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Well that party will always make exceptions for Israel, which is relevant because of Epstein's and Ghislaine's ties.

Maxwell's father had experience in distributing spyware for Israel's CYBINT, having infected nuclear sites like Oakridge. Basically what Epstein and Ghislaine ran falls under HUMINT, which is the development of human assests (often semi-willing) in foreign countries. Everybody they managed to blackmail is a form of Israeli asset.

They aren't going to burn Israel's HUMINT assets in the country. This is who they released the documents to: https://img.gvid.tv/i/2XBnn6G6.jpg

Good luck getting them to give us all the names. Israel is all but caught running an underage trafficking ring targeting the US. All but caught is a lie because they are caught. But no one in the media, congress or government will say it. Just like Israel can commit mass genocide in open day light and we pretend like those who are alarmed by this are unreasonable.

As a gun owner the idea that people are ok with pitbulls but have a problem with me pisses me off. For anything bad to happen with a gun requires human agency. I actually have the capacity to know I'm not going to harm an innocent person today. But a pitbull, their owners are openly playing a lottery. Every time you walk out side with it its like me muzzle sweeping everyone in my community with my finger on a trigger saying "I've done it lots of times and nothing bad has happened. It didn't hurt you this time so mind your own business. My choices don't effect you. It's not my fault if your kids are scared of me pointing my gun around. My kids aren't going to get hurt in my home if I practice poor gun safety. See, they love playing with it. That's proof it's kid friendly"

As dangerous as a gun and with less certain human control over it is not acceptable. I'll straight up say it. I feel as uncomfortable around a pitbull owner as someone mishandling a gun. And in the gun world if someone is willfully and blazenly mishandling a firearm to the point of endangering people you have a license to shoot them if they aren't responsive to someone telling them to stop (non-lethally ideally).

I don't know about licenses but if you own a pitbull people should openly tell you you are the asshole that you are.

I think he's talking about how Ukraine was the first to bomb civilians. That was the pretext Russia used for invading.

Found the animal.

I should make a crypto currency and call it Condoms?

But think about it. Even small companies will self-censor in fear that the government will act against them. Every company exists in hope of being big enough that they could have a target on their back. Yes lemmy operates at a scale that it can be considered a personal project and will likely stay at that scale. But that's not the majority of social media. Maybe it was a bit of a joke on my part to say Lemmy would be targeted. But I don't think it's ridiculous that American business owners should think woah the government will intentionally wreck me and try to sell me off to their friends if there is some 100% legal and reasonable conversation on my platform they don't like.

Either there are principles to protect you or there aren't. The fact that we have a politician openly saying we attack companies to buy them cheap or ask for half should be pretty fucking scary to anyone who owns a business.

The Eastern European countries for a long time were said to lack economic development precisely because of corruption. This is exactly the kind of interaction with government that caused that. The idea that it doesn't matter because they are big and I am not doesn't work. In the long run small businesses will be more vulnerable if the principle doesn't stand that the government can't attack you and sell you off to their friends. If that principle is gone then it's gone.

And Donald Trump saying "We destroyed your business so we should get half of it" is a very scary precedent. You know that's what the Israeli settlements do. The will burn the olive groves of neighboring land owners and then say, your land is worthless, sell it to us for a quarter of it's original value. You are now in ruin you will need the cash. They will often do it in the night, but I saw video evidence once of an altercation where they were openly burning a farmer's field in the day time right in front of him. But there was an IDF soldier ready to shoot the farmer if he tried to defend his fields physically. An entire family's future going up in smoke because someone else wants a deal on buying land not by producing anything of value themselves but by destroying things.

In a lot of ways TikTok is an American company. To operate here it has to be structured and registered in the US. It just has foreign investment. If they can do it to TikTok (single out a company) they can do it to American companies. They just have to find some secondary reason to dislike you. Is Lemmy next if we say Free Palestine on here? All so that Israel can have their Labensraum.

If they had attempted to overthrow the government don't you think they would have gone in armed? This is the problem with the internet being politically bifurcated. The claims on both sides for what is reality get more and more disconnected over time. The echo chamber only rewards those who make claims beyond what has already been claimed and never rewards those who make a correction. Each echo chamber then has a steady velocity toward madness.

Due process.

I posted this to a few places. If you want to see what different places on the net think:
https://goatmatrix.net/c/USPolitics/DrjNYLpSU5

That is a fair point. I suppose it is a weak argument to say that the government should do something else well instead, because it currently doesn't. But more broadly government shouldn't be placing serious penalties on anything that doesn't have definite harm that has occurred on a definite victim.

Fining you for speeding sure. But castration or even jail longer than six months, I'm going to need to see an actual victim with a substantive harm where but for the accused's specific actions they would have not been harmed (proximate cause).

But people think with emotions and can be told to dislike this or that person (sometimes fairly but often unfairly) and then people will support any level of penalty suggested thereafter.

More amendments we need. It should be easier to pass amendments that restrict government where the majority agree, strong majority to grow powers. Yet another amendment we need.

But it could also be an absolute check protecting persecution.