Russia invaded Ukraine and slaughtered everyone on civilian flight MH17. Then you come here to cheer lead the war criminals and their invasion campaign.
Funny seeing the subject doing the act immediately being separated from the act. If responding to that user without saying "such as cops," it allows the culprit to shifted elsewhere. This happens a lot and should be rightfully be seen as a form of thread derailment.
When Parler was coming up here due to being "deplatformed" I commented several times about how, like Cambridge Analytica which brought Trump to power, Mercers funded Parler.
Way too much kneejerk defense was given to what was essentially a throwaway social media site. A burner to foment extremism by giving the right an echo chamber that wouldn't act where other sites have.
And this acting by other sites often included taking down serious content like death threats and organized efforts to conduct political violence aka terrorism. So many people here just did their finest defending the product, why?
Was it the site itself or some general fight for freedom of speech? Because if it was some vague fight for ideals please, pick your fights better.
A lot of the core criticism of civilian nuclear power was correct in retrospect.
As it stands it is an extension of the military production line for nuclear arms and removing itself from that has been very costly & timely with no end in sight. Things like solar power simply do not come with that baggage.
Then on the other side of the equation, much of the points of criticism for power sources like solar or wind have been done away with or mitigated. Their efficiency has gone up along with the grid's ability to handle such sources.
Many of the choices now we have were sub-optimal decades ago but environmentalists invested when investment meant losing money. I'm still a fan of nuclear power but credit has to be given here.
The only time these people dare mention firearms is by saying "illegal firearms."
As an avid shooter I detest these types of writers and the financiers that fund them. They promote unfettered distribution of firearms but only want to discuss them in a negative way if the gun is stolen before being used in a crime.
Discussing how legal firearms get used in illegal acts? That would open up discussion about the distribution of small arms in the US. That goes against Reason.com's free market propaganda. Can't have that, so they'll spend their time looking at any other variables trying to tease narratives out of them.
Pretty wild how this wasn't the only guy with bombs. Someone else caught had a lot of weapons, and a friend & foe list. On the friend list was insurrection leader Ted Cruz.
This was the definition of a coup. With there being a legislative and a violent branch. Both coordinated with each other to an extent, and one had a huge role in inciting the other.
Trump even said before telling his supporters to march to the Capitol that "weak" Republicans needed to be pressured. As in the ones that didn't sign up to the coup attempt yet. That is what the siege was about, getting a few more votes to try to save Donald.
Crazy.
Even crazier, about 150 Republicans still tried to go through with it after police restored law and order.
Much more crazy, Matt Gaetz took the peace offered by the police crushing the siege to blame antifa. Despite his supporters just hours previous swarming the halls with Trump's flags wrapped around themselves.
You do understand that the same family that funded Cambridge Analytica like the user above mentioned is the one the funded Parler, the app you are talking about?
Maybe we should hold these people to account instead of trying to compare their projects to entities that are not as nearly as partisan by design as Mercer family projects are. They helped groom and incite so many people to radicalism, and we will be dealing with individuals flaming out for years.