Obama got elected for not being George W. Bush. It was a very popular platform considering Bush turned the US into a torture state and a surveillance state (and also hired mercenaries to e̶n̶g̶a̶g̶e̶ i̶n̶ g̶e̶n̶o̶c̶i̶d̶e̶ sweep and clear civilians from combat zones.
It was popular even internationally and Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize for the feat of not being Bush.
I suppose you could argue that a black man in the White House was too much for the transnational white power movement in the US to handle, so Trump got elected by mobilized racists for not being a black guy, but also for openly resenting non-whites in the US.
Essentially Trump took the Southern Strategy and cranked it up to 22, and went on the purge the nonwhites platform. Looking at news from the time the plan was to purge all the Latins (whether citizens or not) and then replace all the lost workers with black felons. Also to build a wall and to imprison rival politicians.
Most of the people who actually voted for Trump did so in order to purge the nonwhites. That still seems to be the MAGA ticket, to this day, except also to criminalize dissent.
To be fair, the additional boyancy of hydrogen allows for engineering we can't do with helium filled blimps. The explosion risk is considered by some as a problem to solve rather than a logistical dealbreaker.
Evolution is a theory the way quantum mechanics is a theory or aerodynamics is a theory, the last of which we use practically, in that we fling cans of peoplr up into the sky and use aerodynamics to guide getting them back down safely again.
We actually apply evolution practically as well, to cultivate food crops, to respond to infectious disease and to develop advanced medicines.
Premeds who failed to learn evolution in high school wind up having to take a cram course in freshman college in order to catch up with the rest of the students.
In the case of Doctorow, he got the luggage that used the backdoored keys to which the TSA had access (those were the backdoor keys that were later casually left on a table for a photo-op to assure every pen-tester had a printable copy)
They didn't bother using the keys we know they had, they pry-bared Doctorow's luggage, breaking it for future use. But, sure, maybe they were just too dense to be working in security and law enforcement. We don't actually know.
As for January 6th, that wasn't a matter of thinking radar blips were our boys on maneuvers (As per a particular December 7th) but that many responders were actively standing down and choosing to fail to respond to raiders on the US Capitol. Some of law enforcement was actively in on it.
It appears to me you're trying to justify over-vigilance the way the Sandy Hook Project tries to pick out the rampage killer from the gagillions of other angry, misunderstood (and actively exploited) children in our school districts, resulting in the kinds of false positives that has turned the US (and our airports) into the police-state nightmare it is since the War on Terror. There are too many false positives and it only justifies police officers harassing the underclasses more, which only escalates unrest and discontent.
It's much the way Doctorow receives his TSA-approved luggage with all the locks broken anyway.
Right now the United States teems with lone wolves and pogrom planners from the widespread transnational white power movement, and real threats are being carried out if the US Marshall Service are looking for actual crime to stop.
But they agree too much with those crimes being carried out to give half a fuck, and it's safer to investigate innocent people who said something off-handed than real threats than could use an actual psych evaluation.
After the Portland execution of Michael Reinoehl at the behest of President Trump, the US Marshall Service has demonstrated it is as rogue against the people of the US as the rest of law enforcement, and deserves all the contempt that it is shown, multiplied by orders of magnitude.
It does sorta raise the question when do we turn to methods that don't depend on passing laws or enforcing them on those with money or political power?
It's now kill the libs and kill the other, though the transnational effort to create a white ethnostate seems to have been the intention all this time (though initially to exclude white others like Italians and Irish).
Trump is now unapologetically GEOTUS, which smacks a bit of Dune.
I've been pointing a lot to #4 of Umberto Ecco's list: Disagreement is betrayal Anyone who challenges the talking points is ostracized and attacked.
When people sometimes do weird, illogical things (such as dancing themselves to death) we have to assume it's not a question of individual character so much as a psychological disorder or a human bias.
It's then up to the society to compensate for that bias so that they aren't trapped by it.
I'd also qualify wealthy people who hoard their assets well, well beyond what they and their families might need, to the detriment of all of society around them. We have a billionaire space race, when they could be feeding the world or looking to provide global healthcare in their name, and can't be bothered to part with a hundredth of their assets to do good.
In the same way, Facebook is 'spreading' and amplifying [QAnon disinformation]
In the way the USPS distributed Kaczynski's mail bombs. Facebook distributes trillions of banal messages about cats and school kids and shopping encounters amung which disinformation is intermixed and as years of notices about your car's extended warranty have demonstrated there is no simple way to filter them out.
We don't have an expectation of privacy regarding someone at one point noticing our car in the mall parking lot.
But at the point that someone's watching the parking lot over time and is tracking all the cars that enter or leave and when, that's getting into data levels that interact with the fourth amendment.
Once someone is taking license plate pictures at checkpoints for days and tracking cars as they move through the city, that's following people more than they expect to be followed. We Americans have an expectation we're not being stalked, and stalking is a thing done by malicious actors (whether or not they are government agents).
Is it illegal to track people or their trappings (cars, phones, etc.) to such lengths? Maybe not. But should a government or NGO have that much information on a given person? Probably not. Should such information be admissible in court? Absolutely not. These would qualify as an unreasonable search and would run against the spirit of the Fourth Amendment in the Bill of Rights.
The same thing can be said of monitoring someone's front door for six months. A police doing a drive-by look at the front door is not invasive, but the pattern derived from collecting data over time regarding who leaves and returns is, again, an unreasonable search, and should not be admissible in court.
Yes. Countless PR disasters during the Trump a̶d̶m̶i̶n̶i̶s̶t̶r̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ r̶e̶g̶i̶m̶e̶ a̶d̶m̶i̶n̶i̶s̶t̶r̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ r̶e̶g̶i̶m̶e̶ administration came from Trump refusing to stick to the teleprompted remarks.
For those aligned with BLM and defunding law enforcement this is an incriminating act. By acting to tamper with evidence, it means we can assume the worst that the Minneapolis Police Department is acting with malice against the citizens of Minneapolis, possibly aligned with the goals of the transnational white power movement that governs the police unions.
Trump got elected because a ton of people felt threatened by the growing diversity, and were too attracted to someone who expressed the white power sentiments by expressing the quiet parts loudly and blatantly. Trump wasn't trying to be unsubtle, he just can't help but blurt everything out.
He also got elected because of the Electoral Collage but that's a different problem.
Yes, early in Trump's election when the data wasn't in we were assuming people were voting for the monster to rebel against their hand being forced. No one wanted another neocon, so they voted for the Obvious Nazi.
But that turned out to be a tiny percentage of voters. It turns out most of them just liked being able to use the n-word openly and to suggest we should outright exterminate the underclasses.
The assets were taken by agents of the federal government. Wouldn't then the United States of American be responsible for restoring those assets to their rightful owners (or compensating them appropriately)?
Somehow I suspect any legal rulings that might say it isn't would conflict not only with the Fourth Amendment, but also the notion of government by consent. At that point we might as well say we peons and all our stuff are owned by our aristocratic masters.
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The same reason Obama got elected
Obama got elected for not being George W. Bush. It was a very popular platform considering Bush turned the US into a torture state and a surveillance state (and also hired mercenaries to e̶n̶g̶a̶g̶e̶ i̶n̶ g̶e̶n̶o̶c̶i̶d̶e̶ sweep and clear civilians from combat zones.
It was popular even internationally and Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize for the feat of not being Bush.
I suppose you could argue that a black man in the White House was too much for the transnational white power movement in the US to handle, so Trump got elected by mobilized racists for not being a black guy, but also for openly resenting non-whites in the US.
Essentially Trump took the Southern Strategy and cranked it up to 22, and went on the purge the nonwhites platform. Looking at news from the time the plan was to purge all the Latins (whether citizens or not) and then replace all the lost workers with black felons. Also to build a wall and to imprison rival politicians.
Most of the people who actually voted for Trump did so in order to purge the nonwhites. That still seems to be the MAGA ticket, to this day, except also to criminalize dissent.
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Hydrogen filled airship
To be fair, the additional boyancy of hydrogen allows for engineering we can't do with helium filled blimps. The explosion risk is considered by some as a problem to solve rather than a logistical dealbreaker.
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"Only a theory"
Evolution is a theory the way quantum mechanics is a theory or aerodynamics is a theory, the last of which we use practically, in that we fling cans of peoplr up into the sky and use aerodynamics to guide getting them back down safely again.
We actually apply evolution practically as well, to cultivate food crops, to respond to infectious disease and to develop advanced medicines.
Premeds who failed to learn evolution in high school wind up having to take a cram course in freshman college in order to catch up with the rest of the students.
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Doctorow's luggage and Sandy Hook symptoms
In the case of Doctorow, he got the luggage that used the backdoored keys to which the TSA had access (those were the backdoor keys that were later casually left on a table for a photo-op to assure every pen-tester had a printable copy)
They didn't bother using the keys we know they had, they pry-bared Doctorow's luggage, breaking it for future use. But, sure, maybe they were just too dense to be working in security and law enforcement. We don't actually know.
As for January 6th, that wasn't a matter of thinking radar blips were our boys on maneuvers (As per a particular December 7th) but that many responders were actively standing down and choosing to fail to respond to raiders on the US Capitol. Some of law enforcement was actively in on it.
It appears to me you're trying to justify over-vigilance the way the Sandy Hook Project tries to pick out the rampage killer from the gagillions of other angry, misunderstood (and actively exploited) children in our school districts, resulting in the kinds of false positives that has turned the US (and our airports) into the police-state nightmare it is since the War on Terror. There are too many false positives and it only justifies police officers harassing the underclasses more, which only escalates unrest and discontent.
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"woefully naïve"
Oh do elaborate.
Or did I just hurt your thin blue feelings and you had to react?
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This, to me smacks of harassment
It's much the way Doctorow receives his TSA-approved luggage with all the locks broken anyway.
Right now the United States teems with lone wolves and pogrom planners from the widespread transnational white power movement, and real threats are being carried out if the US Marshall Service are looking for actual crime to stop.
But they agree too much with those crimes being carried out to give half a fuck, and it's safer to investigate innocent people who said something off-handed than real threats than could use an actual psych evaluation.
After the Portland execution of Michael Reinoehl at the behest of President Trump, the US Marshall Service has demonstrated it is as rogue against the people of the US as the rest of law enforcement, and deserves all the contempt that it is shown, multiplied by orders of magnitude.
Yes, I'm bitter.
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The legislature and legal system are compromised.
It does sorta raise the question when do we turn to methods that don't depend on passing laws or enforcing them on those with money or political power?
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Own the libs
It's now kill the libs and kill the other, though the transnational effort to create a white ethnostate seems to have been the intention all this time (though initially to exclude white others like Italians and Irish).
Trump is now unapologetically GEOTUS, which smacks a bit of Dune.
I've been pointing a lot to #4 of Umberto Ecco's list: Disagreement is betrayal Anyone who challenges the talking points is ostracized and attacked.
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Mass stupidity.
When people sometimes do weird, illogical things (such as dancing themselves to death) we have to assume it's not a question of individual character so much as a psychological disorder or a human bias.
It's then up to the society to compensate for that bias so that they aren't trapped by it.
I'd also qualify wealthy people who hoard their assets well, well beyond what they and their families might need, to the detriment of all of society around them. We have a billionaire space race, when they could be feeding the world or looking to provide global healthcare in their name, and can't be bothered to part with a hundredth of their assets to do good.
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"It's an arms race. Always has been, always will be."
That's the problem. There shouldn't be undesirables, according to the state or to state agents, just like there shouldn't be outlaws.
Excluding a people from the state for any reason justifies terrorism and war without quarter.
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Except, the moderation paradox
In the same way, Facebook is 'spreading' and amplifying [QAnon disinformation]
In the way the USPS distributed Kaczynski's mail bombs. Facebook distributes trillions of banal messages about cats and school kids and shopping encounters amung which disinformation is intermixed and as years of notices about your car's extended warranty have demonstrated there is no simple way to filter them out.
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This smacks of the ALPR controversy.
We don't have an expectation of privacy regarding someone at one point noticing our car in the mall parking lot.
But at the point that someone's watching the parking lot over time and is tracking all the cars that enter or leave and when, that's getting into data levels that interact with the fourth amendment.
Once someone is taking license plate pictures at checkpoints for days and tracking cars as they move through the city, that's following people more than they expect to be followed. We Americans have an expectation we're not being stalked, and stalking is a thing done by malicious actors (whether or not they are government agents).
Is it illegal to track people or their trappings (cars, phones, etc.) to such lengths? Maybe not. But should a government or NGO have that much information on a given person? Probably not. Should such information be admissible in court? Absolutely not. These would qualify as an unreasonable search and would run against the spirit of the Fourth Amendment in the Bill of Rights.
The same thing can be said of monitoring someone's front door for six months. A police doing a drive-by look at the front door is not invasive, but the pattern derived from collecting data over time regarding who leaves and returns is, again, an unreasonable search, and should not be admissible in court.
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What Trump's handlers would have liked
Yes. Countless PR disasters during the Trump a̶d̶m̶i̶n̶i̶s̶t̶r̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ r̶e̶g̶i̶m̶e̶ a̶d̶m̶i̶n̶i̶s̶t̶r̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ r̶e̶g̶i̶m̶e̶ administration came from Trump refusing to stick to the teleprompted remarks.
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Endgame
White Ethnostate Dictatorship with all the underclasses purged (probably into mass graves or up in smoke).
That's my guess. It's what the ones who say it aloud point at.
If this were a Hollywood movie, they'd make the thin-blue-line flag the new flag to show that the US has gone full evil.
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Failing Republican Engineers
It's very similar to how red-state pre-meds end up re-taking high-school biology sans the heavy weigh-ins from the creationism sector.
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Destroyed evidence is incriminating evidence.
For those aligned with BLM and defunding law enforcement this is an incriminating act. By acting to tamper with evidence, it means we can assume the worst that the Minneapolis Police Department is acting with malice against the citizens of Minneapolis, possibly aligned with the goals of the transnational white power movement that governs the police unions.
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"a ton of people wanted certain policy positions"
Trump got elected because a ton of people felt threatened by the growing diversity, and were too attracted to someone who expressed the white power sentiments by expressing the quiet parts loudly and blatantly. Trump wasn't trying to be unsubtle, he just can't help but blurt everything out.
He also got elected because of the Electoral Collage but that's a different problem.
Yes, early in Trump's election when the data wasn't in we were assuming people were voting for the monster to rebel against their hand being forced. No one wanted another neocon, so they voted for the Obvious Nazi.
But that turned out to be a tiny percentage of voters. It turns out most of them just liked being able to use the n-word openly and to suggest we should outright exterminate the underclasses.
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"That's not how physics works"
Just here
Momentum is conserved, which usually results in car damage, but it's not necessarily distributed evenly to the cars.
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Suddenly I have this terrible urge...
...To hunt down every instance in which an officer played music during a police action.
They compel me like a Streisand beach house.
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Misplacing the loot
The assets were taken by agents of the federal government. Wouldn't then the United States of American be responsible for restoring those assets to their rightful owners (or compensating them appropriately)?
Somehow I suspect any legal rulings that might say it isn't would conflict not only with the Fourth Amendment, but also the notion of government by consent. At that point we might as well say we peons and all our stuff are owned by our aristocratic masters.
I've got popcorn, though. This ought to be good.
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