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GW Hayduke

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  1. 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?
  2. 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.
  3. Why do you think the scanning of your icloud pics for evidence of pedophilia as sacrificing all rights to privacy?
  4. 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?
  5. You may want to reflect on why you hold this opinion. Many people share this opinion due to decades of right-wing media propaganda exposure.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. Yeah. The left aren't immune from regurgitating dumb twitter takes. Ideally, we on the left would be less susceptible to dumb twitter takes.
  9. 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
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. Have you ever heard of Hunter Biden?
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. In memory of McAfee, I found this debate about government licenses both entertaining and sad. Oddly, Gary Johnson comes in with the common sense.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. The point is your inability to comprehend what progun propaganda puts in front of you and your inability to critically evaluate. It is the same point with your wild Fauci conspiracies. Someone told you "the CDC said 500,000 to 3 million events of defensive gun uses!!!!" Yeah, no. Not even close. It came from a dude's fucking book.
  19. No, the CDC study does not affirm millions of uses each year. You are are a literal moron who does not understand what you are sharing with others. The CDC study presented the findings from a range of studies. Your data comes from one of those studies. That particular study was published in 2001 by Gary Kleck. That citation is: Kleck, G. 2001a. The frequency of defensive gun use: Evidence and disinformation. In Armed: New Perspectives on Gun Control, edited by G. Kleck and D. B. Kates. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. Pp. 213-284. So, the CDC does not affirm jack shit. Nothing you have shared is "according to the CDC." Kleck in 2001 provides your hopeful affirmation. Go to school and learn how to understand what the fuck you read before sharing with others. Dumb ass.
  20. This is a lie. That is not according to the CDC. The CDC conducted a study and presented the range of findings related to firearms as a starting off point to direct future research. https://www.nap.edu/read/18319/chapter/3 As is the case with right wing propaganda, they misuse and misunderstand sourced information. That is one of the underlying reasons your side is often viewed as clowns. For other non-clowns, the discussion related to defensive uses:
  21. I get it. You are only for expanded background checks once the system is perfect. I've already clowned on that enough. Even though the progun propaganda tells you accept dumb positions, you don't have to parrot.
  22. Yes. Being against expanding background checks is clownish. Even more so, when your reason is because the existing system isn't perfect. The only thing I can do is point out to you that your brain is melted and your position is dumb. I know the progun propaganda tells you to be against universal background checks and they give you reasons, but when those reasons are dumb, you need to be able to stop parroting.
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