Donald Trump and US politics

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DalaiLama wrote:

Thanks, but just found out the first video WAS staged, and intentionally released - on Nov 21/22 2016 - as part of the Mannequin Challenge. The group (White Helmets) took a lot of criticism for doing this shortly thereafter.

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NOAM CHOMSKY: It’s a pretty remarkable fact that—first of all, it is a joke. Half the world is cracking up in laughter. The United States doesn’t just interfere in elections. It overthrows governments it doesn’t like, institutes military dictatorships. Simply in the case of Russia alone—it’s the least of it—the U.S. government, under Clinton, intervened quite blatantly and openly, then tried to conceal it, to get their man Yeltsin in, in all sorts of ways. So, this, as I say, it’s considered—it’s turning the United States, again, into a laughingstock in the world.

So why are the Democrats focusing on this? In fact, why are they focusing so much attention on the one element of Trump’s programs which is fairly reasonable, the one ray of light in this gloom: trying to reduce tensions with Russia? That’s—the tensions on the Russian border are extremely serious. They could escalate to a major terminal war. Efforts to try to reduce them should be welcomed. Just a couple of days ago, the former U.S. ambassador to Russia, Jack Matlock, came out and said he just can’t believe that so much attention is being paid to apparent efforts by the incoming administration to establish connections with Russia. He said, “Sure, that’s just what they ought to be doing.”

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diablofdb wrote:

oh I haven't watched south parks in years but this makes me want to watch it again xD


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsqwAaiVHok

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soneka101 wrote:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-lawsuit-idUSKBN1782PH
https://twitter.com/th3j35t3r/status/850077279527022592

So... this happened...

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DalaiLama wrote:

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soneka101 wrote:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-lawsuit-idUSKBN1782PH
https://twitter.com/th3j35t3r/status/850077279527022592

So... this happened...

On one hand I want to applaud Twitter for at least seeming to care about privacy, but then given how often they automatically silence one side of the debate and allow obvious violations of their policies to continue, I know that this is just grandstanding. If it were Hillary asking for the names of anti-Hillary tweeting accounts, they would hand them over in a New York minute.

Twitter will either comply, or when Trump has finished clearing out the rats in the intel community, every single account on Twitter will be opened up, scanned and logged, and Twitter won't even be allowed to comment on it. The major phone carriers, and several ISPs have already been through the process. A few of them sued for the right to reveal whether they had been forced to give up info to the federal government, but I don't recall any of them winning.

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DalaiLama wrote:

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soneka101 wrote:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-lawsuit-idUSKBN1782PH
https://twitter.com/th3j35t3r/status/850077279527022592

So... this happened...

On one hand I want to applaud Twitter for at least seeming to care about privacy, but then given how often they automatically silence one side of the debate and allow obvious violations of their policies to continue, I know that this is just grandstanding. If it were Hillary asking for the names of anti-Hillary tweeting accounts, they would hand them over in a New York minute.

Twitter will either comply, or when Trump has finished clearing out the rats in the intel community, every single account on Twitter will be opened up, scanned and logged, and Twitter won't even be allowed to comment on it. The major phone carriers, and several ISPs have already been through the process. A few of them sued for the right to reveal whether they had been forced to give up info to the federal government, but I don't recall any of them winning.