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by yucky 4y ago
That "senior US Intelligence official" seems to confirm a lot of things with varying levels of accuracy. Let's hope we can get more info before WWIII.
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by yucky 4y ago
You can read more in their financial filings, which is part of what this thread is about: >" The Foundation has an agreement with the Tides Foundation that established the Wikimedia Endowment as a Collective Action Fund to act as a
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by yucky 4y ago
> Judging by the deep partisan slant on [2], "extreme environmentalists" could mean literally anything. You can say the same for the generalities that Tides uses to describe their mission. "Immigrant Rights"
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by yucky 4y ago
I believe two were acquitted due to clear entrapment by the FBI, two more plead guilty before it came out that their group had been entrapped by the FBI (oops), and then two more were actually convicted despite the entrapment of the group,
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by yucky 4y ago
Is it not nefarious to direct donations meant for one thing (keeping Wikipedia running) and secretly direct it to be used for other things that the donors may or may not even agree with, much less want to give money for?
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by yucky 4y ago
The goal of this is to be able to act as moral gatekeepers similar to what we see religious leaders do. Anybody who positions themselves as arbiters of morality (past or present) can be discounted immediately. Morality changes across time a
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by yucky 4y ago
.edu is associated with the greatest source of debilitating debt the world may have ever seen, all to prop up a jobs program for the administrative class in higher education and to pile more billions of dollars into their endowments.
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by yucky 4y ago
Why should we waste tax dollars on medicare and welfare for anti-vaxxers? Then we should use this same argument against obesity, drug use and other dangerous activities as well, right?
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by yucky 4y ago
Sounds like there never was a reasonable case for mandates then :)
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by yucky 4y ago
There are sillier things that higher percentages of adults believe in. We're just not allowed to talk about them.
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by yucky 4y ago
You don't get a choice about COVID getting into your body, and that is far worse than whatever possible long term effects of the vaccine might be. That is actually yet to be determined, which is the point. And I only mean that
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by yucky 4y ago
The actual FDA approval letter[0] calls out in the document that all long term testing will not be completed until May 2027. Pointing that out has always gotten one branded as an antivaxx conspiracy nutter, rather than a person who might wa
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by yucky 4y ago
We're allowed to criticize Saudia Arabia, even if it goes ignored. We're not allowed to criticize Israel despite their outsized influence on our government and foreign policy. If we do, we are branded. No other country has their t
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by yucky 4y ago
I would second this. Also known as the Golden Circle I believe, but it basically boils down to everyone knows what they do (make widgets), and many people know how they do it (through mastery of some tricky to operate widget making machine)
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by yucky 4y ago
That same logic applies to women then, no?
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by yucky 4y ago
What is your "acceptable number" of humans?
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by yucky 4y ago
qualified people are already working on it And many (most?) of them see declining population as a net benefit for the earths' climate change issues. So at best, they have conflicting motivations.
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by yucky 4y ago
The solution is to ban political parties so that people have to be educated on the actual people and issues they vote on. Things like straight ticket voting are an absurd perversion of democracy. You can't prevent people in the US from
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by yucky 4y ago
It used to be nominally illegal to propagandize Americans, the Smith-Mundt Act (as part of that NDAA) made it legal. Many people like to blame Obama for that, but the stripping away of Americans rights is a bipartisan effort.
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by yucky 4y ago
Some of us find the interference from the countries we can't talk about more interesting, due to the underlying reasons why. For instance, I don't even have to name "that country" and we all know who shall not be named
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by yucky 4y ago
When are we going to hold US universities accountable for that?
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by yucky 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Authorization...
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by yucky 4y ago
Parties without so much of a vested interest in lying to the public. The government has proven itself to be the least trustworthy of all.
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by yucky 4y ago
There was a time in late "82 or early "83 where Gallagher briefly considered switching from watermelons to pumpkins. Imagine how different the world would have been.
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by yucky 4y ago
They don't need to get that money from the recipient of their shots, they can get it from the insurance companies and/or taxpayers.
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by yucky 4y ago
Why would anybody trust the government to "disarm disinformation" when they have historically been the largest purveyors of it? Maybe if they lead by example, but until then...nope.
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by yucky 4y ago
How about a free side of mashed potatoes commemorating the Watts riots I have to admit I'm a sucker for their mashed potatoes. I think I'd be willing to overlook the faux pas.
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by yucky 4y ago
Correction, Twitter lost money almost every day for over a decade with the net result being a business that has has lost investors BILLIONS of dollars since going public under completely inept management. Will Elon do better? No idea. But
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by yucky 4y ago
I don't think someone pays tens of billions of dollars to continue to lose money, at a slower rate. The goal is clearly to completely change how the company operates. Whether it works or not is yet to be seen, but clearly doing the sa
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by yucky 4y ago
Wrong = not correct. Telling someone they are wrong, means you know for a fact that they are wrong. It does not mean you think they may be wrong. It is binary. You do not tell someone they are wrong if they may in fact not be wrong.

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