They're going to tip bags of cash onto an altar to baphomet and make love atop it... Pay their legal fees, what else would they use money awarded to pay their legal fees for?
They clearly missed the eleventh commandment; Thou shall not expect the christian right to display the generosity and kindness they pretend to have when condemning others and foot the bill when their attempts to force their religion on others fail.
Good. Handing over user information for such a blatant fishing expedition would kill them. It'd open up the doors for everyone who wanted to silence critics online, from petty politicians to oppressive regimes... Well, ones even more oppressive than the one Nunes is a lackey for.
Increased scrutiny of mentally ill people? Oh good, they're going to open more C-span channels to show what the people who think that making schools resemble prisons and harassing minorities is somehow going to prevent gun crime are up to 24/7.
Hey, they are competing, just in the race to be the worst telecoms company in North America. It's a hell of a challenge to be the worst in a country with the likes of Comcast and Verizon, but I believe in them.
'Well, eating a spoonful of ratpoison didn't kill me instantly, so clearly it's not poisonous and I should use it to sweeten my coffee.'
The true extent of the damage done by repealing Net Neutrality won't be felt for years to come, once companies like Comcast have bought enough politicians to make sure there's no possible way it can be reinstated.
The actions of a man who knows he's probably not getting re-elected and wants to raise his profile enough to get a fox news gig by going after Trump's enemies, hoping to file suits as fishing expeditions in the hopes of finding something in discovery that he can build a media career out of.
At this point it's fairy safe to say the Republican answers to gun control aren't guided by research, the opinions of voters or common sense, they're just pulling words out of Mitch McConnell's ushanka. the day after tragedy strikes and trying to cobble together something that sounds like a policy that will play on fox news for a day or two.
As much as I hate frivolous, nuisance lawsuits, I really hope Zircon and Nylon are dumb enough to go through with this one as the discovery process would make so much of the inner workings of the right wing media grift machine a matter of public record.
He's right you know, history is littered with totalitarian regimes that began with obscure college professors saying mean things about newspaper opinion writers.
It's like the famed poem says:
'First they said mean things about the opinion columnists, and I did not speak out because I don't have the NYT to use as a platform for my personal grievances...'
Even with this tiny, caveat laden concession, I'm sure in two or three years time someone will discover they've added a 'fix' to iOS to make third party repaired phones run worse or shorten their lifespans. They don't want anything to get in the way of their control of everything and 'if I break, buy a new one!' being the norm, no matter what laws may say.
Re: We've got Tech Companies bragging about rigging elections...
Yes, Republicans million/billionaires never, ever apply pressure to their workers to try and pressure them into voting according to their will, threatening layoffs should a democrat take power or a law they dislike like not be overturned. People on the right certainly haven't weaponised political discrimination and aren't pushing to erode what little barriers remain between them being able to fire people for their political/religions beliefs... It's all that goshdarn Google.
If the right projected any harder, they'd burn their likenesses into the moon.
Hawley is right, they should do everything like companies in his state, that hotbed of innovation, Missouri. They could switch to producing soybeans as it's going great for the state of Missouri under republican policies.
Well, he's running his own business from the Whitehouse without any repercussions, so it should come as a surprise to no-one he thinks he's entitled to run all American businesses from there.
It can't be Republican policies are unpopular and the party only propped up by gerrymandering and flyover states occupied by 20 people and a mule, Democrats winning the popular vote has to be fraud! It has to be people being willing to risk prosecution or deportation to do something designed to be as inconvenient and unrewarding as possible.
Cue people linking to 'proof' of voter fraud, which is 55 and a half minutes into a two hour long youtube video of someone who never looks into the camera, citing studies that were discredited in the 1950s, speaking as fast as possible to make it hard for people to debate them.
Conservatives don't want fairness, they want platforms to crack down and make left wing voices harder to find. They won't be happy until the internet resembles AM talk radio.
It's the projection they do oh so well, everything they accuse 'the left' of, is the things they either want to do to their enemies, or are actively doing behind the scenes.
Whenever a right wing government cracks down on immigration, they'll try and achieve that by any means necessary, even if it means inventing new ways to remove people who have every right to be there. Numbers over humanity, and if the problem isn't actually big enough to grab headlines, make it one by adding innocent people to the stats as they'll have little chance of getting any justice once they're deported.
America on the other hand just want what's in everyone's best interests, the government has no interest in undermining democracy or putting a thumb on the scales for it's corporations, just ask the peoples of Latin America. I'd start with the generations who lived through the multiple American backed far right regimes... Well, the ones who weren't just dragged off and murdered.
The push to kill Huawei outside of china is protectionism, not the defense of democracy. Trump loves despots and corrupt regimes as long as they buy American and/or say nice things in fancy letters.
'We've done the absolute bare minimum to make it look like we're doing something after a tragedy and nothing's changed. Better keep on doing nothing as the problem festers, there's no way inaction will make a bad situation get worse.'
On the post: New Mexico City Starts Crowdfunding Effort To Pay For Its Stupid Defense Of Constitutional Violations
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They're going to tip bags of cash onto an altar to baphomet and make love atop it... Pay their legal fees, what else would they use money awarded to pay their legal fees for?
On the post: New Mexico City Starts Crowdfunding Effort To Pay For Its Stupid Defense Of Constitutional Violations
They clearly missed the eleventh commandment; Thou shall not expect the christian right to display the generosity and kindness they pretend to have when condemning others and foot the bill when their attempts to force their religion on others fail.
On the post: Twitter Stands Up For Devin Nunes' Parody Accounts: Won't Reveal Who's Behind Them
Good. Handing over user information for such a blatant fishing expedition would kill them. It'd open up the doors for everyone who wanted to silence critics online, from petty politicians to oppressive regimes... Well, ones even more oppressive than the one Nunes is a lackey for.
On the post: White House Pushing Proposal That Would Subject Mentally Ill People To Increased Surveillance
Increased scrutiny of mentally ill people? Oh good, they're going to open more C-span channels to show what the people who think that making schools resemble prisons and harassing minorities is somehow going to prevent gun crime are up to 24/7.
On the post: Charter Spectrum Once Again 'Competes' By... Raising Prices
Hey, they are competing, just in the race to be the worst telecoms company in North America. It's a hell of a challenge to be the worst in a country with the likes of Comcast and Verizon, but I believe in them.
On the post: One More Time: Just Because The Internet Didn't Explode Doesn't Mean Killing Net Neutrality Was A Great Idea
'Well, eating a spoonful of ratpoison didn't kill me instantly, so clearly it's not poisonous and I should use it to sweeten my coffee.'
The true extent of the damage done by repealing Net Neutrality won't be felt for years to come, once companies like Comcast have bought enough politicians to make sure there's no possible way it can be reinstated.
On the post: Devin Nunes Drops One Ridiculous Lawsuit, Only To File Another One
The actions of a man who knows he's probably not getting re-elected and wants to raise his profile enough to get a fox news gig by going after Trump's enemies, hoping to file suits as fishing expeditions in the hopes of finding something in discovery that he can build a media career out of.
On the post: White House Now Thinks Harvesting Fitness Tracker Data Could Stop The Next Mass Shooting
At this point it's fairy safe to say the Republican answers to gun control aren't guided by research, the opinions of voters or common sense, they're just pulling words out of Mitch McConnell's ushanka. the day after tragedy strikes and trying to cobble together something that sounds like a policy that will play on fox news for a day or two.
The words 'Gun' and 'Control' aren't in said hat.
On the post: Pro Tip: Don't Send A Completely Bogus Defamation Threat To A Website That Employs A Former ACLU Badass
As much as I hate frivolous, nuisance lawsuits, I really hope Zircon and Nylon are dumb enough to go through with this one as the discovery process would make so much of the inner workings of the right wing media grift machine a matter of public record.
On the post: Bedbug Privilege: Bret Stephens Uses His NY Times Column To Suggest Jokingly Comparing Him To A Bedbug Is Prelude To Ethnic Genocide
He's right you know, history is littered with totalitarian regimes that began with obscure college professors saying mean things about newspaper opinion writers.
It's like the famed poem says:
'First they said mean things about the opinion columnists, and I did not speak out because I don't have the NYT to use as a platform for my personal grievances...'
On the post: Pressured By 'Right To Repair' Movement, Apple Will Sell Parts To Independent Repair Shops
Even with this tiny, caveat laden concession, I'm sure in two or three years time someone will discover they've added a 'fix' to iOS to make third party repaired phones run worse or shorten their lifespans. They don't want anything to get in the way of their control of everything and 'if I break, buy a new one!' being the norm, no matter what laws may say.
On the post: Josh Hawley Continues To Pretend That Silicon Valley Isn't Innovative
Re: We've got Tech Companies bragging about rigging elections...
Yes, Republicans million/billionaires never, ever apply pressure to their workers to try and pressure them into voting according to their will, threatening layoffs should a democrat take power or a law they dislike like not be overturned. People on the right certainly haven't weaponised political discrimination and aren't pushing to erode what little barriers remain between them being able to fire people for their political/religions beliefs... It's all that goshdarn Google.
If the right projected any harder, they'd burn their likenesses into the moon.
On the post: Josh Hawley Continues To Pretend That Silicon Valley Isn't Innovative
Hawley is right, they should do everything like companies in his state, that hotbed of innovation, Missouri. They could switch to producing soybeans as it's going great for the state of Missouri under republican policies.
On the post: 'Baby Shark', Derived From A Public Domain Folk Song, Now The Subject Of A Copyright Dispute
All things considered, you'd think they'd be locked in a legal battle not to get credit for that song.
Nobody involved has any reason to be proud of what they've done.
On the post: Trump Decides The State Should Run US Businesses, Orders Them To Stop Doing Business With China
Trump Decides The State Should Run US Businesses
Well, he's running his own business from the Whitehouse without any repercussions, so it should come as a surprise to no-one he thinks he's entitled to run all American businesses from there.
On the post: Federal Elections Committee Chair Is Sick Of Donald Trump's Bullshit: Put Up Or Shut Up About Voter Fraud
It can't be Republican policies are unpopular and the party only propped up by gerrymandering and flyover states occupied by 20 people and a mule, Democrats winning the popular vote has to be fraud! It has to be people being willing to risk prosecution or deportation to do something designed to be as inconvenient and unrewarding as possible.
Cue people linking to 'proof' of voter fraud, which is 55 and a half minutes into a two hour long youtube video of someone who never looks into the camera, citing studies that were discredited in the 1950s, speaking as fast as possible to make it hard for people to debate them.
On the post: Facebook's Weird Pointless Auditless Audit Of Political Bias On Its Platform
Conservatives don't want fairness, they want platforms to crack down and make left wing voices harder to find. They won't be happy until the internet resembles AM talk radio.
It's the projection they do oh so well, everything they accuse 'the left' of, is the things they either want to do to their enemies, or are actively doing behind the scenes.
On the post: Lawsuit Filed By Victims Of ICE's Fake College Sting Revived By Appeals Court
Whenever a right wing government cracks down on immigration, they'll try and achieve that by any means necessary, even if it means inventing new ways to remove people who have every right to be there. Numbers over humanity, and if the problem isn't actually big enough to grab headlines, make it one by adding innocent people to the stats as they'll have little chance of getting any justice once they're deported.
On the post: Huawei Busted Helping African Governments Spy On The Press, Political Opponents
Re: you have been warned
America on the other hand just want what's in everyone's best interests, the government has no interest in undermining democracy or putting a thumb on the scales for it's corporations, just ask the peoples of Latin America. I'd start with the generations who lived through the multiple American backed far right regimes... Well, the ones who weren't just dragged off and murdered.
The push to kill Huawei outside of china is protectionism, not the defense of democracy. Trump loves despots and corrupt regimes as long as they buy American and/or say nice things in fancy letters.
On the post: Pushing For Facebook, YouTube And Twitter To Ban Hate Speech Won't Stop It From Migrating Elsewhere
Re: Re:
'We've done the absolute bare minimum to make it look like we're doing something after a tragedy and nothing's changed. Better keep on doing nothing as the problem festers, there's no way inaction will make a bad situation get worse.'
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