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Tucker’s Message Fiasco Is the Wakeup Call You Need to Auto-Delete Your Messages

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Re: Tucker’s Message Fiasco Is the Wakeup Call You Need to Auto-Delete Your Messages

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Post by [deleted] »

jkeisling wrote: post #8
JohnMakin wrote: post #2

> Think twice before sending a message, even over Signal. You will likely not be able to predict when you will be sued, investigated, or otherwise thrown into the lime-light. Or, radical new idea here, how about conduct yourself in a reasonable way where if everyone in the world read your text messages you wouldn't be fired or go to jail?

So “if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear”? Would you tell that to abortion rights activists in Mississippi, journalists reviewing the Panama Papers, or dissidents in China? Radical new idea here, but maybe you shouldn’t believe that everyone in authority from now till you die will only fire and jail people for the ideas that you personally don’t have or like, or suggest data privacy rules for others…

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Re: Tucker’s Message Fiasco Is the Wakeup Call You Need to Auto-Delete Your Messages

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Post by krapp »

hajile wrote: post #37
krapp wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are no "traditional rules of martial engagement." White people surround, mob up on and beat the shit out of people just as much as people of any other race. To imply that white people are above such behavior (and thus that other races are less civilized) is a white supremacist and racist mentality. But you already knew that.

You inferred a lot of stuff that quote doesn't actually say.

"Jumping a guy like that is dishonorable obviously. It’s not how white men fight."

Is this not implying that white men don't fight dishonorably?

Is not the implication that follows from that, that fighting dishonorably is a trait that belongs to non-white races? If not, why mention "white men" specifically? Why not claim this is not how honorable people fight?

What did I infer that wasn't there?

I stand by my interpretation.

Re: Tucker’s Message Fiasco Is the Wakeup Call You Need to Auto-Delete Your Messages

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Post by plorg »

71a54xd wrote: post #14

The way his phone was compromised was likely with targeted malware like Pegasus v2. Even if you're deleting messages it wouldn't matter, because whatever you're seeing on the screen / typing is all being logged and transmitted somewhere else.

His phone wasn't compromised, it was subpoenaed in a lawsuit.

Re: Tucker’s Message Fiasco Is the Wakeup Call You Need to Auto-Delete Your Messages

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Post by web3-is-a-scam »

JohnMakin wrote: post #22
web3-is-a-scam wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, it actually does. You've never had intrusive thoughts or been caught up in mob/tribalisitc mentality?

The excerpt you quoted makes it worse. In it, he acknowledges that he has absolutely no empathy for the person being beaten. Yea, great clarification! thanks! And no, I have not fantasized about a mob beating a person to death.

> I have not fantasized about a mob beating a person to death.

That wasn't my question, nice try. You've never had an intrusive thought that made you uncomfortable, ever?

Re: Tucker’s Message Fiasco Is the Wakeup Call You Need to Auto-Delete Your Messages

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Post by heavyset_go »

parker_mountain wrote: post #12
JohnMakin wrote: post #2

> Think twice before sending a message, even over Signal. You will likely not be able to predict when you will be sued, investigated, or otherwise thrown into the lime-light. Or, radical new idea here, how about conduct yourself in a reasonable way where if everyone in the world read your text messages you wouldn't be fired or go to jail?

>Or, radical new idea here, how about conduct yourself in a reasonable way where if everyone in the world read your text messages you wouldn't be fired or go to jail? This is ridiculous. There are so many things you can do that are ethical and illegal. Or ethical and legal and would still piss a lot of people off. Or, how about just wanting to rant off the record with friends? This idea the default should be "act lik…

Foucault is rolling in his grave.

Re: Tucker’s Message Fiasco Is the Wakeup Call You Need to Auto-Delete Your Messages

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Post by logdap »

unethical_ban wrote: post #35
jdasdf wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Or, radical new idea here, how about conduct yourself in a reasonable way where if everyone in the world read your text messages you wouldn't be fired or go to jail? There is no man on earth who has ever been able to do that. Do you have any other impossible suggestions?

My dad always said "Don't do anything you wouldn't want people to read about in tomorrow's newspaper". Many people also say "What would Jesus do?" No one can live like Christians believe Jesus did, but it's a guide. No one can be perfectly honest and moral 100% in their lives. It's a principle. I think the point of the OP comment is "the first lesson Tucker should get out of the ordeal is not being a racist fascist,…

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Re: Tucker’s Message Fiasco Is the Wakeup Call You Need to Auto-Delete Your Messages

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Post by angst_ridden »

web3-is-a-scam wrote: post #16
reducesuffering wrote: post #6

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This is an extremely misleading representation of what his text said. Shame on you. Here's the rest: > Then somewhere deep in my brain, an alarm went off: this isn’t good for me. I’m becoming something I don’t want to be. The Antifa creep is a human being. Much as I despise what he says and does, much as I’m sure I’d hate him personally if I knew him, I shouldn’t gloat over his suffering. I should be bothered by it.…

It wasn't his hating on the victim that got him fired. It was his stating that the raging mob was not behaving appropriately for his race-based expectations of them.

Re: Tucker’s Message Fiasco Is the Wakeup Call You Need to Auto-Delete Your Messages

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Post by tgv »

JohnMakin wrote: post #2

> Think twice before sending a message, even over Signal. You will likely not be able to predict when you will be sued, investigated, or otherwise thrown into the lime-light. Or, radical new idea here, how about conduct yourself in a reasonable way where if everyone in the world read your text messages you wouldn't be fired or go to jail?

Just wait until google sells your data to the insurance companies and they refuse to insure you because you searched once too often for "cancer".

"But it was for my mother in law," you will say.

And they will reply: "We'll cancel her insurance as well."

Re: Tucker’s Message Fiasco Is the Wakeup Call You Need to Auto-Delete Your Messages

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Post by web3-is-a-scam »

angst_ridden wrote: post #47
web3-is-a-scam wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is an extremely misleading representation of what his text said. Shame on you. Here's the rest: > Then somewhere deep in my brain, an alarm went off: this isn’t good for me. I’m becoming something I don’t want to be. The Antifa creep is a human being. Much as I despise what he says and does, much as I’m sure I’d hate him personally if I knew him, I shouldn’t gloat over his suffering. I should be bothered by it.…

It wasn't his hating on the victim that got him fired. It was his stating that the raging mob was not behaving appropriately for his race-based expectations of them.

It's much more likely that he got fired because of the Dominion lawsuit from his election fraud claims.

Re: Tucker’s Message Fiasco Is the Wakeup Call You Need to Auto-Delete Your Messages

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Post by mrguyorama »

web3-is-a-scam wrote: post #20
JohnMakin wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh yes, that makes it much better.

Yes, it actually does. You've never had intrusive thoughts or been caught up in mob/tribalisitc mentality?

>if I reduce people to their politics, how am I better than he is?

His "self reflection" is an attempt to feel self righteous and better than the stranger getting beaten for political reasons that he does not know.

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