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This would be funnier if it wasn’t child porn being unredacted by our government

by TSiege 8mo ago

PetriCasserole 8mo ago
[flagged]
- queenkjuul 8mo ago
  Become?
- nixosbestos 8mo ago
  Every second of my political consciousness in the United States has been acutely tinged with the awareness that a bunch of people, across most of the political spectrum live in a constant state of denial. Denial of personal responsibility or culpability. Denial of cognitive dissonance. Denial of any distinct, self-informed morals. Denial of anything but a fear of others. Denial of anything that makes them fearful or uncomfortable or might invite confrontation. I've known from the second I started doing debate and FX/DX in highschool, well, let's just say I never thought that the majority of the 2FA-folks would be worth a damn when tyranny really came knocking. Fear of the other as a form of manipulation, and a distraction from class consciousness, has been their literal raison d'état since decades before I was born. I guess I was shocked that the President being a convicted rapist and documented child predator would be a bridge too far. But then we re-elected him. I believe it. We voted for this. We do nothing in the face of zero actual justice. This is exactly as good as we deserve. And best of all, it certainly doesn't stop here. This is what they chose to not redact. When we know they spent enormous tax-payer hundreds-of-people hours redacting the documents. I don't think it's even conspiratorial to say they left stuff in, so they could use it as justification for not releasing the other HALF of the files that haven't been released, even overly censored. We deserve this, and the much worse that our apathy has invited.
  - hsuduebc2 8mo ago
    I will certainly feel less confident ridiculing conspiracy theories. I’d never believe Bill Gates would secretly slip antibiotics into his wife’s cocktail to treat an STI he got from a Russian prostitute on convicted pedophile estate. But here we are.
    - s5300 8mo ago
      [dead]
    - MadnessASAP 8mo ago
      I wish I could believe in more conspiracy theories. At least then I might believe there was some sort of master plan, that some individual or group had some image of a better world (to them) and that the world was being steered somewhere. Unfortunately no, it just seems to be greed, incompetence, and incompetent greed. At least when a tank drives over a protestor somebody gets to be on the side of the tank. When the bus goes off a cliff because the driver sold the steering wheel everybody dies.
      - direwolf20 8mo ago
        The owner of 4chan met with an Epstein associate 3 days before reinstating /pol/ which lead to the destruction of America. Epstein was trying to remove tax on banker bonuses in the UK for some reason. There might not be a single master plan but holy hell is this stuff intertwined with everything that happens.
        hsuduebc2 8mo ago
        Schizos would be schizos anywhere else. Widely available access to information which are biased towards your own bias mostly did that. Most of the people don't understand technology in general nor the algoritmic content suggestion. That is what the real problem is.
        balamatom 8mo ago
        >Schizos would be schizos anywhere else. May I introduce you to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sluggish_schizophrenia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sluggish_schizophrenia >Most of the people don't understand technology in general nor the algoritmic content suggestion. That is what the real problem is. There isn't a common understanding of these mechanisms, because the first thing they were used for, was to brand as "defective" anyone pursuing such understanding on their own terms. Of course you could always do it by the book i.e. go in blind and debt-enslave yourself until loss of capacity for disentanglement. A small number of such functionaries are indeed required to maintain a colony; and then some surplus ones to keep the first one in their place. Is that a "conspiracy"? In the sense that you're stuck breathing in sync with a lot of strangers, sure. In the sense of secret master plan? Nah bruh, it's all been out in the open all along. Just mindkillingly terrifying to most of yall. Hence all the phatics.
  - modo_mario 8mo ago
    >and a distraction from class consciousness As a non american looking in I feel like that applies to the other side as well and is how you ended up here. Having paid a bit of attention during the election seeing bernie and trump at least in terms of rethoric more in line with eachother on the same trade agreements, migration, etc whilst also both outperforming Hillary in the same swing states, etc is not some coincidence. And given that you live in a 2 party state it's always going to swing at some point eventually. No matter how depraved someone like trump is. If the next one is just as bad and they sit it out long enough they will get their turn.
  - ranger_danger 8mo ago
    > Denial of personal responsibility or culpability What are you doing differently that has a better effect on the situation?
- yieldcrv 8mo ago
  > become the mascot of 4chan was literally pedobear, what time frame are you referring to?
  - direwolf20 8mo ago
    The owner of 4chan met with an Epstein associate 3 days before reinstating /pol/ which lead to the destruction of America.
block_dagger 8mo ago
Weren’t. Subjunctive mood.
- 867-5309 8mo ago
  rubn't. conjunctivitis.
- direwolf20 8mo ago
  Language is whatever people think it is, and "it wasn't" has plurality agreement which "it weren't" does not
lazide 8mo ago
If you think the child porn is the worst part of this mess, I’ve got news for you. We’d all be lucky if it was just distributing child porn.

This would be funnier if it wasn’t child porn being unredacted by our government

by TSiege 8mo ago

This would be funnier if it wasn’t child porn being unredacted by our government

PetriCasserole 8mo ago

[flagged]

queenkjuul 8mo ago
Become?
nixosbestos 8mo ago
Every second of my political consciousness in the United States has been acutely tinged with the awareness that a bunch of people, across most of the political spectrum live in a constant state of denial. Denial of personal responsibility or culpability. Denial of cognitive dissonance. Denial of any distinct, self-informed morals. Denial of anything but a fear of others. Denial of anything that makes them fearful or uncomfortable or might invite confrontation. I've known from the second I started doing debate and FX/DX in highschool, well, let's just say I never thought that the majority of the 2FA-folks would be worth a damn when tyranny really came knocking. Fear of the other as a form of manipulation, and a distraction from class consciousness, has been their literal raison d'état since decades before I was born. I guess I was shocked that the President being a convicted rapist and documented child predator would be a bridge too far. But then we re-elected him. I believe it. We voted for this. We do nothing in the face of zero actual justice. This is exactly as good as we deserve. And best of all, it certainly doesn't stop here. This is what they chose to not redact. When we know they spent enormous tax-payer hundreds-of-people hours redacting the documents. I don't think it's even conspiratorial to say they left stuff in, so they could use it as justification for not releasing the other HALF of the files that haven't been released, even overly censored. We deserve this, and the much worse that our apathy has invited.
- hsuduebc2 8mo ago
  I will certainly feel less confident ridiculing conspiracy theories. I’d never believe Bill Gates would secretly slip antibiotics into his wife’s cocktail to treat an STI he got from a Russian prostitute on convicted pedophile estate. But here we are.
  - s5300 8mo ago
    [dead]
  - MadnessASAP 8mo ago
    I wish I could believe in more conspiracy theories. At least then I might believe there was some sort of master plan, that some individual or group had some image of a better world (to them) and that the world was being steered somewhere. Unfortunately no, it just seems to be greed, incompetence, and incompetent greed. At least when a tank drives over a protestor somebody gets to be on the side of the tank. When the bus goes off a cliff because the driver sold the steering wheel everybody dies.
    - direwolf20 8mo ago
      The owner of 4chan met with an Epstein associate 3 days before reinstating /pol/ which lead to the destruction of America. Epstein was trying to remove tax on banker bonuses in the UK for some reason. There might not be a single master plan but holy hell is this stuff intertwined with everything that happens.
      - hsuduebc2 8mo ago
        Schizos would be schizos anywhere else. Widely available access to information which are biased towards your own bias mostly did that. Most of the people don't understand technology in general nor the algoritmic content suggestion. That is what the real problem is.
        balamatom 8mo ago
        >Schizos would be schizos anywhere else. May I introduce you to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sluggish_schizophrenia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sluggish_schizophrenia >Most of the people don't understand technology in general nor the algoritmic content suggestion. That is what the real problem is. There isn't a common understanding of these mechanisms, because the first thing they were used for, was to brand as "defective" anyone pursuing such understanding on their own terms. Of course you could always do it by the book i.e. go in blind and debt-enslave yourself until loss of capacity for disentanglement. A small number of such functionaries are indeed required to maintain a colony; and then some surplus ones to keep the first one in their place. Is that a "conspiracy"? In the sense that you're stuck breathing in sync with a lot of strangers, sure. In the sense of secret master plan? Nah bruh, it's all been out in the open all along. Just mindkillingly terrifying to most of yall. Hence all the phatics.
- modo_mario 8mo ago
  >and a distraction from class consciousness As a non american looking in I feel like that applies to the other side as well and is how you ended up here. Having paid a bit of attention during the election seeing bernie and trump at least in terms of rethoric more in line with eachother on the same trade agreements, migration, etc whilst also both outperforming Hillary in the same swing states, etc is not some coincidence. And given that you live in a 2 party state it's always going to swing at some point eventually. No matter how depraved someone like trump is. If the next one is just as bad and they sit it out long enough they will get their turn.
- ranger_danger 8mo ago
  > Denial of personal responsibility or culpability What are you doing differently that has a better effect on the situation?
yieldcrv 8mo ago
> become the mascot of 4chan was literally pedobear, what time frame are you referring to?
- direwolf20 8mo ago
  The owner of 4chan met with an Epstein associate 3 days before reinstating /pol/ which lead to the destruction of America.

block_dagger 8mo ago

Weren’t. Subjunctive mood.

867-5309 8mo ago
rubn't. conjunctivitis.
direwolf20 8mo ago
Language is whatever people think it is, and "it wasn't" has plurality agreement which "it weren't" does not

lazide 8mo ago

If you think the child porn is the worst part of this mess, I’ve got news for you. We’d all be lucky if it was just distributing child porn.