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[–] _pi@lemmy.ml 10 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

The one thing Gaetz is good at is knowing how to break the law and get away with it. He defeated the FBI probe simply by picking targets and collaborators that would be difficult to use for prosecutors. This is because prosecutors now typically rise to their position involved using the weight of the state to roll over people who didnt know how to do crime. It's all a numbers game to prosecutors so they don't have enough experience dealing with the politics of criminal court, plus the fact that anyone who understands how the system works can simply set up their crimes in a way that benefits them in open court.

The sad reality is prosecutors look for perfect victims which allows imperfect victims who are often actually more vulnerable people in society to be abused at greater rates.

Remember how Democrats can't figure out why people think that rich and connected people can get away with breaking the law? They just have to look at the failure of the Biden DOJ.

[–] _pi@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 hours ago

It's antisemitic to talk about how Israel developed its nuclear capacity.

[–] _pi@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

the CHIPS act is the grift that keeps on grifting

These problems are often presented by Americans a cultural but in reality they are the problems of global capital.

Taiwanese and Chinese Bosses think that the US system of bribery is too inefficient and that US workers are too expensive compared to their lack of skill and dedication. (See American Factory, it's really good at laying this out)

These economic realities are different in China and Taiwan because they are not the imperial core. This experiment was doomed to fail because reindustrialization is fighting against the direction of the market and regardless of who controls the coin purse, nobody is going to take on that risk. The CHIPS act and things like it, give away free money which incentivizes failure because in order to derisk the proposition the US government has to make it profitable regardless of the success of the venture. It's almost like reindustrialization of these key industries needs to be based on a nationalized industrial capacity, especially if we're going to view it from the basis of national security.

But alas Americans are too capitalist brained to even understand 20th century nationalist logic anymore.

[–] _pi@lemmy.ml 15 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

BECAUSE CHEETO WORSE

Trump is such a weather vane that this statement literally means nothing until it actually happens. Biden actually did it. Trump just talks shit. Trump talks about a lot of different shit. Remember how he was supposed to build a wall? Remember how Harris gloated about how the Biden admin had to actually build that wall in some areas?

Trumps incompetency is literally the biggest reason that people shouldn't forgive Democrats from taking on his positions. They actually did these things in a competent way. Trump fumbled the bag. That actually makes him better on these points.

[–] _pi@lemmy.ml 26 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Denis Prager was one of the advocates of the immigration regime in the 60's (first Soviet aliyah) and late 80's early 90's (second Soviet aliyah) that allowed Jews from the Soviet Union to apply for asylum to the United States. The second Soviet aliyah was based on the idea that violent/systemic antisemitism was drastically increasing after the fall of the Soviet Union. Something that didn't actually happen when revisited by scholars decades later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_Struggle_for_Soviet_Jewry

[–] _pi@lemmy.ml 23 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

If he dies, I'll be excited to piss on the grave of the man who was ultimately responsible for my ability to emigrate to the US from Post-Soviet Ukraine.

[–] _pi@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's not about serving assets it's about hiding telemetry from adblockers, dns filters, ip lists, etc.

[–] _pi@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Almost every B2C company I've worked at, I've written or had my devs write proxies for whatever trackers we use. The reality is that every company to whom this data matters to figure out their business model will proxy their trackers. If they don't they need to fire their lead engineers.

It's actually pretty easy to disguise this traffic even to the point where you can use the originating server/cdn to interleave the tracking with the content source.

[–] _pi@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 day ago

Most companies are incapable of actually building something this techical.

[–] _pi@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The community should knife each other in a more productive way, by designating official slurs with severity (e.g. gossip level 1 ) and designing charts and points systems for users that we can rank their posts on to see if they're scored enough points to be able to use the slurs (e.g. you need 3 pro-women points to use gossip based on how many "yaas kweeens" category bromides your post contains).

At least the resulting outcomes would be funny and farcical on their face rather than fading into the ephemera of constant pointless struggle sessions for the self importance of 18-25 year olds. We'll get some new emotes too. I'm old enough to have been on the great grand daddy of all knife fights at the height of it's power, Shit Reddit Says. Beyond just dunking on people these communities always devolve into the same crap, dreaming up of new ways to perfect morality policing, while driving yourself into alienated rage spirals. Same thing happened with circlebroke/circlebroke2/gameofdolls.

Don't go gently into that good night, create artifacts of your unhinged power.

[–] _pi@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 day ago

Damn I wonder why there's a real feeling out there that laws are applied unevenly depending on your wealth / social position. Can anyone help me figure out who's causing this????

[–] _pi@lemmy.ml 46 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The programs you mention expiring along with COVID-era cash welfare, reversed the poverty/food security trend for 2 years and these Dem dipshits literally can't figure out what's going on.

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