"Why contain it?"
Imagine how to felt like to be an Usenet browser who discussed the 9/11 attacks ahead of their occurrence and who quickly got silenced because the same U.S. government that unironically funded a child trafficking ring with taxpayer money among other crimes spread to the guillible gossip girls that they were "smelly internet weirdos."
The same is happening to the anti-vaccine movement who question the Big Pharma studies that form the "consensus" that vaccines are "99% harmless and effective."
Giuliani and other incompetents fought to keep the consideration off the table for him.
https://www.deepcapture.com/2021/01/november-3-december-23-all-the-presidents-teams/
There was evidence of foreign involvement on numerous fronts, which arguably would have justified a vigorous response, but we had only a narrow, tailored on in mind; based on the information that had been turned up, the President should use his powers under the requisite Executive Orders to send US Marshalls and the National Guard into the five problematic counties, open up the paper ballot backups, and recount them on livestreamed TV. Ideally, they would also image the hard drives of (but leave in place) the election equipment in those counties, for forensic examination. If there were no big discrepancies, Trump would concede. If there were big discrepancies, such as half-a-million vote discrepancies that we suspected might fall out, then more aggressive courses of action could be countenanced, such as re-rerunning the election in those counties or states. The recount of the five counties could be easily done in under a week, and if it justified further action, the entire resolution could still be achieved on a Constitutional timeline.
General Flynn drafted a beautiful operational plan for such a mission. One signature from the President and the whole thing would be set in motion. The teams would have been created from the right military and National Guard Units, the precise directives to each…
And yet, things slid and slid. Rudy went off to organize a hearing in a hotel room and wanted one of our people there to speak…. Days spent waiting for warrants that never came…. Absolutely no sense that there was anyone with a plan, let alone executing one . We saw the Constitutional deadlines beginning to loom…
At one point I learned how the President was staying involved. Periodically, Mayor Giuliani and Mediocrity were going over to the White House to brief him. Really, no kidding: the person who was so bad my colleagues had declared they would quit rather than work another moment with that person, and the 76 year old guy who had trouble sending an email and was spending his evenings sloshed, were the ones explaining to the President the cyber-crime of all time and what his options were. At first I thought it was a sick joke, but I confirmed it. The Mayor and Mediocrity were the point-people on the mission of addressing this world-historic event.
I got ready to leave. I told the cocky British man that I needed him to pass on three key messages to someone I was not going to have a chance to see before leaving. He agreed. I said each one simply, and he nodded curtly after each. When I was done I asked him if he understood. He said casually, “Yep. Got ’em all.”
“OK, repeat them back to me,” I told him. He stared at me, unblinking. “You say you got them, so repeat them to me.” He could come up with nothing. He had not actually listened to a word. I told him to get a pen and paper and make three notes. He did so begrudgingly.
Guiliani cucked them by lying to him and half-assing everything.
There are always more weak cogs and individuals than strong visionaries and leaders, who got complacent, bought into their own hype and/or can't comprehend how much our country has rotted because "they won't be around to see it in a few years." That's why democracy ultimately is a terrible system and why it was completely ripped apart and subverted this past "selection" for a paper regime. The fact that the "best" option boiled down to Trump taking such an action and weaker individuals under him fought to keep it off the table out of their own fear and incompetence illustrates my point. Now we have an "administration" that appeals to those weak cogs who want to pass the buck, but who knows how long it can run when everybody wants somebody else to do it.
People really need to do their research on electronic privacy and security encryption rather than trusting a Five Eyes company to "handle it" for them.
German publisher caves
All I need to know.
Assuming we survive to 2022. And we actually recapture and rebalance the election process.
Which looks unlikely.
My dumbass neighbor still thinks he's going to "lead the resistance."
No, fuck 'em and everybody else's Congressman worship, he folded to BLM.
Good old Southeast Asia.
True. There are plenty of worthwhile ideas out there, but it's alarming how the media landscape has changed to be so derivative and "trend-based" when previously new creators were able to at the very least experiment with and propose concepts that hadn't gotten a lot of attention or provided novel insights into the human condition. (Keep in mind this applies to creative media.)
For example, here's a novel in the past decade with the conceit, "What if you could sell your remaining lifespan for money?" The actual plot is mostly a romantic setup you could see through, but the central premise provides plenty of food for thought to linger on after you've finished reading it and does not require familiarity with media consumption.
Here's a short webcomic I read recently where I didn't feel like my time was wasted by completing it. The author acknowledges there are a glut of works out there that have already covered social-credit dystopias but it was the only work this year that had me thinking about where we are at culturally. It doesn't provide a realistic solution (really, no good work that covers sociopolitical situations does), and it's not going to win any merits on technicals or writing, but it did contribute something meaningful on its own and that exceeded anything else published this year.
My writeup is mainly inspired by my own observation of the shift in creative communities within the past five years as well as online discourse.
Brings a new perspective to adolescents "joking" they don't want to live anymore.
Yeah, a common theme is that current theology has been weakened by "feel-good" preaching, religious conglomerates that treat faith like a strip mall restaurant franchise (for example, Elevation Church), and the pastors just not having a good understanding of Christianity in general to apply it to their congregation's daily lives and answer and discuss deeper questions they may ask.
Yes, and not the horrific accidents that occur to its citizens every day? Not its horrific working conditions? Not the incarceration of the Uighurs? Not its colonization of Africa that has its natives begging for the old days of Western apartheid back? Not its obvious greenwashing propaganda when it uses up the majority of the planet's coal-fired electricity?
I FUCKING HATE THESE shitty headlines.
durrrrr muh "gamma males"
I don't give a shit about whatever validation you're going on about, I'm immensely frustrated and bitter at collective delusion winning out yet again (because collectives are always known for their great decisionmaking skills) and playing out another Cassandra Truth scenario like clockwork.
Yes, obviously I take great delight in living in a banana republic and everybody suffering but not doing anything proactive to counter it. /s
I tell everybody that the planned disarming will lead to genocide not soon after not because I want to inform others of previous historic precedent, nooo, I want to see masses of my fellow citizens killed for internet cred, obviously. /s
The irony is that Europoor can only afford (and really it's catching up to them) their universal healthcare by skipping out on military and defense investment because those gosh darn Americans they hate so much handle it for them and let them skip out on paying what they promised for decades!
As soon as universal healthcare is implemented in the States and we subsequently fragment all bedlam will break loose in a chain reaction across Western civilization and the end-of-the-world cultists and neo-Luddites will finally get their greatest desires realized.
They also want our guns because it'll make their planned state-mandated genocide easier. Remember, we're a banana republic now and we're artificially on our way to following Venezuela (corrupt leftist regime consolidating power internally while losing it globally thanks to stupid Marxist leadership and women) and Zimbabwe (hyperinflation and incompetent people chasing and genociding whoever was competent in leadership)
Oh, they're talking about them now? Kind of five months too late for that, oh wait, everybody who tried to warn everybody else was dismissed as a schizophrenic conspiracy theorist, completely forgot. I guess that excuses nationwide stupidity from the coddled housewives and college youth.
Oh joy, this will bring the modern world comfort and is totally not a harbinger of the third global conflict.
I am getting way too old considering how anything modern makes me smoulder with anger.
Pfffft what about fake neutrals--the people who were cheering on Xiden but now pretend "they don't want to discuss politics" after they realized what anybody with common sense already saw. Waaaay too many of those individuals.
Don't buy those definitions.
Because Republicans are the Left, do not fall for their posturing like a peabrain. Everybody sane knows that now it's going to take radical action from the citizens living in this banana republic to change anything for the better. Like, say, making their lives actively as bad as ours so their bubbles are popped.
The people who fund and puppet Xiden don't give a shit about consequences because they can just move to another country if this one collapses.
Not true, indoctrination screens based on IQ (some of the people stuck training recruits at boot camp admit this on occasion) and obviously they want people who can comprehend the more extensive training for specialized positions like field medic. It also really depends on which military branch and position you aim for. People with "no life skills" get filtered out fast if they can't adopt discipline for basic tasks like folding their uniform.
I do agree from my own experiences in the military (and thank fuck my tour ended just in time because I would not have known how I would have survived under Xiden) that way too many people sign up based on the benefits (and believe me, most recruiters are incredibly dishonest about depicting what military life is like since they are paid based on whether they can ship somebody off to boot camp, regardless of whether that recruit actually passes indoctrination).
No, I refuse to use a datamining platform that financially benefits our enemies, that's like saying a Trump-centered TikTok account is "based." I already see the browser thumbprinting it implements to identify you when you try to make a temp handle for the server invite. It won't let me access the server if I block or spoof my browser thumbprint. What next, Twatch is a bastion of free speech and privacy?
Discuck is a corporate walled garden, not an open standard that you're trying to paint it as.
Don't forget they're planning the genocide to follow as soon as the grab is complete.
I would rather we go back to old BBSes that didn't even have handles to identify a "user." Where people just decided for themselves through reports if posts deserved to stay up or not, or exercised their own discretion and were able to recognize worthless and emotionally pandering posts that contributed nothing of substance.