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GW Hayduke

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  1. 1 hour ago, BabaYaga said:
    1 hour ago, BabaYaga said:

    Once we left.  Read it again.  Once.  We.  Left.  

    Not before.  Not during.  It was effectively a cease fire.  This isn't complicated.  The Taliban broke that cease fire.   

    Which is the whole fucking point.  JFC.  We made public overtures, augured in on a symbolic date, relied on faulty intel to justify it, then when shit hit the fan, were effectively painted into a corner because we refused to pivot or make changes as we saw things dissolving before our eyes.  

     

    Bullshit.  Leaving is the correct thing to do.  Stranding thousands of western civilians and abandoning billions in US hardware and sensitive com devices is fucking not.  Identifying the ways and means to prioritize western civilians stranded seems pretty fucking obvious.  As is having a contingency if/when the intel reports of the ineffectiveness of the ANA comes to bear - as it did.  

    Hahaha. Why is it Baby Yaga is always the biggest clown in these threads?  He states a position.  When asked to show evidence to support that position, he provides evidence that doesn’t support the position.   Others provide evidence countering Baby Yaga’s position. Baby Yaga doubles down with evidence that doesn’t support his position. Rinse and repeat. 
    make up clowns GIF by Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey

     

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  2. 13 minutes ago, MaybeACoordinator said:
    2 hours ago, GW Hayduke said:

     

    Yes, dumbass, I used hyperbole to emphasize the following point: is such a dangerous cession of privacy justified by the threat to society posed by the existence of child porn?

    It is only a “dangerous cessation of privacy” when using hyperbole, extremism, exaggeration and slippery slope. 
     

    16 minutes ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

     

    Like, say your ex got her little hacker nephew to fill your cloud with child porn. Or maybe some just ends up in there by mistake..

    I get it. Tell us again that you aren’t a pedophile.  You aren’t a pedophile, but you are concerned that there may be some mistakenly on your iCloud account?

  3. Just now, El Diablo said:

    sometimes people use hyperbole to make a point. It's subtle in its extremism, ironic almost but a useful literary tool. You seem to be hammering at a point that no one took literally. 

    Sometimes people use hyperbole, extremism, and exaggeration to make shitty points such as folks on here equating the topic to home searches by cops, vehicle searches by cops, Chinese facial recognition monitoring, or auto mechanic searches.   I'm actually most shocked that folks have been able to freely keep their child porn stored on the icloud and have seemingly used icloud to transmit between parties.  Like, how the fuck have we gone this far without addressing it? 

  4. 1 minute ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

    I don’t have any illegal items in my house so I should be cool if the cops come in and look around while I’m not home right?

    That would be the sacrifice of all privacy.  We have the 4th amendment which protects against unreasonable search and seizure by the government.  The subject of this thread is about the scanning of icloud pics for pedophilia.  How is that the sacrifice of all privacy? That is a question I posed to MaybeACoordinator. Clearly it isn't.  There is clearly use of hyperbole and exaggeration in expressing the consequences of this topic.  I'm am pointing out the hyperbole through rhetorical questions.  

    8 minutes ago, Doc Reeves said:


    the mechanic wouldn’t need a warrant to see your crime while this practice by a mega company seems to be skirting our civil rights. 

    “Noble causes” and “safety” are always the excuses given when the government want to limit a citizens rights. Additionally, giving up your rights rarely every actually help the problem. China still has a ton of crime and even with their facial recognition software, monitoring, etc they have an incredible (and hidden) problem with insane serial killers. 

     

    The mechanic doesn't need a warrant, just like Apple doesn't need a warrant.  My point is that this is not the "complete loss of all privacy" as presented by some of the smooth brain folks like MaybeACoordinator. 

  5. 2 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    Yes. It's basically federal policing being conducted by a technology company. Would you be cool if the mechanic/dealership you took your car to thoroughly searched your car as a part of working on it and reported any illegal or suspicious items to the authorities? 

    Why this doesn't alarm some of you amazes me but I know what site I'm on. 

    If there was a child bound in the trunk of my car, then I would expect the mechanic to notify the authorities.

    I don't have illegal or suspicious items in my car, just like I don't have child porn stored on my phone.

    So again, why do folks feel like the scanning of icloud pics for pedophilia to be the sacrifice of all privacy?

  6. 8 minutes ago, BigHorn'13 said:

    Probably because it's being conducted in the same dragnet fashion as domestic wiretapping via patriot act? It's not that you have anything to hide. It's that you don't want just anyone being able to access any personal shit. 

    Are folks under the impression this is going to allow me to look at your personal files? Is that why some feel this is giving up all of their personal privacy?

    This isn’t the pasting of personal files onto the internet for anyone to access. This won’t allow just anyone to access your personal shit.  This is an algorithm scanning data for evidence of illegal images, then Apple reviewing those images, and giving suspect images to authorities.  

  7. On 7/17/2021 at 9:19 PM, dcar00 said:

    like yeah right I know....Russian Collusion 

    Are you referring to Trump’s campaign manager providing internal polling data to a russian operative, Russia operating troll farms to sway US opinions using social media, trump asking Russia to find Hillary’s emails, Russia hacking DNC emails, Trump’s advisor collaborating with Wikileaks on the timing of the public release or Russian hacked emails, or the meeting at trump tower between three senior members of Trump’s campaign and a Russian attorney to get documents to incriminate hillary?  

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  8. 31 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

    Kamala has had a history of staffers leaking their complaints to the press. It's not ideal. I understand why you'd think it's overblown, but you shouldn't put your head in the sand either. 

    It isn't putting my head in the sand by acknowledging the article was just he said, she said, unsubstantiated rumors that could written about any politician.  I mean there was zero substance.  Literally, nothing of substance happened.  It is just unnamed people saying things. This is like middle school politics. 

  9. 1 hour ago, Hank Kingsley said:

    Yeah, it's Politico, and yeah, I'm pretty sure Kamala gets criticism that a man in her position wouldn't have to deal with. 

    But this is the second time she's had a real messy team behind her (there was a long article about problems with her presidential campaign and the results kind of proved it) and it's a legitimate red flag. 

    She should not be the Dem presidential candidate in waiting. Or at the very least, it should not be handed to her at this very moment. I don't have confidence in her organizational or political skills to handle the onslaught coming in 2024 or 2028. 

     

     

    That article was lame. Typical politico. This is not the "second time she's had a real messy team behind her" or a "legitimate red flag."  This is a bunch of he said, she said, unsubstantiated rumors. A similar article could be written about any politician in office.  Anyone who factors this article into their decision making process concerning support for a presidential candidate, should take a pause.  

  10. 28 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    Twitter hot takes against Democrats get more clicks than hot takes against the GOP.   The very online left is always ready and willing to skewer Democrats for not going too far, too fast or too hard in the paint. 

    Plus this shit usually follows with some sort of grifty fundraising because "the corporatist, pro police state Biden admin is labeling me a domestic terrorist because I won't conform to the DNC's corporate belief system and I need your help!" or some shit. 

    Yeah. The left aren't immune from regurgitating dumb twitter takes.  Ideally, we on the left would be less susceptible to dumb twitter takes.  

  11. 7 hours ago, lmao said:

    We already have laws on the books & bloated law enforcement. No need to increase the survelliance state & loosley redefine what a domestic terrorist is. If Trump was still in office I assume there would be a lot more mainstream scrutiny of this. 

    And none of that warrants the fact the tweet you shared was dumb.  Below is the report the dumb tweet references.  The report simply describes threats and makes judgments on which groups pose greater risks. It is a short read.  If you want to share or evaluate the idea that we need less law enforcement or that we need less online monitoring for future violence, this report or a dumb fallacious tweet doesn't help with that. 

    https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/UnclassSummaryofDVEAssessment-17MAR21.pdf

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  12. 58 minutes ago, lmao said:

    Do you support the Patriot Act?

    Irrelevant question.

    There are various groups of violent extremists. Some are motivated by religion. Some by racial supremacy. Some by economic ideals.  What they all have in common is violence. 
     

    Biden’s DOJ is not saying all anti-capitalists are violent extremists.  It is saying that some violent extremists oppose capitalism. It should be obvious to most folks. The tweet you shared was a dumb tweet. 

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  13. 19 minutes ago, babysdaddy said:

    Just so I'm clear here, D and R senators got in front of a microphone together yesterday and said we have a deal on infrastructure with Biden saying "they gave me their word and that's good enough for me". 

    Then after that press conference Pelosi and Biden both say versions of 'the bipartisan bill that was agreed to won't get passed unless it is done in tandem with a reconciliation bill' even though that was apparently not discussed during negotiations.   What was the point of any negotiation if that was going to be the ultimate position?  Why even ask for a single drop of R support if you were going to do a reconciliation bill regardless? I assume the point of the charade was to put pressure on Manachin and KS but who knows.  

    One idea is the GOP and their constituents (corporations, oligarchs, investors, rural states) may have valuable input on hard infrastructure.  With that input, the bill could be better. 

    Also since this is politics, we are dealing with perceptions.  Biden has positioned himself in the middle - a guy that can work with both sides.  Having a bipartisan deal feeds that perception.  If the GOP want to slap his hand now, that is fine.  It feeds the perception that they aren't serious about governing, even when it comes to popular issues.  

  14. 1 minute ago, Sawbonz said:

    Very dangerous attitude to have blaming a family member for the sins of another. Do you have any actual evidence he is a risk, or are you just going to line families up against the wall when your civil war starts?

    Have you ever heard of Hunter Biden?

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  15. After the GOP's overperformance in the 2020 election, everyone knew Biden wasn't going to be able to pass much of his agenda. Had the Dems been the ones who overperformed and had the stars aligned, we would be seeing huge structural changes to our democracy (For the People Act, DC and PR statehood, etc. etc.). However, no one should be the least bit shocked at what is currently going on in the Senate. This was all apparent immediately after the election.  Losing Maine, NC, and Iowa were big.  Dems even had a puncher's chance in Montana. It sucks. Elections have consequences. 

    2020 was about removing the clown and building a big enough lead in the Senate to be able to ram through For the People Act and increase the number of senators.  We failed at the second part.  2022 gives us another opportunity.  

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  16. 1 minute ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

    Speaking of funding and elections, this is a primer for what is occurring:

    Worthwhile thread by Gertz and commentary by Litman. Click on the tweet for a longer thread.

     

    Yep. And those same pictures were at the top of the fox news website yesterday.  There are millions of Americans caught inside these manufactured information bubbles.  They are fed the same story from cable news, right-wing talk radio, twitter heads, their facebook feed, and their trusted news websites.  Propaganda works.  There is an alternative reality within a large part of the US.

     

     

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  17. If we all think about the server, maybe we can finally move past the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax. Maybe we can all forget what the Mueller report established. 

     

      

      

      

     

    • Mueller report confirmed that Trump campaign chairman and deputy chairman Manafort and Gates were sharing internal polling data with an operative who Gates had thought was a Russian spy.
     • The Mueller report confirmed that Trump campaign manager and convicted felon Paul Manafort offered to give private briefings during the campaign to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.
     • Following Trump's public call for Russia to find Clinton's missing emails he privately directed former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn to find them.
     • The Mueller report confirmed that foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos attempted to arrange meetings between Putin and Trump and that the President approved of Papadopoulos's work.
     • The report also confirmed that Trump campaign surrogates met with Russians in Trump Tower soliciting damaging information on their political opponent. The report goes on to mention that Trump surrogates who attended the meeting weren't charged with violating campaign finance law because there wasn’t admissible evidence to show that Trump surrogates knew that what they were doing was illegal.
     • The report confirmed Russia's extensive election interference.
     • Over the course of the investigation we learned that a Trump campaign adviser was directed to find out about future DNC leaks. Roger Stone was in contact with Wikileaks and the Russian hackers known as Guciffer 2.0 and is currently on trail.
     • Over the course of the investigation we learned that the President's long time personal attorney and convicted felon Michael Cohen lied to Congress about the Trump Organization pursuing a lucrative hotel project in Moscow during the 2016 election.

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  18. 1 minute ago, BabaYaga said:

    You are a broken fucking record.  Additional source material put the number lower.  What you can't or won't acknowledge is even at the lowest number:  100,000, that is a fuck ton of self-defense instances.  And those or the ones we know about.  

    I'll be a broken record, until you start understanding the information you read and stop presenting lies and misinformation.  That will likely require you removing the propaganda from your information bubble.  

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