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http://www.dailywire.com/news/19658/7-things-you-need-know-about-charlottesville-ben-shapiro#
Pretty sound reasoning from Shapiro, who clearly has no time for the "alt-right".
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Good overview of Charlottville riots
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@Tregaskis said in US Politics:
She must have some interesting fossil fuel discussions over a Sunday night roast with her dad, a roading executive.
I had to read that twice.
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Having a dinner table discussion last night with Ms Cato No1, who, as her age demands, is left leaning. She was of course blaming everything on the white supremacists and of course I would take their side. I tried to explain that as hateful as that movement is, there was an organised counter demonstration arranged at the same place, at the same time which can only have the intent of causing trouble. Her view was that the lefties had as much right to demonstrate as the right-fucks, which I agreed but she wouldn't see that if the lefties hadn't have organised their march at the same time the likelihood of trouble reduces by about 99%. So a swift bit of whataboutery then ensued looking at the damage"we" have caused by slavery. I tried to point out that slavery has been in common practice for thousands of years and no one race or nation can lay claim to having thought of it and that to counter that there is one nation that can lay claim to instigating the cessation of and de-legalising of slavery and that was Britain.
At least that shut down the discussion.
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Some Black Guy tearing apart Identity Politics in relation to Charlottesville
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Interesting that the WH is avoiding using the term terrorism on the car attack.
Terrorist acts obviously swing somewhere between simply being criminal acts or being 'acts of war' depending on viewpoints. This one is being painted as a criminal act.However, the definition of domestic terrorism in the Patriot Act is deliberately wide and encompassing
"Section 802 of the USA PATRIOT Act (Pub. L. No. 107-52) expanded the definition of terrorism to cover ""domestic,"" as opposed to international, terrorism. A person engages in domestic terrorism if they do an act ""dangerous to human life"" that is a violation of the criminal laws of a state or the United States, if the act appears to be intended to: (i) intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination or kidnapping. Additionally, the acts have to occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States and if they do not, may be regarded as international terrorism."
This definition has been argued successfully by investigators to include protesters so that the increased investigative powers can come into play.
Where do you think the line should be?
In Canada....
"“In whole or in part of a political, religious, or ideological purpose, objective, or cause” with the intention of intimidating the public “…with regard to its security…including economic security, or compelling a person, a government or a domestic or an international organization to do or to refrain from doing any act.”
In the UK.....
“a threat or action designed to influence the government or to intimidate the public or a section of the public” and is “made for the purpose of advancing a political, religious or ideological cause”
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@No-Quarter said in US Politics:
Some Black Guy tearing apart Identity Politics in relation to Charlottesville
This video has now been taken down by Youtube. I guess a black guy calling out the BS of Identity Politics didn't fit the narrative of the NGOs that review their content now.
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@No-Quarter Does he have another video source? Havr been following him for a while but have stopped getting notifications
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@Rembrandt he's on Facebook as well and I think the video is still up there. He does quite a bit of random stuff with gaming etc, but he's really good when he talks about SJWs and Identity Politics, and has been an important voice against BLM in recent years.
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@Tim I don't really know shit about this sort of thing, but had a quick read. Quite possible I'm missing the obvious here, but questions are:
Why are they putting so much emphasis on the time zone? My laptop is set to NZ time, but I'm not currently in NZ - I'm not exactly a criminal mastermind, just a bit lazy.
Why is the speed of copying metadata definitively the hack metadata? As opposed to data stolen then copied again later? -
@reprobate I don't know much about the technical details either.
There is more discussion at HN:
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@Tim said in US Politics:
They are just trying to fill the disclosed knowledge gap with their own sense of importance.
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@Tim said in US Politics:
@Crucial Thanks Mr Expert.
In my previous career I actually worked as an anti hacking software developer for credit card companies and banks in London. After reading alot of the information I am not much wiser about what happened, but if I was betting my house... I would say it was an internal leak and not a "classic hack". But the DNC made sure nobody could categorically figure it out by withholding information and access . Which is .... unusual if you think you have been hacked.
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Just watched it on his facebook
https://m.facebook.com/SomeBlackGuyOC/Absolutely incredible that was banned, this can't possibly be anything more than attempts to shutting him down because he has the 'wrong' opinions. I wonder if maybe he is regarded as more of a threat being black and therefore harder to tar with the 'he's just a Nazi' brush.
His follow up video finishes well
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@Crucial said in US Politics:
It was an overseas cyber security company that picked up on, analysed and confirmed the intrusion and traced its source.
This evidence was passed on to US Int agencies and that resulted in the briefing doc they provided Trump.Hired by whom?
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