james-onley.bsky.social
Cybersecurity leader working in higher education. Passionate about cyber risk management and threat assessment.
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With this line of argument you don’t need the DOJ either. State AG’s can handle. Just push the everything to the State. The DOJ is just a centralized bureaucracy.
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It’s probably a matter of degrees. Being in a hot room is a little different than burning alive in a raging fire.
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Harvard doesn’t have a monopoly on education and research. Not even close.
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If people truly hate Harvard they won’t send their kids there and fund their research. And then Harvard has to make their own decision about that. That’s how a free country works.
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And if a lot of people feel that way, then people should shift their support and funding somewhere else. Telling Harvard they have to change to suite people’s tastes as a matter of law or regulation is wild. If we believe in capitalism then let the dollars decide.
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Harvard doesn’t own human thought. They are a college that does research and teaching. If people don’t like what they have to say, or what they teach then don’t go there. And don’t listen to their ideas. It’s not like they are running around with guns kidnapping people.
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I always thought republicans were for a small and less intrusive government. This doesn’t seem like that. Is there still an actual Conservative Party somewhere?
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To be fair it’s a free country. People are not forced into Harvard servitude. The government chose to invest in Harvard…they were not forced to do so. If the government decides to divest from Harvard, great. But trying to control the institution and tell it how to operate…
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I was really confused what she is delivering for her district. Are their priorities renaming geography?
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The U.S. isn’t going to work as long as the people at the top want to keep all the money. That’s what people are not seeing. If people really understood that, most people would be on the same side in the US.
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In fact factories seem to be the only part of that coming back…which puts labor in the US right back to the beginning.
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I think people have a vision of an America where billionaires paid high taxes, unions protected good wages, and the government was expected to look out for people. This was happening towards the end of factories in the US. The good times. But we can have those things without factories…
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If someone is always in the position of having to explain they are not a Nazi, there is probably something there to worry about.
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I would pardon my whole family, all the people who worked for me, and my family pets.
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Hmm… I wonder as President Trump and his cabinet cross people off their enemies lists without regard for laws…
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Now is the best time. If Republicans lose seats in the midterms and Trump loses Congress, his last two years aren’t going to be so easy. And the Democrats have to grow a backbone to use that aggressively and stop saying please and thank you once it happens.
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Yeah it’s not about hate. It’s about turning people against each other to grow and maintain power. The more people fight each other the less they notice all their rights and protections disappearing. The less they notice suddenly a lot of people can’t vote.
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Yeah but only the really bad ones. The ones that are designated bad without a trial or due process and disappear in the night. The ones where faulty evidence is provided to the media instead of a legal proceeding. The ones where you aren’t allowed to ask where they are or if they are still alive.
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It will never be simpler because that would allow more people to vote. Controlling who votes means controlling the results of elections. You just have to creatively exclude the right people by shaping the requirements certain ways.
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Trump was elected by apathy. We will see if people are still apathetic.
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Native Americans and slaves had no vote and no representation. Ironically a similar grievance with England led to our founding as a country. When you have no vote, you are nothing. That is why people fought so hard to vote and why I think people will use this power in the mid terms.
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Which is the point. A demonstration of the power to unilaterally remove rights and ignore the constitution. If you can make people believe that you have more power than laws, then you have it because people believe you do and they will give up fighting you on it.
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I don’t know. I never voted in my life until I thought it mattered. Voting wasn’t a big thing in my family. There are a lot of people who don’t see the point. It’s more obvious in times like this why voting matters. When the government starts coming down on your community a vote is all you have.
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I am so glad we can find common ground with a dictatorship? I am confused why this is good.
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He does have a point. If anyone should be making misleading and false statements, it should be him and his administration. We can’t have everyone doing that…it would be chaos.
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I would think we would see higher costs just from executive compensation alone.
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I think there is a shock and awe campaign going on right now. Once the dust settles we will see the reality of what is occurring. Maybe it’s more smoke and mirrors than it seems to trick us into feeling defeated. I think the Hands Off movement is providing a counter argument.
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There are a lot of people who don’t vote at all. Who knows what could happen if they start. And maybe with everything going on they will come off the bench.
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To become pop stars and do marketing events.
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It is reassuring that Republicans couldn’t elect another Trump, they had to bring him back. So maybe we won’t have that star powered craziness for a little bit. There is no other Trump, which is kind of his self defeating position. It’s him or nobody, as far as he’s concerned.
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That is why it’s important to privatize everything. If the government had that money they would waste it helping people and providing services.
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I feel like that is what people always say, but he just finds a way to do what he wants anyway with zero consequences.
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No what he will do is pull CBS’s license illegally, CBS will shut down and the courts will spend the next three years trying to prove that was illegal. And then once they prove it was illegal Trump will ignore the ruling.
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He is older than Bill Clinton. Think about that..President Clinton has been out of office for like 20 years. He is older than the living Presidents who served before him…
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The problem will be if American tailors are willing to do decent quality work for almost no money. It’s not about being useless. It’s about being unaffordable. Our trade situation didn’t happen because someone put a gun to our heads. It happened because it made things cheap.
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So all American's are expected to sacrifice, but for what? An even greater deficit than we had before...
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Hence the votes to bring it all back I guess.
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Yeah our problem is not creating more jobs for highschool drop outs but fully committing to investing in our young people instead of trying to cut corners on their futures.
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It’s just crazy to me that we will give up high paying jobs to build low paying factory jobs that will be highly automated, and maybe at some point fully automated. So initially there will be lots of hiring and then there will be massive layoffs.
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Instead of voting for free college/trades tuition and a path to high paying jobs that literally exist right now.
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To be honest though I would love to see every Trump voter working in a mine. Give them the full taste of what they voted for and the future they selected for their children.
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They don’t need to force you to take the job. Once they are done, it will be the only job to take. And to be honest I don’t think their plan is going to support high levels of employment, so there may be no job anyways.
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This means that the terrible federal government will no longer be getting in the way of States. Now States will be empowered to solve their own problems. And it will be more cost effective for every state to develop their own unique programs than to have one nationwide effort.
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I mean abolish the whole executive branch and put Trump in an empty room really. Or don’t elect him at all. I don’t think the problem is that the car is too dangerous, but that we have a dangerous driver. And we as a country elected him to crash the car.
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The lesson that dictators can use the tools of government in ways that distort their purpose unless put in check by the other two branches?
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Nothing wrong with having ICE. Nothing wrong with having a strong ICE. There is something wrong with unaccountable vigilantism aimed to create fear in our communities. That’s not ICE’s original purpose.
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They need a crisis to justify completely dismantling the new deal. If we have a crisis then social security, Medicaid, and Medicare have to go. If we have a crisis then worker protections have to go. During a crisis anything is possible.
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In many cases they likely voted to be put out of business. You can’t save people who want to be harmed and seek it out.