@detroitmechworks @detroitmechworks
definition of the word has been changed, like so many words these days.

What really make me angry is how arrogant and stupid the parasites in Washington who spend their lives on the public teat think we are. We know why we voted the way we did. They’re the idiots pushing lies and propaganda as fast as their little tongues can flap it up. Like yesterday when Manafort got indicted for unethical and criminal acts he committed while working for one of Clinton’s operatives, who had NOTHING to do with Trump. And they’re using the indictment to push the lie that it’s proof of TRUMP’S corruption and ‘treason’. The Dims are trying to subvert an election that they lost. And they’re doing it by lying and using OUR government to push THEIR lies.

Here’s how they’re going to screw with us next. And screw us they will. This is a shot fired right at the First Amendment by the neo-liberal TRAITORS. (I’m going to start slinging that meme around and I’m calling that fake pee-pee report the ‘Clinton Dossier’. That last one has gotten a couple dirty looks and an accompanying indignant sniffle. I can be more obnoxious than they ever dreamed of being. And I get my ammo from them.)

Tech Companies Set to Tell Congress About Russian Election Meddling

By Steven T. Dennis , Sarah Frier , and Gerrit De Vynck
October 31, 2017, 3:00 AM CDT
Tech giants tout moves to crack down on election-ad abuses
Russian Facebook posts reached newsfeeds of 126 million users

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“If someone is paying you in rubles to place a political ad, or an ad that is intended to sow the seeds of discontent and discord, that ought to be a red flag,” Senate Intelligence panel member Susan Collins of Maine said in an interview Monday. “How much more of a tipoff do you need?”

Facebook plans to tell lawmakers that 80,000 posts came from 470 fake Russian accounts and that it closed 5.8 million fake accounts from all sources in October 2016 alone. Fake Russian accounts on Facebook’s Instagram posted another 120,000 pieces of content, the company will tell lawmakers.

At the same hearing, Twitter Inc. will say it has suspended 2,752 Russian-linked accounts, far more than it previously disclosed, according to testimony obtained by Bloomberg. Alphabet Inc.’s Google plans to say the impact on its sites was much smaller, with $4,700 worth of Russian-linked ads, compared to the $100,000 Facebook disclosed.

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The companies will be wary of what happened to Twitter when it first presented information on Russian interference to a closed-door briefing in late September with the Senate Intelligence committee staff. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the committee, gave the company a verbal lashing afterward for not taking the issue seriously enough.

The companies have since worked to present a proactive image. Twitter said last week it would ban Russian state media accounts from buying ads and create a “transparency center” to show how much political campaigns spent on advertising, the identity of the organization funding the campaign, and what demographics the ad targeted.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-31/facebook-twitter-goog...

WHERE IN THE HELL IS SANDERS??? I want to hear what that old man thinks about the Dims push for massive censorship of the internet. Where is that old goober on the Manafort indictments? Why isn’t he telling the truth about it rather than letting the liars on the ‘lefy’ (Ha!) get away with spewing this crap and using it to curtailing our rights?

Remember all the condemnation of the Nazis and their book burning??

Cultural incineration: 80 years since Nazi book burnings
Some of Germany's most valuable creative works went up in flames on May 10, 1933. The mass book burnings marked a turning point in the Nazis' ideology campaigns. And they were largely organized by university students.

http://m.dw.com/en/cultural-incineration-80-years-since-nazi-book-burnin...

Well, this is today’s equivalent. And notice it was the young idiots in Germany who bought into the propaganda and destroyed part of their culture because they were too fucking stupid to know when they were being had. College students. Sound familiar?

I wonder, did they all sport pink pussy hats?

EDIT: test/teat. Can auto correct be turned off?

#1.1 So I have to assume that the PTB have decided some show trials are the way to shut the peasants up.

They is a nebulous term, and in this circumstance I specifically mean large money interests who want to keep the wars going, the wealthy unprosecuted and the people ignorant.

But then, I'm a paranoid fool who believes that Washington is an Imperial cult that tells fairy stories about democracy to hide their corruption.

@Timmethy2.0 It's neo-McCarthyite Crap meant to keep us fighting with each other over meaningless "Traitor" charges, while they the rich run off with all the fucking money. Again.

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Hillary is a private citizen who ran and maybe still runs a corrupt DNC and bears responsibility for Trump being in office. But Trump is now the President. Hillary is not and I think she is used too much to distract from Trump. Particularly in oligarchy media that brainwashes the right (talk radio, hack reporters, Fox etc.).

@Timmethy2.0 But Trump is now the President. Hillary is not and I think she is used too much to distract from Trump.

It's simply horrible how the oligarchic media won't stop promoting Her book tour.

She really is the victim in all this.

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Hillary is a private citizen who ran and maybe still runs a corrupt DNC and bears responsibility for Trump being in office. But Trump is now the President. Hillary is not and I think she is used too much to distract from Trump. Particularly in oligarchy media that brainwashes the right (talk radio, hack reporters, Fox etc.).

@Timmethy2.0

The problem here is not "ignorance"... not among either Democratic or Republican constituents anyway. What you have could most charitably be called "willful ignorance" but much more reasonably be described as "rank hypocrisy".

In way too many cases this is not a case of ignorance. By the way, who anywhere can claim ignorance of the reach & power of the Israeli lobby here in the US? If we are so concerned about other nations tampering with our political processes it seems like starting at the most obvious 900lb gorilla would be sensible. Instead, however, the people that you tell me care about "clean and fair elections" are going after puppies and pokemon.

No, most [Democratic and Republican] people don't give a rat's ass about "clean and fair". They care about winning. That is a comforting thought but I don't see it supported by any sort of empirical evidence or just plain observation at all. Surely you've heard these two bits of wisdom... both offered up to me on DKOS... a "democratic" blog.

• Politics ain't bean bag: This one is used to excuse any sort of heinousness whatsoever.
• First you win. Then you do good: There it is. A blatant assertion that the ends justify the means.

That is the entire point of being a "pragmatic centrist". They stand for nothing. They don't constrain their thinking with artificial constructs like "principles." They're amorally pragmatic. That's why the whole "lesser of two evils" things has such a charm for them. They don't mind being any particular amount of evil so long as it's "pragmatic".

They call us "purists". I'm here to tell you that I have my own moral and ethical demons. But yes. Next to a "pragmatic centrist" I'm pretty damned pure. Consider how telling it is that they consider a person who has values and principles "a purist".

I do not share similar values with them because they have no values... at least not any I can discern. This is not about "ignorance" in most cases... Democratic or Republican. What it is about is whether or not you're willing to be the apologist for bombing a children's hospital or a bunch of weddings or incredibly suspicious flows of money and power through the Clinton foundation or the Iraq war or .

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Including just about everybody who voted for Hillary or Trump. They're just not as informed as we are, which is a problem that needs to be solved.