The smartest thing would have been to have hired adequate numbers of staff in the first place so you didn't burn out the few you had through crunch to produce a product that requires major repair from it's community. I'm sure CDPR will kill their passion soon enough with another project where they overpromise and understaff.
Hey, remember when Trump created the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity to 'investigate' voter fraud, appointed a whole bunch of people who've built their careers on claiming election fraud exists, with a couple of democrats to try and make it look like it has some legitimacy? Remember when said panel investigated, found nothing whatsoever, and disbanded rather than issue a report as a court ordered they give democratic members of said commission access to the evidence that they found nothing? No?
There is no problem with widespread voter fraud, people who had every motivation to find something, anything they could point at as evidence could not. On the rare occasions it happens, it's usually done to benefit republican candidates, but they don't mention that when ramming through new voter restrictions designed to cement minority rule, and that's what republicans are, a minority.
150 million americans do not agree with having to bend to your will, they do not support you going on expensive fishing expiditions every time a republican loses a free and fair election in the hope of finding something they can use to justify finding creative ways to make it so votes for democrats don't count. If the right gave a damn about the will of the people, they wouldn't have spent every waking hour since the november elections trying to find ways to block as many voters as possible before 2022, even going as far as giving republican controlled state legislatures new powers to just take over local election boards as they see fit to make more 'audits' inevitable, as Trump and the cloud of parasites crawling all over his bloated, orange frame have proven there's a lot of money to be made from the average republican voter, riling them up, telling them they're being cheated by those other guys then bleeding them dry while they rant and rave... you know, the grift.
Texas lawmakers passed a law that prohibited anyone who boycotts Israel from receiving government contracts, and also tried to use said law to deny people access to disaster relief. Texas Lawmakers are also fine with holocaust denial... Republicans, y'all!
What could something that makes it considerably easier to an unpopular minority party to rule and pass laws against the public interest, something makes it near impossible for any meaningful change or repair to happen in Washington possibly have to do with a government agency that's in desperate need of repair after having all it's powers stripped away? I guess we'll never know.
It's the right wing dream in action, a government agency so massively broken the left and centrists don't trust it to do anything and thanks to legalised bribery, voter suppression and gerrymandering, are highly unlikely to ever have the power needed to fix it.
When the moon hits your eye and you post it online, that's infringement!
Since we've claimed it you see, you can't use it for free, that's infringement!
They'll just file for bankruptcy then move on to the next spectacle as there'll always be a conservative billionaire out there willing to fund their idiocy because they provide a convenient distraction from all the rest of the evil s**t they're up to.
The mainstream press and left wing social media will go 'O ho ho, look at those clowns being clownish' and they'll distract from actual organised attacks on minority voting, getting a hell of a lot more coverage than things like polling stations in African American dominated precincts being relocated 5 miles out of town to places with no busses and no parking by republicans.
And when the owners of these sites finally admit they need Section 230, the frothing lunatics they've been riling up since the Obama admin will turn on them, decrying them as globalists, secret leftists and silicon valley elites. They will be unable to do much of anything to stop them spewing forth the same threats and conspiracies toward them that they've inflicted on all of the right's other enemies.
Who would have thought the leopards would eat their faces?
Where's Koby to tell us that censored ideas are the strongest? Funny how their outrage is nowhere to be seen whenever it's non white, non american, non christians getting booted.
For a few reasons, firstly it's been proven to be a tool that can swing elections as facebook have shown just how effective they can be at radicalising people by continually steering them toward right wing content and conspiracy theory groups. Facebook have also shown how lethal it can be to leftwing and centrist content to have someone like Joel Kaplan in a position of power, blocking all.attempts to fix the system, keeping a thumb on the scale in the favour of right wing Bullpoop while downgrading everything else, and they want that preferential treatment enshrined in law. Secondly, conservatives have been taught that being right wing means the rules don't apply to them, even those they've specifically agreed to follow. Any punishment they face is seen as anti conservative, as Trump and others got away with worse for years so they feel entitled to do the same and they have no recourse when they're told no. Naturally there's a swarm of grifters waiting to profit from their impotent rage, telling them the soulless libertarians and republican donors are biased against conservatives.
I think it's worse than that, abortion bans have been all but achieved in the states where they're a vote winner, with some states down to a single clinic under constant assault, both legislatively and physically. The right leaning supreme court justices will be more than happy to find the next big thing, and they're betting on the fight against tech.
Remember when Twitter built their company on having a community out there providing third party app support and suddenly pulled the plug on that, blocking major features to try and force users to use their ad laden mess of ever changing features and unwelcome suggestions?
I do, so I fully expect any 'open' twitter ecosystem to have a shed load of caveats and suffer the same fate.
Good news, republicans! The top minds of the right are finally going to get their day in court where they can present all the evidence they have for election fraud! It's not like they took baseless claims that originated on 4Chan and Reddit and presented them as fact to try and rile up the base and appease an orange tinted manchild, right?
Or license the trademarks and crests of F.C. United of Manchester, a club formed by fans after the Glazer takeover, and pop them in the premier league instead. They'd help a non league team run by fans and give them the finger at the same time.
It wouldn't be the first time Sports Interactive did something like that, they've beem AFC Wimbledon's sponsors since they formed from the ashes of Wimbledon having their league position sold and moved into another city.
Or, you know, you could actually follow the rules you agreed to when you joined.
This isn't about SJW's, this isn't about censorship, this is about conservatives believing the rules don't apply to them, not the rules of a platform, nor the rules of civil society. You can put a Fuck Biden sign on your lawn, but your neighbour has every right to criticise you for that and kick you off their property when you try to put one up on theirs.
Manchester united have been in crippling debt since their leveraged buyout by American billionaires, they're not able to buy success as easily as they once were as other teams have narrowed the financial gap, fans and governments killed their planned superleague and covid slashed their income in general, so they're on the lookout for every penny of free money they think they can get.
And then many of the people who leaked information to try and damage Clinton would be decried as deep state leftists by the person they helped put in power. He was considerably more corrupt and decidedly unfit for office, but in their mind republicans are generally good for law enforcement as there's always some manufactured crisis thay requires more funding and powers be granted to them, and instead they got targets placed on their backs because they made convenient scapegoats and distractions from the rampant corruption of his regime.
'Hey look, friendly journalist, this guy we killed has been arrested multiple times without being convicted of anything, clearly they're bad 'uns. We wouldn't just harass and ultimately murder someone for being black in the wrong neighborhood abd try to use that to smear them, that would be silly!"
Police officers should not be in charge of taking care of records and evidence, at this point they have proven they can't be trusted with either.
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The smartest thing would have been to have hired adequate numbers of staff in the first place so you didn't burn out the few you had through crunch to produce a product that requires major repair from it's community. I'm sure CDPR will kill their passion soon enough with another project where they overpromise and understaff.
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Re: Glee
Hey, remember when Trump created the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity to 'investigate' voter fraud, appointed a whole bunch of people who've built their careers on claiming election fraud exists, with a couple of democrats to try and make it look like it has some legitimacy? Remember when said panel investigated, found nothing whatsoever, and disbanded rather than issue a report as a court ordered they give democratic members of said commission access to the evidence that they found nothing? No?
There is no problem with widespread voter fraud, people who had every motivation to find something, anything they could point at as evidence could not. On the rare occasions it happens, it's usually done to benefit republican candidates, but they don't mention that when ramming through new voter restrictions designed to cement minority rule, and that's what republicans are, a minority.
150 million americans do not agree with having to bend to your will, they do not support you going on expensive fishing expiditions every time a republican loses a free and fair election in the hope of finding something they can use to justify finding creative ways to make it so votes for democrats don't count. If the right gave a damn about the will of the people, they wouldn't have spent every waking hour since the november elections trying to find ways to block as many voters as possible before 2022, even going as far as giving republican controlled state legislatures new powers to just take over local election boards as they see fit to make more 'audits' inevitable, as Trump and the cloud of parasites crawling all over his bloated, orange frame have proven there's a lot of money to be made from the average republican voter, riling them up, telling them they're being cheated by those other guys then bleeding them dry while they rant and rave... you know, the grift.
On the post: Texas Legislature Says You Can't Teach About Racism In Schools, But Social Media Sites Must Host Holocaust Denialism
Texas lawmakers passed a law that prohibited anyone who boycotts Israel from receiving government contracts, and also tried to use said law to deny people access to disaster relief. Texas Lawmakers are also fine with holocaust denial... Republicans, y'all!
On the post: FCC Bungled Broadband Mapping And Subsidies So Badly, It Got Boxed Out Of Broadband Infrastructure Plan
Re: Re: Re: Re:
What could something that makes it considerably easier to an unpopular minority party to rule and pass laws against the public interest, something makes it near impossible for any meaningful change or repair to happen in Washington possibly have to do with a government agency that's in desperate need of repair after having all it's powers stripped away? I guess we'll never know.
On the post: FCC Bungled Broadband Mapping And Subsidies So Badly, It Got Boxed Out Of Broadband Infrastructure Plan
It's the right wing dream in action, a government agency so massively broken the left and centrists don't trust it to do anything and thanks to legalised bribery, voter suppression and gerrymandering, are highly unlikely to ever have the power needed to fix it.
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Re: With all due respect to Sting…
When the moon hits your eye and you post it online, that's infringement!
Since we've claimed it you see, you can't use it for free, that's infringement!
On the post: 'Historic' FCC Robocall Fine For Burkman, Wohl Could Prove Hollow
They'll just file for bankruptcy then move on to the next spectacle as there'll always be a conservative billionaire out there willing to fund their idiocy because they provide a convenient distraction from all the rest of the evil s**t they're up to.
The mainstream press and left wing social media will go 'O ho ho, look at those clowns being clownish' and they'll distract from actual organised attacks on minority voting, getting a hell of a lot more coverage than things like polling stations in African American dominated precincts being relocated 5 miles out of town to places with no busses and no parking by republicans.
On the post: Trumpist Gettr Social Network Continues To Speed Run Content Moderation Learning Curve: Bans, Then Unbans, Roger Stone
And when the owners of these sites finally admit they need Section 230, the frothing lunatics they've been riling up since the Obama admin will turn on them, decrying them as globalists, secret leftists and silicon valley elites. They will be unable to do much of anything to stop them spewing forth the same threats and conspiracies toward them that they've inflicted on all of the right's other enemies.
Who would have thought the leopards would eat their faces?
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Where's Koby to tell us that censored ideas are the strongest? Funny how their outrage is nowhere to be seen whenever it's non white, non american, non christians getting booted.
On the post: Why Is The Republican Party Obsessed With Social Media?
For a few reasons, firstly it's been proven to be a tool that can swing elections as facebook have shown just how effective they can be at radicalising people by continually steering them toward right wing content and conspiracy theory groups. Facebook have also shown how lethal it can be to leftwing and centrist content to have someone like Joel Kaplan in a position of power, blocking all.attempts to fix the system, keeping a thumb on the scale in the favour of right wing Bullpoop while downgrading everything else, and they want that preferential treatment enshrined in law. Secondly, conservatives have been taught that being right wing means the rules don't apply to them, even those they've specifically agreed to follow. Any punishment they face is seen as anti conservative, as Trump and others got away with worse for years so they feel entitled to do the same and they have no recourse when they're told no. Naturally there's a swarm of grifters waiting to profit from their impotent rage, telling them the soulless libertarians and republican donors are biased against conservatives.
On the post: Why Is The Republican Party Obsessed With Social Media?
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I think it's worse than that, abortion bans have been all but achieved in the states where they're a vote winner, with some states down to a single clinic under constant assault, both legislatively and physically. The right leaning supreme court justices will be more than happy to find the next big thing, and they're betting on the fight against tech.
On the post: Good News: Twitter Announces An Excellent Lead For The Bluesky Decentralized Social Media Protocol Project
Remember when Twitter built their company on having a community out there providing third party app support and suddenly pulled the plug on that, blocking major features to try and force users to use their ad laden mess of ever changing features and unwelcome suggestions?
I do, so I fully expect any 'open' twitter ecosystem to have a shed load of caveats and suffer the same fate.
On the post: Dominion Sues Newsmax, OAN, And The Head Of Overstock.Com For Election-Related Defamation
Good news, republicans! The top minds of the right are finally going to get their day in court where they can present all the evidence they have for election fraud! It's not like they took baseless claims that originated on 4Chan and Reddit and presented them as fact to try and rile up the base and appease an orange tinted manchild, right?
On the post: Bad Faith Politicians Are Using Social Media Suspension To Boost Their Own Profiles
Bad Faith Politicians? Are there any republicans left that are capable of acting in good faith?
On the post: Manchester United Becomes Manchester UFC In 'Football Manager 22' Over Dumb Trademark Spat
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Or license the trademarks and crests of F.C. United of Manchester, a club formed by fans after the Glazer takeover, and pop them in the premier league instead. They'd help a non league team run by fans and give them the finger at the same time.
It wouldn't be the first time Sports Interactive did something like that, they've beem AFC Wimbledon's sponsors since they formed from the ashes of Wimbledon having their league position sold and moved into another city.
On the post: Bad Faith Politicians Are Using Social Media Suspension To Boost Their Own Profiles
Re: Stop Defining, Start Announcing
Or, you know, you could actually follow the rules you agreed to when you joined.
This isn't about SJW's, this isn't about censorship, this is about conservatives believing the rules don't apply to them, not the rules of a platform, nor the rules of civil society. You can put a Fuck Biden sign on your lawn, but your neighbour has every right to criticise you for that and kick you off their property when you try to put one up on theirs.
On the post: Manchester United Becomes Manchester UFC In 'Football Manager 22' Over Dumb Trademark Spat
Manchester united have been in crippling debt since their leveraged buyout by American billionaires, they're not able to buy success as easily as they once were as other teams have narrowed the financial gap, fans and governments killed their planned superleague and covid slashed their income in general, so they're on the lookout for every penny of free money they think they can get.
On the post: Louisiana & Alabama Attorneys General Set Up Silly Hotline To Report 'Social Media Censorship' They Can't Do Anything About
1-800-WHINERS
On the post: Oversight Unable To Discover Which FBI Agents Leaked Clinton Investigation Info Because Goddamn Everyone Was Leaking Stuff
And then many of the people who leaked information to try and damage Clinton would be decried as deep state leftists by the person they helped put in power. He was considerably more corrupt and decidedly unfit for office, but in their mind republicans are generally good for law enforcement as there's always some manufactured crisis thay requires more funding and powers be granted to them, and instead they got targets placed on their backs because they made convenient scapegoats and distractions from the rampant corruption of his regime.
You reap what you sow, folks.
On the post: NYPD Sued Over Its Illegal Use Of Sealed Arrest Records
'Hey look, friendly journalist, this guy we killed has been arrested multiple times without being convicted of anything, clearly they're bad 'uns. We wouldn't just harass and ultimately murder someone for being black in the wrong neighborhood abd try to use that to smear them, that would be silly!"
Police officers should not be in charge of taking care of records and evidence, at this point they have proven they can't be trusted with either.
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