The Twitter Files

[Elizondo]

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

Considering the investigation of the Trump admin's role in and around 2016 landed something like over a dozen people in prison for various crimes, I'd say that money was well spent putting criminals away.

40 million to hunt down a few Russian bots?

You serious bro?

[PRogers]

One time in school my teacher wanted to demonstrate what a bazaar would sound like to us children.
Then she gave everyone a plastic fruit, toy, truck, item, whatever. She told everyone to try and sell this to every person in the room. Then she said begin.
Once it was over she asked if anyone made a deal and everyone said no.
Nobody could some to an agreement. Too loud. Too many people screaming.
This forum is so active! Too bad its like that day in class.

[booter]

hunter biden doesn't work for the american government or people hope that helps

that being said i would like to see his weenie pix like all these MAGAs do

[Ooloo]

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

Do those millions not count as an investment when there's an entire industry dedicated to covering it as news for profit? I would reckon it's revenue neutral at worst.

Nah I just think people who actually committed crimes should be held accountable, and those who didn't shouldn't be. No matter how much I might like or dislike either of them.

For example if kari lake legitimately lost the AZ gov race, I think she should, even though I think she's a very good candidate not to mention a smoking hot milf.

Likewise if katie hobbs legitimately won, then she should be governor, despite refusing to debate and being a terrible bumbling cat lady who fell ass backward into a position of authority.

There's also the moral question, which is that whether or not something is illegal or not, it can still be incredibly terrible morally. What irks me about the democrats is that they don't even attempt to defend the worst of the worst offenses they engage in, they just go "Nuh uh!! Not illegal!" (which may or may not be true) and expect the plebs to remain silent. It's like a defense attorney who knows their client is guilty as shit.

[Lune]

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

One time in school my teacher wanted to demonstrate what a bazaar would sound like to us children.
Then she gave everyone a plastic fruit, toy, truck, item, whatever. She told everyone to try and sell this to every person in the room. Then she said begin.
Once it was over she asked if anyone made a deal and everyone said no.
Nobody could some to an agreement. Too loud. Too many people screaming.
This forum is so active! Too bad its like that day in class.

Believe it or not, back in the day, this board used to have common ground. You'd have your libertarians who would debate liberals about economics but would fundamentally agree on most social issues, and then moderates, market liberals, and socialists. Basically, more people had their own well-developed positions across a range of topics.

Things changed after 2016 when most of the people on the right became Trump fans, and their sole issue, their entire platform was: Trump. Of course this shaped the discussion and anyone on the left eventually just became de facto anti-Trump. It actually pretty well mirrors what happened in real life. All the non-Trump right-wingers disappeared afaik, and all the quality discussion went with them. For a while, they tried to contain the pages of spam, insults, and terrible arguments to the politics containment thread but then there was little to no activity anywhere else so I think they just gave up.

It was never about convincing anybody; that's impossible. But it made for good verbal sparring and clarifying/developing your own thoughts and positions.

If you removed Trump from the picture, I would actually agree with most of these people on most issues, immigration, defense, wokeness, etc. Not on economics, but that's just one thing, though people tend to focus more on where their views diverge than where they meet.

[Reiwa]

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

N

There's also the moral question, which is that whether or not something is illegal or not, it can still be incredibly terrible morally. What irks me about the democrats is that they don't even attempt to defend the worst of the worst offenses they engage in, they just go "Nuh uh!! Not illegal!" (which may or may not be true) and expect the plebs to remain silent. It's like a defense attorney who knows their client is guilty as shit.

Bro the legal question is raised sardonically due to the dissonance of your previous and current positions. Parties flipped.

[Ooloo]

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

Bro the legal question is raised sardonically due to the dissonance of your previous and current positions. Parties flipped.

Okay.

Twitter blatantly suppressed information along political lines while swearing they weren't. Do you find this good or bad?

[Reiwa]

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

Okay.

Twitter blatantly suppressed information along political lines while swearing they weren't. Do you find this good or bad?

Neither, it's just a website. There are other websites.

[misterbonkers]

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

Okay.

Twitter blatantly suppressed misinformation along political lines while swearing they weren't. Do you find this good or bad?

misinformation being suppressed is a good thing, hope this helps [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Ooloo]

"Misinformation" is a retarded term of art for idiots, hth (hope that helps is supposed to be abbreviated hth in these parts, hth)