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MickeyFinn posted:Wait, what? There are people who think a Saudi Arabia-Iran war won't involve the US? Am I reading this correctly? they fight through proxy wars (like yemen) and the US supplies the saudis with weapons / probably other shady services, but doesn't send actual troops or bombers in large scale opposition to iran directly
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MickeyFinn posted:Wait, what? There are people who think a Saudi Arabia-Iran war won't involve the US? Am I reading this correctly? Saudis have the resources to engage Iran in proxy wars, Israel doesn't.
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Nov 24, 2018 23:16
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sexpig by night posted:Israel has always been our vassal state there, them being our 'ally' is meaningless. They gently caress around with their narrow chunk of the region and we dump weapons on their heads like gatorade. Saudi Arabia is the ally that matters to neocon logic because they're the only force there that can check Iranian power without dragging us into war when they do. Honestly makes sense if you look at it that way yeah.
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wow https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/1066468157173444609 quote:Damian Collins, the chair of the culture, media and sport select committee, invoked a rare parliamentary mechanism to compel the founder of a US software company, Six4Three, to hand over the documents during a business trip to London. In another exceptional move, parliament sent a serjeant at arms to his hotel with a final warning and a two-hour deadline to comply with its order. When the software firm founder failed to do so, it’s understood he was escorted to parliament. He was told he risked fines and even imprisonment if he didn’t hand over the documents.
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Nov 25, 2018 00:15
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I love that Europe isn't just automatically super friendly with every large corporation to the point where they can all but just do anything they want like in the U.S
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It certainly helps that it's a foreign corporation though.sexpig by night posted:People literally wanted her to retire in 2008 when the dems had a massive mandate and she could hand pick a successor like Kennedy got to with the rapejudge. mobby_6kl fucked around with this message at 01:00 on Nov 25, 2018 |
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mobby_6kl posted:It certainly helps that it's a foreign corporation though. That she was going to serve until no longer able to do so, with her ability to serve setting her retirement date, not politics. Real dumb move imo
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Nov 25, 2018 01:08
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i dont think you can fault people for failing to anticipate the nightmare scenario and a disintegration of american democracy through sheer voter insanity
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luxury handset posted:i dont think you can fault people for failing to anticipate the nightmare scenario and a disintegration of american democracy through sheer voter insanity No but a Romney or Rubio presidency was extremely predictable and would have been 90-95% as bad as far as courts are concerned.
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Nov 25, 2018 01:32
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Hellblazer187 posted:No but a Romney or Rubio presidency was extremely predictable and would have been 90-95% as bad as far as courts are concerned. Maybe we wouldn’t have put an open rapist on the court, but whatever judges were chosen would be equally as bad in rulings. I think actually everything would be worse. There wouldn’t even be a token media pushback against the neocon agenda. Probably no Women’s March being the largest protest in US history. No leftward shift of the Overton window. No mass awakening of Millennials learning they need to loving vote and get involved. Hillary probably would have been crushed by a GOP standard issue ghoul and not even won the popular vote. As lovely as these times are, I’m glad it’s not another Republican in the WH more competently loving America.
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quote:Facebook, which has lost more than $100bn in value since March when the Observer exposed how Cambridge Analytica had harvested data from 87m US users, faces another potential PR crisis. It is believed the documents will lay out how user data decisions were made in the years before the Cambridge Analytica breach, including what Zuckerberg and senior executives knew. Amicus brief filed in US v. Microsoft on Jan 18th 2018, joined by Facebook, Inc quote:Every nation founded on democratic principles has a strong and legitimate interest in ensuring that the security and privacy of the people it is charged with protecting are not improperly or unduly invaded. Failure to accommodate that legitimate sovereign interest threatens to provoke dangerous reciprocation by foreign governments—at great potential cost to U.S. citizens and service providers. 
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Nov 25, 2018 01:51
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I'm pretty indifferent on whether RBG gives the turtle another seat or not. The entire institution is already turbo-hell-hosed for decades as is, really not going to shift the course of the nation. Either dems find a loving spine and pack the court to fix poo poo or the entire supreme court is just something to be written off as hopeless.
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mobby_6kl posted:It certainly helps that it's a foreign corporation though. she has brain poisoning that makes her think it's somehow more noble to die on the bench or whatever and now most of america has low grade panic attacks when an elderly woman feels slightly ill because we all know she's not surviving 8 years and the only question is if she kicks it now and let's trump put another absolute psychopath like Kav on or maybe after 2020 where the dems may have enough seats to force him to put forth a 'normal' republican who at least won't have a screaming, vengeance swearing, meltdown.
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RasperFat posted:Maybe we wouldn’t have put an open rapist on the court, but whatever judges were chosen would be equally as bad in rulings. Accelerationism ... good?
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Shifty Pony posted:Amicus brief filed in US v. Microsoft on Jan 18th 2018, joined by Facebook, Inc can you give a bit more context? I get the first quote a bit but the second is way over my head EVIL WEASEL SIGNAL ACTIVATE
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UCS Hellmaker posted:can you give a bit more context? I get the first quote a bit but the second is way over my head That is Facebook arguing that governments have every right to do what the UK just did to Facebook.
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maybe we live in the timeline where the last two justices are also at the bottom of a ocean of russian poo poo.
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UCS Hellmaker posted:can you give a bit more context? I get the first quote a bit but the second is way over my head Facebook joined a brief in a case where the US government was trying to force Microsoft to hand over data held in an overseas server farm because. In that brief there is a lot of stuff about the law in question but the section I quoted from can be summarized as "don't flippantly gently caress with the privacy rights of the citizens of other countries because their governments take that poo poo extremely seriously, are justified in doing so, and will retaliate hard". I just found it amusing that Facebook signed onto something that rightfully identified messing with the privacy of foreign citizens as a dangerous rake on the ground only to stomp on that rake a few months later.
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sexpig by night posted:Saudis have the resources to engage Iran in proxy wars, Israel doesn't. Ohh, I see. I read your previous post as being about open war between Saudi Arabia and Iran. It is hard to believe the US wouldn't be directly involved in that case.
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sexpig by night posted:she has brain poisoning that makes her think it's somehow more noble to die on the bench or whatever and now most of america has low grade panic attacks when an elderly woman feels slightly ill because we all know she's not surviving 8 years and the only question is if she kicks it now and let's trump put another absolute psychopath like Kav on or maybe after 2020 where the dems may have enough seats to force him to put forth a 'normal' republican who at least won't have a screaming, vengeance swearing, meltdown. Would you trust the dems to replace you?
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EdithUpwards posted:Would you trust the dems to replace you? Maybe ask Sotomayor and Kagan that question. You know, instead of blaming Dems for hypotheticals.
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Data Graham posted:Accelerationism ... good? Not accelerationism, Hillary winning would have been less damaging. More of a silver lining.
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Incoming Mexican government: no asylum deal with Trump https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5bfa5d83e4b0eb6d930f3155
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RBG was 75 in 2008. that she didnt resign when dems controlled everything was just arrogance on her part. a 60 year old justice has the luxury of waiting around 10-15 years for the president and senate to flip to their party, a 75 year old should immediately jump when they have the chance.
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Hellblazer187 posted:Incoming Mexican government: no asylum deal with Trump Now the only question is, did someone tell WaPo this because they're incompetent, or because they want to spike the deal.
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It just seems bizarre that an incoming left wing Mexican president would be like "OK sure whatever you want" to a right wing US president who is vocally racist against Mexicans.
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Just openly self-sucking, huh. Man I wish it took a selfie whenever someone sent a tweet on that account so we could K ow which tweets are whose.
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Captain Invictus posted:Just openly self-sucking, huh. Plus it would be nice see the scowl on the face of any staffer with a recently-devalued 401k forced to wrote that schlock.
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sexpig by night posted:she has brain poisoning that makes her think it's somehow more noble to die on the bench or whatever and now most of america has low grade panic attacks when an elderly woman feels slightly ill because we all know she's not surviving 8 years and the only question is if she kicks it now and let's trump put another absolute psychopath like Kav on or maybe after 2020 where the dems may have enough seats to force him to put forth a 'normal' republican who at least won't have a screaming, vengeance swearing, meltdown.
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Charlz Guybon posted:So, you're assuming Trump wins? oh most definitely. I'd love the be pleasantly surprised but I'm fully strapped in for 8 years of this shitshow
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Oh no the recession coming will help cure that. Don't forget January 1st 25% tarriffs hit
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Hellblazer187 posted:It just seems bizarre that an incoming left wing Mexican president would be like "OK sure whatever you want" to a right wing US president who is vocally racist against Mexicans.
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Tibalt posted:When you've got a president whose threatening to completely close the border, you don't really have a choice about at least talking to him and trying to resolve the situation. They really should have known by now that the very first thing you do after talking to the toddler in chief is tell the rest of the world what you actually talked about so he can't make up bullshit and lie about it.
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Yes, thank you President Truman.
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For a hot sec I thought I'd had a stroke and Mister T was president.
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sexpig by night posted:oh most definitely. I'd love the be pleasantly surprised but I'm fully strapped in for 8 years of this shitshow *largest midterm Dem wave since 1974 happens* Yeah Trump is invincible he’ll cruise to reelection.
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bird food bathtub posted:They really should have known by now that the very first thing you do after talking to the toddler in chief is tell the rest of the world what you actually talked about so he can't make up bullshit and lie about it. Even a one or two day closure would be catastrophic, although I don't think the president can do that unilaterally.
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