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  1. It's extremely high there. I have been pestering a bunch of the Ukraine/Russia folks I follow to move to BlueSky, and some have, but the problem is that a lot of them have audiences that don't care about/know about BlueSky or don't care about Musk or bots. Ironic because that area keeps getting flooded with Russian and African bots/trolls given the topics at hand.
  2. It's cheap to pay somebody a thousand bucks (or even less) and have a thousand bots try and drown out a conversation about something. If you are the agent of an athlete or coach or movie star or whatever, you probably have contacts with one or more companies with bot factories that can crank out what's akin to damage control by drowning out certain topics or conversations. Doesn't mean it works all the time - college football is firmly entrenched in twitter, and the bots aren't going to drown out the biggest news of the day, which is why we kept seeing those videos of Ole Miss fans swearing at and flipping off Kiffin and Co.
  3. From The Hill: The Trump administration has asserted that the U.S. is in a “non-international armed conflict” (NIAC) with “designated terrorist organizations,” as backed up by a classified opinion authored by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, which argues that because U.S. troops participating in the strikes are taking orders that are in line with the laws of war, they cannot be prosecuted. “But ‘NIAC’ is a legal term of art which requires certain facts that are not met here,” said Sarah Harrison, a senior analyst at the International Crisis Group. “That means the law of war is not applicable and thus these are not war crimes, but rather murders or extrajudicial killings.” Harrison, who is a former associate general counsel at the Department of Defense (DOD), argued what is “distinctly disturbing” about the Sept. 2 strikes is that even with the U.S. not being engaged in a war with drug traffickers, the DOD is “operating under the assumption” that it is and is “claiming it is applying the law of war.” “But every officer and enlisted is trained to know that it is a textbook war crime to execute individuals who are ‘hors de combat’ or ‘out of the fight,’” Harrison told The Hill on Monday. “That no one down the chain of command refused this patently illegal order is shocking and sheds more light on the breakdown of the rule of law within DOD under the leadership of Secretary Hegseth.” ————— Since they mentioned Navy SEALS, I would not be surprised if the admiral gave the team the orders directly, so there isn’t much of a chain of command. Whiskey Pete does appear to be looking for a scapegoat so he knows how serious this is.
  4. Gotta hurry and get those tariff rebate checks out there. If the Rs fuck up healthcare which they are trying, he may want to get the checks out there before January 1st.
  5. You know she spent a lot of time with military lawyers today on what she could and could not say.
  6. Should have posted this here instead of in the “very cool” thread. I’ve never flown on one of these, but have flown on a Chinook (which I know is larger) and it just fucking amazes me. I know these pilots were doing this dozens of times a day, but still, that flare…..
  7. Not all of it.
  8. Because he served his country.
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