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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: April 07, 2023, 10:04:56 PM »

Just because Trump doesn't run the store doesn't mean that he isn't profiting off of the store

Irrelevant to the subject at hand.

I look forward to a confusingly blistering attack from Pete Svarrior.

Happy to oblige.

But Trump's web page is linking to them so they are endorsed by Trump just not officially.

Look, I get it, Orange Man Bad. I agree. However, you couldn't have possibly done all this work without realising that "Trump's web page" is also a WinRed fundraiser. You're looking at WinRed calling WinRed official. I also understand the innate need to frame the existence of these separate entities as "circumvention of the rules", and all that jazz, but you're gonna have to present some evidence that WinRed are lying about Trump's not involvement - just saying "yeah, so uhhh they say they're not involved, but that's just a scam" is the intellectual equivalent of a wet fart.

The Orange man is indeed bad but that's not really relevant here.  Super PACs are hardly unique to Trump.  I think if you drill down on any other politician's similar fundraising efforts then you'd see a similar arrangement. 

Am I correct in assuming that you live in the UK?  If so then you're probably not aware of the whole idea of Super PACs.  I'll leave it to you to research that one.  There's quite a bit to go over.  Long story short though, it leads to some campaign finance laws that can be utterly farcical at times, like WinRed plastering Trump's name everywhere to fundraiser, shoving all that money into Trump's campaign coffers but then adding a standard boilerplate "not affiliated yada yada".

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: April 07, 2023, 08:26:34 PM »

I would like to jump in on this bizarrely heated debate on campaign donations.

It seems to me that the confusion here is regarding the whole Citizen's United thing.  WinRed seems to be a JFC which looks like it's under similar rules to a PAC.  Under those rules an entity that supports a candidate has to keep some kind of distance from that candidate to circumvent certain campaign contribution limits.

The whole thing about these entities is that the rules about what constitutes a reasonable distance from the candidate they support are meaningless.  WinRed for example says, "not endorsed by Trump" or something.  But Trump's web page is linking to them so they are endorsed by Trump just not officially.  I also see in their website that 90% goes to Trump's primary.  10% goes to his "save america" fund which is absolutely a grift.  Whatever exceeds the legal limit for a primary campaign contribution goes to Trump's general election campaign fund.

I look forward to a confusingly blistering attack from Pete Svarrior.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: April 05, 2023, 05:23:41 PM »

It's not a grift.  Do you know how much cigarettes cost in prison?  Having someone smuggle in big macs is going to cost a fortune!

34 counts at 4 years per count.  Plenty of time to play basketball and convert to Islam.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: April 01, 2023, 03:56:19 AM »

I recall reading that Stormy didn't actually testify in this trial.  They volunteered to but they haven't requested it unless I've misread it.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: March 31, 2023, 05:59:16 PM »

I don't know if most people remember this but Donald Trump pardoned Blago.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: March 31, 2023, 04:27:23 PM »

https://apnews.com/article/trump-hush-money-new-york-indictment-election-027d0e5ac1881a4c55c6379deae75faa

what a cuck

Why in God's name does anyone watch Tucker Carlson anymore?  He doesn't believe a word he says and he has more contempt for Trump than most of us do.

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Technology & Information / Re: Cybertruck

« on: February 20, 2023, 05:17:01 PM »

I preordered one years ago.  It was only $100 which is refundable.

In other words you gave Elon Musk an interest free $100 loan.

  Also it was a huge bargain, 50k for a vehicle with I think a 300 mile range, dual motors, around 600 horse power.

Just like how the F-150 Lightning had an MSRP of $40,000 but the real price starts at $60,000 for a bare bones model that they don't seem to actually produce. Similarly, prepare to get screwed by Elon's bait-and-switch tactics.

Correct.  An interest free $100 loan.  In my defense Elon has been very gracious about it.  He personally thanks me every time we meet over the many tens of cents he's made on that loan over these last few years.

The bait and switch is a very real possibility.  On the other hand Tesla may be compelled to give reservation holders the original price for something which should really cost closer to 80k.

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Technology & Information / Re: Cybertruck

« on: February 20, 2023, 04:06:29 PM »

I preordered one years ago.  It was only $100 which is refundable.  Also it was a huge bargain, 50k for a vehicle with I think a 300 mile range, dual motors, around 600 horse power.

I seriously doubt that this will actually get produced.  If it does then I likely won't follow through since I'm not a truck guy.

The design is interesting.  I think it's hideous and cool at the same time.  But for serious truck people I would think they'd be turned off by it just because none of their accessories will fit on this thing.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Balloon Madness

« on: February 13, 2023, 06:54:26 PM »

I'm just speculating here, I think the intel recovered from the first balloon led the way to detecting other surveillance objects and whatever they're using to detect these objects is something the Chinese can modify through a data connection.  So we're trying to not give away what we know and taking down what we can while China is trying to adapt.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Balloon Madness

« on: February 13, 2023, 12:12:50 PM »

Well, look at the bright sides - we will not have to worry about RE'ers claiming that stratellites don't exist for the foreseeable future.

Or, well, the usual suspects will still do it, but hey-ho.

Well, they don't exist now.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Balloon Madness

« on: February 12, 2023, 06:31:33 AM »

Don't worry.  Our nation's youth is trained to handle such things.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Midterms 2022

« on: January 06, 2023, 01:28:40 AM »

More than 11 apparently.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Midterms 2022

« on: January 05, 2023, 10:42:34 PM »

Well it's not like they're going to get anything done anyways.  The only important vote is the debt ceiling.  I think that's a year aware.  So really they can do this for about 11 more months and it shouldn't make any difference to anyone.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: December 19, 2022, 09:00:42 PM »

I have a truth social account and I'm guessing you're right.  I haven't gotten around to checking because Trump's posts are getting a bit boring and predictable.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Free Speech Warrior Elon Musk

« on: December 17, 2022, 07:34:38 PM »

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/16/tech/musk-censors-press/index.html

Elon Musk cares very passionately about free speech. Just as long as he agrees with what you say. Another lousy Republican hypocrite. He's made Twitter a cesspool.

Maybe you should build your own Twitter.

Was this your opinion before Elon took over as well as now?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Parental Licensing and Why We Need It

« on: December 11, 2022, 07:05:52 PM »

But what if you end up preventing the birth of the man who killed Hitler!

Nice paradox; Hitler killed Hitler.

That's exactly my point!

Hitler could still be...

Wait...

Shit....

I'm going to have to think about this some more.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Parental Licensing and Why We Need It

« on: December 11, 2022, 06:05:12 AM »

But what if you end up preventing the birth of the man who killed Hitler!

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: December 09, 2022, 06:02:08 PM »

The man attempts a coup and the GOP sticks with him.  I don't think a terrible midterm is going to change their minds.

Trump will threaten to run as an independent if he loses the midterm.  The GOP, being basically a party of nihilistic cowards, will give into this demands.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Russia doesn't invade, they recognize Donbass Republics: send in peacekeepers !

« on: December 06, 2022, 03:45:25 PM »

Yeah.  It almost makes me a little bitter.  I understand the value of having the best military but good god.  A conflict between the US and Russia wouldn't even be close.  I feel that the military industrial complex has been all to happy to massively overestimate the Russian military for the last 50 years.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Russia doesn't invade, they recognize Donbass Republics: send in peacekeepers !

« on: December 06, 2022, 01:45:44 AM »

Incorrect.  It's an epidemic of smoking related accidents inside of Russia.