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Palantir is extending its reach even further into government

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Post by tylerchilds »

RajT88 wrote: post #151
tylerchilds wrote: post #144

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ah yeah, that helps a lot— this conversation has really driven home the meaning of “the post-war era” likely, we’ll never be at war again based on how we now do conflicts, waging language semantics and syntax no war, no treason, no problem we are evolved, there is no war in Ba Sing Se

Let's hope. Our "wars" post WWII, as bad as they were, were nowhere near the nightmares of the first two world wars.

hey yo, sorry to bother you, but just circling back after the news today

the constitution being edited was “a coding error”

if it wasn’t though, no assemblage of men, still no treason.

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Post by bpt3 »

AlexeyBelov wrote: post #301
anonfordays wrote: post #152

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Exactly, you can paint "it's a concentration camp" on the immigration detention facility and it is miraculously still the same thing. Glad you agree, it's not a concentration camp.

This account (anonfordays) has never participated in good faith. Why is it still not banned?

I've been seeing this (calls for bans of accounts who aren't in lockstep with liberal/progressive ideals) more frequently here recently.

Why?

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Post by [deleted] »

rayiner wrote: post #310
bigyabai wrote: post #309

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This is revisionist history and you clearly know you're wrong. There's no point in arguing with you if you're going to provide examples that you refuse to acknowledge in-context. January 6th was a major event that was incited by the incumbent president, calling upon his most violent supporters. This went beyond "multiracial wackjobs" and included organized militias that existed for the sole purpose of starting a race…

You can pick isolated examples from any political group. Here’s Obama with Louis Farrakhan: https://www.ajc.com/news/local/could-this-long-lost-photo-ha... . Look up what he said. Look up what elected Democrats in San Francisco have said about Asians: https://www.kqed.org/news/11896759/sf-school-board-member-al... . You’d think that, in the current climate, Democrats of all people would rethink the notion that pointi…

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Post by mkipper »

thechao wrote: post #271
throwaway290 wrote: post #248

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Didn't trump/doge just shut a ton of them?

Nothing that spends a lot of money on the scale of the Fed. Just low cost culture war stuff.

That's what gets attention in the media, but the Trump administration has also been axing a lot of "traditional" programs.

I used to work a defense contractor and still have some friends in that industry. One of them told me their project (related to some armored vehicle) was unceremoniously killed overnight a few months ago. As best they can tell it had nothing to do with cost, schedule, missed deliveries, etc -- it was just someone in the administration deciding they don't want to keep paying for it. They work for a very large contractor and apparently this happened to a whole bunch of projects / teams there.

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Post by buttercraft »

bpt3 wrote: post #312
AlexeyBelov wrote: post #301

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This account (anonfordays) has never participated in good faith. Why is it still not banned?

I've been seeing this (calls for bans of accounts who aren't in lockstep with liberal/progressive ideals) more frequently here recently. Why?

>> never participated in good faith

> aren't in lockstep with liberal/progressive ideals

These aren't the same thing

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Post by bpt3 »

buttercraft wrote: post #315
bpt3 wrote: post #312

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I've been seeing this (calls for bans of accounts who aren't in lockstep with liberal/progressive ideals) more frequently here recently. Why?

>> never participated in good faith > aren't in lockstep with liberal/progressive ideals These aren't the same thing

I know, that's my point.

Increasingly (from my limited view), people with a progressive viewpoint seem to be making this claim ("account X never participated in good faith and therefore should be banned") without any real grounds for doing so.

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Post by anonfordays »

estearum wrote: post #195
NoMoreNicksLeft wrote: post #194

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His due process rights were "if he protests that he is a citizen, then they must make effort to determine if that is the case with haste, and release him if it checks out". He did not assert citizenship, they did not violate due process rights. No other process is due him. Anyone claiming that it's a violation of due process rights doesn't know what they mean, though for a moment I had hope for you... you sort of des…

Why do you think SCOTUS disagreed with you 9-0? What do you know that they don’t?

They literally agreed with what he just stated. Don't comment with "gotchas" that you don't understand.

Re: Palantir is extending its reach even further into government

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Post by anonfordays »

bpt3 wrote: post #312
AlexeyBelov wrote: post #301

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This account (anonfordays) has never participated in good faith. Why is it still not banned?

I've been seeing this (calls for bans of accounts who aren't in lockstep with liberal/progressive ideals) more frequently here recently. Why?

>Why?

No wrongthink allowed! Protect the narrative!

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Post by CHUCKZZZ »

rayiner wrote: post #127
miltonlost wrote: post #105

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> That's still voting, which is the portion Thiel wants to remove. The founders themselves provided for a narrow franchise! > But based on other comments where you call Republican dismantling of the US government right now just "Orwellian doublespeak", you're just couching a bunch of your right-wing tendencies What is being dismantled? Executive agencies and ancillary entities that are 90% controlled by democrats reg…

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Post by jgalt212 »

hopelite wrote: post #209
jgalt212 wrote: post #125

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True, but government programs get cancelled all the time.

I am not sure what government you are thinking of, but not in the US government. There are some trimmings and some consolidation that may shift people and function in or under something else, but the programs, as generally defined by activities (because the nature of a “program” often morphs over time, even if everything else remains the same) basically never really get shut down anymore, if ever. There may be a loss…

During the Apollo project years, NASA's budget was over 4% of the federal spend. Now, on percentage basis, NASA's budget is 90% less than it was. Defense programs and spending is wildly variable over time.
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