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If anything, it was pretty optimistic that humans would focus on exploring space instead of oppressing each other.

Never mind. It was silly of me to ask.

You don't think Donald Trump would actively harm this country based on stubbornness and grudges?

Open your eyes.

No, there was no immigration process back then, you just came.

Which is why all the people yelling about immigration today, who are second and third generation, need to be quiet.

You don't think this administration would cut off their nose to spite their face?

We are seeing it in real time.

They love to cut revenues and explode the debt. "The party of fiscal responsibility."

Just in time for Republicans to blame them for making the debt worse. It's all so cynical.

The U.S. sends its military to kill teenagers?

Right on time for them to lose the next election so people blame Democrats.

It's all so cynical.

NATO does not even consider applicants in the middle of conflicts or even with disputed borders.

According to your theoretical, Russia could attack and immediately invalidate Ukraine's ability to join NATO by re-triggering a conflict.

Come on is this stuff really that hard?

A warrant for several thousand people at a spontaneous event ?

Did you read what he said? You are guaranteeing the war will continue if you reward an invasion with land.

> it’s way easier and cheaper to launder money through cryptocurrency casinos than art auctions

Art was always a favorite way to launder money. This is a good point.

The grayscale is honestly amazing.

On newer iPhones, tap the right button three times and your whole phone goes black and white. It becomes way less engaging to use.

> Knocking you over with military force technically destabilizes things far more

There are just as many examples of national identity being forged in war than there are it being removed.

For example, Russian-speaking Ukrainians in eastern Ukraine had no affinity for Kyiv and didn't think of themselves as Ukrainian before Russia invaded. Now they do.

The entire thing collapsed when Elon abandoned it after less than convincing results then the journalist he handpicked for it turned on Elon.

It didn't prove any of the conclusions they had clearly already decided were true.

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/4536394-twitter-files-jou...

Would you like to try again to use words to actually say something?

> can they do anything better than to exploit real grievances of the local population?

Nope. The myth of parachuting into a country and overthrowing a government is just that.

And authoritarian overreach.

https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2025/09/wipe-them-out-tr...

Be even more clear, there isn't a single claim any of the Twitter files have made that have been substantiated.

These are pseudo journalists running cover for their billionaire benefactors.

Classic removal of agency from real revolutions to avoid thinking critically about the real problems a country has, and instead blame a foreign boogeyman.

A favorite tactic of authoritarian regimes and the tankies that love them.

People who voted for him are still trying to work out in their own heads how he's not a criminal.

Any example at all will do.

I don't believe that simply because of the predatory nature of student loans. They'll give them to literally anyone.

> determine whether you can rent or buy a home

Yes, that's the point of a credit score.

> increasingly even get a job

Do you have any citation of proof of this? I've never heard of this happening even once.

Your credit score in America will never be used to deny your freedom of movement within America or go against you or any of your family members when applying for higher education.

It is a fundamentally flawed comparison.

By that logic, a social media company shouldn't rush into it either, but they did anyway.

I directly engaged and refuted everything you said. You can keep repeating what you want to be true over and over, it won't make it so.

That's the point. You cannot will reality to fit your worldview.

It doesn't work that way.

> Disinformation is a frame. The fact that some people consider it to be an objective category of information is dangerous.

Yes, information cannot be verified as true or false. No one can know anything for sure, because then your feelings and opinions can become facts without having pesky things like evidence or proof.

Why let a small thing like the truth get in the way of a good story? Especially one you've invested so much time into, maybe even a good chunk of your identity as well.

Given all that, I might as well be talking to a wall.

Honestly when he cited a woman singing a parody of Mary Poppins as proof of a grand conspiracy, I probably should have stopped then.

> sponsored by taxpayers: true (funded by DHS)

Everything in the government is "sponsored by taxpayers". That's how it works.

> clear political goals: my opinion, debatable

Yes as I said, false. Believing it true doesn't make it true.

> The Washington Free Beacon did engage...

Yes as I said it started out as Republican opposition research. You aren't refuting anything I said. You are deflecting and confusing matters, on purpose, so as not to appear wrong in public.

And it's not working.

> The point is what the FBI did with it afterwards

You are right, but not in the way you think. The FBI sat on a credible document from a trusted source regarding high level foreign compromise of a US Presidential candidate as to "not interfere with presidential elections".

This is the same FBI that launched a public investigation into Hillary Clinton's email server (which of course ended with no charges) 11 days before the election.

You are right about FBI interference, just not in the way you think.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/03/fbi-leaks-hi...

I could keep going but this appears to be your red herring to get away from your claim.

> The person in this cringe video is none other than Nina Jankowicz, the head of the Disinformation Governance Board,

She didn't work for DHS when she made that video, and she never actually ran anything because in response to criticism, she was removed and the office was dissolved.

And if you are claiming it is improper to hire partisans to staff critical government functions i'd like to introduce you to the Trump administration, who would never show any level of shame or accountability in response to an awful hire that fucked up and committed crimes, not just made a silly video.

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-5339801/pentagon-email-... https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/politics/gabbard-abruptly-ous...

> describing the exact disinformation campaign enacted above

Oh lol this whole thing is just a tin foil hat thing huh? Everything you "know":

- The government takes down content on a partisan basis

- The head of a DHS agency that was created in 2022 (and lasted 3 weeks) was part of a conspiracy to surveil Trump in 2019

- The Steele dossier was "debunked" and the FBI used it against Trump

Depends on secret knowledge or insight only you can see, but for some reason you can't prove.

If you were a serious person, this might matter to you. But you aren't, so it doesn't.