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- Mon Jan 18, 2021 2:02 pm
- Forum: Trump Administration
- Topic: All the President's pardons
- Replies: 661
- Views: 35095
All the President's pardons
Unfortunately ploughing through Federalist 74 doesn't help and exposes a worryingly naive trust in the good of man with the power of the pardon. Alexander Hamilton is irrationally and I am afraid totally purblind about the realities of man in this area and loftily expounds on how "one good man...
- Mon Jan 18, 2021 11:44 am
- Forum: Elections 2020
- Topic: Assault on the United States Capitol
- Replies: 1327
- Views: 21080
Assault on the United States Capitol
Exactly. I'm curious what exactly they like about America. They have some imaginary view of america that they like. They don't like science and the accomplishments we had, they don't like free speech, they don't like equal protection under the law, they don't like certain blocks being able to vote,...
- Fri Jan 15, 2021 5:12 pm
- Forum: Social Issues
- Topic: Gay Rights - LGBT - Same Sex Marriage
- Replies: 6100
- Views: 352414
Gay Rights - LGBT - Same Sex Marriage
Excellent, dedicated actors intensely study real people who are "part of communities that they will be representing and have personal first hand knowledge of the(ir) history and struggles." I guarantee you a top-notch actor can portray someone from those groups better than folks with &quo...
- Fri Jan 15, 2021 5:07 pm
- Forum: Social Issues
- Topic: Gay Rights - LGBT - Same Sex Marriage
- Replies: 6100
- Views: 352414
Gay Rights - LGBT - Same Sex Marriage
Russell is advocating discrimination based on 'sexual orientation'. He perhaps meant well with his comments, but he didn't think through perhaps that he is kicking dirt in the face of all the straight allies (including many straight actors) who have helped advance society and acceptance and toleran...
- Fri Jan 15, 2021 9:59 am
- Forum: Social Issues
- Topic: Gay Rights - LGBT - Same Sex Marriage
- Replies: 6100
- Views: 352414
Gay Rights - LGBT - Same Sex Marriage
So I am going to give a bit of a counterargument here... this is partly inspired by another thread I am following where people are upset at a director's decision to hire a neurotypical lead to play an autistic role. A lot of this discussion has focused on the surface idea of 'acting gay' or 'acting ...
- Wed Jan 13, 2021 5:44 pm
- Forum: Congress
- Topic: Lauren Boebert - Gun Nut in Congress
- Replies: 84
- Views: 2157
Lauren Boebert - Gun Nut in Congress
And this is exactly why Fox "News" was invented - to discredit and demonize Democrats so that it would not matter how utterly criminal, whack-job, or otherwise inappropriate the Republican candidate is - voters will vote for the known criminal whack job Republican because Democrats are......
- Wed Jan 13, 2021 5:41 pm
- Forum: Other Fringe Groups & Individuals
- Topic: #Q #QAnon QCumbers "The Storm” "Any Day Now" Conspiracy Theories For Dummies: "Mental Gonorrhea of Conspiracy Theories"
- Replies: 2141
- Views: 180692
#Q #QAnon QCumbers "The Storm” "Any Day Now" Conspiracy Theories For Dummies: "Mental Gonorrhea of Conspiracy Theories"
I guess the mass outage only impact people who did not update their iphone?Notorial Dissent wrote: ↑Wed Jan 13, 2021 4:40 pm I'm still trying to figure out how the Q-idiots think they are going to get messages from Der Trumpenführer if there are massive cell outages? Maybe it's majik and only applies to non-Q-idiots.
- Wed Jan 13, 2021 5:31 pm
- Forum: Social Issues
- Topic: Gay Rights - LGBT - Same Sex Marriage
- Replies: 6100
- Views: 352414
Gay Rights - LGBT - Same Sex Marriage
Russell is drilling 'gay' down to almost a binary choice-- 0 or 1 (and yes, back in the 80s, there were gays who hated on people who identified as 'bisexual'). Russell hasn't kept up with the times, I think, and he's still stuck in those 80s. Or, maybe he gave a bad interview and is now trying to j...
- Tue Jan 12, 2021 9:31 am
- Forum: Elections 2020
- Topic: Assault on the United States Capitol
- Replies: 1327
- Views: 21080
- Mon Jan 11, 2021 2:52 pm
- Forum: Trump Administration
- Topic: Parler - Social Media for Government Overthrow
- Replies: 109
- Views: 3034
Parler - Social Media for Government Overthrow
From Forbes Social media platform Parler sued Amazon Web Services (AWS) Monday after Amazon banned the website from being hosted on its servers in the wake of the recent attack on the U.S. Capitol building, claiming Amazon violated antitrust laws and was “motivated by political animus” in its decis...
- Mon Jan 11, 2021 8:40 am
- Forum: Trump Administration
- Topic: Parler - Social Media for Government Overthrow
- Replies: 109
- Views: 3034
Parler - Social Media for Government Overthrow
https://twitter.com/williamlegate/status/1348554456795852806 William LeGate Flag of United States @williamlegate Guys, hackers literally got admin access to Parler before it was shutdown… they mirrored all the data & are now making it publicly accessible for the FBI & news outlets to sift t...
- Mon Jan 11, 2021 8:36 am
- Forum: Computers & Internet
- Topic: Hacking & Cracking
- Replies: 281
- Views: 33479
Hacking & Cracking
Parler was hacked: so a group of developers latched onto the Press Release that Twilio put out at midnight last night. In that Press Release, Twilio accidentally revealed which services Parler was using. Turns out it was all of the security authentications that were used to register a user. This all...
- Sun Jan 10, 2021 10:43 pm
- Forum: Trump Administration
- Topic: Trump - BANED from Twitter! Oh noes!
- Replies: 10945
- Views: 649473
Trump - BANNED from Twitter (renamed) Oh noes!
To give you an idea of the complexity and how having and using cloud infrastructure and services like Azure/GCP/AWS . . . And so on and so forth, so Parler bullshitting about spinning up their own iron in a week if so risible. Yep. The job that cemented my opinion that I am NOT an IT person was wor...
- Sun Jan 10, 2021 1:17 pm
- Forum: Trump Administration
- Topic: Parler - Social Media for Government Overthrow
- Replies: 109
- Views: 3034
Parler - Social Media for Government Overthrow
My guess is that there may be a major obstacle. Parler was built upon Amazons AWS cloud infrastructure. That means modular and scalable building blocks / services. That's a great departure from the traditional server model. Parler will have to recode their backend applications, will require a numbe...
- Sun Jan 10, 2021 1:11 pm
- Forum: Trump Administration
- Topic: Trump - BANED from Twitter! Oh noes!
- Replies: 10945
- Views: 649473
Trump - BANNED from Twitter (renamed) Oh noes!
I'm surprised these services don't self-host but I don't know how that works. The difficulty with self hosting is that they lose things like DDoS protection, and it gets a lot harder to have regional nodes that are closer to various users. Not a big issue when you are small (like thefogbow), but wh...
- Fri Jan 08, 2021 8:53 pm
- Forum: Trump Administration
- Topic: Twice Impeached Lame Duck President Trump
- Replies: 20053
- Views: 1104727
Lame Duck Impeached President Trump
The closet conspiracy theorist in me immediately thought that maybe he knows something bad is going to happen. I would not be surprised if they had people on staff who keep an eye on the right wing message boards. Their whole thing is having a finger on the pulse of events and culture, and they pro...
- Fri Jan 08, 2021 5:01 pm
- Forum: Elections 2020
- Topic: Assault on the United States Capitol
- Replies: 1327
- Views: 21080
- Fri Jan 08, 2021 3:54 pm
- Forum: Other Fringe Groups & Individuals
- Topic: #Q #QAnon QCumbers "The Storm” "Any Day Now" Conspiracy Theories For Dummies: "Mental Gonorrhea of Conspiracy Theories"
- Replies: 2141
- Views: 180692
#Q #QAnon QCumbers "The Storm” "Any Day Now" Conspiracy Theories For Dummies: "Mental Gonorrhea of Conspiracy Theories"
They've been saying forever "trust trump. trump has a plan." Well, I don't know how much longer they can keep that up, especially now that trump has admitted he won't attend Biden's inauguration. But I'm sure they'll keep the faith. It's a cult. Given how much they already believe in shad...
- Fri Jan 08, 2021 11:52 am
- Forum: Trump Administration
- Topic: Mike Pence
- Replies: 529
- Views: 40349
Mike Pence
On the other hand, consistency is not one of their strong points. If two years from now someone tells them to love Pence, they will love Pence.pipistrelle wrote: ↑Fri Jan 08, 2021 11:38 am There’s more and more coming out about plans to hang or otherwise execute Pence. He can’t be loving the base right now.
- Fri Jan 08, 2021 8:35 am
- Forum: Congress
- Topic: Commission to Declare President Incapacitated Re 25th Amendment
- Replies: 661
- Views: 47153
Commission to Declare President Incapacitated Re 25th Amendment
I agree with you in theory, but in practice, the Constitution either means what it says, or it doesn't. The President has the power to grant reprieves, pardons, and clemencies; there is no proviso that says "except in the following circumstances." If you're going to throw out this pardon ...
- Thu Jan 07, 2021 7:11 pm
- Forum: Elections 2020
- Topic: Assault on the United States Capitol
- Replies: 1327
- Views: 21080
- Thu Jan 07, 2021 7:07 pm
- Forum: Foreign Policy
- Topic: Iran
- Replies: 398
- Views: 42484
Iran
I demand President Biden grant the request for extradition :torches: It would be political suicide for the dems, but wow would it be satisfying. That being said, it would probably be a really interesting and potentially stabilizing move. Iran is still upset about the US not extraditing the Shah, ha...
- Thu Jan 07, 2021 1:38 pm
- Forum: Elections 2020
- Topic: LDI Trump Supporters Are Losing Their Minds & Demonstrating (Or Worse) Insurrection! #StopTheSteal Grift - Ali Alexander
- Replies: 1179
- Views: 32437
LDI Trump Supporters Are Losing Their Minds & Demonstrating (Or Worse) #StopTheSteal Grift
No one really knows. Just that we don't have a reliable way to predict whether a person is susceptible to this stuff. And if they fall into one, they are more likely to fall into other crackpot theories. I believe this is a big reason we can't accurately predict Trump support in the polling. Well, ...
- Thu Jan 07, 2021 9:43 am
- Forum: Elections 2020
- Topic: Assault on the United States Capitol
- Replies: 1327
- Views: 21080
- Wed Jan 06, 2021 4:55 pm
- Forum: Social Issues
- Topic: Domestic Terrorism
- Replies: 985
- Views: 96619
Domestic Terrorism
In a tweet on Wednesday afternoon, Northam said he and his team are working closely with Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Chuck Schumer "to respond to the situation in Washington, D.C." ... "Per the Mayor's request, I am sending members of the Virgi...