FLEA
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Well, in a move absolutely noone could have predicted... Angela Merkel sides with Trump regarding Twitter ban. https://amp.thenationalnews.com/world/germany-s-angela-merkel-leads-european-fears-of-problematic-twitter-ban-on-trump-1.1144394
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Dude very few people have seen that evidence and Tulsi likely never saw it when she discussed it. Weve all seen intel reports and seen how wildly off base they can be. She was an Army officer she probably remembers that too. She provided a voice of caution. Obama was a warhawk who campaigned on peace, then turned around and entered us into other conflicts most Americans never heard of and deepened out stakes in the two existing conflicts he inherited. That didn't sit well with a lot of Democrats who thought of themselves as the party of peace. The same intel community reported with consensus WMDs were in Iraq. It is considered one of the greatest national intelligence failures of all time and is widely discussed in intel academia. I'm not going to hold a grudge against anyone who said "wait a minute, let's make sure we got our shit straight this time before entering another cluster fuck."
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Trump went to Twitter because he was able to remove layers of filters from what his actual message was. He was a step ahead as a politician in that regard. The media of course derided his decision to use Twitter because it of course gave the media less importance.
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Well those same intelligence agencies said there were WMDs in Iraq. Don't believe everything national intelligence says. They do a decent job most of the time but they have been wrong a lot. I'm not saying they were wrong in this instance but I havent personally reviewed the analysis and I doubt Tulsi had either when she made that comment. You will save lives as a military commander if you always approach intelligence you recieve with scrutiny and skepticism.
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Pretty clear guidelines about relationships with people in your rating chain. Otherwise, I typically don't care. I don't even care he was married. They were separated and divorce was imminent. Honestly, the first question in an adultery investigation should be to the spouse "do you really care?" If the answer is no, move on. But allowing a relationship with a subordinate to spiral to the point that he/she believes they are above their immediate chain is certainly problematic.
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Well, to be honest, not "all about." I generally think that regulation for social welfare is acceptable but it should be done VERY carefully and VERY limited.
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I'm all about regulated capitalism and social welfare man. I do not like suppression of opinions though.
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It's not so much that they are being silenced as much as they are being filtered. They are still allowed to express their views as long as they aren't too far right and fit with in acceptable tolerances of their left leaning censors. Meanwhile, the left can be as grotesquely radical as much as they want with little consequence. Lets not pretend that social media wasn't used to coordinate many of the riots this summer.
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I just got around to watching this. I'll be honest, our country lost a great oppurtunity when it was decided she wasn't the "golden child." But maybe that was the point. It sounds like she came to a lot of her bipartisanship after going through the Presidential election process and realizing how edged it was against people not in the chosen few. Great on her for speaking out though. Hope she finds her way into public service again.
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Phew, thanks for restoring my faith in our guard component. Here's to hoping early separation offered this year!
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Still doesn't mean it wasn't a good decision for the country. Seriously, you can hate Trump for a lot of things. Please do not hate him for getting us out of all the quagmires Bush and Obama entangled us into. It was the one thing I strongly supported about his Presidency.
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I don't know, I'm really split on this because I hold Trump 95% responsible for what happened. I do think though we need to recognize noone held a gun to the rioters head and told them to do it. But I've read his speech in it's entirety and he never overtly says to commit a crime. His language was aggressive but we tend to allegory politics as a war often, so on its own language wasn't immediately hair raising. What I mean when I refer to allegorizing politics is we refer to swing states as battleground states, etc... That said, in the position he's in, he needs to recognize his words are amplified. A mentor I knew once told me when a General whispers, the airmen hears megaphone. Ever person down the rank ladder hears a comment slightly louder until your A1C hears it as the most important thing happening in the AF right now. I don't know what's bring shit posted on parler but I can't immagine it's that far out of expected norms. Parlers TOS do prevent inviting violence. Based on the comments Twitter banned Trump for which were entirely innocuous, I can only assume people are making huge leaps to assumptions with this. "Oh my God, someone on parler said Republicans have a voice! That is going to spark a riot!"
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No I'm aware. I'm a vocal supporter of net neutrality, but I'm surprised how many people here who advocate net neutrality and then think this is ok. I'm speaking more so about the removal of parler from app stores. "Network neutrality, most commonly called net neutrality, is the principle that Internet service providers (ISPs) must treat all Internet communications equally, and not discriminate or charge differently based on user, content, website, platform, application, type of equipment, source address, destination address, or method of communication.[4][5]"
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Was still great for the country either way. We have no reason to be there anymore. I dread the thought of us going back.
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There are some other ties here. 1.) This totally conflicts with principles of net neutrality. The entire purpose of net neutrality was to prevent providers from preventing access to content and 2.) Im curious how the provider, in this case Amazon's, status a s a common carrier factors into this.
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Sure but the conglomeration is sure indicative that tech has grown into key monopolies and I would say it's time for the Fed to come in and break them up. When you can literally prevent businesses from competing with other businesses you contract with, and there is no meaningful alternative, you are too big and the FTC hammer needs to come down.
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Wow.... And just like that my fantasies of how awesome the guard is were broken.
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Twitter's reasoning isn't really robust. The unfortunate thing is Trump's persona is so toxic now, no one will be able to call them out on this. But honestly, there reasoning is practically non-existent. Unless we are going to start censoring every politician that says their "voters have a voice." I'm honestly frustrated with this. I've been searching the internet for his remarks before the riots to figure out what was so inciting and I cannot find it anywhere. It has already been removed from social media and most news networks wont reprint it. So I have to take their word for it that he directed a group of radicals to storm the capital building.
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When discussing liberal media bias, most people are getting at this: The following data is sourced from OpenSecrets which gathers data based on political donations made by employees of said industries. Anytime a political donation of more than $100 is made the person must include their employer along with other information on the donation. OpenSecrets is a non-partisan group that gathers and evaluates data based on where people come from who donate. The most concerning thing about the above chart is that the quad on the far left, deals business in information. It includes Hollywood, social media, search engines, educational institutions, etc... You are never going to convince conservatives that these people present unbiased information because they are the same people that are donating billions of dollars each year to the democratic caucuses.
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I honestly think a lot of you guys are all missing the point. Its particularly disgusting that far right wing Republicans did this, and some people here are backing this up. I will consent there is quite a bit of overreaction from the left. However, nothing really forgives the trespass on our institution this is. There was a group of people that upended one of though most important and sacred establishments of our country, democracy. To those of you on the left, equally shame on you. You revel in this like its some sort of victory. You cheer at the sight of your perceived enemies, who are actually your countrymen, collapsing under fears that their way of life is under threat. This is absolutely not the time to approach the situation with a smug "I told you so." The left is just as much complicit for this event as the right. Until people start turning inward and asking hard questions of themselves, this country is going to get no better. I'm honestly sick today. I woke up this morning and this was the worst news I could have read. I don't even want to go to work today.
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I'll clarify a bit: On the Hofstede 6D model, the top graphic is a cross section of the Anglosphere, the middle one is a cross section of Western Europe, and the bottom one is a cross section of East Asia. When I refer to Western Europe as collective, I simply mean more collective than the US. As you can see, the Anglosphere is significantly individual. Western Europe is also pretty individual but not nearly as much as the Anglosphere. And the Far East is is the most collective societies. The Far East societies have done that best job at mitigating the spread of COVID. Of those 4 societies, Japan is routinely criticized the most as having done the worst job. Japan has still done a significantly better job than Europe or the US though. As you can see, Japan has the highest individualism score of the 4 sampled. The US and the UK are continually criticized for having poor COVID responses. The outliers here are Canada and Australia, but may be explained by population sparsity and low commercial traffic. West Europe falls squarely in between the Anglosphere and East Asia for Individualism/Collectivism, and by and large people perceive them as having a better response than the Anglosphere, but a worse response than East Asia. So this was not a very rigorous analysis. Merely an observation I made. I live in Europe now, and I will agree that there is some bucking to mask, lockdowns and social distancing. But by an large people fall in order and do it at some point. Those that protest are chastised to the point of societal excommunication.
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Well, on the bright side, I just interested 10K from my grandfather I was going to use to pay down the remaining balance of my wife's student loans. But with he way things are going, definitely going to hold off on that!
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There is a cultural component to it. The most obvious one is individualism vs collectivism on the Hofstede 6D model. Highly collective societies have had much better success limiting the pandemic. Less collective societies less so. The US is the highest ranked individual society out there. I think this was largely unavoidable for us. I will also dispute that other country's lockdown models allow a most normal life. Some of the lockdowns in Europe are incredibly oppressive. In China they were welding people into homes. I think people on the US have this model in their head where these countries found a balance but that's frankly not true. They are having protest in Europe and Asia as well to this. However Europe and especially Asia are largely more collective and fall into the fold once their government lays down the gravel.
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The US,sK or the ICC doesn't need to do criminal courts. The populace will literally lynch them if they concede. It's going to be a very violent collapse. There isn't a peaceful way to do this. There is also the problem of how to deal with nK's fissile material if they collapse. They have quite a bit of it now. Preventing that material from ending up in the wrong hands is a unique time pressure problem that will be difficult to deal with. In most internal collapse scenarios the functioning arms of the government will likely work to conceal it from the outside world as long as possible. We likely won't be certain that a collapse is imminent for an extended period of time.
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The North Korean elite never had a problem obtaining food though. They are a food based economy still (as in farmers pay their taxes with crop yields) and under Kim Jong Il the military took unnecessarily high share output. That was one of the reason most people were starving there at the time. Kim Jong Un scaled this back quite a bit. Funny, but in a lot of ways, KJU was a much better leader than his father. He is entirely more focused on the economy, people and livelihoods. In either case though, the people who made up their central party loyalist, like their special operations components, never had trouble getting fed.
