CaptWillard

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by CaptWillard 11mo ago
The most important goal IMO is to expose and weaken the misguided use and expansion of "soft power" in my name, with my tax dollars and without my consent. Ironically, one of the consistent outcomes is starving and dying children.
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by CaptWillard 11mo ago
I am a messenger, and it turns out I've got some bad news as well. My contention is that this kind of emotional appeal has been exploited to the point of (quickly) diminishing returns. People are scratching the surface and following th
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by CaptWillard 11mo ago
Please show your work.
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by CaptWillard 11mo ago
Pre-2022, Twitter was subject to heavy editorial oversight from D.C. and northern VA. Censorship and propaganda at breathtaking scale. This is a good place to start: https://twitterfiles.substack.com/
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by CaptWillard 11mo ago
Agreed. Besides, "left" and "right" are particularly meaningless in this context. Cheney spent his last years being openly embraced by the same people who spent the last few decades playing the part of opposition.
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by CaptWillard 11mo ago
Yeah, but Cheney's an interesting one especially here. Probably a lot of permanent D.C. types lost track of whether to lionize or demonize the man in public (they always loved him privately) Oh, what a tangled web ...
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by CaptWillard 11mo ago
"open"? That's an interesting word to describe a platform that was previously the undisputed playground of Feds and NGOs.
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by CaptWillard 11mo ago
I'm fascinated with the number of users of this site who seem disproportionately invested in getting people to stop using Twitter.
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by CaptWillard 1y ago
And don't forget the tertiary effects as we displace millions with those bombs, only to take in a large number of "asylum seekers" from the countries we "aided". IMO this is all by design, and there are a non-zero n
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by CaptWillard 1y ago
I read somewhere that if the user presses the accelerator all the way to the floor, a tesla will indeed go really fast. Won't anyone think of the children?
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by CaptWillard 1y ago
This has been my experience, yes. Although dogma implies long held beliefs. The rate of adoption has accelerated along with the news cycle.
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by CaptWillard 1y ago
I'd never heard of the replication crisis, but it mirrors what I think is a core problem with modern political discourse. Example: Two people with similar classically liberal values hear the same "pithy take" on a politicall
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by CaptWillard 1y ago
That's exactly what sentient AI would like us to believe.
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by CaptWillard 1y ago
" ... no one will take the numbers the BLS reports seriously anymore." Pretty sure the last five years of significant consistent downward revision did that.
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by CaptWillard 1y ago
Except the BLS numbers have been significantly revised on an ongoing basis for the last five years. That's been so widely known that I have a really hard time believing that you guys don't know this, which makes me wonder why you&
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by CaptWillard 1y ago
Well, seeing as this is a record of jobs created last year ... yeah.
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by CaptWillard 1y ago
Do you think the Trump administration is a root cause of last year's job numbers?
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by CaptWillard 1y ago
You are commenting on a thread/story about the job numbers for last year
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by CaptWillard 1y ago
Amazing how many here are so quick to lay the job numbers from last year at Trump's feet.
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by CaptWillard 1y ago
Huh? That's like comparing the purr of a lion to the screeching of a stray cat.
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by CaptWillard 1y ago
... " tangential connections to the intelligence agencies’ review of Russian efforts to influence and meddle in the 2016 election." That's a really cute way to describe a deliberate fabrication of intelligence in an effort to
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by CaptWillard 1y ago
Huh? Most of the point of killing USAID was because it was a CIA front. And yes, they've been operating domestically as well with the same color revolution tactics. Particularly to try to keep Trump out of office. Trying to project t
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by CaptWillard 1y ago
Indeed, with five seasons of The Wire, no city has had it's decline so eloquently illustrated. Or at least it's continued decline. Great show. All the pieces matter.
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by CaptWillard 1y ago
> when people start talking about "echo chambers" it's usually because they are upset that I won't listen Probably not "upset", per se. Most likely frustrated that you bother weighing in on topics for which
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by CaptWillard 1y ago
The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 has something to do with it. Also, a lot of what has happened goes back to the Church Committee and the fact that no meaningful reforms were made after that.
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by CaptWillard 1y ago
Lots of organic explanations for that. A lone developer can get away with infrequent commits at no practical cost. Maybe something happened in 2023 that made them a more prolific committer.
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by CaptWillard 1y ago
Academia and higher education have been central to some unsavory initiatives by federal agencies. The tendency to remain (or appear) willfully ignorant of those while clutching pearls over funding cuts is frankly repugnant.
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by CaptWillard 2y ago
Pneumonia and respiratory failure are not comorbidities. Those would be the actual cause of death with COVID given the credit for bring them on. --- Common comorbidities associated with COVID-19 deaths have been well-documented across vario
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by CaptWillard 2y ago
> It does not include cases like someone dying in a car crash who happened to be COVID-positive. Maybe not, but it definitely includes millions of elderly or otherwise comorbid subjects who developed pneumonia and never recovered. Sad is
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by CaptWillard 2y ago
Was there another pandemic whose statistics were based on mandatory asymptomatic testing (via PCR tests with deliberately high Ct values)? Was there another pandemic where 94-95% of all deaths involved at least one comorbidity, and 77% invo

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