He's basically a classic American hero and decorated war vet.
But the second he starts making things difficult for Trump (notable draft dodger, wall street insider, and reality TV show host extraordinaire) McCain magically turned into a war-loving cuck.
This is why people serve their country: so Trump memers can pee all over them when they say something politically inconvenient. P
QuoteWhat oversight do the U.S. intelligence agencies have? I'm asking this seriously. Why do you think they have more oversight than Wikileaks? When the United States Director of National Intelligence lies under oath to Congress, like James Clapper did, with no repercussions, it boggles my mind you would even bring up oversight. Oversight is not a winning argument when it comes to U.S. inte
Personally, I think its kind of telling that you trust wikileaks (run by a foreign national with heavy links to Russia) over US intelligence agencies. Now, I won't claim the US intelligence agencies are perfect or anything, they have been completely, utterly wrong before, but there's exactly zero oversight for wikileaks, period. We have no idea what they publish and what they don't
Wordfence is the cybersecurity company that runs security for wordpress, which is a large blog network.
Although they did not find a smoking gun with the data released by the public DHS/DNI report, I don't think this necessarily changes my conclusion. First of all, there are still multiple reports by Crowdstrike, Threatconnect, and a many other companies which *did* suggest Russian involv
You think the Department of Homeland Security was messing with State Elections?
But Trump won. *Edit* AND Republicans took majority seats in house and senate.
So you think the Department of Homeland Security was rigging for Trump?
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I'm not certain at all where this is going or how it makes Russia any less responsible for wikileaks. I can't really reply to your comments a
That being said, good luck getting that shit passed in the US. Obamacare took a majority house, majority senate, and a Democratic president to push through, and even then it became a point of massive political contention.
It was a part of the Republican "obstructionist" movement where instead of cutting compromises and making the best of what they got, they instead spent enormous amo
Quotestarbright
2) Focus on limiting of government spending. You can see this guy in action on this already, and the dude isn't even president yet. I have high hopes here.
Yes. I did approve of the comment about Boeing's price for Air Force One. I guess we will see if he succeeds: governments are massive and have many stakeholders all with their own fingers in their pies too. It tak
QuoteI can agree with more competition: but what seemed appealing about Obamacare was moving towards universal coverage. Many other rich countries have more or less universal health coverage so you can't be "too poor" to get medical treatment for illnesses, up to a point.
Re: premiums rising in the past few years: I think it's because Obamacare covers "preventive care
Because unlike most of the memers in this forum, you try to source your discussions in solid evidence and you actually try and do research to back up your points. Miyagi and Rhyaldrin are constitutionally incapable of making an intelligent point and mostly resort to memes and hot air to discuss things. I'll try and engage you a little more.
To be brief, however, Glenn Greenwald dropped th
I'm trying to get you to explain your point of view, and offering you a lot of room to show where you and I differ.
For someone who claims to work in InfoSecurity, though, you've yet to give me anything remotely like an explanation. Your peers in three of the biggest and most prestigious cybersecurity organizations in US have all investigated this and come to the conclusion that it
you don't apply that intensely high standard of evidence to things that you happen to agree with politically, only things which don't fit your worldview.
For example, when Trump claimed that climate change was a chinese hoax on his twitter, I don't see you calling him out on it:
When he claimed that vaccines cause autism, I don't see you demanding mounds of evidence fo
So, people who look at conservative sources for information will see articles like this:
while people outside that little breitbart/hannity/limbaugh sphere will see articles like this:
While in theory these two articles are completely opposite one another in tone and message, in reality once you analyze them more closely, they're saying the same thing - Julian Assange says he did no
That being said, I do try to debate and engage people anyway, even in obviously hopeless causes, because I'm fond of debate. I found it especially hilarious when Starbright espoused an opinion agreeing with me and a lot of people just quietly nodded and accepted his points, while spending days frantically trying to refute my identical ones. Lol.
Anyway, outside this special little communi
Is he at all popular, like PaulO suggested?
I was under the impression that China was significantly left in their political leanings, and thus disdained the Republican party in general, and Trump in particular. In addition to his stated anti-Chinese trade platforms, this combined to make him very unwelcome in the country. This is what I got from my relatives in China.
Paul did have an inte
I will freely admit that the Yukos affair is totally not in my area of expertise and I only have the very briefest of ideas about it. I vaguely recall it making waves in the economist when it happened, but most local US papers only covered it in passing.
Quote You should also note that major tax income comes not from oil extraction, but from oil exports, and on papers Yukos did not export oil,
Starbright previously pointed out the iphone phenomenon, where HTC and Xiaomi were pumping out phones that were cheap and just as powerful if not more powerful than iphones, but the Chinese citizenry showed a remarkably huge preference for iphones instead, even with apple's enormous markup on it, disdaining local brands.
Brand name is a HUUUUUGE thing in China, and luxury goods are one o
So you attribute the ruble problems to economic sanctions and longstanding debt from the Russian oil companies? hmmm
I'm not too well-read on the Yukos sizure, but as far as I can tell, oil in Russia was taxed long before 2004, and Yukos was a private company bought off the 1990 rigged privatization auctions for the wealthy and well-connected. That company ended up running 20% of Russia
I don't think there was much rational reason for the war in Iraq, for example, as the US government ended up spending hundreds of billions more dollars than oil companies and American contractors were able to take in afterwards. There was no profit to be made, the removal of Hussein merely created a power vacuum that replaced him with ISIS, which is by almost every definition far worse, and
>It's late and I'm too tired to explain this in a way that might get through to you, so I'll just say this: mercantilism/protectionism is working for China. We're already in a trade war, and we're losing badly because the free trade crowd doesn't care about nation states.
Personally, I'm of the opposite opinion. The US has almost single handedly carried C
QuotePaulO
I sometimes think you just make stuff up:
- Chinese State Media blasting Trump
- China warns that challenge to One China policy may result in war in the Taiwan strait
While your article does discuss the support of some Chinese people for Trump, notably among the business elite, I think you are badly mistaken to characterize it as widespread or even remotely significant. The
Thomas Sowell is a very well known conservative thinker. To quote a review of his recent book:
>As an intellectual combatant, Sowell thrives on jousting with straw men whose existence he posits with little or no proof. In the world according to Sowell, liberals (including rich ones, apparently) are so filled with envy and resentment that they will deny billionaires the chance to create new
"If it helps, I believe that Russian state-linked actors did try to sway the elections"
Meanwhile, over here you have your own statements:
QuoteThat being said, I love it how you say that they "accuse" Russia in doing things, while they actually do not. Read through the report, it's all "allegedly tied to Russia", because there's no data. If they trie
The answer to
1) - The DNC reported an intrusion into their systems and the cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike publicly blamed Russian intelligence groups after analyzing the breach. It's also well known that the RNC has been hacked, but their files were not released on wikileaks.
2) It greatly increased pressure on his opponent, created several false scandals and fake allegations of cor