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4th gen Cal, mostly Sil Vly tech, biz
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3/4. If we accept the idea that moving a person from one place to another undoes rights and disempowers the judiciary, we are endorsing the basic Nazism practice that enabled the killing of millions.
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You are brave, sir. I support you.
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We should just assume insurance fraud when Teslas are damaged. Until proven otherwise.
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The professional class is the only part of the once vast American middle class left to soak.
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I no longer say “the government” I say “Our Government”
Destroying our government is destroying public property.
The sweat, tears and funding of generations of Americans is being shredded by predators like RFK jr.
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Trump’s attorneys want to force Americans to use expensive, hackable, insecure voting machines.
That’s the message here
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They left us all instructions on what to do in case a "King George III" came along and tried to destroy the Constitution.
The Constitution isn't a magic shield. It has to be defended, with blood.
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Merged with Peter Theil’s Palantir to create a super surveillance system
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Voting Machines are not only entirely unnecessary, they cost too much and create insecurity they cannot solve.
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The two companies that sell nearly all our domestic voting machines have bribed and boondoggled their way into billions of dollars per year providing expensive finicky secretive products that are easily hacked.
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Voting machine cost limits the # of polling places and polling stations, creates lines, requires maintenance contracts.
But more importantly, how do you ever know what they were programmed to do? You cannot. By logic. (Not without reading the source code. )(Incompleteness Theorem)
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ATMs are secure because they require identification. Identification on votes would destroy ballot secrecy.
Voting machines add nothing but cost, suppression, and insecurity to elections. Not speed, not auditability, not reliability.
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Santa Clara County, heart of Silicon Valley, citizens voted for hand-marked paper ballots only because techies KNOW computers introduce trust problems.
If you want SECRET BALLOTS you can’t have SECURE ELECTRONIC ELECTIONS (and vice versa)
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Hand-marked paper ballots are cheaper, cleaner, never need to be rebooted or recalibrated or patched, are infinitely recountable, and infinitely more trustworthy.
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He’s too emotional to lead warriors
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They lie about “millions” of fake recipients.
They cite “AI fraud detection” with no proof.
Meanwhile, they’re firing hundreds of thousands—veterans, scientists, air safety experts, food inspectors.
They’re not rooting out fraud. They’re gutting government.
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They’re not finding fraud. They’re pretending to.
Elon’s DOGE task force is like arsonists pointing at the fire they lit—claiming they’re heroes for sounding the alarm.
It’s a con. A performance. And real people are paying the price.
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100%. This is why "leave your phone at home if you can, otherwise keep it powered off when you are anywhere near the protest" is a common recommendation.
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Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:
There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time.
— Frank Wilhoit
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First, Steves finds a way to talk about institutions and oligarchy that is dirt simple:
1. Institutions are PUBLIC WEALTH. They are our shared wealth, dammit.
2. Billionaires can't stand wealth they don't control.
3. So they are going to dismantle our public wealth to better bleed us dry
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Yup
As i predicted when this bull started
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How much you wanna bet that this DOGE shit is Musk's way of getting back door entry to appropriate mass amounts of data in order to get a massive leg up on AI competitors?
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Exactly
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Like everything Elon