yourepowerless

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by yourepowerless 11y ago
Taking away a kids phone and giving him a doll will likely elicit a violent response, but cool on you to decide what brings people happiness.
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by yourepowerless 11y ago
Trotting out the token good case scenario while torture occurs in the bad case is classic propaganda, but way to defend torture, you get a hold star today.
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by yourepowerless 11y ago
How sweet, wonderful propaganda, mean while other innocents at Guantanamo experience the joys of anal rehydration and the Kafka esque life of indefinite imprisonment without trial. But yeah, I'm glad the NY times can share such heart w
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by yourepowerless 11y ago
This is a non-sequitur, or as the saying goes, the Germans kept the trains running on time? If ISIS begins collecting taxes to fund road construction and terrorism does that somehow white wash terrorism? Of course not, yet the same tired ar
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by yourepowerless 11y ago
Considering those tax dollars go towards torture, murder, indefinite imprisonment, war crimes, genocide, illegal surveillance, and other tragedies I applaud any company which finds novel ways of resisting the tyranny of the united States go
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Former drone operators testify(theintercept.com)
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by yourepowerless 11y ago
Huh, if only there were some way to digitally sign and secure communications, perhaps some sort of... Encryption scheme could be used to ensure accuracy of information...
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by yourepowerless 11y ago
Outlawing torture didn't make a lick of difference. Anyone who trusts an institution which repeatedly lies, tortures, and murders with impunity, an institution responsible for millions of deaths, is insane.
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by yourepowerless 11y ago
Why comply with unjust illegitimate laws created to serve a monopoly? Why comply with a framework designed not for your benefit or societies benefit but for the purpose of maintaining a monopoly on others peoples labor, socializing cost and
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by yourepowerless 11y ago
Your equivocation of clearly immoral behavior is suggestive. Is stealing wrong? Yes, yes it is. How many more decades of a failed war on drugs policy do you need before you accept and argue for a change of course? When bad laws create the i
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by yourepowerless 11y ago
How much more evidence do people need before we all readily conceed that America is a police state? Before you can change reality you must first understand the reality that exists. Police steal and murder without consequence. They are a gan
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by yourepowerless 11y ago
He is defending a corrupt institution which has repeatedly lied, tortured and murdered. Also,what he wrote is wrong, chances are not better than even that some random issue is a certain way because of some complex technical reason, most dec
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by yourepowerless 11y ago
I do not understand how someone can write such nonsense. Are you familiar with a country called Iraq? It is nearby to Syria, and was often in the news not too long ago, surely you must of heard of this place? You want the UN to administer
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by yourepowerless 11y ago
Millions have died throughout the Middle East, millions have become refugees, millions have sufferred from the economic consequences all of which is the directly because of Americans needed to avenge the death of 3000 new yorkers. The West
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by yourepowerless 11y ago
Syria? Iraq? Are you the Platonic cave dweller?
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by yourepowerless 11y ago
I assume thoughtless people will just dismiss this as conspiracy theory, somehow oblivious to how far that goal post have moved recently. Governments kill way more people than terrorists ever will, but fear those the government tells you to
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by yourepowerless 11y ago
Are you referring to the western powers which have killed millions of Muslims this last decade?
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by yourepowerless 11y ago
You need some perspective. Estimates for ME casualties are between 500,000 and 2 million plus, not including refugees, the injured, nor the complete economic gutting for those who remain experience. What should be done about that? Gonna let
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by yourepowerless 11y ago
So once this becomes law ( and surely it will ) how do these finer points of the law get decided, will it be done by the arbitration panel, ie the high paid lawyers who take turns being plaintiff, defendant, and judge?
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by yourepowerless 11y ago
Does anyone believe this will not become the law? You can peaceably gather in protest and maybe get a few sniping remarks on the nightly news, you can call, write, knock on your representatives door, you can donate money and time, but none
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by yourepowerless 11y ago
Again, how many times must the lie that voting counts be repeated, repeating it does not make it true. Did voting matter in the 2000 presidential election, I recall the supreme Court decided who became president. If voting matters so much w
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by yourepowerless 11y ago
Hoover died over 40 years ago, who knows what he would say about the FBI today given their new found love of torture, and the governments new policy of murdering anyone, including US citizens without meaningful due process. But do go on, tr
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by yourepowerless 11y ago
indeed, all those Chicago cops using their blacksite didn't seem to have any trouble doing what they please to their victims, including murdering them.
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by yourepowerless 11y ago
Simply more proof that the laws have become illegitimate tools of power for the elite and corrupt. American is no longer a democracy in any meaningful sense of the word, but a tiered society of those inside the halls of power, given extraor
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by yourepowerless 11y ago
People who prattle on about conspiracy theories really having nothing to add after the snowden revelations or wikileaks. Conspiracy theory? Nope, conspiracy fact, the US government does so many secret and nefarious activities the only sane
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by yourepowerless 11y ago
Half hearted at best. The flimsy article mentions three cases, one of which was a witch trial brought by Goldman Sachs. Libor fraud? Pass. Money laundering for drug cartels? Pass. Would you believe it just if someone robbed you, was caught
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by yourepowerless 11y ago
Lol, they aren't even trying, how can they lose if they don't even begun the suit. Lol, apologist failure. The former top justice official is on record stating they don't prosecute becuase they fear systemic risk, ie too big
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by yourepowerless 11y ago
A basic fallacy and tautology, I'm sure if I list a thinker you will simply state they aren't respected or are 'fringe'. Does the Chicago blacksite count extraordinary evidence? There is so much evidence of police illega
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by yourepowerless 11y ago
Simply untrue. Airports. No fly lists. Mass surveillance. Free speech zones, civil forfeiture, national security letters. Millions of Americans have a security clearance, the government has created a two tier system of those inside and ever
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by yourepowerless 11y ago
Peoples bald assertion that America is not a police state is empty useless rhetoric, plenty of facts disagree with such simple, propagandistic statements. Try actually contributing instead of shouting useless nonsense. EDIT: It is clear no

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