Pronell

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Pronell,

I suppose it depends on why they don’t have security clearance. If it’s someone who could never qualify for it, that would need to be announced and explained.

If it’s simply a candidate who doesn’t yet have it, that’s something that should be known for the same reasons. They don’t have all the information other candidates do, but are operating with the information they do have.

Pronell,

Thank you, I’m an outsider and didn’t know the who or why of the question.

Pronell,

Amusingly, the phrase Crypto Fascist does and does not apply here.

I asked Justin Trudeau’s Liberals why they broke a promise to ban three controversial police practices. Their answer says a lot (www.thestar.com)

As a general rule, I hate opinion pieces as I feel that they are a major contributor to our slide towards ‘facts don’t matter’ US style political rhetoric. That said, I thought this was an interesting and fact driven piece that if anything was too easy on the RCMP. Sharing a journalist’s request for information with the...

Pronell,

Absolutely too easy on the RCMP as it mainly came down to “We don’t want to.”

One could also parse the longer answer as “We don’t do that at all. Well, not very much. And it’s better when we do. But we can’t prove that.”

Pronell,

You are absolutely correct, and my snarky reply leads toward this tendency to call an organization as a monolithic entity that has agendas when the actual issue could be any number of other things, probably all of them, in a quagmire together:

Resistance to change and outside pressure, factionialization within the group that leads to the request being impeded, corruption, organized crime, institutional failure, racism, nationalism, cronyism, outdated training, lack of training in general…

There could be a good number of people trying to comply with the policy and simply failing. We just don’t know the full truth.

But it’s probably all of the above.

Why Megadonors Are Unfazed by Donald Trump’s Guilty Verdict | Money flowed into the former president’s re-election campaign from Wall Street and Silicon Valley following Thursday’s historic conviction (www.nytimes.com)

With the billionaires backing him, it’s going to be on us as individual Americans to make sure Trump doesn’t end up in the White House again. That means not just voting but talking with people around you, volunteering and donating

Pronell,

And they are so damned short sighted.

Trump wants to be Putin.

He wants his half of the US economy. Including half of what they have now.

And they fund him while being obsessed with the pennies he will save them.

Pronell,

You are older than me, I suppose. I was playing it at 11 years old or so. My first CRPG, although my dad had run a D&D game for the family a few years prior so I had a reference point.

I remember my cousin telling us about the Creeping Coins and my imagination went wild, assuming you could loot them and they’d attack you later from your inventory.

Nope. Just normal randomly spawning encounter.

Pronell,

I will have to try and use it. I am running Curse of Strahd now so cursed money would be spectacular!

Pronell,

Fucking fascist.

Pronell,

When you’re in that deep, a honeypot is just getting laid. Why overthink it?

Pronell,

Because the Evangelicals believe that Israel must be in existence at the end of the world of the Antichrist cannot rise and Jesus can’t come back.

They don’t give one fuck about the history of their own faith, let alone about the Jewish people. It’s just pieces on their dominionist gameboard.

Pronell,

No, this is big. Someone committed to the cause looked at the evidence and reconsidered her opinion.

This can be useful to get through to some that they have been manipulated, that they have been made terrified of education for unfounded reasons.

Anyone converted away is a win, even if not statisically significant.

Pronell,

$265 each per year. That’s wild.

My wife got a used car with a Sirius in it. She used it for the free trial but we don’t do talk radio so it seemed completely pointless.

Pronell,

Committed too many crimes, need to get off the planet fast, and can’t afford a flight? Starfleet wants you!

What Trump promised oil CEOs as he asked them to steer $1 billion to his campaign (www.msn.com)

Trump’s response stunned several of the executives in the room overlooking the ocean: You all are wealthy enough, he said, that you should raise $1 billion to return me to the White House. At the dinner, he vowed to immediately reverse dozens of President Biden’s environmental rules and policies and stop new ones from being...

Pronell,

Putin tactic. Give me a percentage so I can become boss and demand a larger percentage.

Pronell,

I’m so confused.

Aren’t you two agreeing with each other, that protests work and protestors vote?

A protest vote is something else entirely.

Pronell,

I’m only confused because I can’t understand the conflict between the two statements. I certainly don’t disagree with your second paragraph.

If you think he was saying the protesters will not vote for Biden, I kind of understand your point but that is also part of why Biden may be making the changes he is, which means again that you are both right - assuming the protesters decide Biden is worth voting for.

Pronell,

Send him to Night Court!

Pronell,

Fox News was built to be a propaganda machine, and the current Republican Party is a result of that. (Largely agreed aside from that bit.)

Pronell,

I wonder if this tricking back to Biden’s desk is what finally made him pause an ammo shipment.

Pronell,

I think half the reason Black Mirror caught on so well was that coincidence.

We wanted to see the predictions.

Pronell,

Fuck, is that the problem, really?

I look for sources. If I can’t find a good one I look for multiple sources that are reporting the same story.

I’m not even THAT thorough or critical. We’re in deep trouble.

Pronell,

Yeah, I’m old. And I read.

I avoid video sources in general too. Damnit.

Pronell,

As long as it isn’t tied to complacency, it’s fine.

Pronell,

It’s really insulting being told that my opinion is the result of a smear campaign.

I witnessed the smear campaign. It was unfair. I still didn’t like her.

Then I’m repeatedly fucking lectured that an embattled former First Lady, two term Senator, one term Secretary of State was the MOST QUALIFIED EVER candidate. Being embattled and disliked isn’t as great an asset as you want to think, especially when you LOSE.

No, she fucking wasn’t. And the insistence that she was really hurt her chances because a mythology was being built up around her rather than presenting her as an honest, straightforward candidate.

Pronell,

Which is the whole point of having Bill Maher as a host, similar to Joe Rogan.

He will accept what you say at face value for his audience and be surprised after the fact that he was ‘duped’.

Pronell,

Fair point, I haven’t watched it.

But Maher still platformed Kennedy.

Pronell,

My response was based on, I’d say 30-35 years of watching his career, starting in standup and moving on to commentary and punditry.

I do apologize for not watching this clip before commenting but my sense is that he presents an air of smug, distant dissatisfaction, pretending he knows better and mildly insulting while still allowing his guests to put forth their shitty and damaging views relatively unchallenged.

Hence the comparison to Rogan.

If 30+ years of observations about Maher’s career and attitudes - including actually watching his shows for a very long time - comes down to misinformation in your eyes… I dunno what else to say. I guess I didn’t spell this all out earlier. I neither read nor follow Salon in general.

It’s just my opinion in the end, which can’t be fucking disinformation.

Hamas official says group would lay down its arms if an independent Palestinian state is established (apnews.com)

A top Hamas political official told The Associated Press the Islamic militant group is willing to agree to a truce of five years or more with Israel and that it would lay down its weapons and convert into a political party if an independent Palestinian state is established along pre-1967 borders.

Pronell,

And why haven’t they had an election in 18 years? Because they are a subjugated people and Israel won’t allow elections.

There are no good sides here, but that’s a particularly bad gotcha argument.

Pronell,

You love to see it.

Pronell,

And gateway metric!

Pronell,

I get your frustration and fear of that outcome but this really is just a shitty headline.

Pronell,

In case the downvoters aren’t reading the article, it is also critical of the author’s claims.

Pronell,

Goddamned Monkey’s Paw to Qanon.

They wanted JFK. They might get “but we have Kennedy at home.”

Pronell,

Bipartisan action has NO PRECEDENT! Yeah. Bullshit headline.

Pronell,

It’s amazing how sketching a goatee and putting glasses on her puts her halfway between Lebowski and Candie.

Pronell,

Until there are some kind of real penalties for submitting unconstitutional legislation, we will not be able to stop these clowns from abusing our state legislatures.

Pronell,

Yes, this is the danger of fascism playing with language.

They aren’t trying to be logical or fair. They aren’t here for debate. They’re here to do what they want to do, period.

Which is why they also inevitably fall apart, (eventually) they can’t even have that conversation internal to the movement and agree on what it is they want to do.

Pronell,

The linked article has been updated to reflect that. Now the headline here is out of date.

Pronell,

I’ve finished the game three times and keep the end savefile, so I can still go back to my Durge and see what’s new.

Pronell,

Now a couple of commercials to drive that point home.

Pronell,

He can’t even define ‘woke’.

I’d say I want to know what his definition of communism is but it’s clear he means the same thing as when he says ‘woke’.

Pronell,

He was an antivax conspiracy theorist who was convinced there was no Trump/Russia connection.

Pronell,

I listened to NPR the other day. They read off research by The Heritage Foundation with no analysis at all and then thanked them at the end.

NPR aims to be middle of the road but doesn’t mind that it’s in the ditch.

Pronell,

I read the guys release before he quit. I don’t have the link at the moment.

Pronell,

Juan Williams also went to Fox once NPR fired him. I expect this idiot to end up at Newsmax.

Pronell,

You could just leave it equipped once you get it. That’s what I tend to accidentally do.

Pronell,

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Council

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