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[JurisDictum]

The thought control is getting real

If the tech oligarchs can’t beat the bad press, they’ll just buy it

I'm worried about Z -- they trust their phone much more than there professors and parents.

As Mao said...it's always darkest before it goes completely black.

[mickmoranis]

Originally Posted by JurisDictum [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The thought control is getting real

If the tech oligarchs can’t beat the bad press, they’ll just buy it

I'm worried about Z -- they trust their phone much more than there professors and parents.

As Mao said...it's always darkest before it goes completely black.

see what happens when the entire political left is hung up on what 16 year old kids from Florida have to say about politics?

[JurisDictum]

Mark Zuckerberg
“For the first decade, we really focussed on all the good that connecting people brings,” he said. “But it’s clear now that we didn’t do enough. We didn’t focus enough on preventing abuse.” He added, “That goes for fake news, foreign interference in elections, hate speech, in addition to developers and data privacy. We didn’t take a broad enough view of what our responsibility is, and that was a huge mistake.”

It's become very clear to Mark Zuckerberg that someone needs to control what people think and post on the internet, and he is the one to do it.

Maybe the reason people didn't support a hardcore stance on spreading NATO to Ukraine...is because people didn't think it was a good idea to adopt a hard line so we can spread NATO to Ukraine...

Sure, Americans wouldn't know about this if it wasn't for Russian bots...they wouldn't know that America is planning a false flag in Syria.

And that seems to be the argument...Americans should not know these things...that is Russian interference in our democracy....

We need to get back to a time where no one hears about any of this shit except the military industrial elites god damnit! Then "democracy" will be intact.

Did I miss something? Is there like some brainwashing hypnosis in the comments of politico that force people to see Russia's side of the Crimea incident? The military elites are just pissed they couldn't come up with a good argument.

So Zuckerberg -- who wants to be president -- wants to shut it all down for them. We don't need to hear from Russia. Or any racists...and soon, we won't need to hear from anyone wanting to do anything about wealth redistribution either..probably because there all racists right? I mean does anyone doubt that's where this is heading?

There has been a ton news today. Uh Oh: College Students Not Sure About Protecting Free Speech, is an article that tracks a 22% uptick in students that favor censorship (its at 30% now).

Tony Robbins doesn't like the #metoo movement and says he knows a half dozen CEOs that won't hire (attractive) women because they are not worth the risk.

Stock market might go into Chaos btw... Chaos is a ladder.

[Swish2]

It's been far too long since a proper stock market crash - some people been waiting years for it.

[Wonkie]

porn star outwits bigly smart president! you won't believe what happens next!

[Patriam1066]

Originally Posted by JurisDictum [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It's become very clear to Mark Zuckerberg that someone needs to control what people think and post on the internet, and he is the one to do it.

Maybe the reason people didn't support a hardcore stance on spreading NATO to Ukraine...is because people didn't think it was a good idea to adopt a hard line so we can spread NATO to Ukraine...

Sure, Americans wouldn't know about this if it wasn't for Russian bots...they wouldn't know that America is planning a false flag in Syria.

And that seems to be the argument...Americans should not know these things...that is Russian interference in our democracy....

We need to get back to a time where no one hears about any of this shit except the military industrial elites god damnit! Then "democracy" will be intact.

Did I miss something? Is there like some brainwashing hypnosis in the comments of politico that force people to see Russia's side of the Crimea incident? The military elites are just pissed they couldn't come up with a good argument.

So Zuckerberg -- who wants to be president -- wants to shut it all down for them. We don't need to hear from Russia. Or any racists...and soon, we won't need to hear from anyone wanting to do anything about wealth redistribution either..probably because there all racists right? I mean does anyone doubt that's where this is heading?

There has been a ton news today. Uh Oh: College Students Not Sure About Protecting Free Speech, is an article that tracks a 22% uptick in students that favor censorship (its at 30% now).

Tony Robbins doesn't like the #metoo movement and says he knows a half dozen CEOs that won't hire (attractive) women because they are not worth the risk.

Stock market might go into Chaos btw... Chaos is a ladder.

Russia sucks

Hope this helps!

[Ahldagor]

Originally Posted by JurisDictum [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It's become very clear to Mark Zuckerberg that someone needs to control what people think and post on the internet, and he is the one to do it.

Maybe the reason people didn't support a hardcore stance on spreading NATO to Ukraine...is because people didn't think it was a good idea to adopt a hard line so we can spread NATO to Ukraine...

Sure, Americans wouldn't know about this if it wasn't for Russian bots...they wouldn't know that America is planning a false flag in Syria.

And that seems to be the argument...Americans should not know these things...that is Russian interference in our democracy....

We need to get back to a time where no one hears about any of this shit except the military industrial elites god damnit! Then "democracy" will be intact.

Did I miss something? Is there like some brainwashing hypnosis in the comments of politico that force people to see Russia's side of the Crimea incident? The military elites are just pissed they couldn't come up with a good argument.

So Zuckerberg -- who wants to be president -- wants to shut it all down for them. We don't need to hear from Russia. Or any racists...and soon, we won't need to hear from anyone wanting to do anything about wealth redistribution either..probably because there all racists right? I mean does anyone doubt that's where this is heading?

There has been a ton news today. Uh Oh: College Students Not Sure About Protecting Free Speech, is an article that tracks a 22% uptick in students that favor censorship (its at 30% now).

Tony Robbins doesn't like the #metoo movement and says he knows a half dozen CEOs that won't hire (attractive) women because they are not worth the risk.

Stock market might go into Chaos btw... Chaos is a ladder.

Zuckerburg has 3.4 trillion dollars in potential fines looming over his head. He's desperate as fuck. Kids in college know a lot about stuff too.....calm down JD, you've been fed too much fear mongering.

[maskedmelon]

Originally Posted by NachtMystium [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

There are 30,000 gun related deaths per year by firearms, and this number is not disputed. The U.S. population is 324,059,091 as of June 22, 2016. Do the math: 0.000000925% of the population dies from gun related actions each year. Statistically speaking, this is insignificant! What is never told, however, is a breakdown of those 30,000 deaths, to put them in perspective as compared to other causes of death:

• 65% of those deaths are by suicide, which would never be prevented by gun laws.
• 15% are by law enforcement in the line of duty and justified.
• 17% are through criminal activity, gang and drug related or mentally ill persons – better known as gun violence.
• 3% are accidental discharge deaths.
So technically, "gun violence" is not 30,000 annually, but drops to 5,100. Still too many? Now lets look at how those deaths spanned across the nation.
• 480 homicides (9.4%) were in Chicago
• 344 homicides (6.7%) were in Baltimore
• 333 homicides (6.5%) were in Detroit
• 119 homicides (2.3%) were in Washington D.C. (a 54% increase over prior years)

So basically, 25% of all gun crime happens in just 4 cities. All 4 of those cities have strict gun laws, so it is not the lack of law that is the root cause.
This basically leaves 3,825 for the entire rest of the nation, or about 75 deaths per state. That is an average because some States have much higher rates than others. For example, California had 1,169 and Alabama had 1.
Now, who has the strictest gun laws by far? California, of course, but understand, it is not guns causing this. It is a crime rate spawned by the number of criminal persons residing in those cities and states. So if all cities and states are not created equal, then there must be something other than the tool causing the gun deaths.
Are 5,100 deaths per year horrific? How about in comparison to other deaths? All death is sad and especially so when it is in the commission of a crime but that is the nature of crime. Robbery, death, rape, assault are all done by criminals. It is ludicrous to think that criminals will obey laws. That is why they are called criminals.
But what about other deaths each year?
• 40,000+ die from a drug overdose–THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR THAT!
• 36,000 people die per year from the flu, far exceeding the criminal gun deaths.
• 34,000 people die per year in traffic fatalities(exceeding gun deaths even if you include suicide).
Now it gets good:

• 200,000+ people die each year (and growing) from preventable medical errors. You are safer walking in the worst areas of Chicago than you are when you are in a hospital!
• 710,000 people die per year from heart disease. It’s time to stop the double cheeseburgers! So what is the point? If the liberal loons and the anti-gun movement focused their attention on heart disease, even a 10% decrease in cardiac deaths would save twice the number of lives annually of all gun-related deaths (including suicide, law enforcement, etc.). A 10% reduction in medical errors would be 66% of the total number of gun deaths or 4 times the number of criminal homicides ................

Simple, easily preventable 10% reductions! So you have to ask yourself, in the grand scheme of things, why the focus on guns? It's pretty simple:
Taking away guns gives control to governments. The founders of this nation knew that regardless of the form of government, those in power may become corrupt and seek to rule as the British did by trying to disarm the populace of the colonies. It is not difficult to understand that a disarmed populace is a controlled populace.

we HAVE to do SOMETHING though! it is morally imperative that i arbitrarily lend support to every every claim of injustice no matter how dubious or unreasonable. people are inherently good except those unlike me who actually lust for the blood of innocents. Ive long since surrendered my intellectual sovereignty to the dead thought of others and have neither interest nor capacity for nuanced discussion. give me action!

[Raavak]

Someone told me last weekend that we can't start imprisoning the Trumpers until we take away their guns.

Scary, but scarier still is the fact this person teaches in a public high school.

The left is batshit crazy, and dangerous.

[Patriam1066]

Do you guys understand that death is permanent? Statistics don't mean anything to the mother and father of a dead child. Why is doing nothing, based on a shitty interpretation of a document written 250 years ago by slave owners with no ability to conceive modern weapons, less "bat shit crazy" than considering reasonable restrictions on firearms?