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bobmcbobfaceon Facebook to let users turn off political adverts

What are the bets that this feature only exists for this election?

bobmcbobfaceon The American Press Is Destroying Itself

You're right. The problem are the number of people who have post modernism at the core of their thinking - the idea that there is no objective truth.

bobmcbobfaceon CIA veterans who monitored crackdowns see parallels

What's the normal status of a city in terms of being on fire? What's your standard here - Dresden?

bobmcbobfaceon CIA veterans who monitored crackdowns see parallels

https://youtu.be/jCq-eD3Fdmo

bobmcbobfaceon CIA veterans who monitored crackdowns see parallels

I mean establishing a curfew during the night, not stopping peaceful protest.

bobmcbobfaceon CIA veterans who monitored crackdowns see parallels

Peaceful protest is peaceful protest. It's a democratic right and always legitimate.

Failing to properly report the scale of violence and looting whilst simultaneously questioning the legitimacy of the response to it though exposes the media narrative for what it is, not objective.

bobmcbobfaceon CIA veterans who monitored crackdowns see parallels

You prefer a bit of the good old ultraviolence?

https://youtu.be/HJeu3GEsOq8

bobmcbobfaceon CIA veterans who monitored crackdowns see parallels

How do you say 'how do I keep my internal organs AND my religion' in mandarin?

bobmcbobfaceon CIA veterans who monitored crackdowns see parallels

What utter nonsense.

bobmcbobfaceon CIA veterans who monitored crackdowns see parallels

I believe that various examples of this and numerous people being killed invalidates the claim that the national guard shouldn't be on the street with clear curfews to protect life.

bobmcbobfaceon CIA veterans who monitored crackdowns see parallels

https://youtu.be/jCq-eD3Fdmo

It's mostly peaceful going up in flames...

bobmcbobfaceon CIA veterans who monitored crackdowns see parallels

https://youtu.be/HJeu3GEsOq8

Perfection.

bobmcbobfaceon CIA veterans who monitored crackdowns see parallels

Yeah, this isn't concerning: https://youtu.be/HJeu3GEsOq8

bobmcbobfaceon CIA veterans who monitored crackdowns see parallels

You realise that various people have died in the rioting, right?

bobmcbobfaceon CIA veterans who monitored crackdowns see parallels

This article makes sense in the absence of proper national reporting on the level of looting and rioting. For those that have seen it first hand, the national guard on the streets is a relief.

bobmcbobfaceon Hong Kong’s security law is going to devastate its economy

None until you actually interact with the system. Then, potentially, all of them.

bobmcbobfaceon YouTube actively deletes anti CCP comments

Well, this is kind of horrifying.

bobmcbobfaceon Explorers given approval to retrieve Titanic’s Marconi telegraph

Then it's not illegal to operate.

bobmcbobfaceon James Damore and three others end Google suit

Ironic

bobmcbobfaceon James Damore and three others end Google suit

I think that's because a lot of people think that some corporations now have much greater power than governments, especially when it comes to influencing / controlling social thought.

bobmcbobfaceon James Damore and three others end Google suit

Seriously, who in society is doing this?

20 years ago there was a lot less of a push for women in tech and you actually did hear lots of people espouse this view, now the programmes and encouragement is everywhere and the social cost of a different view is your job.

What is being argued and and what is happening don't seem to correlate.

bobmcbobfaceon Closing The Collapse Gap: The USSR was better prepared than the US (2006)

This idea of US collapse, as framed seems deeply silly, for a number of reasons.

1. This isn't really the US we are talking about, its the Western economic system

2. Things 'collapse' in different ways. A slow collapse looks more like a transition. Most things don't collapse anywhere near as quickly as the USSR for obvious reasons.