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  1. 1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Critics of Ackerman are being banned on Twitter.

    Free speech absolutism isn’t nearly as absolute as I thought it would be. 

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  2. 15 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

    We have a deposition of a person saying he likes them young.

    This keeps getting mentioned on these threads and the fact that it is from deposition testimony—serious lawyer stuff!—is invoked to lend it gravitas. But if you’re going to imply that a claim is credible because it came up in a certain formal legal context, you can’t ignore how the legal system treats that context. 

    Yes, some guy testified under oath in a deposition that Jeffrey Epstein told him that Bill Clinton likes young women. But in the legal system, that testimony is absolutely worthless and would be rightly excluded from any trial.

    The technical reason is that it’s hearsay. Basically, it’s someone passing off a rumor as evidence of the rumor’s truth. And the American legal system assigns zero weight to hearsay testimony because it’s so unreliable and easy to fabricate. It’s possible this guy’s lying, of course, but fundamentally he’s just passing off a rumor he heard from someone else, about which has no personal knowledge that would allow him to confirm or deny its truth. 

    So maybe there’s some fire to this smoke and notorious poon hound Bill Clinton turns out to be an even bigger creep than we all assumed he was. Could be. But the deposition testimony that folks keep citing is completely worthless. It’s just a game of telephone, wrapped up with a fancy courtroom bow on it. 

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  3. 14 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

    Hayden said he was going to start suspending people that didn't post links or evidence

    …so you posted hearsay. And you clearly don’t recognize the disconnect. 

  4. 8 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

    Why are you being triggered and whining on two threads is a better question?

    I’m not triggered. I don’t give a shit about Clinton one way or the other. I just call out stupid shit when I see it and, thanks to your inane decision to post the same stupid shit to two separate threads, I had the opportunity to point and laugh at you in #boththreads

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  5. 24 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

    Deposition materials with more content and context. Too much shit for anyone to read through. Filtering out the little nuggets should take some time. But some are easier than others to search. Shocking news, I know. 

     

     

    What a shocking and novel revelation that, for the first time ever, some guy hypothesized that Bill Clinton is a perv. 

  6. 1 minute ago, hobbes2702 said:

    I mean this is a fucking joke. The worst officiated league in professional sports is having a masterclass today.

    To be fair: he got the penalty call correct (unlike the missed handball against Arsenal) and two goals were correctly called offside. 

  7. 16 hours ago, Jatrain said:

    Is Israel’s endgame in this coming into focus?

    (Israeli Finance Minister) Smotrich then suggested that the removal of around 90 percent of Gaza's residents would help achieve his goal. "If there are 100,000 or 200,000 Arabs in Gaza and not two million, the whole discourse about the day after will be different," he said…..

    Smotrich's comments are the latest in a growing list of troubling remarks by Israeli lawmakers to seemingly support expelling Gazans en masse out of the Strip in order to ensure Israel's security after the war.

    Towards the end of S.C Gwynne’s mesmerizing "Empire of the Summer Moon," Quanah Parker explains to a friend named Miller how “the white man had pushed the Indian off the land.” Quanah, a Comanche warrior who had surrendered to the U.S. government in 1875, directs Miller to sit on a cottonwood log. "Quanah sat down close to him and said 'Move over.' Miller moved. Parker moved with him, and again sat down close to him. ‘Move over,’ he repeated. This continued until Miller had fallen off the log. 'Like that,' said Quanah."

  8. 15 hours ago, statsman said:

    Not at all. 
    Let’s talk through it. 
    The U.S. wants to see as few Palestinians killed as possible, while supporting Israel’s defense. 
    Israel wants to kill as few Palestinians as possible (I believe, and their actions support this belief), while destroying Hamas. 
    Iran is willing to spend every Palestinian life in support of its fight against Israel, and the U.S.

    Hamas is willing to use Palestinian civilians as human shields as it pursues its fight to kill Jews. 
     
    Everyone is appealing to Israel and the U.S. for a ceasefire, and not Hamas and Iran, because everyone sees them as the best bet to stop fighting out of concern for loss of innocent life. Am I wrong?

    Oh okay. So you are writing satire, just on accident. 

  9. 18 minutes ago, statsman said:

    I think it’s hard to argue against the idea that, of those groups, Israel and the U.S. are the most committed to the well being of the Palestinian civilians. 

    You’re a satire account, right? 

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