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> Isn't that the same strategy that countries like Iran, Russia, and China have against their whistleblowers?

We can't have a discussion if basic we can't get basic things right. Snowden isn't a whistleblower. He leaked stolen materials then fled to a hostile country.

Multiple IC whistleblowers were allowed to testify against the President in the last 4 years, all without punitive punishment (although the Trump's tried). Snowden could have chosen a different path. His impressive control of his own narrative seems to have most of this community fooled.

> One of Wikileak's overt and major goals is to expose CIA secrets. The two are in direct opposition.

Yes, which makes them an opposition intelligence organization. Like I said.

No he is a Kremlin agent for using his once storied organization for espionage. The RT job was to point out the obvious relationship between himself and Russian propaganda efforts going back decades.

> Venezuela

Specifically voiced support for the pro-democratic opposition leader that arguably won the election.

> the Middle East

Supported democratic reforms in Egypt against a long time pro-US dictator in Mubarak. Supported Syria's right to self-determination to the point of fighting with FSA for years.

> Bolivia

Bolivia is an interesting case, the opposition claimed fraud but i've seen no evidence of it. A black eye for sure to come down against the results of their election without proof.

> no bad press

Not bad press. The stolen materials of a state-sponsored attack released at the precise time it would do the most damage. And people are claiming with a straight face this was a coincidence and Wikileaks wasn't working with Russian intelligence, against the American democratic party.

If the Guardian were caught laundering Russian-hacked materials to attack an American election, then yes. Otherwise, no.

> The way DHS and local police specifically targeted journalists?

How many of them were killed/disappeared? If you can't cite a number in the hundreds (or even one case), your comparison is false.

> Who did more harm to "liberal democracy", J. Edgar Hoover (who tried to extort MLK into suicide), or KGB?

I get this is supposed to be a debate, but the FBI never rolled tanks into Poland or Czechoslovakia. The FBI never annexed the peninsula of a foreign country, then set up fraud elections to make it look organic.

Most importantly, the US largely ended it's support of anti-democratic forces post-cold war. The KGB has no such intention.

The CIA recognizes Wikileaks as an arm of Kremlin information warfare. Western leftists are all too willing to help Wikileaks deflect from that obvious classification. (julian assange had a TV show on RT, what more do you need?)

> Just because the average shitty ones still talk about culture and pretend they have it, doesn't mean a good culture isn't important.

Exactly. Companies that have terrible culture project the need for a good one to get out in front of the accusation that their leadership failed in actually establishing a good one.

Also, as someone that recently upgraded their wifi router and runs a ping script to make sure my connection is always good, upgraded my mic for better sound quality, etc only to have zoom video calls with people on an iPhone with shit reception, fixing your end only does so much.

> Why not let something break

These responses, my word.

> 1) Some players expected this to be cyberpunk-themed RDR2/GTA5. It turns out it's nothing like that, it's more like a new Deus Ex game.

Funny I would say the gameplay is much closer to GTA than Deus Ex. But overall closer to Max Payne in terms how how heavy it relies on story.

Why do you think he pardoned this guy: https://abc7chicago.com/politics/rod-blagojevich-officially-...

for Bribery? Because he was getting set to conduct a whole lot of bribery.

> and has little to lose in terms of reputation.

Nothing to lose at all. Deny the attacks and thank the news gods for publicity that distracts from reporting on their ongoing concentration camps.

So the person posting Russian State propaganda isn't the problem, I am for pointing out the uselessness of citing their work.

Gotcha.

It also was the most promising and those lack of orders from Pfizer did not result in an increase somewhere else.

You are being deceptive in saying so.

You are right.

Also, the $2B order was only a fraction of what was proposed for an initial order, which the Trump Administration for some baffling reason reduced.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/07/us/trump-covid-vaccine-pf...

unprovable/unknowable and subjective analysis. Youtube banning people doesn't radicalize them, radicalizing content delivered to million of people on youtube radicalizes them.

A point so simple it feels silly to point it out, but here we are.

They consider Trump less a threat than mainstream democratic politicians, who they consider to be "traitors".

That's why they are all appearing on right wing media, a shared enemy.

> Taibbi

Also this guy is not the same author some might have known a few years ago, he himself has been relegated to the regressive left Glenn Greenwald corner of the internet. Take his narrative with the proper grain of salt.

No but feeding one opinion, slightly more radical than the last over and over very much does cause an increase in radical and extremist views.

This isn't about removing hate, this is about making sure it's not promoted at scale.

Honestly if the choice is between no bans and allowing the current trends of radicalization continue, almost any outcome is preferable than what we've seen happen the last 5-10 years.

Except for the fact that a mainstream democrat is a center-right politician anywhere else in the world. The "far-left" you reference doesn't exist outside Twitter and a small group of congresspeople, giving that small group an outsized image of power isn't very congruent with reality.

> I always answer: fuck off; we're full.

Actually being from SF, I have never once given any transplant any shit (mostly because at any given party I am the only local).

It would never occur to me to be nativist in my own country, how does this shit fly elsewhere?

> There just aren’t good reasons to live here anymore for so many of us

The majority of people that say this are also the exact reason why the city is blackhole of culture and fun. You aren't in traffic, you are the traffic.

Good plan ! :)

In the 1 week + i've had my Macbook Air M1, it's across the board better. This thing is amazing

I upgraded from a 2016 MBP to a Macbook Air M1, shocked by the difference.