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This weaponization of public resources for partisan purposes is hardly surprising, but given the government is shut down, I would imagine black or even grey hat

This weaponization of public resources for partisan purposes is hardly surprising, but given the government is shut down, I would imagine black or even grey hats might feel like it's open season on .gov, so I would be surprised to see much durability in their attempts.

bragr 1y ago
I don't know about this shutdown, but in past shutdowns, many non-essential .gov sites just pulled the plug for the duration.
rolph 1y ago
the hatz are already there, they have been for a long time.
razster 1y ago
This post from Reddit’s Redding, California community is definitely weaponized. https://old.reddit.com/r/Redding/comments/1nvgu8b/guess_i_wont_be_foraging_in_shasta_this_weekend/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Redding/comments/1nvgu8b/guess_i_wo...
- culi 1y ago
  Nothing to do with Redding. It's all over the USDA website: https://www.fs.usda.gov/ https://www.fs.usda.gov/ > The Radical Left Democrats shut down the government. This government website will be updated periodically during the funding lapse for mission critical functions. President Trump has made it clear he wants to keep the government open and support those who feed, fuel, and clothe the American people.
  - l2p 1y ago
    SBA message is somehow worse... https://sba.gov https://sba.gov
    - culi 1y ago
      > Senate Democrats voted to block a clean federal funding bill (H.R. 5371), leading to a government shutdown that is preventing the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) from serving America’s 36 million small businesses. > Every day that Senate Democrats continue to oppose a clean funding bill, they are stopping an estimated 320 small businesses from accessing $170 million in SBA-guaranteed funding. > As a result of the shutdown, we wanted to notify you that many of our services supporting small businesses are currently unavailable. The agency is executing its Lapse Plan and as soon as the shutdown is over, we are prepared to immediately return to the record-breaking services we were providing under the leadership of the Trump Administration. > If you need disaster assistance, please visit sba.gov/disaster.
      - johnnyanmac 1y ago
        Just to add some context to this "clean federal funding": a "clean bill" here means "let things expire". Democrats are fighting for a continuing resolution which extends whatever is about to expire. In this case, the ACA subsidies would expire if a clean funding bill is passed.
        xp84 1y ago
        The Democrats already lost the battle on those things (cuts to Medicaid + no extension of Obamacare subsidies) and they were already going to happen because Democrats didn’t (and don’t) have the votes to renew them because they can’t win elections. Now they’re using this opportunity to try to get those things back at gunpoint. It’s not propaganda that the Republicans have offered a CR which changes nothing additional. Once again, Democrats expect to enact their own policy goals with 47 Senate seats and find it doesn’t go so well. Maybe some decade they will go back to trying to convince voters to vote for them instead of just ridiculing everyone outside their echo chamber. (I’m not a democrat or a republican, I’m not rooting for either one.)
        Sabinus 1y ago
        Forget Medicaid expansions expiring, the Democrat ultimatum should be around Trump's crypto bribes and seizing the power of the purse from Congress.
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eastbound 1y ago
It’s barely anything to get a stroke upon: The article didn’t quote the text directly and paraphrased it. It means it is not persuasive per se, or it would have been used as proof. Since the raw text couldn’t serve as proof, an entire article had to be mounted to create the feeling of being appalling. It’s an opinion piece. And that’s all it always it: People getting hung up over principles and theories. The proof those principles aren’t universal is that they don’t uphold them themselves when they’re in power. I wish we were able to talk to each other. There are many ways, many paths together. But no, condescension, condemnation, hate, refusal to work on your bad sides, ideas of revolution, of uprising, of disrespect of people’s vote, refusal to communicate or work together, refusal to let working people keep the fruits of their work, and in the end, we have to take over the government, or you will. There is no sharing when it’s your side in power. So we elect a hermetically sealed government. I wish we didn’t do that.
- quantified 1y ago
  In this administration only, for the coherent sentences you have written.
- johnnyanmac 1y ago
  >I wish we were able to talk to each other. We quickly went from "should a woman have autonomy over her body" to "can the president invade a US city" in the blink of an eye. Things are getting continually less compromisable as we edge more to "should the US be a democracy" as a question.

bragr 1y ago

I don't know about this shutdown, but in past shutdowns, many non-essential .gov sites just pulled the plug for the duration.

rolph 1y ago

the hatz are already there, they have been for a long time.

razster 1y ago

This post from Reddit’s Redding, California community is definitely weaponized. https://old.reddit.com/r/Redding/comments/1nvgu8b/guess_i_wont_be_foraging_in_shasta_this_weekend/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Redding/comments/1nvgu8b/guess_i_wo...

culi 1y ago
Nothing to do with Redding. It's all over the USDA website: https://www.fs.usda.gov/ https://www.fs.usda.gov/ > The Radical Left Democrats shut down the government. This government website will be updated periodically during the funding lapse for mission critical functions. President Trump has made it clear he wants to keep the government open and support those who feed, fuel, and clothe the American people.
- l2p 1y ago
  SBA message is somehow worse... https://sba.gov https://sba.gov
  - culi 1y ago
    > Senate Democrats voted to block a clean federal funding bill (H.R. 5371), leading to a government shutdown that is preventing the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) from serving America’s 36 million small businesses. > Every day that Senate Democrats continue to oppose a clean funding bill, they are stopping an estimated 320 small businesses from accessing $170 million in SBA-guaranteed funding. > As a result of the shutdown, we wanted to notify you that many of our services supporting small businesses are currently unavailable. The agency is executing its Lapse Plan and as soon as the shutdown is over, we are prepared to immediately return to the record-breaking services we were providing under the leadership of the Trump Administration. > If you need disaster assistance, please visit sba.gov/disaster.
    - johnnyanmac 1y ago
      Just to add some context to this "clean federal funding": a "clean bill" here means "let things expire". Democrats are fighting for a continuing resolution which extends whatever is about to expire. In this case, the ACA subsidies would expire if a clean funding bill is passed.
      - xp84 1y ago
        The Democrats already lost the battle on those things (cuts to Medicaid + no extension of Obamacare subsidies) and they were already going to happen because Democrats didn’t (and don’t) have the votes to renew them because they can’t win elections. Now they’re using this opportunity to try to get those things back at gunpoint. It’s not propaganda that the Republicans have offered a CR which changes nothing additional. Once again, Democrats expect to enact their own policy goals with 47 Senate seats and find it doesn’t go so well. Maybe some decade they will go back to trying to convince voters to vote for them instead of just ridiculing everyone outside their echo chamber. (I’m not a democrat or a republican, I’m not rooting for either one.)
        Sabinus 1y ago
        Forget Medicaid expansions expiring, the Democrat ultimatum should be around Trump's crypto bribes and seizing the power of the purse from Congress.
- deleted 1y ago
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eastbound 1y ago

It’s barely anything to get a stroke upon: The article didn’t quote the text directly and paraphrased it. It means it is not persuasive per se, or it would have been used as proof. Since the raw text couldn’t serve as proof, an entire article had to be mounted to create the feeling of being appalling. It’s an opinion piece. And that’s all it always it: People getting hung up over principles and theories. The proof those principles aren’t universal is that they don’t uphold them themselves when they’re in power. I wish we were able to talk to each other. There are many ways, many paths together. But no, condescension, condemnation, hate, refusal to work on your bad sides, ideas of revolution, of uprising, of disrespect of people’s vote, refusal to communicate or work together, refusal to let working people keep the fruits of their work, and in the end, we have to take over the government, or you will. There is no sharing when it’s your side in power. So we elect a hermetically sealed government. I wish we didn’t do that.

quantified 1y ago
In this administration only, for the coherent sentences you have written.
johnnyanmac 1y ago
>I wish we were able to talk to each other. We quickly went from "should a woman have autonomy over her body" to "can the president invade a US city" in the blink of an eye. Things are getting continually less compromisable as we edge more to "should the US be a democracy" as a question.