US election 2020 thread

[ruffneck23]

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U.S. Department of State - United States Department of State

Leading America’s foreign policy to advance the interests and security of the American people.

www.state.gov

apparently a disgruntled staffer , details on the alt ridicule thread

 

[Ax^]

does someone in the white house before he leaves get to say "you're fired" at least

 

[Ax^]

hearing story's that Gab is creaking under the amount of new users..

might be interesting

 

[kebabking]

Quality stuff. I hope he doesn't interupt All Creatures Great and Small...

 

[nogojones]

The one thing on that Reddit description of the Parler hack that sounded like speculation was that the FBI had got it's no fly information this same way as the hackers.
Maybe they did.
But the US surveillance state is a behemoth and who can truly know its workings and reach. I expect constant scary levels of surveillance exist

The feds would have been all over Parler from the off. How did they catch those milita dudes who wanted to kidnap the Michigan governor?

 

[existentialist]

All the nutters being arrested, refused permission to fly etc. is fantastic. Do these people not understand that actions have consequences?
Filming themselves and posting updates on what they were doing and not realizing that the authorities would then have the evidence to charge them. I'm sure that this is not what they would find in the Anarchists playbook.
Oh wait they wouldn't read that as they are patriots.

Exceptionalism. As modelled - and incited - from the very top. "The normal rules don't apply to us! If we don't like the outcome of an election, we'll force it to be the way we want."

You see it with QAnon, mask wearing, blatant breaches of firearms rules, etc.. And, because - just as they didn't last Wednesday - these breaches aren't challenged, that only reinforces the notion that "the rules don't apply to us".

And now, all of a sudden, these free spirits are going back to take for granted all the incredibly-rule-based societal facilities (ahem, airlines) and finding out that, suddenly, they're right on the wrong side of the rules.

Actually, that bloke's grief and trauma gave me hope. If that realisation was enough to cause him that kind of distress, then perhaps he might be one of those who take a step back and figures out how he got to this point.

And if he doesn't, and pops up somewhere else again as Mister Macho Trumpist, he will be forever haunted by his "crybaby" video, and rightly so

 

[existentialist]

And even that tiny fringe movement produced the Oklahoma city bombing.

Because, as a deeply racist state, the US has persisted in looking the wrong way for decades. They're always wrongfooted by home-grown direct action.

 

[Sue]

SPACE FORCE!!!! I think it sounds kinda fab tbh.

 

[HAL9000]

How is this different from what was said - i.e. what is different in the results? Can Parler posts be tied to the users and their real identities?

with pictures its been possible to work out the ids of some of the rioters

This person has been using pictures and videos to put names to faces. So the zip cuff guy, he started with...



Eventually he got a name for the person..

 

[existentialist]

hearing story's that Gab is creaking under the amount of new users..

might be interesting

I imagine someone's started investigating any potential weak links within their systems by now...

 

[existentialist]

with pictures its been possible to work out the ids of some of the rioters

This person has been using pictures and videos to put names to faces. So the zip cuff guy, he started with...



Eventually he got a name for the person..

This really doesn't look so different from those photos of earnest young Muslims standing in front of al-Quaeda flags with bomb belts on or brandishing AK-47s, does it?

 

[hitmouse]

That freedom piece is nuts.

That bit about "where was the opposition" is definitely a bit daft, as has been discussed a bit upthread, but did you think there was much wrong with it beyond that?

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Mad how Trump is still doing shit. He's just declared Cuba enemy of the first rank, and has just sold off some wildnerness in Alaska for oil prospecting.

The Alaska auction attracted little attention, fortunately, and Biden has vowed to stop the drilling, but he's been busy wrecking as much as he can in the bonkers US system.

Alaska judge sides with Trump and allows sale of Arctic refuge drilling rights in 11th hour decision

 

[19force8]

it is disputed that the account you've posted there is what happened fwiw - apparently it was all publicly accessible files.

Thanks for the correction.

As I said, not something I understood enough of to judge. Though the narrative was at least sufficiently clear for me to extract the tl:dr which was essentially correct. Post edited to correct.

 

[not-bono-ever]

gabs a bit mad isnt it ? anyone else apart from white yanks spouting this shit would have an airstrike called in on them

 

[brogdale]

Heard Pelosi use the phrase in the news today and I thought why haven't we had this yet?



A really happy/sad video.

 

[mauvais]

Not sure if it is true or not but a number of tories including ministers had parler accounts.



Sorry if wrong thread but it is where it is being discussed.

Parler is or was just a right wing / libertarian version of Twitter, and it had just about started to gain recognition amongst normal people. I had to warn some fairly apolitical acquaintance about its nature just the other week after they suggested they might move off FB to it. People should be embarrassed to be found on there but it doesn't amount to anything meaningful.

 

[brogdale]

Parler is or was just a right wing / libertarian version of Twitter, and it had just about started to gain recognition amongst normal people. I had to warn some fairly apolitical acquaintance about its nature just the other week after they suggested they might move off FB to it. People should be embarrassed to be found on there but it doesn't amount to anything meaningful.

It might if the hacking/scraping (inc. 'private' DMs) is true and starts to yield.

 

[mauvais]

It might if the hacking/scraping (inc. 'private' DMs) is true and starts to yield.

True (I don't know if they have managed to access DMs), I just mean that membership alone doesn't tell you as much as it really ought to.

 

[keybored]

Not sure if it is true or not but a number of tories including ministers had parler accounts.



Sorry if wrong thread but it is where it is being discussed.

I wonder how they almost all ended up joining on the same date (20 June 2020 - Gove was a couple of days behind the rest)?

 

[brogdale]

True (I don't know if they have managed to access DMs), I just mean that membership alone doesn't tell you as much as it really ought to.

Heard earlier (no idea if true) that all/most of the Tory MPs using Parler joined on the very same day which was at the height of the BLM actions. Could be interesting.

 

[mauvais]

I wonder how they almost all ended up joining on the same date (20 June 2020 - Gove was a couple of days behind the rest)?

Heard earlier (no idea if true) that all/most of the Tory MPs using Parler joined on the very same day which was at the height of the BLM actions. Could be interesting.

It was because of this:

Katie Hopkins permanently suspended from Twitter for 'hateful conduct'

This comes after she lost her blue tick.

metro.co.uk

 

[two sheds]

True (I don't know if they have managed to access DMs), I just mean that membership alone doesn't tell you as much as it really ought to.

Surely though they've posted stuff like "Off to the Capitol to top a couple of Democrats tomorrow taking a couple of molotov cocktails for entertainment" with their driving licences to identify them?

 

[keybored]

It was because of this:

Katie Hopkins permanently suspended from Twitter for 'hateful conduct'

This comes after she lost her blue tick.

metro.co.uk

Hmmm. Sure the money-grabbing fuckers didn't join for this?

Conservative Social Media Network Parler Makes $20,000 Progressive Debate Challenge

In an attempt to trigger some civilc discouses, one social media is offering a cash prize to find the right opponent.

www.forbes.com

 

[mauvais]

Hmmm. Sure the money-grabbing fuckers didn't join for this?

Conservative Social Media Network Parler Makes $20,000 Progressive Debate Challenge

In an attempt to trigger some civilc discouses, one social media is offering a cash prize to find the right opponent.

www.forbes.com

Maybe. But I think in the UK it was mostly because of the publicity Hopkins appeared to give it - except the first time, it seems it wasn't her and was actually a scam...

What is Parler? Inside the pro-Trump “unbiased” platform

Billed as a defiant alternative to Twitter, the app has become synonymous with the alt-right and is gaining ground in the UK.

www.newstatesman.com

 

[keybored]

Maybe it's time for Menshn to have a revival. lol.

 

[brogdale]

Maybe it's time for Menshn to have a revival. lol.

Or the Matt Hancock app chat facility?

 

[killer b]

It might if the hacking/scraping (inc. 'private' DMs) is true and starts to yield.

there aren't any private messages scraped - this is from the person who did the scraping.

 

[petee]

expand it, read it all

 

[petee]

good takes here