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seppinon Russia gives Edward Snowden permanent residency

Yes it's call a "cover story".

He visited the Russian consulate in HK (for a birthday party no less) before he left and his main legal advisor was the lawyer from Wikileaks , a Russian intel cutout.

All just coincidence I guess.

seppinon Quibi Is Shutting Down

Yeah that's Youtube.

seppinon Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reignites bias claims

As if this needed clarification (it very much did not):

https://time.com/5902557/hunter-biden-rudy-giuliani-ukraine/

seppinon Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reignites bias claims

As if this needed clarification (it very much did not):

https://time.com/5902557/hunter-biden-rudy-giuliani-ukraine/

seppinon Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reignites bias claims

As if this needed clarification (it very much did not):

https://time.com/5902557/hunter-biden-rudy-giuliani-ukraine/

seppinon Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reignites bias claims

> There's literally a picture of him with a crack pipe in his mouth. He's factually a crackhead.

It was a meth pipe. If you got something so basic wrong, why would anything else you said be true?

seppinon Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reignites bias claims

Downvote with reason or response, what a great place for discussion.

seppinon Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reignites bias claims

Yes this is the incredible flimsy cover story that Hunter Biden drove 2500 miles from his home to leave a laptop with a random person then never came back for it.

This after "US intelligence agencies warned the White House last year that Rudy Giuliani was the target of an influence operation by Russian intelligence, as he gathered information he thought would expose the Bidens."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/giuliani-bi...

Forgive me if i'm fast forwarding past the obvious lies and openly mocking all those who can't do the same.

seppinon Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reignites bias claims

The FBI investigated the circumstances in which the Trump campaign ended up with Hunter Biden's photos and emails.

That doesn't corroborate the story, it compromises it.

seppinon Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reignites bias claims

> certainly plausible

You missed my sarcasm. If you believe son of the Vice President abandoned his laptop in rural Deleware to a Trump supporter to eventually give it to the Trump campaign, I have several bridges in NY to sell you.

seppinon Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reignites bias claims

https://i.imgur.com/7zadiIM.png

Yes I am aware. Bret Stephens was hired to write headlines like this, to appeal to the "fair and balanced" crowd (which will always fail, nothing will ever be enough).

seppinon Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reignites bias claims

Or, none of the leaked data came from the "computer" in question. Hunter's iCloud backup was hacked, Burisma's internal emails were breached by the GRU last year. Combine those two sources, mix real correspondences with some forgeries, and blame it all on a single laptop a MAGA supporter happened upon in rural Delaware.

Makes perfect sense, if you want it to.

seppinon Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reignites bias claims

Unless you have a factual error you'd like to report, citing the 1619 project is a tell that you don't like it's conclusions, and anything you dont like is "fake news".

seppinon Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reignites bias claims

Unless the IRS was hacked, this comparison is invalid.

seppinon Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reignites bias claims

Many things have been corroborated, nothing has been disproven.

https://www.lawfareblog.com/steele-dossier-retrospective

The idea that it was/is fake is a lie direct from Trump's mouth.

seppinon Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reignites bias claims

Hunter Biden's iCloud backup was hacked, which isn't too hard. Combine those real photos with some real (and some fake) emails the GRU hacked from Burisma last year, you have a ready-made "October surprise".

The degree in which you "fall for it" is the degree in which you want to see Trump reelected. No one that could fog a mirror would normally believe such nonsense.

seppinon Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reignites bias claims

> The repair shop almost certainly retains ownership of unclaimed deviced after some period of time. The shop owns the laptop. The data is theirs to do with as they please and they chose to publish it (at least, that's the story). No hacking necessary.

The "repair shop" is almost certainly a poorly-convinced backstory as to the origin of the hacked materials.

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-intelligence-analysts-hac...

But you are right in saying that hasn't been confirmed yet.

seppinon Is Stupidity Expanding? Some Hypotheses

Look at how the Soviet Union functioned. You got a government salary as long as you looked the other way and pretended that obvious lies were the truth.

Works for a while, not forever.

seppinon Is Stupidity Expanding? Some Hypotheses

> The internet has opened us to a Babylonia of different belief systems

With all due respect, there is nothing 'new' about QAnon. It's the same recycled theories about santanic pedophiles tweaked slightly to fit new surroundings. I would argue a new banality of evil that Facebook/Instagram/Twitter provides, where dangerous lies reside right next to actual news and photos of people's kids.

seppinon Is Stupidity Expanding? Some Hypotheses

Bingo. A study I can't find after trying on Google took people with objectively wrong opinions and payed them for accuracy. Magically, people corrected their own opinions when they had a financial incentive to do so.

seppinon Is Stupidity Expanding? Some Hypotheses

> Throughout most of history people have believed wildly incorrect things, yet civilization carries on.

Society has mostly been run by autocratic systems. If we are determined to make democracy work, conspiracy and anti-fact ideologies are existential threats.

seppinon HomePod Mini

I trust apple with privacy, I don't trust Amazon. That extra money is well worth it imo

seppinon Is Stupidity Expanding? Some Hypotheses

> I mean that when confronted with that they're clearly irrational. And something's gotta be going on their heads that makes them cling to this hypothesis.

The way i've heard it explained that makes the most sense to me: "people are convinced (rightly) that there is something wrong with our world and society, they just don't know what it is. Conspiracies provide answers and a framework to accommodate that feeling."

The opposite of knowledge isn't no knowledge, it's bad knowledge. The creation of a parallel reality is not so unreasonable response to nothing nothing about our current reality.

We all need something to hold on to.

seppinon HomePod Mini

1/2 the price

seppinon Fuck You Sunday

You don't have to be "productive" with every minute of your life.

seppinon New Relic employees report unrest over work culture, CEO’s donations

Normalizing and accepting intolerant viewpoints is akin to a dictator winning a democratic election. It's how bad actors use the system they despise with the explicit intention of sabotage.

seppinon Why Life Can’t Be Simpler

Because you need foot/water/shelter. You can't just ignore those needs.

Status is something we choose to opt-in to. You can choose to ignore it as well.

seppinon Time to Pardon Edward Snowden?

> Assange suddenly became a Russian asset after 2016

Assange had a TV show on Russian State television in 2012.

seppinon Time to Pardon Edward Snowden?

> (at great personal sacrifice)

Yes all he had to gain was international celebrity.

seppinon Time to Pardon Edward Snowden?

98% of what he stole and leaked had nothing to do with domestic surveillance on the American people.