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12-09-2022, 09:01 AM
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4. If you don't agree with me, I'm going to take my ball and go home.
I'm not sure how you call the US government, via the FBI, colluding with big tech to quash news stories a nothing-burger, but whatever...
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22. Although several sources recalled hearing about a “general” warning from federal law enforcement that summer about possible foreign hacks, there’s no evidence - that I've seen - of any government involvement in the laptop story. In fact, that might have been the problem...
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Isn't that a non story story? Musk paid Taibbi to write a hit piece which fell flat and this looks like a detraction to me.
Besides why is this even a factor. From what we know, Hunter Biden is being investigated by the Justice Department.
It seems to me that this is the usual mudslinging to obscure the real problem which is Trump stealing classified documents. And now we find out he hid even more. So what's next for Musk, Hillary's hard disks?
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12-09-2022, 09:17 AM
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I'm not sure how you call the US government, via the FBI, colluding with big tech to quash news stories a nothing-burger, but whatever...
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Funny how 'foreign bot-pushed propaganda' becomes "news stories."
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12-09-2022, 09:49 AM
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4. If you don't agree with me, I'm going to take my ball and go home.
I'm not sure how you call the US government, via the FBI, colluding with big tech to quash news stories a nothing-burger, but whatever... 
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Except for the simple fact that this is not what happened.
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12-09-2022, 10:15 AM
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4. If you don't agree with me, I'm going to take my ball and go home.
I'm not sure how you call the US government, via the FBI, colluding with big tech to quash news stories a nothing-burger, but whatever... 
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1. Who was in charge of the US government at the time of your Big Tech/FBI collusion?
2. Who was in charge of the FBI?
Trump and Barr. So lets assume there was this Twitterburger cooked up in SF, who then is responsible?
Sounds like blaming a legally parked car for causing an accident.
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12-09-2022, 01:26 PM
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4. If you don't agree with me, I'm going to take my ball and go home.
I'm not sure how you call the US government, via the FBI, colluding with big tech to quash news stories a nothing-burger, but whatever... 
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Except for the simple fact that this is not what happened.
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12-09-2022, 02:08 PM
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Russian court sentences war critic to eight years for spreading "fake news" (i.e., the truth) about Russia's atrocities in Bucha.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...-russia-court/
Consider for a moment the utterances of Whell's Dear Leader on the subject of the free press (and how Trump would love to have the power that Putin has in dealing with the inconvenient truth (i.e., "fake news"):
Trump has made it very clear that he doesn’t stand for the freedom of the press. As a presidential candidate, he told supporters he would “open up our libel laws” to sue journalists. “We’re going to have people sue you like you’ve never got sued before,” he promised.
Trump the candidate also blacklisted reporters and entire news outlets from campaign events, referred to journalists as “scum” and “slime,” and mocked a reporter for having a disability. He vowed to sue women who reported incidents of sexual harassment and assault, along with the outlets that covered their accounts, and threatened a lawsuit against a Hispanic journalist group for calling out his bigoted remarks.
“I would never kill them but I do hate them,” he said of reporters. “And some of them are such lying, disgusting people.”
This onslaught didn’t stop once Trump assumed the presidency. From the most powerful perch on the planet, he has continued to wage attacks on the free press, further revealing his authoritarian impulses and disdain for the First Amendment.
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Last edited by finnbow; 12-09-2022 at 02:32 PM.
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12-09-2022, 03:13 PM
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Actually, I've agreed with this for quite some time.
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If you had half a brain, you would have understood in 2016, as the rest of us did, that this career criminal piece of human garbage mob boss was completely unfit for office. Yet you spent years defending him here. Sad! Your posts are a complete waste of time.
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12-09-2022, 03:41 PM
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The Deathly Result of Putting your Faith in Conservative Angertainment:
Death rates in Florida and Ohio among Democrats and Republicans were roughly equal before vaccines became widely available. At that point, the trend lines began to diverge. The death rate for Republicans ultimately was 76 percent higher than for Democrats.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...united-states/
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12-09-2022, 05:05 PM
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Originally Posted by whell
4. If you don't agree with me, I'm going to take my ball and go home.
I'm not sure how you call the US government, via the FBI, colluding with big tech to quash news stories a nothing-burger, but whatever... 
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The Republicans on the FEC unanimously agreed that it was a nothing-burger:
As conservatives re-up their criticism of Twitter for supposedly interfering in the 2020 election with its two-day ban on an unverified story about Hunter Biden’s laptop, it’s worth noting that Republican federal election officials already cleared the company of that specific charge...
Agency investigators, acting on a complaint from the Republican National Committee, took up the issue as it pertains to campaign finance law—whether Twitter’s actions constituted an unlawful in-kind contribution to the Biden campaign.
And while the commissioners often disagree on these matters, there was little conflict here. Last year, they voted 6-0 to dismiss the complaint, which the RNC had filed Oct. 16, 2020—two days after the laptop story broke, and the same day Twitter reversed its decision.
The agency exonerated Twitter, with two GOP commissioners releasing a statement saying that the company had not acted with “the purpose of influencing an election.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-of...-wasnt-corrupt
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12-10-2022, 12:16 PM
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The Twitter Files in a nutshell:
Employees of a company made decisions about how best to enforce their rules resulting in fewer Nazis and less Russian propaganda and antivax disinformation.
The new management disagrees with those decisions and wants more Nazis, Russian propaganda and antivax disinformation while asserting that seeing Hunter's dick pics are a First Amendment right.
And that's about it.
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