came to him and offered to work for him, as in one or more lawyers who solicited his business. He never gave them the promised cash, check or money order. IOW, he welched on his debts..."
Oh, I know his history. To be fair though the chance does exist that as a loyal longtime friend of Russia most of what he did was quite in accordance with his calling. I don't see many russians among those he stiffed. Mainly americans. Why go after him for sucker-punching the enemies of his country?
I mean, he was the best US president Russia ever had. You can't take that away from him.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: So lame
"These window-licking red hat morons have been given plenty of opportunities to not be dumb fucking assholes. At some point, you need to cut bait and move on."
That, too, is true. Just not constructive. At some point you're going to face the fact that rehabilitating the US is impossible enough when a full 25% have already declared themselves A-OK with a fascist and narcissistic racist in charge without also closing the door on those trying to jettison that ship before it hits the iceberg.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Here Comes Da Judge
"it just picked up on what Trump said about his own daughter."
Or any of the pictures. Weird how often he feels compelled to have a picture taken with a hand on her thigh or ass.
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"It was clearly a justifiable reaction."
What it was is a travesty...but not for any of the reasons currently being debated.
Here's what Reuters has to say about it:
It basically follows that if an american picks up a firearm and walks off looking for someone to shoot, finds such a person and then shoots them the prosecutor will be facing the bizarre issue of more often than not having to prove a negative.
Because no matter what actually happened it's over as soon as the defendant can say they "feared for their life" and make the jury believe that.
Rittenhouse could have walked towards those men screaming "I'm gonna kill ya <N-word> GOOD!!" and still walked away scot free as long as he could successfully make the claim that he was feeling threatened.
The opposite would hold true, of course. The men he killed could have walked away the same way, for the same reason, with the same claim. Although given both statistics and that courtroom in question I'm not positive that a black person would have as good a chance of doing so.
There is no reasonable doubt that Rittenhouse took an AR-15 and walked into a hot zone full of angry black people with the intent to find and kill some "bad guy". And in any other country with proper self-defense law and gun regulations that would have settled it.
The issue here is that in the US it's just legally accepted that if two armed people meet both parties will escalate what would have been an angry exchange of words into gunfire.
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Re: Re: Re: This is why people hate you you scum
"Exactly. The right to vote should not go away at all though. You should be voting from prison."
This actually screams out for clarification - because the disenfranchisement of voters in the US is one of the biggest contributors to the democratic deficit.
Where I live prisons take pains to ensure that convicts are involved in the political process and encouraged to vote. The reason, as it was explained to me, is that should an unjust government come to power the very first people to be sent to prison will be those trying to reverse that course.
Disenfranchising convicts is the first step a dishonest government can strip all political power from its adversaries. And in most elections that can be a tie-breaker. Especially so as if, in the US, the prison population is in the millions.
Meanwhile the usual fears of convicts voting - decriminalizing violent or repulsive offenses of various kinds - is never and never has been a threat in the first place, because you'll never see a situation where the vast majority of people will ever find, say, trafficking acceptable. Not even most convicts.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Aol Not Working on iphone
Exactly. The low hanging fruit is always the first getting plucked.
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"In what way is he damaged by the Pulitzer board refusing to strip the awards, such that he'd have standing for a lawsuit?"
Because it'd be a judging against him, obviously. Trump has never in his lifetime been shy of dropping lawsuits at anyone daring to not give him a public reacharound. It's the trusted way he used to make himself feel important before he a horde of fuckwits saw fit to make him president.
Narcissism is his drug of choice and the way he now insists the pulitzer committee is morons unless they withdraw prizes from those who've dared criticize him is just typical behavior from him.
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Re: Re: Re: Credebility Loss
Yeah, I'm afraid that word has lost usability. We do need some new ways of defining people who have voluntarily crippled themselves mentally the way the red hat Qanon cult and the nurgle cultists have.
I tend to fall back on the term Fuckwit - but that language just isn't usable in many forums either.
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Re: Re: Re: Male Pattern Credebility Loss
As That One Guy has it, yes, Koby did start out with credibility, pushing a number of reasonable arguments for anything beyond his actual interests.
Then as soon as it came to Trump, section 230, free speech in general, or anyone tossing nazis and bigots out of the door, there was Koby, using his "reasonable" voice to shove a hot mess of false premises, false equivalence, red herrings, straw man arguments and other troll rhetoric down everyone's throat.
Koby is the quintessential shill. He'll weigh in on other issues using normal smarts but as soon as the topic is about his friends in the KKK and neo-nazi party he swings right back to the stormfront talking points.
That tactic of building credibility in order to sell a selective piece of bullshit is as old as speech but the most infamous user of the tactic in modern times is still Goebbels - in whose footsteps Koby has spent some time walking, on these boards.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Credebility Loss
"I have more than enough savvy to understand..."
Obviously not.
Koby, you've repeatedly demonstrated around here that concepts as stunningly simple as the difference between private property and government property is beyond you.
And that you can't spot the difference between people refusing to listen to you and government throwing you in jail for speaking.
And that you don't understand that there is no both sides argument going on between the got damn american nazi party and civil rights activists.
People demanding equal rights to everyone else are not comparable to those wishing to enshrine the right to treat others as lesser because of race, sexual or gender identity, or nationality.
You've kept trying to make the bigot comparable to the humanitarian. That is evil, Koby. As are you. No matter how "reasonable" you like to appear there's little difference between you and the shaven-headed thugs swinging the odal banners in the streets of Charlottesville.
Just fsck right back to the very fine people you keep carrying water for.
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The one leads to the other.
The WCry virus was originally part of the NSA online espionage kit but was "liberated" and leaked to the online community as a whole by russian hackers. Cue networks all over the world locking up when script kids started pushing out a hundred trojan variants using that mode of attack.
Even in this, the best of all possible worlds, my dear Tartúffe, where government is wholly benevolent and their alphabet soup agencies composed of idealists...You are still screwed if the nice guy in the NSA obtains the keys to the kingdom.
Because if they obtain the keys to everyone's devices that information always ends up in the WRONG hands eventually.
It's something you can't solve by nerding harder either, which is why when some US intel puke stands up and screams they want <manufacturer X> to build a backdoor only the cops can use, they're lying. That backdoor will eventually become the private preserve of organized crime.
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Re: Even a person
"it could be explained to them How it can be done."
His job literally depends on him not realizing that fact so it'll be uphill work convincing him.
I too could spend some time briefing that "expert" on how any IoT device can act as a bridgehead. Your OS may be hardened and firewalled against exterior intrusion but not so much when it concerns the shoddily coded app connecting to your toaster, fridge and thermostat, all of whom connect themselves to their respective OEM - which is unlikely to be all that hardened against a persistent cracker.
A few likely scenarios include;
The NSA knocking at your door after tracing the hack against a military facility or government contractor to your fridge.
Your tesla won't start until you fork over a moderate amount of bitcoin to the people with the ransomware keys.
Some troll finds out how to tune every smart-TV from Grundig or Apple permanently to redtube and locks it there playing random porn clips 24/7 at max volume.
The average old school internet user accesses the internet through two weak point only - their router and their end device. 99% of the time access online is granted via browsers who are in many ways hardened by browser manufacturers long used to being the very first target of any attack. Not secure by any means but usually good enough to stand up to a casual probe.
The same can't be said if you've bought goods from a hundred different OEM's, many of whom won't be security experts or have bothered to secure their goods in any way, shape or form.
If I were a betting man I'd put money on there already being national efforts made by every country and computer-savvy criminals, to perfect and optimize script-attacking badly secured IoT devices én másse, for a multitude of uses.
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I may just have lost it for a second there. Let me first begin with an apology, Because your statement...
"You do of course, and being part of that tribe requires you to state, fact-free, that every fifth person in America is racist simply because they voted for an asshole."
...Set me off completely. Yes. The guy who votes for someone who is that openly a fascist and racist as Trump has been for 40 years or more - has sent a statement clearer than any you can make that they are OK with a racist becoming their Dear Leader. That is literally how it works. 25% of the US stood and voted that they were OK with that.
Because over here in Europe we still remember - those are the people who in the end catapult a Hitler into power. Not the rabid morons marching waving odal banners. Not the guys with tiki torches wearing bedsheets.
It's the people who looked at Trump and said "Not my first, second or third choice, but OK" rather than "No, Hell NO". Historically? Those people are what enables an autocratic fascist state to emerge. Because they are not like Röhm's Sturmabteilung - so steeped in the religion of hate they can hardly function in ordinary society - but simply don't give more of a shit about the consequences of their actions than "Well, I'm not jewish..", or in this case "black or latino".
So yeah, I blew my top here. For which I apologize.
You, however, are in a worse quandary. Because if you believe those 25% aren't that bad then the future will have grim and unwelcome news for you.
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"The fact is dirt differs no matter who they are are vital to democracy. Be it the one sided hits of PV or the fu world idea of wikileaks. "
Problem is that PV isn't reporting facts as such. They report a narrative often only loosely associated with what facts they've found, if that. Their behavior during the election, walking in literal lockstep with Giuliani demonstrates as much. Now if they are going balls to the wall claiming grand malfeasance and voter fraud is a thing then they really need to show why they think so to a judge. But so far all we ever got from them was promises of a grand revelation and then, like with Giuliani, zip, zero, nada. It's a damn shame Ilmar Omar didn't sue for discovery - it might have seen O'Keefe pulling the Tucker Carlson defense.
Wikileaks, meanwhile, issued the bulk of their revelations after publisher's curation only. And that evidence stood as pretty damning on its own. The fact that wikileaks was instantly branded a threat to national security and had the NSA taking down every webpage and copy of the material they could find was an indicator what was released was fairly legit.
I'm inclined to the belief that the FBI is acting out of no more lofty premises than their own hides. Judging by their past behavior, much of which came up through the Church commission, If I were a betting man I'd put good money on a number of feds in high office being in a bit of a precarious position for various overreaches between 2016 and 2021 when the people giving the marching order were less enamored of details such as the law of the land.
I mean, consider the border family separations under Trump. Those were so heavily against US law Biden had to quick fix by settle quickly in the hopes of not losing the nation multiple times that amount to a slew of slam-dunk lawsuits.
If that's what the Border Patrol did I can only imagine what the FBI was up to.
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point being, on the opinion of the alt-right that the cop shooting someone tends to merit itself by the circular argument that said someone must have deserved it if the cop shot them...that would normally be correct. That's the way it currently works nine times out of ten. Especially if you're poor, black, latin, or otherwise in the target range of a police force increasingly enmeshed with right-wing extremism.
Your opinion, then, would be that it shouldn't be this way. Because deeming by the facts at hand it currently is this way.
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