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Datamancer 3 points ago +3 / -0

No, we must shame them until they simply quit voting. They must be reminded, as often as required, that they are too dumb to be allowed to make decisions. That they lack the necessary intellectual rigor to secure liberty. That they are better off just staying home.

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Datamancer 1 point ago +1 / -0

Ask for $100,000 to fight arbitrary and capricious government overreach on gun control.

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Datamancer 4 points ago +4 / -0

Cross examination should be interesting.

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Datamancer 3 points ago +3 / -0

Why do they consider him to be a messiah? What has he done that aligns him with the descriptions of the messiah in the Jewish books? What is he supposed to do?

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Datamancer 1 point ago +1 / -0

Nah, I was going to say that it worked great ... in NAZI Germany, the USSR, Cuba and everywhere else that had the goal of exterminating non-compliant populations.

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Datamancer 1 point ago +1 / -0

Not sure, but if the prosecution's case is that the knee on the neck was the proximate cause of death then a video showing the knee was not on the neck is problematic.

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Datamancer 1 point ago +1 / -0

I thought the knee on shoulder was pretty exculpatory.

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Datamancer 2 points ago +2 / -0

The idiot may have just outed how fast our hyper sonic recon planes and strike assets can fly. He needs his security clearance yanked.

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Datamancer 1 point ago +1 / -0

That was the plan all along. The prosecution had the the pictures and the defense had the pictures, but instead of going on TV and telling the truth the State chose to lie and the defense chose to remain silent. Jerks. The prosecution wanted to play tough and show that they were going to stick up for the community by going after a police officer and the defense wanted the prosecution to overcharge so that when it came for jury instructions, the charge sheet couldn't be squared with the evidence presented. Dicks all around. Country burned and people died while the teams postured.

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Datamancer 2 points ago +2 / -0

No worries mate, you should see the stuff American taxpayers fund. If our money went to useful research, we would live to 1000 and have FTL drive. But no, we can't have nice things because they spend our money on stupid things.

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Datamancer 2 points ago +2 / -0

It was the conservative ghost of Paul Ryan looking for the degenerate neocon RINO who stabbed him in the back.

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Datamancer 3 points ago +3 / -0

I think I understand the tenant of your argument, but I dispute your findings. Technology and culture are not a zero-sum game. Think of the - for the times - amazing technology and advances in culture during the renaissance. Advancing technology does not require us to diminish our humanity. It is our choice too, but that is not entirely correct.

Technology is a drug. We thought we could control it, but we are too lazy to maintain our humanity and it controls us. The problem is that unlike heroin or methamphetamine where the destructive effects are patent, the destructive effects of technology are latent. We chase the high of the latest technology without much thought on the value. But the issue is not one of a constant tension between technology and culture where one must give way for the other to proceed, it is a lack of discipline.

We fail to treat technology as a tool under our control and instead worship it as a demigod and bow and scrape to its insidious demands. It isn't that technology crowds out culture, we simply allow our addiction to control our lives turning our backs on our culture.

The same technology that streams violence and pornography 24x7 is the same technology that brings holy mass to the invalid and let's deployed soldiers see their children to bed.

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