***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[IATT]

This dude really wants a cookie

 

[IATT]

Thread:

 

[rillo561]

A miracle? WTF?!

 

[harlemtothebronx]

A miracle? WTF?!

He has the undeniable skill of always managing to say something ridiculous and perplexing.

A miracle, he says.

 

[AEA18]

Mass murder a miracle.

 

[whywesteppin]

"According to the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, just more than 1 percent of abortions take place at week 21 or later, many because of devastating medical situations like ours. Each of these mothers must battle through her own hell to decide on and find the medical care she needs, gather her friends and family to lean on, and grieve."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...ce8a2a2a679_story.html?utm_term=.e0692d543c91

this would be terrible.

government should stay the hell out of such a terrible situation.

it's too bad donald wasn't aborted.

 

[whywesteppin]

Thread:

damn.

it's actually worse that many of those mass murders were carried out by groups of whites (the inferior species) and not a "lone wolf."

look at the average white American. they don't look like the average white European. we got inferior stock.

 

[gry60]

He has the undeniable skill of always managing to say something ridiculous and perplexing.

A miracle, he says.

AKA the ability to say the glass is half-full when it's empty.

AKA bull****ter.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-t...y-the-public-reuters-ipsos-poll-idUSKCN1C813L

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-dr...h-that-contradicts-republicans-on-tax-reform/

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/02/business/las-vegas-shooting-fake-news.html

When they woke up and glanced at their phones on Monday morning, Americans may have been shocked to learn that the man behind the mass shooting in Las Vegas late on Sunday was an anti-Trump liberal who liked Rachel Maddow and MoveOn.org, that the F.B.I. had already linked him to the Islamic State, and that mainstream news organizations were suppressing that he had recently converted to Islam.

They were shocking, gruesome revelations. They were also entirely false — and widely spread by Google and Facebook.

In Google’s case, trolls from 4Chan, a notoriously toxic online message board with a vocal far-right contingent, had spent the night scheming about how to pin the shooting on liberals. One of their discussion threads, in which they wrongly identified the gunman, was picked up by Google’s “top stories” module, and spent hours at the top of the site’s search results for that man’s name.

In Facebook’s case, an official “safety check” page for the Las Vegas shooting prominently displayed a post from a site called “Alt-Right News.” The post incorrectly identified the shooter and described him as a Trump-hating liberal. In addition, some users saw a story on a “trending topic” page on Facebook for the shooting that was published by Sputnik, a news agency controlled by the Russian government. The story’s headline claimed, incorrectly, that the F.B.I. had linked the shooter with the “Daesh terror group.”

Google and Facebook blamed algorithm errors for these.

 

[AEA18]

"Algorithm errors"

 

[trueprada]

@MattMurph24
The gun silencer bill being introduced by House Republicans also includes the legalization of armor piercing bullets. #TheMoreYouKnow

 

[AZwildcats]

A miracle? WTF?!

Pure stupidity, this guy can't keep his foot out of his mouth

 

[wavycrocket]

 

[iamdef]

Because a silencer and armor piercing bullets is whats needed right now.

inb4 "But criminals have them"

 

[whywesteppin]

of course

Billionaire Robert Mercer and his wife Diana donated almost $200,000 to the legal defense fund of the Republican Party on the day that President Donald Trump fired former FBI Director James Comey, financial filings show.

The combined $193,400 donation the Mercers made on May 9 went to the GOP legal fund that Trump has been drawing from to pay the lawyers defending him during the investigation into whether Russia interfered in the 2016 election.

http://www.newsweek.com/trump-legal-fund-paid-billionaire-robert-mercer-day-comey-fired-676383

 

[Belgium]

"Algorithm errors"

That's essentially what it is though, their algorithms. Much like companies use various digital marketing methods (SEO etc.) to try and boost themselves up in the search results and gain more visibility, a large group of individuals can do the same if they band together. I'm no digital marketer so I'm not entirely familiar with the intricate details that go into into that but I do know some basics.
The_donald does it as well. They all band together and try to push specific topics, stories, images, ... to Google or Reddit's top results. Besides the companies manually removing those specific items I'm not sure how their algorithm would stop that.

 

[Based Jesus]

Because a silencer and armor piercing bullets is whats needed right now.

inb4 "But criminals have them"

They must not have seen Lethal Weapon 3

 

[rolaholic]

 

[tomdiginson]

Thread:

Facts. They won't say that though.

 

[Belgium]

Pretty lengthy article, would recommend reading it all the way.
Note that not too long ago the 2 top senators on the senate intel committee, sen. Burr and sen. Warner published a letter regarding Kushner not disclosing his other private email to the senate.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/02/jared-kushner-email-account-white-house-243389
Hundreds of White House emails sent to third Kushner family account
White House officials are reviewing a third email account associated with Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s private email domain.

 

[rolaholic]

Holy ****

 

[Belgium]

For ****'s sake can this man not last one interview without making himself sound like a piece of ****?

 

[AZwildcats]

 

[rillo561]

Hopefully I'll be getting some of my family off the island next week, what a cluster**** of a "leader", that's what exactly what the people want to hear while going through disaster relief

 

[EddieDoyers]

What a piece of ****

 

[harlemtothebronx]

This is just an outward example of how this country has been treating Puerto Rico since 1952.

Just a way for the US to suck an island dry of natural resources.

This is just the no frills, don't care to dog whistle style.