They probably will continue to fail in the criminal realm but have some success in administrative warfare, like more grant revocations, baseless tax audits, freezing accounts, and the like. Enough to do some damage even if they can’t get prison sentences. And probably more ICE abductions

The author who sues all her critics into silence has some thoughts on free speech.

and a slide that explains illegal data torrenting by Meta, i also had to remove

In the end, it was either remove everything that names names (big tech particularly) and remove logos or cancel my talk.

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If 25% of people think they personally would be better off with a factory job, but 2% currently have one, is that not a reason to think that the 80% are correct? There is no logical inconsistency in saying that I don't want a factory job but *also* a huge chunk of people in your poll want one!

Remember that the SC primary and Obama endorsement of Biden afterwards were two different events! Bernie's chance of nomination ended after the former, but Biden path to a non-brokered covnention win was only cleared once Obama endorsed him with Buttigieg and Klobuchar dropping out simultaneously.

lol at people disagreeing with this but not even specifying which half they disagreed with, I have no idea what their position is!

It's not about Obama (or Hillary or Biden) somehow cheating. It's simply that Obama gave voters bad advice, and anyone who doesn't like how Biden turned out should remember who supported him.

Bernie was, sadly, on the path to defeat already, but you're right that Obama still messed up there. Until he intervened there was still the possibility of brokered convention selecting a non-Biden, non-Bernie alternative.

IP isn't *just* a censorship scheme, it's attempt to radically defy the basic logic of how information works *and compel an entire universe of software and equipment to uphold the pretense*; it's ultimately incompatible with any world other than the locked-down app store nightmare one