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  LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 31 Aug, 2023 @ 07:19pm

  The moment democrats show the slightest bit of interest in using the funding of increased taxes IN THIS COUNTRY ALONE, I’ll listen. They don’t use tax funds in this country. They raise taxes to send money to other countries. Dem leadership doesn’t care about our country. Just look how the party illegally modified and outright hacked the election process to kill Sanders’ nomination. You can’t be stupid, not with the occasional brilliance you post. But! You come across as a spiteful hateful human being. No logical person in this country thinks the U.S. population would see one cent taken from taxes raised on billionaires. And since you’re not an idiot, only one reason is left for your view. You hate anyone with more than you? I remind you, billionaires are not the only ones with stocks and bonds. Those hamburger dollars went into savings. Savings used to invest. You have no way to directly attack the rich you so despise for having more money than you do. And as soon as you go after your (fantasy of) stored wealth idea, you assault the entire population. Over 100 million people with annual income below 100,000 usd have stocks and bonds, CDs, real estate grants. The moment you try to get even with those you don’t like, you attack the entirety of the country. Your belief that only billionaires have the investments you want to steal is exactly why progressives are so dangerous to the country. Without those investments banks don’t offer people like me 3% interest savings accounts. Without those big accounts, people like me don’t get to own voting stock in companies we support. Without those big accounts, people like me can’t save and grow for our children. Our grandchildren. unlike you, I’m more worried about affording food at 1.3% tax when there’s 2.77 in taxes per gallon on fuel. Or how electric is 5x the cost today than 2019, or natural gas has increased 3x over. Every time you raise taxes, you hurt the poor. The middle. Everyone except the rich. The rich can eat the jncrease as pocket change.

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  LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 31 Aug, 2023 @ 01:02am

  He confessed on national television

  Link to a reliable source (not MJ or WaPo known for not retracting intentionally false reports). I’d his public admission to a crime. I’ll wait for you to find some deep web hurried nonsense clip. But I won’t hold my breath.

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  LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 30 Aug, 2023 @ 08:03pm

  , including Hillary Clinton

  Yes. And she shouldn’t be near anything that involves power over anyone else’s money

  including Hillary Clinton,

  Had said she would “consider” capped income propositions. A sliding tax that bars exceeding a certain amount is a non-starter for me.

  Okay, and…this is a problem, how

  Because later never happens. Just look at FEMA staying in a 5* hotel.

  need to be worth

  Nobody needs, but when you cap upward wealth you cap upward motivation. All primates are genetically selfish. Most animals in general are. Do you think space x would have put space travel back into the US without profit motivation? Not everyone is a Tim Cook or Steve Jobs willing to work for a dollar. They are the extreme exception.

  unless you believe in unchecked capitalism

  I believe in the scientific fact that the 99% of life requires motivation to do anything more than what is required for survival.

  I don’t give a fuck about “fairness” to rich people

  I know. You don’t care about anyone with more than you. You don’t want anyone to ever exceed your position. I see someone with a billion dollars and I think wow, good for them. You see that and think, how can we force them to give it all to me.

  The same thing you accuse lawmakers

  Bezos and Musk aren’t using my tax dollars to do so. If you think for a second raising taxes ever funds social welfare in THIS country (more than a pittance the first day) you’re in fantasy land. If you want proof look at the budget and the deficit and where we spend money. So you know what 113 billion USD could have done in this country? Plus another 72 in “social” concerns over there to the same country. I will fight caps and raising taxes on anyone until someone shows a track record of spending that money 100% in THIS country. Because I don’t give a shite about Ukraine or Uganda or anywhere else when the father of 3 is begging on the corner because our Demoshite governor caused his employer to go bankrupt by closing in person functions for over a year.

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  LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 30 Aug, 2023 @ 04:43pm

  There is no evidence as to classification status either way. So it’s a matter of belief. so You believe Trump, one of the most extensive declassifiers, or the, well, entrenchment of secret keepers who don’t like the public to have access to any more of governmental information than they absolutely must supply by law. any result other than clearing Trump here is a win for the anti-oversight of government. Nothing should be classified. Ever.

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  LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 29 Aug, 2023 @ 05:48pm

  One of us is wrong on the possession idea. We’ll know when the cases are over. In declassification, Though, You’re simply wrong. You misunderstand classification. If there is restriction remaining it is set by the declassification. If he didn’t set a restriction there is none. A later review could turn around and add one to any document not /for public release/. But a document holds no restriction unless a classification review sets one. I can tell you what his likely argument will be over the single document known to be classified: he’ll probably say he lied in his bragging and it was really declassified. I don’t buy it, but it is again a battle of statements and beliefs, not facts.

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  LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 29 Aug, 2023 @ 05:14am

  I’m a social liberal gen x child. I fought hard my whole life for my ideas. A majority you would probably agree with.

  Most of which are, or border on, socialism. But I’m also a fan of the arts. And any move that threatens expression, like that expression or not, I will die on that sword with dignity and pride. The moment you set limits on expression in public, you kill freedom. Be it Passion of the Christ, or Mignonnes, or Harry Potter. Be it mortal Kombat of school shooter If you don’t like it don’t buy it. If having a sandbox is an issue for you, go elsewhere. Boycott all you want. On rare occasions it works. hobby lobby, Budweiser. Your boycott is expression and I support that. And he’ll, I’ll go so far as to say if you boycott a site I moderate, on the off chance you figure that out, that is your right. None of my employers/supervisors are unaware of my views or my long time internet postings.

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  LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 29 Aug, 2023 @ 04:56am

  And? I voted against the dictator Clinton and cast my vote for long time Democrat Donald Trump. Who happened to run as a Republican. A man who supported most of the social libertarian priorities and both promised, and acted in Accordance to his promise, to secure our country’s borders, equalise trade, and reduce foreign wasted expenditure. What part of that do you not like. What part of his policy. Be specific Legal and monitored immigration Reduced foreign expenditures Less military involvement Fair and equal expense in NATO Educational advancement based on learning, not quotas Removal of private education from public funding Raising the minimum base income for taxation I countered your McSwindle list in part. For once, our it out there. What policy of President trump, not the party, not the others, what policy of Trump himself in act or stated support do you disagree with. I’m willing to discuss any you can put forward. You haven’t yet. All you have done for years is claim party connections. Put forward your actual Trump policy issue. You have my honest solemn oath I will approach it honestly and without I’ve said before, despite any feelings you have for me I don’t dislike you. Even if I disagree with some of your ideas. I’m a social liberal gen x child. I fought hard my whole life for my ideas. A majority you would probably agree with. And here’s your olive branch of sorts. What policy has Trump stated, or signed, that you disagree with.

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  LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 29 Aug, 2023 @ 04:13am

  I won’t argue reality. You’re one of the minority that in every other species would have been bread out. Ouch, bad mean words. Grow up. Words can not hurt you. And if you have some whatever from typed words you, alone, are the weak one. I spent 14 years of my life like you. Before I grew a spine and smashed a desk over the bigot’s head. Grow up. Grow a spine. And grow a preverbal pair of balls! Stop being a cowering wimp. Words can’t hurt unless your weak mind allows it. The solution to bullies is to stand up to them. On the off chance you encounter them in the few minutes or hours their post remains unchallenged in the main space. Most of them get cast off to the sandbox. And what happens in the sandbox stays in the sandbox. If you enter the sandbox you deserve whatever you encounter.

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  LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 29 Aug, 2023 @ 04:02am

  What part of my hundreds of posts supporting a social base, a social safety net, makes you think I’m against social based capitalism. I fully support a base income (AOC style) for every citizen and legal resident. You can just shove your my way is the only way ideals there.

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  LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 29 Aug, 2023 @ 03:58am

  Rationality breeds out myth. The percentage of religious belief falls year over yesr

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  LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 28 Aug, 2023 @ 11:19pm

  18 U.S. Code § 79

  With one possible exception didn’t happen. Trump didn’t move the documents, White House staff did. The only known case of a classified document is his hang up.

  18 U.S. Code § 1512

  No evidence of it happening, so far.

  18 U.S. Code § 1519

  Didn’t happen

  18 U.S. Code § 1001

  To this date has always required intent. His lawyers are on the hook, not Trump. And no claim here against Trump will ever result i. Conviction.

  18 U.S. Code § 2

  Is completely dependent on at least some of the other charges sticking.

  mishandling sensitive information

  And that depends on (if) how he declassified info. If he flat out declassified the documents, nothing here. If he downgraded documents, there’s a charge to stick. I have been in a clearance position, rather high, previously. There’s a lot more levels of classification that the general public doesn’t understand. And the level of classification has much to do with penalties for mishandling. Something in the bottom levels like LEO has never resulted in jail time. On only a handful of convictions. Further up the list into the realm of NFO is more inconsistent in legal handling. Ultimately, like it or not, the SCOTUS has never countered presidential right on classification. Despite dozens of cases heard including 3 during trumps term. Reality is the government whole likes secrets. Trump declassified more documents than all but Kennedy and Grant, through the common process. And many more without the process that people moaned about but didn’t result in legal overreach. What we ultimately have here is one non-sensitive classified document, and thousands the president claims are/were declassified by self alone. The court isn’t going to muddy the clear history on this right and ability. Here are you absolute, easily statable facts There are three groups of people supporting the documents case. Career politicians who like secrets Anti-Trump politicians Abti Trump public that believe the anti Trump politicians

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  LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 28 Aug, 2023 @ 05:51pm

  Have you read the 49 page indictment? I have. The charges are: Wilful retention, a glorified, typically politically motivated extension, of possession of stolen goods. The legal text is nearly identical. That they chose to place the counts under the espionage act is because any other stolen goods case had no felony option. Obstruction, which isn’t going to stick no matter how hard anyone bends reality. Trump didn’t hide anything with the intent to hide. He moved the majority of presidential materials from trafficked areas to untrafficked areas. Otherwise known as, moving things out of the way. What was moved that wasn’t allowed to be is All Easily mistaken given the different post-offer demands as to what was to be returned and to whom. There is no destruction, tampering, or witness tampering shown in any evidence yet. If it exists, they will show it at trial. Falsifying requires intent. And as his lawyers admitted he was told that he turned over what was believed to be classified in full. Maintaining that what remained was declassified. The best they have here is a debate on what is and is not classified. If it’s not classified, it reverts to a standard stolen document reception. And a stolen goods holding. In the end, baring some bombshell video evidence nobody has leaked yet, the (current) government will end up modifying the complaint with a charge of possession of stolen goods and take the civil slap on the wrist for Trump, or dismiss the case at the first sign of it blowing up. Only one document is known to be classified in fact. And that document is not believed by non-governmental legal review to fall under the espionage act limits. Because if Trump looses the debate on what is classified, he will loose the initial case. And appeal. Eventually it would reach the SCOTUS who will clearly hold in near unity that the presidential right as it stands does not require notification. Sending the case back down to determine if the single document was kept for reasons of dispersion to foreign enemies. And that is fairly well set caselaw in implementation. He must have actual intent to supply the document to a state with which we are actively at war or is under embargo. At the time the document was taken. Neither of which is apparent.

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  LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 28 Aug, 2023 @ 05:19pm

  I approve of both this speech

  If that is your take away it is your own shallow censoring mindset that is at play.

  might be targets for your bigoted userbase

  Since such things as harassment are not allowed in the main space there is little likely of such actions lasting more than moments in the main space. And since sandbox users can not post in main space, no issue.

  sandboxing doesn’t work

  For some sites with poor methods of use. It works quite well at others where the default is tying a user ID to an ip address.

  And even if the sandboxes did work, they’d still be host to vile and offensive speech that will turn away anyone who might otherwise be willing to use the site

  So be it. The kind of people who walk away from a video shoppe because they have an adult section locked away behind a wall that requires ID to access? Turds that don’t use a store over some moral issue over a single clothing option? So be it. Childish people afraid of a harsh reality, even when they are filtered away from the real world that is tucked behind a sandbox, would likely post crap that would get them put in the sandbox. See, when you cater to the extremes of fear and the weakest of mental ability in reality, you wind up with real damaging censorship. Nobody is forcing you, or others, to use any of the sites I moderate. And in reality I doubt you’d know where I was working/volunteering other than a few where I’m active with the general community. At least before you got sandboxed and filed an appeal and happened to get a review and response to me. In reality I doubt you’d realise sites you use even have a sandbox. They generally are tucked away quite well. You have to REALLY go looking or be banished them it to find them. That a few sites failed to utilise the process well doesn’t make it less able to be useful when implemented properly

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  LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 28 Aug, 2023 @ 03:55pm

  Possession of “stolen” goods In violation of the presidential records act. When they go get the documents from Obama, bill Clinton, and Reagan I’ll give you a thumbs up. Until then, this is simply a matter of maintaining possessions of items someone else handed to him. Items he attempted twice to return. There is. O thing here Trump did any different than hundreds of other government employees over the years. Except that he was Trump and had an armed raid against his property. For materials he already attempted to return.

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  LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 28 Aug, 2023 @ 03:48pm

  Excluding China’s first communist era, ni country has executed a true communism. Clinton is a Soviet style communist. Plain and simple. Push the government takeover of most, if not all, industry. Set flat rates of income in those industries. Collect massive stores of government wealth, “for the people, later”. Set a maximum income level, above which due to taxes you can not surpass. And basically set the entire population just above poverty. Equal, but hardly fair. All while government travels in private jets and luxury yachts. Lives in plush multimillion dollar “government estates”. Maintains a private police force for them while we have none. Decides what we can and ban not have, use, consume… No thanks.

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  LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 28 Aug, 2023 @ 02:20pm

  Yet the value of unlawful retention is unlikely to surpass civil level possession of stolen property. Meaning no felony and no jail. Again, I never said what he did was correct. Just that it was common. It was not trumps fault he had the documents. He didn’t pack them up and move them. He did not direct that they be packed and moved. It is again a fact he twice tried to have them reviewed and turned over (the opposite of Obama who still holds possession of materials he does not have a legal right to possess, permit not). The facts are extremely clear from a historical look. This is quite common and sort of happens. Bill Clinton and Nixon took materials intentionally. Most others since the Nixon administration… it just happens. Most have returned or attempted to return, items when found. Carter, Bush, W Bush, Trump, pence, Biden. Others have fought or refused, Clinton, Reagan, Obama. There was absolutely no reason for a flash raid. Beyond performance acting.

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  LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 28 Aug, 2023 @ 02:11pm

  more importantly, don’t care, as to what happens in said sandbox.

  Bingo. Monitor for illegal content. Otherwise, free for all. Enter et your own risk.

  Your “sandboxing” means your damn community implicitly endorses their words and actions.

  No. Even if you make a false equivalence. I come from the generation that battled the censorship movement. First board games like Wizards and Desmond, Dungeons & Dragons… Then movies. Then music. Then video games. Every year some new moral panic. So you see hate today. I see speech, without reading or hearing it. I will defend all speech, like it or not. The moment you draw a line the line gets moved. That is fact, not theory. Eg Hays and the CCA. I’ve studied content decisions academically and personally longer than many of this sites users have been alive. I’ve written thesis on the various aspects of the subject. A full dissertation on the link between the PMRC and the anti-entertainment-violence campaign in the 90s. How Stillwater directly steered Lieberman and Gore. And the same people that lost legally over rap music and mortal Kombat and Harry Potter and Medieval fantasy games are the same calling out against speech today. I will never put my support behind that movement. Because give them one win, and they will crush everyone. Death my a billion tiny cuts.

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  LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 28 Aug, 2023 @ 01:54pm

  Calling Hillary Clinton a “communist

  Shows you don’t have any quality study on governmental implementation. Even if you have a basic grasp of the idea but not the practice in communism. Communism in practices as nearly always requires a central dictatorship to dole out the moneys to the masses. USSR, South Atlantic, Sourh America, Africa. Every communist country has implemented it nearly the same way. The government skims much off the top, which lands in the rolling pockets, then gives away a pittance to the masses. That is exactly what that communist currently does. She skims from the foundation income and a small amount makes it into the actual accounting. I have no evidence that her governmental control would be any different. She’s the opposite of Sanders and a major contrast to Obama. Mind you I supported Sanders before the Clinton elites rigged the election and certification processes in her favour. Republicans, including Trump, yell lock her up over emails and cell phones. I say lock the four letter word more generally used for evil people in Brittany than the US, for her fraud in the primary process. True fraud. Proven fraud. Again, Trump won 16 because millions would never vote for Clinton. Period. Ever. Trump gained some of theirs votes for promising (and attempting as President) things core to American socialists and libertarians: ending international military involvement, charity here, not abroad, border security. Communism has never been implemented for the commons. It has always been dictated by the elite. Clinton is a communist, in the international implementation of the practice. She wants to control, with endless access for herself, the money at the top and give out what is left. The only country to ever toy with actual communism was China… and while Mao tried, the country quickly shifted without him to more common implementation.

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  LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 28 Aug, 2023 @ 12:50am

  Nobody is safe while abrahamics still walk the earth.

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  LostInLoDOS ( profile ), 28 Aug, 2023 @ 12:47am

  The. a lied about the Trump situation until messages were leaked to the public, regarding his attempts to return the documents or have them reviewed, twice. So they are less than reliable in what they say. I’m going back to 2019, long before Trump and his false claim of 33 million. I’m talking about the Sun Times report of 50-55000 documents not reviewed, with access refused through 2019. To top that odf, the Sun times doubled down on their statement on Aug 12 of 2022 that Obama still heals classified documents. He supplied access, not removal. Eventually. He is still in near complete possession of all that left the White House with him. This all predates the political Theater of the flash raid on Trump.

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