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fits my needs posted:Well I am sure it's worth it for Snowden because now I'm sure he enjoys many Russian "girlfriends" in addition to being a mouthpiece for Putin. Funny how Snowden has no problem with Russia's methods of surveillance. He even asked Putin a carefully worded softball question at a press-conference the day after Pavel Durov revealed government pressure to spy on Russian opposition activists and Ukrainian activists on VK. (Durov has since been forced to cede control of his social network and left the country).
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KillingPablo posted:Holy hell, is that true? How was someone working for the NSA and engineered the theft of so much data so stupid as to not realize Hong Kong wasn't some sanctuary from the PRC? Well... One thing he seemed to reveal by his results (and not the documents themselves) is that NSA's internal opsec was somewhat lacking.
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evil_bunnY posted:Don't give much of a poo poo either way but Zero day research/trading firms are a (despicable) thing. Also very much a real thing, though, so it certainly plausible.
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Aug 7, 2016 01:54
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CommieGIR posted:Don't forget Jill Stein freaking out over radio waves recently. And hanging out with Putin's top associates (and top Trump aide) at "RT is awesome!" dinner, apparently, with the tzar himself in presence.
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Aug 7, 2016 03:58
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vyelkin posted:I live in Illinois and I get Hillary ads during the Olympics. That poo poo is everywhere. Saw them in Boston area. Could be targeting NH, could be a nationwide buy?
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Aug 8, 2016 14:15
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iospace posted:Whoopsies! Or, "It never was about muslims, it's about dem brown people." Well, he changed an evil unimplementable policy to an evil implementable one.
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radical meme posted:This is really simple.  (Screenshot lifted from @owillis)
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Aug 9, 2016 22:32
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radical meme posted:How the gently caress is this piece of poo poo person even still someone people pay attention to? He is "anti-establishment", so clearly anything bad about him must be a conspiracy to damage his reputation.
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Aug 10, 2016 02:54
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Uranium 235 posted:Trump saying that Obama founded ISIS is like saying King George III founded the United States of America. No, more like saying George IV did.
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Aug 11, 2016 18:03
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greatn posted:I dare any journalist to read those judicial watch emails without falling the gently caress asleep. Come on, that's not how it works. They'll just summarize the RNC and Clinton campaign responses and call it a "balanced story".
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Aug 12, 2016 04:03
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Teddybear posted:Well, it's never happened before. The new nominee might not make it on all state ballots (Dems will absolutely try to ensure Trump stays where the law even hints that he can't be replaced), and the Trump diehards would riot, either staying home or voting third party. It would likely guarantee that the GOP cannot get 270 votes, and would probably have crippling effects up and down the ballot. Technically, they only need Hillary to not get 270...
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Aug 12, 2016 04:15
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DrNutt posted:It is okay, however, to tell impoverished white people how stupid they are for voting against their own self interests. This election is an odd one to talk about that, since, well, I for one am motivated by not having my Muslim friends in internment camps. Though I suppose there is also self-interest, since those sorts always come for us Jews at some point anyway.
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Pander posted:Herman Cain probably. I am honestly curious about Justice Thomas's vote. (Though it'd probably be inappropriate for him to disclose it...)
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haveblue posted:They're also likely to come up with new rules that give them much stronger ways to ratfuck the populist at the convention in the future. Convention is too late, IMHO. GOP primary voters were doing rally-round the-leader way before that (was it Indiana primary, or maybe earlier?), and seemed to have been ticked off by some delegate games before that. Going against the primary/party base electorate at that point would have had a high chance of blowing up the party (while they can hope things will blow over by next election...)
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WampaLord posted:In the rallies, Trump keeps emphasizing over and over how big a number 33,000 is. Thirty three THOUSAND emails! Wonder how many of them are spam...
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edrith posted:One of my friends is completely convinced that Putin is going to invade Estonia within the next three years. Specifically Estonia, because they have a large and apparently disliked Russian minority. How stupid is she being? I'm assuming very. Depends directly on whether we have President Trump or President Clinton.
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botany posted:It doesn't, Estonia is part of NATO under both of them. One of them has made public statements about not following the NATO commitment towards them and their neighbors.
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Riosan posted:In lighter news, y'all: Didn't know Hunter Biden posted here...
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CommieGIR posted:There was a shooting at a Mosque in Queens, head Imam shot: NY Times has somewhat more detailed report: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/13/nyregion/1-killed-in-shooting-outside-mosque-in-queens.html Sadly looks like both victims died 
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Lightning Knight posted:This won't go anywhere. We literally already knew Paul Manafort is a Russian plant. Trump is just a useful idiot, Manafort has always been the real representative of the influence of a foreign government, it's just that Trump is so blatantly stupid that the American electorate hates him. I feel I should point out that this doesn't actually connect Manafort to Russia. It's quite a bit more likely that the money was basically stolen from the Ukrainian people rather than paid for by Kremlin. The Yanukovich regime was very much about personal enrichment, foreign policy aspects were very much secondary.
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:Read the article, he is actually connected to deals with Putin's inner circle of oligarchs by it. I did, but I don't see this as being some sort of secret-agent-trying-to-destroy-the-US sort of deal, but rather as thieves being thieves. That's just what Putin's buddies do in Russia. That's what Yanukovich's buddies did in Ukraine (and many still do, since much of their power isn't political, or at least not nationally political, but rather regionally oligarchic).
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Aug 15, 2016 03:53
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Oxxidation posted:If this Russia thing gains legs I think Assange is going to be out of the picture as far as the election goes. The "Wikileaks is a Russian mouthpiece" thing was a wild haymaker thrown by the Democrats in an attempt to deflect the damage of the DNC leaks, but between Trump's big fat loving mouth and Manafort's publicized pro-Russian ties, any future bombshells are going to be duds. Uhm, that wikileaks was a Russian mouthpiece was very obvious way before the whole DNC thing happened.
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gently caress You And Diebold posted:I never worked for them! And the payments were never in cash! Maybe it's rather "It's not off the books! It's in the secret second ledger".
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Air is lava! posted:You mean this? As stated literally, it also means US allies would include Nigeria and ...Ukraine.
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emdash posted:https://twitter.com/AdamWeinstein/status/764992807236808704 A tiny bit of what exactly the current bit is from Ukrainian press: English summary: http://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2016/08/15/7117755/ Of particular interest may be that he didn't actually sign for the cash, someone else did, though reading signatures in that book is...hard. Longer story saying basically the same thing in Ukrainian, only with more discussion with anti-corruption bureau chief: http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2016/08/15/7117797/ Same thing in Russian: http://www.pravda.com.ua/rus/news/2016/08/15/7117797/ Edit: to clarify a bit, the anti-corruption bureau's angle is basically "we are going to need a lot more than this to have a court case, but it's a start that may be useful combined with other documents". OddObserver fucked around with this message at 16:22 on Aug 15, 2016 |
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BROCK LESBIAN posted:I got to this and just can't stop laughing. Some credit is due to whoever edited out RT from the list... (Also, aren't some of these, uhm, fine publications, at least somewhat anti-Trump?)
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computer parts posted:
That would require about 3000 reps, which would be rather impractical.
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Not yet mentionned about that PPP Texas poll: they did a hypothetical Trump vs. Obama matchup, which Nd up as just 48-46 for Trump.
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Josef bugman posted:Isn't there still a chechen thing still going on? Aren't Russia losing money on it? Aren't they horriffic fuckwits who've hosed themselves into a corner with a president who is trying to prop up donald loving Trump? Russia is literally paying off Chechnya and letting its big whigs ignore parts of country's federal law (like, say, letting a bigwig have an arranged marriage with a minor for a second wife, IIRC). Dagestan is still hot (not a war, but some violence), and that's despite the security services encouraging everyone they had doubts it in to join ISIS in Syria right around Sochi.
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Hmm, can't seem to make the auto-Twitter thing work.quote:Maxim Tucker – @MaxRTucker http://www.twitter.com/MaxRTucker/status/765637474601275392
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A bit more on Manafort: https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/765871967891259394 https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/765872258816569344 https://twitter.com/MaxRTucker/status/765873250454896640 (Sadly paywalled, but looks like the images has some of the ledge entries)
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FAUXTON posted:
Sounds like you have access to the actual story (with images large enough to at least see the scribbles) --- anything else worth highlighting?
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Aug 17, 2016 12:55
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FAUXTON posted:NPR comment section is always Gen-X dead-enders fighting the same fights they've probably been trying to make happen since 1990 so shutting it down is probably a net benefit for both NPR and the commenting brigade. How did they manage to avoid the Russians?
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Perhaps Barry Goldwater's record on Civil Rights may be an appropriate comparison? IIRC he wasn't racist himself but opposed the Civil Rights Act on "it's big government!" concerns.
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Air is lava! posted:Trump losing is actually just a huge myth! Hey, Trump has a +6 favorability in New York. Among Republicans, that is.
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Pookah posted:I'm guessing that means that he thinks the pollsters are as wrong about him as they were about Brexit. I'm surprised he knows about Brexit. He knows so much about Brexit he was congratulating people about it when visiting his golf course in Scotland
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Antti posted:Isn't Daybreak also the poll where they use self-reporting to figure out who voted D and R in 2012? This will I understand why using self-reported vote results is wrong, but how is one supposed to do it? Just demographics? I guess likely voter screens asking whether someone has voted in the last election have similar problems, too...
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Buffer posted:No it's not. If you're a public figure, you don't enjoy the same protections as you or me. This is a good thing. I agree with public figures having less protections, but I feel it's reasonable to say that it would take some rather weird circumstances for that protection to not include privacy of their bedrooms.
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