When do the comparisons start as to how the BLM protesters are treated by the legal system when they break the law? When do we see how the cops let the protesters loot and pillage all the retail establishments. I don’t think my mind is playing tricks on me when I say the article has a narrow point of view. It starts with a thesis and only presents info to support it. This is not an analysis but a stump speech.

@jon-nyc oops sorry! I figure I usually have a 50/50 chance when I post something “new” here that it hasn’t been posted before. Usually by you or @George-K

I’m still surprised the Secret Service hasn’t visited him.

@george-k said in 28x: Jon said, earlier today, that my clip of incitement to violence was unfair, because it was dominated by media types. I definitely didn’t say that.

Indonesia Boeing 737 passenger plane crash site found https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-55606599

The $12/hr human burger flipper should be worrying about this other "robot" instead: https://www.forbes.com/sites/christinatroitino/2018/06/21/meet-the-worlds-first-fully-automated-burger-robot-creator-debuts-the-big-mac-killer/?sh=50c5d21c6a89

@taiwan_girl said in Senate trial could happen after Jan 20?: @copper said in Senate trial could happen after Jan 20?: Calmly and dispassionately review the problem and fix it. Is that how President Trump handled it? Lol In the beginning, even before the election, yes.

@doctor-phibes said in Lost in the shuffle...: Whenever people do something like this, they need to be reminded that next time the table might be turned on them, and in addition, the results might be worse than they are this time. Like Obama with his pen and his phone, Trump with his baseless and frankly childish claims is setting a precedent. Imagine if next time it's a Democrat President claiming fraud, but there's a Democrat Senate and House majority. Trump has been an agent of change. Many times, for the good. He does shake things up. Many states are in severe need of overhauling and strengthening the mechanisms of their elections. Might be nice if that occurred...

Cool stories!

@axtremus said in So... what will be the fallout?: Edward Snowden made huge personal sacrifice to warn the American people about this sort of electronic surveillance. At the time, all anyone wanted to talk about here was how much of a traitor he was. His revelations weren't deemed important by anybody.

@jon-nyc said in ACLU: A glimpse of what they used to be. I Googled a bit and haven't been able to find the ACLU's official statement on this. I am not yet sure if what's reported is just one ACLU lawyer expressing his personal opinion or if that represents the ACLU official position. So I will wait for the ACLU to make their position on this clearer before getting too hopeful or too worried about where the ACLU might go with this. :man-shrugging:

LOL

@horace said in The "You said it then" thread.: Trump hatred has spanned the spectrum, and must be considered normal typical. There's a difference. FIFY.

@george-k said in What a way to go...: @kluurs said in What a way to go...: Ok, it now appears the story is untrue. Apologies to all concerned. Who cares? We got some chuckles out of it. That, alone, made it worthwhile. I always suspected that; sounded a little too "made for the internet" to be believable.

The major means of communication—in today’s terms that means social media—have now been taken over completely by the left. Not only has Donald Trump—still the president of the United States—been permanently banned from Twitter, its rapidly growing, open-to-all substitute Parler has almost simultaneously been de-platformed by Google. You can’t get their app for Android anymore. Apple threatens to be next, demanding Parler kowtow (by Saturday!) to Cupertino’s vision of what the world should be. What are you still waiting for? Start building your own alternatives to Twitter, Google, Facebook, etc. already. The point about Android shows much ignorance on the part of the author. Unlike Apple/iOS, Android is open source and anyone can put up an Android “app store” that distributes apps to Android devices. There is literally no way for Google to monopolize Android or ban any third party apps for Android. The Betsy Google can do is to refuse distributing a third party app via the Google Play Store, which is only one of many “app stores” for Android. And as long as you have Android, you have an alternative to Apple/iOS.

@george-k said in Ann Althouse on inciting violence: https://althouse.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-7-most-violence-inciting-statements.html We now have a new standard as to what constitutes inciting. Excited to see it applied over the next hours, days, weeks, months and years. We have a benchmark.

A bunch of my completely non-political cousins went full on woke in the course of a weekend. They had no sense of the historical perspectives here, but saw their friends and all other young people believing something and posting black boxes on instagram. That was enough. A bunch of them are super low information people with very strong feelings about this now.