Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Exploring the Paramilitary Leaks

micahflee.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

201–205 of 205 posts

Re: Exploring the Paramilitary Leaks

#201

Post by NoMoreNicksLeft »

squigz wrote: post #190
Ancapistani wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Correct. I always feel the need to preface this statement when I make it here, so here we go: this is in no way meant as a threat or even a statement of my own political beliefs. It is my belief based on being a member of these communities for decades. Any attempt to ban firearms in the United States would result in more death and injury than the problems it is intended to solve. The American people will not give up…

I love this argument. Your little cache of weapons isn't going to do anything against trained soldiers.

Your argument is absurd... we have real world counter-examples. When people were complaining about the recent Iraq conflict (and Afghanistan too), the complaints were always "not enough boots on the ground". Turns out that what wins wars is men with rifles. Not tanks, battleships, or next generation fighter jets.

Worse than the logic of your argument, is the morality of it. If trained soldiers are oppressing people, then not only is it rational to retain the means to fight back against them, but it's a moral imperative. Stupidity might be forgiven, you can't will yourself to be smarter than you were born. Moral cowardice is a choice, a disgusting one.

Re: Exploring the Paramilitary Leaks

#202

Post by dang »

mjfl wrote: post #69
n4r9 wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You'll have to do better than linking the Western Journal on Hacker News. It's a rebrand of "Western Journalism", which has been repeatedly highlighted as a source of fake news, misinformation, and right-wing conspiracy theories. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/western-journalism/

[flagged]

We've banned this account for breaking the site guidelines and ignoring our many requests to stop.

I hate to ban an account that's been here for over 10 years, but what choice do we have when you're posting like this and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43278069? I can't imagine where you got the idea that it was ok to do that.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Re: Exploring the Paramilitary Leaks

#203

Post by lupusreal »

gadders wrote: post #199
lupusreal wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since Chanology, it has been known by anybody paying attention and keeping score that taking 4chan into the real world is extremely cringe and must always be criticized. Whether it's organizing political protests on 4chan or anything else even remotely like that, its cringe and anybody suggesting it deserves to be flamed.

Is this ancient lore I am unaware of?

Are you trying to make me feel old?

Re: Exploring the Paramilitary Leaks

#204

Post by DANmode »

mannyv wrote: post #126
Cthulhu_ wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you don't know what's there you just start from the top I suppose. That's what happened with the Snowden leaks, they were picked apart over the span of months if not years by journalists, publishing what they found was interesting.

I suppose when you have a large corpus you start with as many browse points as you can. So maybe a list of the top senders, top recipients, recipient graphs. I'd think by day would be next. Browse subjects by day, and word clouds for each message thread? The. Try to isolate topics discussed each day, then link the topics across days. You should be able to click in and see the thread/messages/etc. This is, at some lev…

The part you're missing here is having a clue about what's sensitive in geopolitics in the first place, so you have that place to work from.
Post reply on HN