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I gave up and watched the video. I don't know if there's fraud, but something seems fishy. If it's not fraud, it certainly has the smell, and at the very least

I gave up and watched the video. I don't know if there's fraud, but something seems fishy. If it's not fraud, it certainly has the smell, and at the very least the government should be interested in a transparent investigation to restore faith.

dc396 10mo ago
Call me cynical, but I figure in our post-truth world, faith depends on the tribe you belong to, not "transparent investigation". To me, this is yet another episode of one side screaming "conspiracy" and the other side screaming "conspiracy to create a conspiracy" in order to drive clicks on both sides. The actual truth will likely never be publicly known or acknowledged.
- slowmovintarget 10mo ago
  Or the more than 42K NGOs getting billions of dollars in Minnesota alone are not legitimate and this will just be the tip of the iceberg. Ilhan Omar has a $174K salary, and she went from nearly broke to having a net worth somewhere in the neighborhood of $30 million in the space of six years... and her only "work" is the Senate? This is an amazing rags-to-riches story! Journalists should be knocking down her door to discuss it. But it's "not news," right? There's a whole lot of something there.
  - dc396 10mo ago
    You miss my point. I have no idea whether or not something is there and can't be bothered to look into it as, to me, even if it's true, it's just a drop in a planetary ocean of incompetence, fraud, waste, and abuse. The reality is that the perception of "truth" (whether this is something or there isn't) is going to highly dependent on which tribe you're in. That is, if you're republican, the fraud will be obvious and if you're democrat, it's obvious that even if there is some fraud, it is blown out of proportion. As we have seen time and time again, whether there will be repercussions will be dependent in who is in power.
mmh0000 10mo ago
A random, childless dude shows up at the daycare (likely on Christmas day, when the place would be empty), acting unhinged and demanding "where are the children," and acts offended when they won't let him in. That's a totally normal and predictable response on the daycare's part. EDIT - This whole saga is obvious rage-bait trolling. If this was actual journalism, the guy would have went during normal business hours, and brought a child with him, with a fake story like "I'm looking for a daycare for lil' Billy here, would you mind showing us around and telling us about the place?"

dc396 10mo ago

Call me cynical, but I figure in our post-truth world, faith depends on the tribe you belong to, not "transparent investigation". To me, this is yet another episode of one side screaming "conspiracy" and the other side screaming "conspiracy to create a conspiracy" in order to drive clicks on both sides. The actual truth will likely never be publicly known or acknowledged.

slowmovintarget 10mo ago
Or the more than 42K NGOs getting billions of dollars in Minnesota alone are not legitimate and this will just be the tip of the iceberg. Ilhan Omar has a $174K salary, and she went from nearly broke to having a net worth somewhere in the neighborhood of $30 million in the space of six years... and her only "work" is the Senate? This is an amazing rags-to-riches story! Journalists should be knocking down her door to discuss it. But it's "not news," right? There's a whole lot of something there.
- dc396 10mo ago
  You miss my point. I have no idea whether or not something is there and can't be bothered to look into it as, to me, even if it's true, it's just a drop in a planetary ocean of incompetence, fraud, waste, and abuse. The reality is that the perception of "truth" (whether this is something or there isn't) is going to highly dependent on which tribe you're in. That is, if you're republican, the fraud will be obvious and if you're democrat, it's obvious that even if there is some fraud, it is blown out of proportion. As we have seen time and time again, whether there will be repercussions will be dependent in who is in power.

mmh0000 10mo ago

A random, childless dude shows up at the daycare (likely on Christmas day, when the place would be empty), acting unhinged and demanding "where are the children," and acts offended when they won't let him in. That's a totally normal and predictable response on the daycare's part. EDIT - This whole saga is obvious rage-bait trolling. If this was actual journalism, the guy would have went during normal business hours, and brought a child with him, with a fake story like "I'm looking for a daycare for lil' Billy here, would you mind showing us around and telling us about the place?"