Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 22 Nov 2021 @ 8:18am
Re: Re: Re: Justice done
"Everyone has their own opinion. Theirs is wrong."
Unfortunately, wrong or not, their opinion is backed by a rather large proportion of US law enforcement and a great many in the body politic.
Worse still, in the US violence appears to be normalized to the point where unless you are yourself a victim of it, someone shot over a triviality merits nothing further than a shrug and a "meh".
The guy in the OP lives a charmed life. Literally. Statistics say he should have been on a slab with a tag fitted to his toe and enough lead in his body to significantly skew his BMI.
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 22 Nov 2021 @ 7:48am
Re: Re: Aol Not Working on iphone
"Are there actually people out there that think "Yeah AOL on my iPhone isn't working..."
And if there were they should know all America Off Line will do about it is send them a shiny silver coaster with old modem drivers and a virus.
"And TBH, I would expect anyone who knows roughly what IMAP an SMTP are to be sufficiently educated that click on spam links isn't going to help you..."
Your statement is a hint about the target audience this spamming grifter isn't looking for.
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 22 Nov 2021 @ 6:21am
Re: It should be a felony...
It should. But for many reasons, not possible. If the officer in question takes a bathroom break it's not good to force them to have an active camera on their person at the time. And so on. They are supposed to switch them on whenever the officers are heading into a situation.
But the news was leaked a long time ago now that one of the first things police rookies get taught by their seniors and mentors on the force is how to make a bodycam disabled while making it look like the damn thing failed of natural causes. Statistically surprising that so many killings and accidental deaths of suspects take place when mysteriously not a single camera in the squad was switched on.
And failing all else whether the footage is even released or processed in any way largely rests on the department itself. In some states such footage is specifically exempted from freedom of information requests. Because of course it is.
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 22 Nov 2021 @ 6:06am
Re: Re: Re: Re:
"...BOB (the Bumbling Orange Buffoon) would proudly proclaim that he never paid anybody for their service to him. Ever."
That's actually not true. Trump has done more for his friend Putin in those four years than he did for all of the US in all his life. All in exchange for a few handshakes, some kind words, and possibly those kind word being uttered to the bank which went on to provide hundreds of millions of dollars in loans to the deadbeat with a broken credit rating.
You can't just watch Trump giving Putin a reacharound and standing ovations in that Helsinki summit and then call him a man who doesn't pay his debts.
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 22 Nov 2021 @ 6:03am
Re: Re:
"A Trump case may look promising to a sufficiently desperate atty."
Well, a smart atty would be capable of gaining employment some way, as would someone with a good reputation.
But for the unscrupulous ones bereft of even second-class legal skills but in possession of low cunning...represent Trump and write your bills off as "marketing expenses" while shouting your name as loudly as possible, hoping to attract the eye of the base willing to give their last dollar to the "personal attorney of Dear Leader"?
You'd have to lack pride and a sense of shame but if your career is at a dead end anyway you might as well go full Liebowitz and double down on a venture where you won't get paid but stand a good chance of roping in a horde of gullible clients.
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 22 Nov 2021 @ 5:58am
Re: So lame
"It's lame to still see articles from Techdirt with Donald Trump's name in it."
Well, if The Donald would just stop producing headlines-worthy nonsense we'd just treat him like GWB and push him out of sight and mind until the time comes to discuss history or when ongoing investigations produce new and hitherto unknown facts.
You see, Baghdad Bob, most sane people have attention spans longer than those of goldfish. We don't just ignore further douchebaggery foisted on the world by some asshole just because they're no longer trending.
Not everyone can be an alt-right shitwit without an attention span or ability to see context.
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 22 Nov 2021 @ 2:36am
Re:
"I’m pretty sure orange man is a chaos god that rivals khorne..."
More like the anthropomorphic personification of Grift co-opting the cults of other deities. Like the Pestilential Brotherhood of Anti-vax serving Nurgle and the Proud Boys of Bigotry and Moronism serving Chaos Undivided.
The fictionary mythology of Khorne implies a berserker or at least bravery. Not to be applied to people who are too shit-scared to utter their honest opinion away from the comforting embrace of a mob of the like-minded.
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 22 Nov 2021 @ 2:30am
Re: Re: So lame
"...he's a fucking moron, you know it, but you're in too deep, and you think if you changed your tune now, we'd make fun of you. I certainly would, and you fucking deserve it."
Honestly, anyone who voted for Trump once...you could write that off to having a very bad day and/or a rageboner for punishing the democrat failure.
Twice? Well, if they change their minds later just congratulate them and note they're prone to making serious mistakes on what ought to be dead simple matters.
And if they've been having the back of Dear Leader until some formative event compelled them to see the light well, just congratulate them. Agree with them that they've been dumb and move on. Don't just punish them for finally trying to rejoin the race of homo sapiens sapiens.
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 22 Nov 2021 @ 2:24am
Re: Re: Re: Here Comes Da Judge
"I can say that there's circumstantial evidence that Trump is a rapist and I can actually cite the evidence given by Ivanka Trump"
Minor detail but I hope that was a typo. Ivana Trump - his ex-wife - certainly alleged such.
I really hope his daughter didn't, although judging by his general tone and their appearances together it wouldn't really come as a surprise if she had.
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 22 Nov 2021 @ 2:20am
Re: Good on Biden.
Politicians in general tend to give zero fscks about high principles and none more so than american ones - with Bernie being that very rare exception from what I can tell.
That said, democrat politicians more often align with humanitarian principles because their base, at least shallowly claim to subscribe to those principles. Thus it's more likely that a democrat will cave to the pressure and occasionally do a righht thing than it is for a republican whose base consists of people willing to vote for self-harm as long as it may cause the libs grief.
You probably shouldn't be that disillusioned. The dems still seem unable to balance the demands of their campaign contributors against the demands of potential voters. It's pretty clear by now that if Trump is the would-be unhinged Dear Leader motivated entirely by narcissism and ambition Biden is still carrying water for large corporations to a worrisome degree.
What the US really needs and would get the dems a lot more wins would be to get out there and start trying to take the rurals away from the GOP. Because ironically most rural areas rely heavily on socialist principles for their daily lives, and the working class desperately needs union worker protection laws and raising the minimum wage to where it actually is a living wage.
And someone really needs to break the wall of shame and point out that living wages, social services, universal health care and unionization is the default in all of the EU and the rest of the world - and somehow the rest of the world manages that just fine without turning into the socialist hellhole right-wing radicals keep trying to imply the US would turn into if - god forbid - the US even tried to do what everyone else can successfully accomplish easily.
So keep on being disillusioned. Biden did a brief 180 because fact and logic served his reasons here. He'll swing back to undercutting 230 as soon as this crisis is dealt with and forgotten.
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 22 Nov 2021 @ 2:08am
Re: Who's a Hypocrite Grifter?
"Has he interviewed anyone relevant from Project Veritas..."
To do what? Ask them why they keep lying in the stories they publish? Ask them where their allergy towards factual and observable reality comes from?
No, Baghdad Bob, we'll just have to repeat once again what we keep telling you; If you prove yourself a disingenious asshole enough times you no longer get to be consideredd a valid source of information.
And O'Keefe's career, from college onwards, has just been one long stretch of trolling. All he deserves is a quick flag of "irrelevant" and that is what the community has given him.
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 22 Nov 2021 @ 2:03am
Re: Re: Collusion
"That’s some kind of coincidence, getting hold of privileged material while being sued by one of the privileged parties."
Or, as Occam's Razor would suggest, project veritas is just that loathed there's no shortage of informants willing to speak to a journalist, and naturally spring for the one currently motivated to publish the dirt on PV.
For which O'Keefe can only really blame himself. If all PV did was dig up existing dirt on a specific political side then fine. One-sided journalism is still journalism even if partisan motives have to be filtered out of the reporting. Someone will come through against the other side.
But that's not what PV does. Not when their career is in, at best, spinning non-stories into outrage clickbait and at worst their stories have no factual backing at all. At that point they just manage to hit a bar lower than what even Alex Jones sets for himself.
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 22 Nov 2021 @ 1:46am
Re: Gym Memberships
"This is of course the end result when the law says "As easy as it was to sign up", everyone in the industry makes signup a difficult and annoying process all at once so they can remind people when they cancel all the shit they had to do to sign a dumb gym membership."
I spy some similarity with the online registrations of certain companies. I used to play the SWTOR MMORPG for awhile, then took a hiatus, and coming back found that I'd have to register accounts with EA and run the grand loop around just to try to reopen my player account just to verify my bioware account.
Same as with DCUO. Two games I've now given up on because the last thing I want in my spare time hobbies is crippling inconvenience and red tape.
Meanwhile Blizzard keeps nagging me every now and then to come back to the old WoW demo account despite all attempts to unregister from their mailing list.
Bad processes and shoddy routines combined with registries of customers kept way past their best-before date is a menace. Even worse so that although this may be inconvenient on a consumer level, consider that national security and law enforcement lists like the no-fly register and organized gang list are kept the same shoddy way.
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 19 Nov 2021 @ 8:28am
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
"You’re a very mean person. You’re a bully. You out-trump Trump, and that takes some doing."
Damn, you alt-right snowflakes are so brittle when someone calls you on your bullshit. At least when Koby gets confronted with trying to gaslight people about something he knows better than to double down on it.
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 19 Nov 2021 @ 8:25am
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
"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."
H.R Maxon's principle still stands. Those who voted for the racist and stood with the racist aren't given benefit of doubt even if they claim they only voted for the guy because he stood for something else as well.
"I didn’t insult you. But since you started it, you sir are a blind fool, filled with hatred. What the hell is a killary cult anyway?"
Short memory? The GOP spent four years supporting the idea that "Killary" - as they named hillary Clinton - was guilty of genocide, and by the Qanon adherents, plenty of whom are in congress, part of a cannibal cult. You want to tell me I'm filled with hatred when I state that the Qanon crowd and the likes of Hawley and MTG are racist fuckwits - for them being on open camera demonstrating such? Then no. You only project yourself as desperately trying to deflect blame.
And yes. You asserting flaming gibberish and falsehoods is indeed insulting to anyone with a working brain. If you start throwing feces in people's faces it really doesn't matter which tone you use to do it with.
"All i did was say “don’t say something is stolen if you don’t know it’s stolen” God, you far left wing nutjobs are so exasperating!"
And then you said;
People who like Trump must somehow prove they are not racists. People who like abortion must somehow prove they don’t hate unborn babies. And so on.
Which is the absolute reversal of causal reality and logic. I'm afraid more people than "left wing nutjobs" react extremely badly to bad faith arguments and utter bullshit.
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 19 Nov 2021 @ 8:12am
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
"You can't necessarily stop the racists from being racists, but it would be nice if they returned to just grumbling about not being able to use the n word even though "those people" are allowed to use it, rather than what we see now."
The rhetoric has taken a nosedive in that regard ever since Trump came out and gave the KKK, Neo-nazis and the Proud Boys lebensraum in his tacit acknowledgment of them being an equal party. Which, given that the core ideology is "racism" vs "equality" means that the bar wasn't so much lowered as removed entirely when it came to who was given a seat at the table.
The fact that the entire Trump movement and the alt-right started using keywords and dog whistles like "Fake news" (Lügenpresse), "Big Lie" (grosse lüge), the recurring use of the number 88, the SS odal rune-shape podium in that CPAC...all the other uses of very distinct nazi symbology...all points to the fact that Trump and the current GOP have focused their base-building on those people eager and willing to exert violence and great efforts on their behalf. Because in modern america those views have become normalized. Part of the regular discourse.
Yeah, you can't stop racists from being racist...but you can bar them from any place owned by liberals. You can tell them if they want to spout bullshit about the jewish conspiracy or the antifan cannibal cult helmed by the Kenyan Muslim they aren't welcome.
And the failure of liberals to draw that line in sand long ago is why these people are so encouraged now.
Facebook, twitter and all the other social platforms paying lip service to a ToS demanding a decent environment should have put their foot down from the very beginning. Now it may be too late for that.
Scary Devil Monastery (profile), 19 Nov 2021 @ 4:39am
Re: Re: Facebook changes elections as an active participant
"Am I the only one who notices how incredibly sinister and worrisome the language calling speech which may influence elections a crime is?"
Nope. But that's the level of discourse in the US right now. Fascism is on the right from what used to be the right-wing and the saner majority are increasingly reacting with desperation.
The time to fix this was, I believe, 50 years ago. Today we're all just waiting for the alt-right to walk into the Capitol and start ignoring actual election results - at which point the liberals either answer with force or do as they did in Germany 1932; quietly cave, unwilling to meet naked aggression with any form of effective defense.
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Re: Re: Re: Justice done
"Everyone has their own opinion. Theirs is wrong."
Unfortunately, wrong or not, their opinion is backed by a rather large proportion of US law enforcement and a great many in the body politic.
Worse still, in the US violence appears to be normalized to the point where unless you are yourself a victim of it, someone shot over a triviality merits nothing further than a shrug and a "meh".
The guy in the OP lives a charmed life. Literally. Statistics say he should have been on a slab with a tag fitted to his toe and enough lead in his body to significantly skew his BMI.
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Re: Re: Aol Not Working on iphone
"Are there actually people out there that think "Yeah AOL on my iPhone isn't working..."
And if there were they should know all America Off Line will do about it is send them a shiny silver coaster with old modem drivers and a virus.
"And TBH, I would expect anyone who knows roughly what IMAP an SMTP are to be sufficiently educated that click on spam links isn't going to help you..."
Your statement is a hint about the target audience this spamming grifter isn't looking for.
On the post: Minneapolis Man Acquitted Of Charges After Mistakenly Shooting At Cops Sues Officers For Violating His Rights
Re: Justice done
"Being a criminal violating a legally called curfew doesn’t give cops the right to beat you. Or shoot you."
Weird how most of the alt-right seems to feel differently about that.
On the post: Minneapolis Man Acquitted Of Charges After Mistakenly Shooting At Cops Sues Officers For Violating His Rights
Re: It should be a felony...
It should. But for many reasons, not possible. If the officer in question takes a bathroom break it's not good to force them to have an active camera on their person at the time. And so on. They are supposed to switch them on whenever the officers are heading into a situation.
But the news was leaked a long time ago now that one of the first things police rookies get taught by their seniors and mentors on the force is how to make a bodycam disabled while making it look like the damn thing failed of natural causes. Statistically surprising that so many killings and accidental deaths of suspects take place when mysteriously not a single camera in the squad was switched on.
And failing all else whether the footage is even released or processed in any way largely rests on the department itself. In some states such footage is specifically exempted from freedom of information requests. Because of course it is.
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Re: Re: Re: Re:
"...BOB (the Bumbling Orange Buffoon) would proudly proclaim that he never paid anybody for their service to him. Ever."
That's actually not true. Trump has done more for his friend Putin in those four years than he did for all of the US in all his life. All in exchange for a few handshakes, some kind words, and possibly those kind word being uttered to the bank which went on to provide hundreds of millions of dollars in loans to the deadbeat with a broken credit rating.
You can't just watch Trump giving Putin a reacharound and standing ovations in that Helsinki summit and then call him a man who doesn't pay his debts.
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Re: Re:
"A Trump case may look promising to a sufficiently desperate atty."
Well, a smart atty would be capable of gaining employment some way, as would someone with a good reputation.
But for the unscrupulous ones bereft of even second-class legal skills but in possession of low cunning...represent Trump and write your bills off as "marketing expenses" while shouting your name as loudly as possible, hoping to attract the eye of the base willing to give their last dollar to the "personal attorney of Dear Leader"?
You'd have to lack pride and a sense of shame but if your career is at a dead end anyway you might as well go full Liebowitz and double down on a venture where you won't get paid but stand a good chance of roping in a horde of gullible clients.
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Re: So lame
"It's lame to still see articles from Techdirt with Donald Trump's name in it."
Well, if The Donald would just stop producing headlines-worthy nonsense we'd just treat him like GWB and push him out of sight and mind until the time comes to discuss history or when ongoing investigations produce new and hitherto unknown facts.
You see, Baghdad Bob, most sane people have attention spans longer than those of goldfish. We don't just ignore further douchebaggery foisted on the world by some asshole just because they're no longer trending.
Not everyone can be an alt-right shitwit without an attention span or ability to see context.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Here Comes Da Judge
Your autocowreck must be programmed to hit the uncanny valley of disturbing analogies. 😁
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Re:
"I’m pretty sure orange man is a chaos god that rivals khorne..."
More like the anthropomorphic personification of Grift co-opting the cults of other deities. Like the Pestilential Brotherhood of Anti-vax serving Nurgle and the Proud Boys of Bigotry and Moronism serving Chaos Undivided.
The fictionary mythology of Khorne implies a berserker or at least bravery. Not to be applied to people who are too shit-scared to utter their honest opinion away from the comforting embrace of a mob of the like-minded.
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Re: Re: So lame
"...he's a fucking moron, you know it, but you're in too deep, and you think if you changed your tune now, we'd make fun of you. I certainly would, and you fucking deserve it."
Honestly, anyone who voted for Trump once...you could write that off to having a very bad day and/or a rageboner for punishing the democrat failure.
Twice? Well, if they change their minds later just congratulate them and note they're prone to making serious mistakes on what ought to be dead simple matters.
And if they've been having the back of Dear Leader until some formative event compelled them to see the light well, just congratulate them. Agree with them that they've been dumb and move on. Don't just punish them for finally trying to rejoin the race of homo sapiens sapiens.
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Re: Re: Re: Here Comes Da Judge
"I can say that there's circumstantial evidence that Trump is a rapist and I can actually cite the evidence given by Ivanka Trump"
Minor detail but I hope that was a typo. Ivana Trump - his ex-wife - certainly alleged such.
I really hope his daughter didn't, although judging by his general tone and their appearances together it wouldn't really come as a surprise if she had.
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Re: Re: Good on Biden.
[EDIT]
"You probably shouldn't be that disillusioned."
Should have been "You probably shouldn't be that surprised"*
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Re: Good on Biden.
Politicians in general tend to give zero fscks about high principles and none more so than american ones - with Bernie being that very rare exception from what I can tell.
That said, democrat politicians more often align with humanitarian principles because their base, at least shallowly claim to subscribe to those principles. Thus it's more likely that a democrat will cave to the pressure and occasionally do a righht thing than it is for a republican whose base consists of people willing to vote for self-harm as long as it may cause the libs grief.
You probably shouldn't be that disillusioned. The dems still seem unable to balance the demands of their campaign contributors against the demands of potential voters. It's pretty clear by now that if Trump is the would-be unhinged Dear Leader motivated entirely by narcissism and ambition Biden is still carrying water for large corporations to a worrisome degree.
What the US really needs and would get the dems a lot more wins would be to get out there and start trying to take the rurals away from the GOP. Because ironically most rural areas rely heavily on socialist principles for their daily lives, and the working class desperately needs union worker protection laws and raising the minimum wage to where it actually is a living wage.
And someone really needs to break the wall of shame and point out that living wages, social services, universal health care and unionization is the default in all of the EU and the rest of the world - and somehow the rest of the world manages that just fine without turning into the socialist hellhole right-wing radicals keep trying to imply the US would turn into if - god forbid - the US even tried to do what everyone else can successfully accomplish easily.
So keep on being disillusioned. Biden did a brief 180 because fact and logic served his reasons here. He'll swing back to undercutting 230 as soon as this crisis is dealt with and forgotten.
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Re: Who's a Hypocrite Grifter?
"Has he interviewed anyone relevant from Project Veritas..."
To do what? Ask them why they keep lying in the stories they publish? Ask them where their allergy towards factual and observable reality comes from?
No, Baghdad Bob, we'll just have to repeat once again what we keep telling you; If you prove yourself a disingenious asshole enough times you no longer get to be consideredd a valid source of information.
And O'Keefe's career, from college onwards, has just been one long stretch of trolling. All he deserves is a quick flag of "irrelevant" and that is what the community has given him.
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Re: Re: Collusion
"That’s some kind of coincidence, getting hold of privileged material while being sued by one of the privileged parties."
Or, as Occam's Razor would suggest, project veritas is just that loathed there's no shortage of informants willing to speak to a journalist, and naturally spring for the one currently motivated to publish the dirt on PV.
For which O'Keefe can only really blame himself. If all PV did was dig up existing dirt on a specific political side then fine. One-sided journalism is still journalism even if partisan motives have to be filtered out of the reporting. Someone will come through against the other side.
But that's not what PV does. Not when their career is in, at best, spinning non-stories into outrage clickbait and at worst their stories have no factual backing at all. At that point they just manage to hit a bar lower than what even Alex Jones sets for himself.
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Re: Gym Memberships
"This is of course the end result when the law says "As easy as it was to sign up", everyone in the industry makes signup a difficult and annoying process all at once so they can remind people when they cancel all the shit they had to do to sign a dumb gym membership."
I spy some similarity with the online registrations of certain companies. I used to play the SWTOR MMORPG for awhile, then took a hiatus, and coming back found that I'd have to register accounts with EA and run the grand loop around just to try to reopen my player account just to verify my bioware account.
Same as with DCUO. Two games I've now given up on because the last thing I want in my spare time hobbies is crippling inconvenience and red tape.
Meanwhile Blizzard keeps nagging me every now and then to come back to the old WoW demo account despite all attempts to unregister from their mailing list.
Bad processes and shoddy routines combined with registries of customers kept way past their best-before date is a menace. Even worse so that although this may be inconvenient on a consumer level, consider that national security and law enforcement lists like the no-fly register and organized gang list are kept the same shoddy way.
On the post: Yes, Even If You Think Project Veritas Are A Bunch Of Malicious Grifters, FBI Raid Is Concerning
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
"You’re a very mean person. You’re a bully. You out-trump Trump, and that takes some doing."
Damn, you alt-right snowflakes are so brittle when someone calls you on your bullshit. At least when Koby gets confronted with trying to gaslight people about something he knows better than to double down on it.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
"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."
H.R Maxon's principle still stands. Those who voted for the racist and stood with the racist aren't given benefit of doubt even if they claim they only voted for the guy because he stood for something else as well.
"I didn’t insult you. But since you started it, you sir are a blind fool, filled with hatred. What the hell is a killary cult anyway?"
Short memory? The GOP spent four years supporting the idea that "Killary" - as they named hillary Clinton - was guilty of genocide, and by the Qanon adherents, plenty of whom are in congress, part of a cannibal cult. You want to tell me I'm filled with hatred when I state that the Qanon crowd and the likes of Hawley and MTG are racist fuckwits - for them being on open camera demonstrating such? Then no. You only project yourself as desperately trying to deflect blame.
And yes. You asserting flaming gibberish and falsehoods is indeed insulting to anyone with a working brain. If you start throwing feces in people's faces it really doesn't matter which tone you use to do it with.
"All i did was say “don’t say something is stolen if you don’t know it’s stolen” God, you far left wing nutjobs are so exasperating!"
And then you said;
Which is the absolute reversal of causal reality and logic. I'm afraid more people than "left wing nutjobs" react extremely badly to bad faith arguments and utter bullshit.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
"You can't necessarily stop the racists from being racists, but it would be nice if they returned to just grumbling about not being able to use the n word even though "those people" are allowed to use it, rather than what we see now."
The rhetoric has taken a nosedive in that regard ever since Trump came out and gave the KKK, Neo-nazis and the Proud Boys lebensraum in his tacit acknowledgment of them being an equal party. Which, given that the core ideology is "racism" vs "equality" means that the bar wasn't so much lowered as removed entirely when it came to who was given a seat at the table.
The fact that the entire Trump movement and the alt-right started using keywords and dog whistles like "Fake news" (Lügenpresse), "Big Lie" (grosse lüge), the recurring use of the number 88, the SS odal rune-shape podium in that CPAC...all the other uses of very distinct nazi symbology...all points to the fact that Trump and the current GOP have focused their base-building on those people eager and willing to exert violence and great efforts on their behalf. Because in modern america those views have become normalized. Part of the regular discourse.
Yeah, you can't stop racists from being racist...but you can bar them from any place owned by liberals. You can tell them if they want to spout bullshit about the jewish conspiracy or the antifan cannibal cult helmed by the Kenyan Muslim they aren't welcome.
And the failure of liberals to draw that line in sand long ago is why these people are so encouraged now.
Facebook, twitter and all the other social platforms paying lip service to a ToS demanding a decent environment should have put their foot down from the very beginning. Now it may be too late for that.
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Re: Re: Facebook changes elections as an active participant
"Am I the only one who notices how incredibly sinister and worrisome the language calling speech which may influence elections a crime is?"
Nope. But that's the level of discourse in the US right now. Fascism is on the right from what used to be the right-wing and the saner majority are increasingly reacting with desperation.
The time to fix this was, I believe, 50 years ago. Today we're all just waiting for the alt-right to walk into the Capitol and start ignoring actual election results - at which point the liberals either answer with force or do as they did in Germany 1932; quietly cave, unwilling to meet naked aggression with any form of effective defense.
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