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Posted: 4/4/2022 7:28:04 AM EDT
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Big thanks to DaGoose for consolidating The Files so far:
Originally Posted By DaGoose: Originally Posted By DaGoose: Posting all the links again. THE TWITTER FILES - PART ONE TWITTER AND THE HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP STORY
Recounting the internal drama at Twitter surrounding the decision to block access to a New York Post exposé on Hunter Biden in October, 2020. Key revelations: Twitter blocked the story on the basis of its “hacked materials” policy, but executives internally knew the decision was problematic. “Can we truthfully claim that this is part of the policy?” is how comms official Brandon Borrman put it. Also: when a Twitter contractor polls members of Congress about the decision, they hear Democratic members want more moderation, not less, and “the First Amendment isn’t absolute.” THE TWITTER FILES - PART ONE SUPPLEMENTAL THE “EXITING” OF TWITTER DEPUTY GENERAL COUNSEL JIM BAKER
A second round of Twitter Files releases was delayed, as new addition Bari Weiss discovers former FBI General Counsel and Twitter Deputy General Counsel Jim Baker was reviewing the first batches of Twitter Files documents, whose delivery to reporters had slowed. THE TWITTER FILES - PART TWO TWITTER’S SECRET BLACKLISTS.
Bari Weiss gives a long-awaited answer to the question, “Was Twitter shadow-banning people?” It did, only the company calls it “visibility filtering.” Twitter also had a separate, higher council called SIP-PES that decided cases for high-visibility, controversial accounts. Key revelations: Twitter had a huge toolbox for controlling the visibility of any user, including a “Search Blacklist” (for Dan Bongino), a “Trends Blacklist” for Stanford’s Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, and a “Do Not Amplify” setting for conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Weiss quotes a Twitter employee: “Think about visibility filtering as being a way for us to suppress what people see to different levels. It’s a very powerful tool.” With help from @abigailshrier, @shellenbergermd, @nelliebowles, and @isaacgrafstein. THE TWITTER FILES - PART THREE THE REMOVAL OF DONALD TRUMP - October 2020 - January 6th
First in a three-part series looking at how Twitter came to the decision to suspend Donald Trump. The idea behind the series is to show how all of Twitter’s “visibility filtering” tools were on display and deployed after January 6th, 2021. Key Revelations: Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth not only met regularly with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security, but with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). Also, Twitter was aggressively applying “visibility filtering” tools to Trump well before the election. THE TWITTER FILES - PART FOUR THE REMOVAL OF DONALD TRUMP - January 7
This thread by Michael Shellenberger looks at the key day after the J6 riots and before Trump would ultimately be banned from Twitter on January 8th, showing how Twitter internally reconfigured its rules to make a Trump ban fit their policies. Key revelations: at least one Twitter employee worried about a “slippery slope” in which “an online platform CEO with a global presence… can gatekeep speech for the entire world,” only to be shot down. Also, chief censor Roth argues for a ban on congressman Matt Gaetz even though it “doesn’t quite fit anywhere (duh),” and Twitter changed its “public interest policy” to clear a path for Trump’s removal. THE TWITTER FILES - PART FIVE THE REMOVAL OF TRUMP FROM TWITTER.
As angry as many inside Twitter were with Donald Trump after the January 6th Capitol riots, staffers struggled to suspend his account, saying things like, “I think we’d have a hard time saying this is incitement.” As documented by Weiss, they found a way to pull the trigger anyway. Key revelations: there were dissenters in the company (“Maybe because I am from China,” said one employee, “I deeply understand how censorship can destroy the public conversation”), but are overruled by senior executives like Vijaya Gadde and Roth, who noted many on Twitter’s staff were citing the “Banality of Evil,” and comparing those who favored sticking to a strict legalistic interpretation of Twitter’s rules — i.e. keep Trump, who had “no violation” — to “Nazis following orders.” THE TWITTER FILES - PART SIX THE FBI SUBSIDIARY
Twitter’s contact with the FBI was “constant and pervasive,” as FBI personnel, mainly in the San Francisco field office, regularly sent lists of “reports” to Twitter, often about Americans with low follower counts making joke tweets. Tweeters on both the left and the right were affected. Key revelations: A senior Twitter executive reports, “FBI was adamant no impediments to sharing” classified information exist. Twitter also agreed to “bounce” content on the recommendations of a wide array of governmental and quasi-governmental actors, from the FBI to the Homeland Security agency CISA to Stanford’s Election Integrity Project to state governments. The company one day received so many moderation requests from the FBI, an executive congratulated staffers at the end for completing the “monumental undertaking.” THE TWITTER FILES - PART SEVEN THE FBI AND TTHE HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP
The Twitter Files story increases its focus on the company’s relationship to federal law enforcement and intelligence, and shows intense communication between the FBI and Twitter just before the release of the Post’s Hunter Biden story. Key Revelations: San Francisco agent Elvis Chan “sends 10 documents to Twitter’s then-Head of Site Integrity, Yoel Roth, through Teleporter, a one-way communications channel from the FBI to Twitter,” the evening before the release of the Post story. Also, Baker in an email explains Twitter was compensated for “processing requests” by the FBI, saying “I am happy to report we have collected $3,415,323 since October 2019!” THE TWITTER FILES - PART EIGHT TWITTER AND PENTAGON'S COVERT ONLINE PSYOP CAMPAIGN
RELATED ARTICLE https://theintercept.com/2022/12/20/twitter-dod-us-military-accounts Lee Fang takes a fascinating detour, looking at how Twitter for years approved and supported Pentagon-backed covert operations. Noting the company explicitly testified to Congress that it didn’t allow such behavior, the platform nonetheless was a clear partner in state-backed programs involving fake accounts. Key revelations: after the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) sent over a list of 52 Arab-language accounts “we use to amplify certain messages,” Twitter agreed to “whitelist” them. Ultimately the program would be outed in the Washington Post in 2022 — two years after Twitter and other platforms stopped assisting — but contrary to what came out in those reports, Twitter knew about and/or assisted in these programs for at least three years, from 2017-2020. THE TWITTER FILES TWITTER AND "OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES"
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/twitter-files-thread-the-spies-who The Christmas Eve thread (I should have waited a few days to publish!) further details how the channels of communication between the federal government and Twitter operated, and reveals that Twitter directly or indirectly received lists of flagged content from “Other Government Agencies,” i.e. the CIA. Key revelations: CIA officials attended at least one conference with Twitter in the summer of 2020, and companies like Twitter and Facebook received “OGA briefings,” at their regular “industry” meetings held in conjunction with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The FBI and the “Foreign Influence Task Force” met regularly “not just with Twitter, but with Yahoo!, Twitch, Cloudfare, LinkedIn, even Wikimedia.” THE TWITTER FILES: HOW TWITTER RIGGED THE COVID DEBATE
David Zweig drills down into how Twitter throttled down information about COVID that was true but perhaps inconvenient for public officials, “discrediting doctors and other experts who disagreed.” Key Revelations: Zweig found memos from Twitter personnel who’d liaised with Biden administration officials who were “very angry” that Twitter had not deplatformed more accounts. White House officials for instance wanted attention on reporter Alex Berenson. Zweig also found “countless” instances of Twitter banning or labeling “misleading” accounts that were true or merely controversial. A Rhode Island physician named Andrew Bostom, for instance, was suspended for, among other things, referring to the results of a peer-reviewed study on mRNA vaccines. THE TWITTER FILES: HOW TWITTER LET THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY IN
THE TWITTER FILES: TWITTER AND THE FBI “BELLY BUTTON”
These two threads focus respectively on the second half of 2017, and a period stretching roughly from summer of 2020 through the present. The first describes how Twitter fell under pressure from Congress and the media to produce “material” showing a conspiracy of Russian accounts on their platform, and the second shows how Twitter tried to resist fulfilling moderation requests for the State Department, but ultimately agreed to let State and other agencies send requests through the FBI, which agent Chan calls “the belly button of the USG.” Revelations: at the close of 2017, Twitter makes a key internal decision. Outwardly, the company would claim independence and promise that content would only be removed at “our sole discretion.” The internal guidance says, in writing, that Twitter will remove accounts “identified by the U.S. intelligence community” as “identified by the U.S.. intelligence community as a state-sponsored entity conducting cyber-operations.” The second thread shows how Twitter took in requests from everyone — Treasury, HHS, NSA, FBI, DHS, etc. — and also received personal requests from politicians like Democratic congressman Adam Schiff, who asked to have journalist Paul Sperry suspended. THE TWITTER FILES #14 - THE RUSSIAGATE LIES
THE TWITTER FILES #15 - MOVE OVER, JAYSON BLAIR: TWITTER FILES EXPOSE NEXT GREAT MEDIA FRAUD
THE TWITTER FILES #16 - COMIC INTERLUDE: A MEDIA EXPERIMENT
THE TWITTER FILES #17 - NEW KNOWLEDGE, THE GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT CENTER, AND STATE-SPONSORED BLACKLISTS
THE TWITTER FILES #18 - STATEMENT TO CONGRESS THE CENSORSHIP-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
THE TWITTER FILES #19 - THE GREAT COVID-19 LIE MACHINE STANFORD, THE VIRALITY PROJECT, AND THE CENSORSHIP OF “TRUE STORIES”
THE TWITTER FILES - SUPPLEMENTAL
TWITTER FILES: SUPPLEMENTAL MORE ADAM SCHIFF BAN REQUESTS, AND "DEAMPLIFICATION"
TWITTER FILES: HOW THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY LOBBIED SOCIAL MEDIA TO SHAPE CONTENT AROUND VACCINE POLICY
RELATED: DAVE RUBIN ON SHADOWBANNING
RUBY FILES: AN INSIDE LOOK AT THE TYPE OF CONTENT TWITTER FLAGGED FOR REVIEW
https://rubymediagroup.com/twitter-artificial-intelligence/ UNDER WHITE HOUSE PRESSURE, FACEBOOK CENSORED ACCURATE COVID VACCINE INFORMATION
https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/under-white-house-pressure-facebook FROM THE TWITTER FILES: PFIZER BOARD MEMBER SCOTT GOTTLIEB SECRETLY PRESSED TWITTER TO HIDE POSTS CHALLENGING HIS COMPANY'S MASSIVELY PROFITABLE COVID JABS
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/from-the-twitter-files-pfizer-board HOW THE FBI HACKED TWITTER https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/how-the-fbi-hacked-twitter-lee-smith MISSOURI AG TALKING ABOUT COLLUSION BETWEEN BIDEN WH AND SOCIAL MEDIA
DHS backed censorship program
US Political Misinfo Twitter Detection AI List
Former Twitter employee shares exclusive details with me on AI, Access to DMs, and more.
Whistleblower Report https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22186683/twitter-whistleblower-disclosure.pdf CDC Thread on secret Twitter partner portal
Feds at Facebook
Feds at Google
GLOSSARY OF “TWITTER FILES” TERMS Click To View Spoiler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now he wants to buy it! "Since making my investment I now realize the company will neither thrive nor serve this societal imperative in its current form. Twitter needs to be transformed as a private company," Musk said in a letter to Twitter Chairman Bret Taylor. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-offers-buy-twitter-101906337.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Re-filed: Elon Musk refiled the disclosure of his stake in Twitter Inc. to classify himself as an active investor, making the change after taking a seat on the social media company’s board. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/musk-refiles-twitter-disclosure-show-221958940.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tesla CEO Elon Musk is putting his enormous sums of money where his tweets are at. It was disclosed on Monday that the somewhat unpredictable Musk took a 9.2% stake in Twitter. The stake — valued at close to $3 billion as of Twitter's closing price on Friday — is defined as a passive one. While Musk's stake in Twitter is passive, it could turn on a dime, said Tesla bull and Elon watcher Dan Ives of Wedbush. "We would expect this passive stake as just the start of broader conversations with the Twitter board/management that could ultimately lead to an active stake and a potential more aggressive ownership role of Twitter," Ives said. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-just-took-a-92-stake-in-twitter-what-may-happen-next-111313363.html
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/twitter-stock-rockets-after-elon-musk-takes-stake-valued-at-more-than-3-billion-11649070782 |
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Posted: 11/29/2022 11:44:35 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Bassgasm: Depending upon size and complexity, you’re looking at 50-100 guys per site including functions that are often outsourced like physical security, electrical, and HVAC. That just gets you the DC, not the software or any of the business functions. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Bassgasm: Originally Posted By UtahShotgunner: Originally Posted By Bassgasm: Originally Posted By kill-9: Originally Posted By RattleCanAR: Originally Posted By JQ66: Twitter can probably run with two dozen people. It's not as if they're making anything As long as the servers are operational And the occasional algorithm or bug that appears is fixed. The rest were there for censorship and pushing certain content Correct Twitter operates on-prem data centers. You're NOT doing that with "two dozen people". Their chances at keeping those systems up depend on how well designed and maintained those data centers were to begin with and how many of those techs/engineers were fired or took the severance. Four dozen? Six? Depending upon size and complexity, you’re looking at 50-100 guys per site including functions that are often outsourced like physical security, electrical, and HVAC. That just gets you the DC, not the software or any of the business functions. That's not much compared to 7500. |
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Posted: 11/29/2022 12:14:05 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Matthew_Q: "Republicans are racist!" "Republicans hate women!" "Republicans hate immigrants!" Yep... all that kind of misinformation spread so far and wide. Time to clamp down on it! "Girls, men meet under a bridge to pay you less, disregard Thomas Sowell saying since the 70s that it's not a thing! REEEEEEEEEEEE!" "BIPOCs, did you know police literally just wake up every morning thinking about ending their career and living in the witness protection program for life after shooting at someone resisting arrest/assaulting them? It's SystemicTM. Like, they coach it, like a system offense. Totally a real thing not misinformation at all. Vote dem plz haha" "Hey LGBTQAAIP+ people, did you know Orangeman is going to put peeeople into camps? M-hmm yep totally real m-hmm." "Hey climate people, did you know that the world is ending "Hey lefties, did you know Drumpf is a russian agent, from the Kremlin?!?!?!?!!? It's why his soon took that meeting with Vessel-skynetia. Yep he's butt-buddies with Putin, which is why he's taking cold calls from nobodies, makes perfect sense. Anywhoo, we neeed to investigate him for 5 years to find the original thing that makes us so sure!" Yeap. People NEVER get violent/crazy on the basis of things the left considers absolute fact, but really aren't all that true upon examination  Oh no, MisinformationTM is only a thing that happened when boomers with 15 facebook friends and a broken capslock button recirculated some greentexts from 4chan. It's never been a factor before that.
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Posted: 11/29/2022 12:26:39 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Bassgasm: Depending upon size and complexity, you’re looking at 50-100 guys per site including functions that are often outsourced like physical security, electrical, and HVAC. That just gets you the DC, not the software or any of the business functions. They lease space in data centers with hybrid multi cloud environments hosting portions of their compute and hadoop clusters. You can look at their engineering blog to understand their infrastructure instead of guessing. |
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Posted: 11/29/2022 12:29:36 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/29/2022 12:30:44 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By SmashedRollpin: They lease space in data centers with hybrid multi cloud environments hosting portions of their compute and hadoop clusters. You can look at their engineering blog to understand their infrastructure instead of guessing. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By SmashedRollpin: Originally Posted By Bassgasm: Depending upon size and complexity, you’re looking at 50-100 guys per site including functions that are often outsourced like physical security, electrical, and HVAC. That just gets you the DC, not the software or any of the business functions. They lease space in data centers with hybrid multi cloud environments hosting portions of their compute and hadoop clusters. You can look at their engineering blog to understand their infrastructure instead of guessing. Shh... He knows all the things about this. Let him keep going on about it. 
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Posted: 11/29/2022 12:38:57 PM EDT
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52 CIA and intelligence experts spread misinformation that the laptops was a Russian hoax.
Why haven't all their accounts been suspended? |
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Posted: 11/29/2022 12:45:51 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/29/2022 12:47:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RSG:
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I tried to dig into this one a little. The white house transcript has this as the full question: Q Just a question about Twitter. You know, there’s a researcher at Stanford who says that this is a critical moment, really, in terms of ensuring that Twitter does not become a vector for misinformation. I mean, are you concerned about the — you know, Elon Musk says there’s more and more subscribers coming online. Are you concerned about that? And what tools do you have? Who is it at the White House that is really keeping track of this? MS. JEAN-PIERRE: So, look, this is something that we’re certainly keeping an eye on. And, look, we — you know, we have always been very clear and — that when it comes to social media platforms, it is their responsibility to make sure that when it comes to misinformation, when we — when it comes to the hate that we’re seeing, that they take action, that they continue to take action. Again, we’re all keeping a close eye on this. We’re all monitoring what’s — what’s currently occurring. And we see — you know, we see it with our own eyes of what you all are reporting and, just for ourselves, what’s happening on Twitter. But again, social media companies have a responsibility to prevent their platforms from being used by any user to incite violence, especially violence directed at individual communities, as we have been seeing. And the President has been very clear on calling that out. He’ll continue to do that. And we’re going to continue to monitor the situation. Press Briefing Transcript They never name the researcher, and I can't find anything close to that supposed quote in my search. I did find this fun little journal article from an Australian journal of Information warfare back in 2010: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26480487 How much do you want to bet the term "vector of misinformation" becomes a favorite phrase on all the talk shows and news stories over the next few days. |
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Posted: 11/29/2022 12:50:21 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/29/2022 12:56:44 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Ryan_Ruck:  https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/102941/BA24931D-0B72-4E4F-8F72-411E306F479C_jpe-2617850.JPG  I would say the burden of proof is on her to prove it wrong. |
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Posted: 11/29/2022 1:05:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Ryan_Ruck: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/102941/BA24931D-0B72-4E4F-8F72-411E306F479C_jpe-2617850.JPG lmao, copywrite? I saw he was replying to James Woods...here's how that came about
Rick S. (@CodeBleu6) November 29, 2022 
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Posted: 11/29/2022 1:07:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RSG: lmao, copywrite? I saw he was replying to James Woods...here's how that came about
Rick S. (@CodeBleu6) November 29, 2022 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FiuQNnpXoAYor8n?format=jpg&name=small Can someone tell me what the red cape and bonnet mean? Why is this the superhero outfit for the left?? |
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Posted: 11/29/2022 1:12:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By bandanabandit1: Can someone tell me what the red cape and bonnet mean? Why is this the superhero outfit for the left?? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By bandanabandit1: Originally Posted By RSG: lmao, copywrite? I saw he was replying to James Woods...here's how that came about
Rick S. (@CodeBleu6) November 29, 2022 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FiuQNnpXoAYor8n?format=jpg&name=small Can someone tell me what the red cape and bonnet mean? Why is this the superhero outfit for the left?? Fetish/LARPing outfit, near as I can tell. Forced impregnation or some similar kink. |
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Posted: 11/29/2022 1:16:18 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By bandanabandit1: Can someone tell me what the red cape and bonnet mean? Why is this the superhero outfit for the left?? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handmaid |
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Posted: 11/29/2022 1:17:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By bandanabandit1: Can someone tell me what the red cape and bonnet mean? Why is this the superhero outfit for the left?? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handmaid's_Tale_ |
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Posted: 11/29/2022 1:19:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By mnd: Fetish/LARPing outfit, near as I can tell. Forced impregnation or some similar kink. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By mnd: Originally Posted By bandanabandit1: Originally Posted By RSG: lmao, copywrite? I saw he was replying to James Woods...here's how that came about
Rick S. (@CodeBleu6) November 29, 2022 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FiuQNnpXoAYor8n?format=jpg&name=small Can someone tell me what the red cape and bonnet mean? Why is this the superhero outfit for the left?? Fetish/LARPing outfit, near as I can tell. Forced impregnation or some similar kink. Some famous millionaire woman who lives in commiefornia, bluest of the blue states, is oppressed or something because: -Womenz (not her) who were born, lived, and died in different eras, had some challenges that sound shitty to us 100 years later. (But it was a cakewalk for men, who only died at the bottom of coalmines and never left battlefields. Those guys just had toooooons of great choices a-a-and that totally relates to a woman who was rich, famous, and living in CA in the modern era, because, uhm, it, does?) |
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Posted: 11/29/2022 1:22:29 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By bandanabandit1: Can someone tell me what the red cape and bonnet mean? Why is this the superhero outfit for the left?? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By bandanabandit1: Originally Posted By RSG: lmao, copywrite? I saw he was replying to James Woods...here's how that came about
Rick S. (@CodeBleu6) November 29, 2022 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FiuQNnpXoAYor8n?format=jpg&name=small Can someone tell me what the red cape and bonnet mean? Why is this the superhero outfit for the left?? I could be wrong, but it's a nod/suggestion to A fictional TV show |
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Posted: 11/29/2022 1:24:32 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By bandanabandit1: Can someone tell me what the red cape and bonnet mean? Why is this the superhero outfit for the left?? It's a show for liberal women to feel woke, while fantasizing about being forcibly bred😂 |
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Posted: 11/29/2022 1:24:38 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By mnd: Fetish/LARPing outfit, near as I can tell. Forced impregnation or some similar kink. |
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Posted: 11/29/2022 1:25:05 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By bayoushooter: I tried to dig into this one a little. The white house transcript has this as the full question: Press Briefing Transcript They never name the researcher, and I can't find anything close to that supposed quote in my search. I did find this fun little journal article from an Australian journal of Information warfare back in 2010: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26480487 How much do you want to bet the term "vector of misinformation" becomes a favorite phrase on all the talk shows and news stories over the next few days. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By bayoushooter: Originally Posted By RSG:
I tried to dig into this one a little. The white house transcript has this as the full question: Q Just a question about Twitter. You know, there's a researcher at Stanford who says that this is a critical moment, really, in terms of ensuring that Twitter does not become a vector for misinformation. I mean, are you concerned about the you know, Elon Musk says there's more and more subscribers coming online. Are you concerned about that? And what tools do you have? Who is it at the White House that is really keeping track of this? MS. JEAN-PIERRE: So, look, this is something that we're certainly keeping an eye on. And, look, we you know, we have always been very clear and that when it comes to social media platforms, it is their responsibility to make sure that when it comes to misinformation, when we when it comes to the hate that we're seeing, that they take action, that they continue to take action. Again, we're all keeping a close eye on this. We're all monitoring what's what's currently occurring. And we see you know, we see it with our own eyes of what you all are reporting and, just for ourselves, what's happening on Twitter. But again, social media companies have a responsibility to prevent their platforms from being used by any user to incite violence, especially violence directed at individual communities, as we have been seeing. And the President has been very clear on calling that out. He'll continue to do that. And we're going to continue to monitor the situation. Press Briefing Transcript They never name the researcher, and I can't find anything close to that supposed quote in my search. I did find this fun little journal article from an Australian journal of Information warfare back in 2010: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26480487 How much do you want to bet the term "vector of misinformation" becomes a favorite phrase on all the talk shows and news stories over the next few days. They are unashamed of being the most anti-1st Amendment administration in history. |
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Posted: 11/29/2022 1:28:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By bandanabandit1: Can someone tell me what the red cape and bonnet mean? Why is this the superhero outfit for the left?? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By bandanabandit1: Originally Posted By RSG: lmao, copywrite? I saw he was replying to James Woods...here's how that came about
Rick S. (@CodeBleu6) November 29, 2022 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FiuQNnpXoAYor8n?format=jpg&name=small Can someone tell me what the red cape and bonnet mean? Why is this the superhero outfit for the left?? It's the new Super-Karen outfit to fight Patriarchy. |
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Posted: 11/29/2022 1:28:48 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Bassgasm: Depending upon size and complexity, you’re looking at 50-100 guys per site including functions that are often outsourced like physical security, electrical, and HVAC. That just gets you the DC, not the software or any of the business functions. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Bassgasm: Originally Posted By UtahShotgunner: Originally Posted By Bassgasm: Originally Posted By kill-9: Originally Posted By RattleCanAR: Originally Posted By JQ66: Twitter can probably run with two dozen people. It's not as if they're making anything As long as the servers are operational And the occasional algorithm or bug that appears is fixed. The rest were there for censorship and pushing certain content Correct Twitter operates on-prem data centers. You're NOT doing that with "two dozen people". Their chances at keeping those systems up depend on how well designed and maintained those data centers were to begin with and how many of those techs/engineers were fired or took the severance. Four dozen? Six? Depending upon size and complexity, you’re looking at 50-100 guys per site including functions that are often outsourced like physical security, electrical, and HVAC. That just gets you the DC, not the software or any of the business functions. Lucky guess on my part. 4-6 dozen it is! How many sites does Twitter have? |
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Posted: 11/29/2022 1:30:53 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/29/2022 1:40:35 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By SBR_Slut: Musk has fans. Microsoft has hostages. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By SBR_Slut: Originally Posted By Ayada: Originally Posted By Geralt55: In reality he would not need to clean out Apple and Google to "win", he would only need to have enough market to sustain itself and to remove their bullying power, preventing them from dropping twitter. And if there's a person I would try to try a smartphone-startup and go after Microsoft poured in billions and couldn't get even a sliver of market share, and they sponsored the shit out of companies to make apps for their phones. The biggest challenge is not making the phone, or even the operating system. The two biggest issues are getting people to buy the thing, and getting companies to support it. I don't think he would have issues with getting an initial surge of hype purchases. What I do doubt is finding companies that are willing to port their apps to yet another ecosystem that's unproven to their eyes, especially when we see that companies will disregard profit to make a statement (i.e., pull advertising from Twitter because of feelings). Musk has fans. Microsoft has hostages. |
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Posted: 11/29/2022 1:51:01 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By bandanabandit1: Can someone tell me what the red cape and bonnet mean? Why is this the superhero outfit for the left?? It's from the show handmaidens tale. The idea was that these handmaidens were to be used for breeding by the elite. The left went all out on this during the Trump years, claiming that was what in store for women under his rule. Mental illness, really. As usual. |
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Posted: 11/29/2022 1:52:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By bandanabandit1: Can someone tell me what the red cape and bonnet mean? Why is this the superhero outfit for the left?? Left wing female rape fantasy |
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Posted: 11/29/2022 1:59:33 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Pesty: Left wing female rape fantasy I should have guessed 
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Posted: 11/29/2022 1:59:43 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Bassgasm: Depending upon size and complexity, you're looking at 50-100 guys per site including functions that are often outsourced like physical security, electrical, and HVAC. That just gets you the DC, not the software or any of the business functions. Ide assume someone smart as musk had the infrastructure guys locked down before the emails went out. Along with at least a few dozen on the software developer side. Twitter seems to be running just fine. You don't spend 43 billion then go in without a plan and a backup plan |
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Posted: 11/29/2022 2:16:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By bulldog1967: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/6755/Screen_Shot_2022-11-29_at_11_37_40_AM-2617897.png Where did this come from? |
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Posted: 11/29/2022 2:22:21 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By SmashedRollpin: They lease space in data centers with hybrid multi cloud environments hosting portions of their compute and hadoop clusters. You can look at their engineering blog to understand their infrastructure instead of guessing. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By SmashedRollpin: Originally Posted By Bassgasm: Depending upon size and complexity, you’re looking at 50-100 guys per site including functions that are often outsourced like physical security, electrical, and HVAC. That just gets you the DC, not the software or any of the business functions. They lease space in data centers with hybrid multi cloud environments hosting portions of their compute and hadoop clusters. You can look at their engineering blog to understand their infrastructure instead of guessing. #Hybrid #Cloud  At the end of the day, you still need power, cooling, compute, and network, and someone has to run all of that. The other issue here is that the big name cloud providers are all run by people hostile to Elon and what he’s doing. Google and AWS? Hard pass. |
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Posted: 11/29/2022 2:32:53 PM EDT
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[#31]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By victorgonzales: Ide assume someone smart as musk had the infrastructure guys locked down before the emails went out. Along with at least a few dozen on the software developer side. Twitter seems to be running just fine. You don't spend 43 billion then go in without a plan and a backup plan Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By victorgonzales: Originally Posted By Bassgasm: Depending upon size and complexity, you're looking at 50-100 guys per site including functions that are often outsourced like physical security, electrical, and HVAC. That just gets you the DC, not the software or any of the business functions. Ide assume someone smart as musk had the infrastructure guys locked down before the emails went out. Along with at least a few dozen on the software developer side. Twitter seems to be running just fine. You don't spend 43 billion then go in without a plan and a backup plan It’s a classic deferred maintenance scenario. You’re not going to throw a rod because you went 5k miles past your oil change interval, but you’re not doing yourself any favors. Even if Twitter lost critical people, the systems will keep running… for a while. Did Elon’s people correctly identify and successfully retain the right people? How many holes do they have? Is it a clean environment with good documentation, or are they trying to support a soup sandwich? These are the questions. |
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Posted: 11/29/2022 2:35:55 PM EDT
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[#32]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Bassgasm: #Hybrid #Cloud At the end of the day, you still need power, cooling, compute, and network, and someone has to run all of that. The other issue here is that the big name cloud providers are all run by people hostile to Elon and what he’s doing. Google and AWS? Hard pass. I can tell you have no idea what you are talking about. You've never worked in a data center or understand how modern infrastructure works. But keep pretending. Stay in your lane. Eta: you realize arfcom is hosted on aws right? sorry but public cloud is already here and its not going anywhere. |
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Posted: 11/29/2022 2:38:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By rcav8r: It's from the show handmaidens tale. The idea was that these handmaidens were to be used for breeding by the elite. The left went all out on this during the Trump years, claiming that was what in store for women under his rule. Mental illness, really. As usual. Additionally, it is an influence behind many women's perception that not having on demand abortion access equates to rape slavery. |
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Posted: 11/29/2022 2:42:56 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By happycynic: This. Some woman created a fantasy world where the chaddest of chads are forced to cheat on their wives to impregnate the heroine, who wears that outfit. They even make the wives watch. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By happycynic: Originally Posted By mnd: Fetish/LARPing outfit, near as I can tell. Forced impregnation or some similar kink. Very telling about female nature.  Attached File |
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Posted: 11/29/2022 2:43:01 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Bassgasm: #Hybrid #Cloud At the end of the day, you still need power, cooling, compute, and network, and someone has to run all of that. The other issue here is that the big name cloud providers are all run by people hostile to Elon and what he's doing. Google and AWS? Hard pass. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Bassgasm: Originally Posted By SmashedRollpin: Originally Posted By Bassgasm: Depending upon size and complexity, you're looking at 50-100 guys per site including functions that are often outsourced like physical security, electrical, and HVAC. That just gets you the DC, not the software or any of the business functions. They lease space in data centers with hybrid multi cloud environments hosting portions of their compute and hadoop clusters. You can look at their engineering blog to understand their infrastructure instead of guessing. #Hybrid #Cloud At the end of the day, you still need power, cooling, compute, and network, and someone has to run all of that. The other issue here is that the big name cloud providers are all run by people hostile to Elon and what he's doing. Google and AWS? Hard pass. You can also go with cheap commodity converged nodes like Facebook does and simply replace failed nodes with cheap labor. Trashing a $400 MB/CPU/MEM/SSD node rather than trying to fix it in place isn't the end of the world. Distributed systems like Hadoop are very amenable to this sort of infrastructure and management. |
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Posted: 11/29/2022 2:57:18 PM EDT
[#36]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By SmashedRollpin: I can tell you have no idea what you are talking about. You've never worked in a data center or understand how modern infrastructure works. But keep pretending. Stay in your lane. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By SmashedRollpin: Originally Posted By Bassgasm: #Hybrid #Cloud At the end of the day, you still need power, cooling, compute, and network, and someone has to run all of that. The other issue here is that the big name cloud providers are all run by people hostile to Elon and what he’s doing. Google and AWS? Hard pass. I can tell you have no idea what you are talking about. You've never worked in a data center or understand how modern infrastructure works. But keep pretending. Stay in your lane. I hope you both make a thread about it to discuss. |
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Posted: 11/29/2022 3:01:52 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/29/2022 3:11:30 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RSG:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FiwMELsX0AAV3RJ?format=png&name=smallhttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/FiwMEL1X0AETySE?format=png&name=small https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FiwMENGWIAATP1P?format=png&name=smallhttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/FiwMENOWYAEi5L6?format=jpg&name=small That's a man trapped in a trannies body. |
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Posted: 11/29/2022 3:19:05 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By KonamiCode: Where did this come from? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By KonamiCode: Originally Posted By bulldog1967: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/6755/Screen_Shot_2022-11-29_at_11_37_40_AM-2617897.png Where did this come from? @KonamiCode https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/11/business/china-apple-airdrop-function-restricted-hnk-intl 
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Posted: 11/29/2022 3:19:18 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By bulldog1967: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/6755/Screen_Shot_2022-11-29_at_11_37_40_AM-2617897.png no shit eh? |
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Posted: 11/29/2022 3:19:18 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By SBR_Slut: Very telling about female nature. /media/mediaFiles/sharedAlbum/yQOEgRw-67.gif Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By SBR_Slut: Originally Posted By happycynic: Originally Posted By mnd: Fetish/LARPing outfit, near as I can tell. Forced impregnation or some similar kink. Very telling about female nature. /media/mediaFiles/sharedAlbum/yQOEgRw-67.gif |
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Posted: 11/29/2022 3:24:33 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/29/2022 3:34:54 PM EDT
[#43]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Darcy: @ludder903 You need to file an appeal, and then respond to the email they send you. Then you should be in business. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Darcy: Originally Posted By ludder093: when's my account going to be unlocked? Has he given an estimate for that yet? @ludder903 You need to file an appeal, and then respond to the email they send you. Then you should be in business. I've submitted three cases to try and get my account unlocked without success yet. Bear in mind their replies 'time out' and they will close the case. If that happens they will respond with requesting that you open a new case so they can 'continue to help you'. |
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Posted: 11/29/2022 4:11:56 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By bayoushooter: I tried to dig into this one a little. The white house transcript has this as the full question: Press Briefing Transcript They never name the researcher, and I can't find anything close to that supposed quote in my search. I did find this fun little journal article from an Australian journal of Information warfare back in 2010: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26480487 How much do you want to bet the term "vector of misinformation" becomes a favorite phrase on all the talk shows and news stories over the next few days. How "convenient" that she had an answer to a question that starts off with an obscure reference. |
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Posted: 11/29/2022 4:12:56 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/29/2022 4:51:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By XJ: How "convenient" that she had an answer to a question that starts off with an obscure reference. Reminiscent of those articles that reference other articles by the same author created for the purpose of using as "source material." |
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Posted: 11/29/2022 4:57:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Bassgasm: It's a classic deferred maintenance scenario. You're not going to throw a rod because you went 5k miles past your oil change interval, but you're not doing yourself any favors. Even if Twitter lost critical people, the systems will keep running for a while. Did Elon's people correctly identify and successfully retain the right people? How many holes do they have? Is it a clean environment with good documentation, or are they trying to support a soup sandwich? These are the questions. If the data center goes down, fix it. If you don't have someone who can fix it, find them. I believe their remaining Pareto staff can handle those problems easily. |
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Posted: 11/29/2022 5:06:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RSG:
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Posted: 11/29/2022 5:23:19 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AK-12: Reminiscent of those articles that reference other articles by the same author created for the purpose of using as "source material." Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By AK-12: Originally Posted By XJ: How "convenient" that she had an answer to a question that starts off with an obscure reference. Reminiscent of those articles that reference other articles by the same author created for the purpose of using as "source material." IIRC today Dave Rubin said that the person who ask the question was a WEF friend. Fuckin A, the Trump years when a news cycle sounded like: "Fox News can now report that ABC News is reporting that Anonymous Sources Familiar With The MatterTM claim tonight that Orangemanbad." in Bret Baier's fuckin drone.  ^ The media that is pissy about "misinformation", after years of Russiagate troofer fanfictions, "0-2% GDP growth is allll that's possible 'cuz we have a Mature EconomyTM", etc, etc etc. |
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Posted: 11/29/2022 5:24:32 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By kill-9: Powerful propaganda tools... Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By kill-9: Originally Posted By RSG:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FiwMELsX0AAV3RJ?format=png&name=smallhttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/FiwMEL1X0AETySE?format=png&name=small https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FiwMENGWIAATP1P?format=png&name=smallhttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/FiwMENOWYAEi5L6?format=jpg&name=small What they're saying: "We have to do what we were doing even HARDER. Which is funny because we were denying doing any of that, and now we're telling you we always did it and We're The Good GuysTM haha" Soooo if WE get elected. We become The Good GuysTM and we can tell google what the Right-think is, right? Cause this isn't China, right?
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