If they spend weeks convincing you that you should do it, give you money or other resources to do it, or so on, then it can be entrapment.

Things like that should theoretically help you make an argument for entrapment, but it’s no sure thing

If you aren’t going to fight for that “1% of athletes” even though you think they’re right just because they’re too politically inconvenient then I have zero faith you’ll fight for me when I’m politically inconvenient and actually need you to

Also, if we had imprisoned everyone involved and seized all their assets Donald Trump probably doesn’t win in 2016

I love the concept and these song choices, I’m too lazy to make my own playlist but here are a few things you might dig

https://open.spotify.com/track/1mCAo03iRVykBr1HObOePI?context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A48VaRUNrCOe2mm6v6FnapS

https://open.spotify.com/track/56CDeVdoVjGbxfAddAnAPh?context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A2Tfy662ssq59AirYh8nsbi

https://open.spotify.com/track/0alxRtLPDHFKb5lH4KCtiy?context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A7ln1p6aRcW7uq8ANk8v3eN

https://open.spotify.com/track/0slaqsl9nNE4fayvnTJ13G?context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A19UJ41n18Bej71oLEj14xO

Oh boy, economists actually being able to make good jokes is about as bad an indicator for society as a sudden spike in the sales of flag pole mounts for pick up truck beds

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obligatory Modest Mouse

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He’s independent, meaning no party

Because hundreds of millions of dollars are spent to make real information seem as confusing and boring as possible

Remember there are very few controls against creating sock puppet accounts for vote manipulation purposes on a lot of instances. If you get slammed with a bunch of downvotes it’s entirely possible that’s just one person.

Hatred of the poor is universal phenomenon that cuts across all cultures, and yet does not even have a name.

I think it’s a kind of Just-world fallacy, “If I see people suffering, they must be bad people who did something to deserve it, because the world is just and people get what they deserve.”

Kind of a separate thing, but I think the psychological need fulfilled by that fallacy comes down to “I do not need to worry about this bad thing happening to me because I believe I am a good person and bad things don’t normally happen to good people. Not worrying about this is important because my very busy life has not given me the time to develop any other coping skills for that kind worry, and so if I did dwell on how this bad thing could very easily happen to me I would probably just be overcome with anxiety and depression.”

Dang it all, what is with all the intelligent comments here? I have been waiting all day for someone to make some stupid argument so I could go “heh, looks like you just took a side, hypocrite much” and then you go off and write something I can’t even jokingly disagree with

Life is easier when you don’t take sides

No it isn’t

Good question I don’t have the answer to. I could speculate that this is all likely being sourced from some sort of marketing material that ShadowDragon put out where they just flatly say they’re gathering this information from Tesseract, and in reality they’re actually gathering any information they can on users who search for this software and download this software, but like I said I’m speculating.

If you’re really interested, I would say you should email the author of this article, reach out to Tesseract’s development team, or find a way to get a subpoena against ShadowDragon and/or ICE

Sorry to hear that, try this one

https://web.archive.org/web/20250312132300/https://www.404media.co/the-200-sites-an-ice-surveillance-contractor-is-monitoring/

Yeah, you can tell the Democratic party is a far superior organization if only because they have a few people in it who were willing to call out Biden and Harris’s support for genocide, where meanwhile the whole Republican party will support Trump no matter what he says or does

Yeah, Trump and Biden and Harris all want the same thing for Gaza, but Trump sure is a whole lot less subtle about it

… they topping on my citrussy lemon until I flavour fondant icing? [Extremely Loud Incorrect Buzzer]

And, like, is taking good media hosted on shitty sites and rehosting it on a better one supposed to be a bad thing?

the Fediverse really seems like it could be our response to these fuckers controlling the narrative on social media. It could be more than just an interesting decentralized social media platform. I really think this could be a key step in reclaiming our democracy.

Agreed, and I would add that finding ways to get nonprofit news organizations (e.g. ProPublica) and public media (e.g. NPR, PBS, etc.) to host and administer their own instances and to start directing their readers/listeners to those services would be a great way to advance this goal