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Fidel Cuckstro posted:I think my favorite part about reading some actual non-fawning pieces about Obama's legacy over the past week is realizing his view of the world is basically Bill Cosby "pull up your pants" Yeah, for real. I don't know if people have forgotten that or just repressed it, but he would throw that poo poo out there whenever it was even slightly on whatever topic. Bugged the hell out of me. On top of that when he called the Baltimore protestors thugs after Freddie Gray was killed... Barry left me heated for quite some time. To marjoran since I don't know how to multi quote on the phone: fair play, he is a goofy lookin dude. Good writing though, I've read his stuff on the intercept in the past. Every passing day, the realization that Trump really is going to be our next president gets harder and harder to stomach. I'm only an occasional poster so no one jump on me for criticizing Obama. He's the best president we've had in the depressingly narrow confines of modern American politics, but the whole poo poo is a mess and has been since Reagan.
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loquacius posted:Mark Zuckerberg is at the dead-last bottom on my list of tech people I'd like to see in political roles (ok he's actually a rank above Notch and the Uber guy but I think that's it) so I'm not surprised he's at the top of some Third-Way journalist's list Even libertarian vampire Peter Thiel?
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:He will be president until he dies. February 2019 is pretty soon tbh. Man looks unhealthy.
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loquacius posted:Lowtax could run, that'd be funny at least After those unity games I think he could handle the demands of the trail and the job
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Even libertarian vampire Peter Thiel? 
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Even libertarian vampire Peter Thiel? Ok, amend that statement to "my list of tech people who are actually famous for being tech people" wait I just remembered Larry Ellison exists, that's another one
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loquacius posted:Mark Zuckerberg is at the dead-last bottom on my list of tech people I'd like to see in political roles (ok he's actually a rank above Notch and the Uber guy but I think that's it) so I'm not surprised he's at the top of some Third-Way journalist's list
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loquacius posted:Ok, amend that statement to "my list of tech people who are actually famous for being tech people" Paul Allen 2020!!
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Did y'all see the tech companies response to "would you cooperate with the Trump administration on a Muslim registry"? Microsoft gave a half assed answer, twitter gave a solid no, all the other 7 just said "no comment" Basically my point is gently caress Mark Zuckerberg and gently caress him once again for letting his site be a platform for crazy hicks to jerk each other off over the pope endorsing trump or Hillary killing people with her secret penis.
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Mixodorian posted:Yeah, for real. I don't know if people have forgotten that or just repressed it, but he would throw that poo poo out there whenever it was even slightly on whatever topic. Bugged the hell out of me. Remember when Obama wouldn't exercise a presidential pardon to spare Troy Davis? A lot of people have forgotten about that, but they're sure as gently caress going to remember Chelsea Manning.
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loquacius posted:Ok, amend that statement to "my list of tech people who are actually famous for being tech people" don't forget emotional wife abusing, union hatin' space fanboy elon musk An actual Elon Musk quote posted:“It’s not out of the question to have unions, but if there’s going to be a union, they’d better understand that they’re on the same side as the company,” he added. “I’m against having a two-class system where you’ve got the workers and then the managers, sort of like nobles and peasants… the fact that many on the center-left see elon musk as a "good guy" because he likes space and makes electric cars is infuriating to me
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Ok ok I amend my previous post to instead retroactively say "I really like Bill Gates and want to make kisses with him, and if Tim Cook ran he probably wouldn't screw the country up as badly as he screwed up Apple Computer Inc, and Eric Schmidt would probably put us in space a lot more which would be cool"
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NumberLast posted:Paul Allen 2020!! On one hand iffy health and only a so-so record of making good hires, on the other hand it would maybe help the Blazers (and Seahawks I guess) recruit better free agents. So I'm onboard.
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the fact that elon musk is pretty much "as good as it gets" wrt insane billionaires with aspirations into politics shows how bankrupt capitalism is as a moral and ethical pillar
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Majorian posted:I take a couple weeks off from posting and come back to find that CSPAM has gotten all serious. It's unsettling! Majoran just got back from the gym, yall.
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I remember when "republican vampire" was just a Mission Hill joke
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at times at hate silicon valley more then wall street because wall street knows deep down they are monsters while silicon valley earnestly believes their solutionism will help the world
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My wife is crash starting new data privacy protocols at work because she frequently works with undocumented data and wants to keep it as safe as possible in the event of a nightmare scenario like the government asking for it. Turns out those protocols didn't exist before because no one ever thought it was a serious concern!
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Anime Schoolgirl posted:the fact that elon musk is pretty much "as good as it gets" wrt insane billionaires with aspirations into politics shows how bankrupt capitalism is as a moral and ethical pillar Elon Musk would be a great president on the issues of research funding, space exploration, education reform, and energy policy, and probably a really bad president on every other issue in existence, but those four things would be great
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Elon Musk joining Trump's team is great because I love being right
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billionaires are just as susceptible to being cowards as anyone else
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Pollyanna posted:billionaires are just as susceptible to being cowards as anyone else They're actually better at it, because they loathe the idea of losing anything.
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Wait I forgot about the wonderful world of  OPEN SOURCE On day one of the Richard Stallman administration, a bill is forced through Congress which finally outlaws breakfast for good
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Not a Step posted:My wife is crash starting new data privacy protocols at work because she frequently works with undocumented data and wants to keep it as safe as possible in the event of a nightmare scenario like the government asking for it. Turns out those protocols didn't exist before because no one ever thought it was a serious concern! HOOOOOOW. The patriot act has been around since 2001!
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also Obama has been a huge disappointment to me, I mean I didn't exactly expect the government to ever be useful or effective but you'd think the first black president would give more of a poo poo than he actually did
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Hemingway To Go! posted:I remember when "republican vampire" was just a Mission Hill joke penis, penis, penis, penis, penis
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wall street: more money for us, gently caress you *gets rich, fucks people over* silicon valley: we're going to Change The World and Solve Problems *gets rich, fucks people over*
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loquacius posted:Elon Musk would be a great president on the issues of research funding, space exploration, education reform, and energy policy, and probably a really bad president on every other issue in existence, but those four things would be great I'mma stop you right there, bro, because a billionaire like Musk would think the best way to resolve those problems would be through public-private partnerships & contracting.
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loquacius posted:the Richard Stallman administration  that's all i'm gonna say about that one
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Zikan posted:don't forget emotional wife abusing, union hatin' space fanboy elon musk lol yeah, the workers are the nobles and their managers are the peasants  gently caress anyone who idolizes CEOs and bootstrap culture
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Elon Musk: *is a nerd who makes electric cars, does space stuff and wants UBI* Elon Musk: *is also an anti-union billionaire* Liberals: 
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NumberLast posted:Did I imagine that op ed encouraging Zuckerburg to run in 2020? Cause I'd like to believe I did. Please let it be by Justine Tunney.  Fidel Cuckstro posted:Majoran just got back from the gym, yall. Indeed. A couple week-long gym sesh, weaklings.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Remember when Obama wouldn't exercise a presidential pardon to spare Troy Davis? A lot of people have forgotten about that, but they're sure as gently caress going to remember Chelsea Manning. I really wonder if Obama even thought about pardoning him. Part of me thinks he did but was afraid of being seen as "the negroes are teaming up", and the other thinks it never even crossed his mind. No idea which is worse. Obama NEVER stuck out his neck even a millimeter when black Americans specifically needed help. The usual response to that I get is the My Brothers Keeper program but that really ain't poo poo. On top of that, black politicians didn't pressure him to do the right thing when presented with the opportunity either, so the blame isnt only on him. I was way more impressed with Holder. Very few complaints about him and he wasn't afraid to speak up. TNC used to be way quicker to call Obama on his fuckery, and the fuckery was pretty consistent, but I think once dude saw we were getting either Hillary or Trump he couldn't bear to be too harsh on Obama anymore. I fully understand that feeling, but it doesn't make for good journalism.
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Elon Musk always struck me as insane in a Howard Hughes kind of way, as opposed to Peter Thiel who strikes me as insane in the same way as that one Nazi woman who made lampshades out of people
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President Stallman refuses to go by any name other than "rms" or wear shoes that are not flip-flops; he has set up his personal chambers in the White House computer lab (he turned the mural room into a computer lab) and will only leave this room in cases of national emergency. First-timers to the Stallman White House might ask how he showers. Ho ho, what a silly question!
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OWLS! posted:HOOOOOOW. The patriot act has been around since 2001! Its a relatively small organization, and most of its existence has been in the Obama years. They just genuinely didn't think there was a chance they would ever face a government demand for data on their clients. The relative lack of data security is apparently also a thing in academia, where much of the information gathered on the undocumented for studies or whatever isn't sufficiently anonymized or kept separate beyond the minimums.
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paranoid randroid posted:Elon Musk always struck me as insane in a Howard Hughes kind of way, as opposed to Peter Thiel who strikes me as insane in the same way as that one Nazi woman who made lampshades out of people he's just as much of a sociopath as the rest of them, read about how he horribly treated his first wife (or don't if you want to have something resembling a good day)
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Capitalism is good and we should burn commies for energy to power the white house! America must be purified of radical leftist saboteurs.
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Not a Step posted:Its a relatively small organization, and most of its existence has been in the Obama years. They just genuinely didn't think there was a chance they would ever face a government demand for data on their clients. This kind of attitude amazes me considering that Obama did *nothing* to roll back government surveillance, and the major government demands for client/user data actually started happening during the obama years.
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