oh my god, Dime is one of those retarded uneducated donald dump supporters i’m talking about. you fucking moron you’re not a high powered lawyer because you’re too stupid to ever get into a law school, let alone graduate, let alone pass the bar.
the internets can ban whoever the fuck they want to. they can ban nazis, communists, feminists, bronies, or dumb people like you. or they can be as open as they want and allow furries to post about their latest yiffing exploits. they have no obligation to give anyone a voice or a platform and you’re a fucking communist if you think the government should dictate to companies who they should or should not ban.
just like in an at will employment state, companies like google can fire their employees for any damn reason they please - except for racial/sexual/whatever discrimination. they can certainly fire an engineer for writing a memo. i personally didn’t agree with the firing, but i didn’t cry about free speech, i was more like geez the media totally mischaracterized the memo and the justice crusaders complaining about it on facebook clearly did not read it.
The amount of lack of common sense and overblown hysteria when dealing with these fringe groups really surprises me. The whole point of a progressed civilized nation is that the lowest common standards of the populations are developed to a point where they can take part in a civil society and adapt to the changing world and be resistant to extremists bs. The media representation makes out America to be unsafer and less progressive than some third world countries and that is total baloney.
I have a sincere question though. Why don’t the anti sjws, edgelords, meme force and centralists band together to form a third front and call it something like alt left or some other word? Basically just to separate from the actual alt right extremists. It’s unfair that the extreme left classify us as Nazis while the extreme right try their shenanigans using the internet populace as a shield.
It’s more about the principle I guess. Setting a precedent let them blur the lines and increase the target circle on a feels by feels, mood by mood basis. I mean, Cloudfare ceo literally said that he got a guy off the internet because he was angry at that moment. He himself found that level of power scary. Intent is a really hard thing to convey/judge over internet. Things are just getting more and more complicated without the need to be
Also I agree that a private institution can do what they want. The only thing I want is for them to be upfront about it. Don’t build your business on the trust of public and the concept of a virtual social life mirroring real, when you can just take it away when you want. Ah well, that’ll actually mirror the future irl. won’t it
I don’t mind giving my user data, browsing patterns, search patterns, ad revenue, free pr to these corporations but I do mind went they act bossy and like we owe them for their ‘free’ service after basically building their empires over it. I do enjoy their services but it’s nothing more than a quid pro quid arrangement.
As for forums, you can just lurk and asses the level/extent of freedom offered on discussion and act accordingly. It’s a specialized place not a general social media substitute so the rules obviously can vary and are understandable. A general shift in closed discussion would be noticeable for regular members and they can always adapt accordingly. Video game services on the other hand are a more touchy matter.
Just be be clear: GD will not be allowing any Furry nonsense in it. Y’all can take that bullshit to either furaffinity or the SF5 subforum. You start talking about yiff this or yiff that and I ain’t stepping in to stop the clowning.
Everything that Angelpalm hates in one picture. The only things missing are a flat assed girl twerking and a poorly thought out Pathfinder Monk’s character sheet.
Felix Sater, one of Donald Trump’s shadiest former business partners, is reportedly preparing for prison time — and he says the president will be joining him behind bars.
Sources told The Spectator‘s Paul Wood that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s deep dive into Trump’s business practices may be yielding results.
Trump recently made remarks that could point to a money laundering scheme, Wood reported.
“I mean, it’s possible there’s a condo or something, so, you know, I sell a lot of condo units, and somebody from Russia buys a condo, who knows?” the president said.
Sater, who has a long history of legal troubles and is cooperating with law enforcement, was one of the major players responsible for selling Trump’s condos to the Russians.
And according to Wood’s sources, Sater may have already flipped and given prosecutors the evidence they need to make a case against Trump.
For several weeks there have been rumours that Sater is ready to rat again, agreeing to help Mueller. ‘He has told family and friends he knows he and POTUS are going to prison,’ someone talking to Mueller’s investigators informed me. Sater hinted in an interview earlier this month that he may be cooperating with both Mueller’s investigation and congressional probes of Trump.
“In about the next 30 to 35 days, I will be the most colourful character you have ever talked about,” Sater told New York Magazine. “Unfortunately, I can’t talk about it now, before it happens. And believe me, it ain’t anything as small as whether or not they’re gonna call me to the Senate committee.”
Sater is not the only one rumored confidante to have turned against Trump. An attack on former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort by the National Enquirer — a friendly outlet for the president — suggests that he may have already turned over damaging evidence to authorities.
The timeline is Aug 3rd, more or less. So let’s see what happens in about 35 days from then which is Sept 7th.
thread closed in 5,4,… (taking all bets, except from Mods)
The interview Bannon did for a progressive leaning news outlet:
It’s a really neat interview. I don’t know if it’s actual insight into what Bannon is thinking or if it’s what he wants us to think he’s thinking, but still interesting.