The USA Political Thread

[lennco]

Here you can spout your USA political views.

Rules:
1. Keep it clean
2. No fighting
3. Respect the views of others.
4. US Political views, No Religious views
5. Have fun

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[johname]

Any minute from now Mark Zuckerberg Testifies At Senate Judiciary Committee

 

[enlytend]

You embraced open corruption, injustice by democrats

I most certainly did not, but if I had, my past actions or lack thereof are no excuse for the behavior of someone else.

You’re basing your “deep state”beliefs on something Schumer said when DT was still president elect? After the future 45 was caught lying about a security briefing being delayed?

 

[enlytend]

Dictionary word du jour:

 

[JB Lions]

When reality hits you all at once:

Whole thing smells like sh*t.

That bad smell is the bullsh*t self-righteous liberals have been swallowing for 10 years.

SCREW EM.

Same assholes who elected a drunken womanizer and murder to the Senate then lionized himb/c of his family name.

haha, another Kennedy reference

Attorney–client privilege is dead!
Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump 8h8 hours ago

A TOTAL WITCH HUNT!!!
Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump 8h8 hours ago

Since Gilsan isn't here, we have a shortage of memes, so to make up a little

 

[enlytend]

Yeah, not my favorite person either, but he knows the process first hand and explains it coherently.

 

[johname]

One key question for Zuckerberg: Will Americans become second-class Web citizens?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2018/04/10/could-european-privacy-rules-save-facebooks-zuckerberg-from-a-senate-grilling/

 

[offthehandle]

Palmer Luckey. Zuck caught lying.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/30/palmer-luckey-facebook/

 

[DNWon]

 

[JB Lions]

I don't understand the Diamond and Silk stuff myself, unless, it's something ala FTC where a blogger has to disclose a relationship if they're getting paid for a review or something like that. If they're paid by the Trump campaign and it's advertising and they're just actors, maybe it's against some rule?

Trump campaign paid famous YouTube duo ‘Diamond and Silk’ for ‘field consulting’
https://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/...ube-duo-diamond-and-silk-for-field-consulting

http://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00580100/1133930/sb/ALL/4

My best friend who is a Trump fan, currently belongs to these FB groups:
Donald Trump For President
Donald Trump For President 2020!!!!!! - 185,000 members
Shit Hillary Clinton Supporters Say
DONALD TRUMP COMMANDER IN CHIEF ...... Kekistanis spambot socials
THE TRUMPERS!!!
Melania & Trump Fans

And he got helped with all the Russian trolls, ads on FB.

I have no problem finding all kinds of pro-Trump channels, pages etc on these major platforms.

Another page he follows:

https://www.facebook.com/theconservativetribune/

4.3 million+ likes

 

[johname]

I think the Diamond and Silk problem is that they do their 'show' off the cuff, and there no way they do countless shows without saying something screwy or offensive to someone. And since there now are 'fans' to sides people will report, get enough reports and youtubers or FB users will get whacked (bans, strikes, alerts turned off).

What is actually more unfair is DanS can go on tv and talk about their problem and FB alleady saying they will fix the problem for DanS. But the average Joe youtuber of FB person just gets shut down and 'that's stuff"

 

[johname]

Someone took a pic of Zuc's notes and read them


Zuckerberg was ready to call out Tim Cook over Apple's privacy practices
http://www.businessinsider.com/zuck...as-ready-to-criticize-apple-on-privacy-2018-4

 

[offthehandle]

 

[enlytend]

Palmer Luckey. Zuck caught lying.

I don’t know the story of that one individual, but Cruz’s line of questioning was way off base. It’s illegal to ask someone’s political leanings or activity on a job interview, as it should be. He’s gotta know that.

A professional can and will do their job correctly regardless of their personal opinions. I may not personally like all of my clients, I’m still going to do the very best job I can for them.*

Instead of questioning to get information, Cruz was trying to force a narrative that conservatives are “victims” on FB.

Not so much.

Some real Facebook stats:

Information below is from FB demographic data provided to marketers via the audience builder tool in the advertising platform. (Screenshots and markup by a fellow marketing pro.)

Users classified as conservative comment on Facebook posts 83% more than those identified as liberals. They also like 36% more and share about 200% more posts, comment more frequently, and click on more ads...

So this shows that far from being censored and suppressed, conservatives are highly active and engaged on Facebook.

(There are more users classified as liberal overall, but they are not as active. Interestingly, they are more likely to access via mobile devices only, but that’s not important to this conversation.)

If you have a FB account, you can go into the advertising area and view this data yourself. Or compare “very conservative” to “very liberal” if you want.

Also, here’s a look at the most popular pages - as determined by page likes by category - on FB (last 30 days? 90 days?) among all active US Facebook users, 18+. There is definitely strong conservative presence - even a right leaning skew - among the most popular pages.

* (BTW I never discuss politics with clients. Ever. It’s not relevant. )

 

[johname]

Paul Ryan got Trumped

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/11/politics/paul-ryan-retirement-house-speaker/index.html

 

[johname]

FaceBook donated $0 to Cruz, lol

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/11/...tributions-mark-zuckerberg-congress-donations

 

[mr-x]

A professional can and will do their job correctly regardless of their personal opinions. I may not personally like all of my clients, I’m still going to do the very best job I can for them.*

If you don't think there is a strong bias for liberal / progressive politics in silicon valley, I'd invite you to google Brendon Eich or James Demore.

Just because conservatives use FB, doesn't mean FB doesn't censor conservatives.

 

[mr-x]

Paul Ryan got Trumped

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/11/politics/paul-ryan-retirement-house-speaker/index.html

Interesting editorial but nope. Now if we can get Mich McConnell to retire...

 

[enlytend]

If you don't think there is a strong bias for liberal / progressive politics in silicon valley, I'd invite you to google Brendon Eich or James Demore.

I'm not saying there isn't a strong PERSONAL bias in the industry - there is. If you're letting your personal views carry over to your job, that's unprofessional.

The data suggests conservatives on FB are very active, engaged and uncensored. If it goes over the edge to hate speech or threats, that should be censored. So do your own homework. See how the stats look for "very conservative." I gave you a ton of data to make my point, let's see yours.

 

[offthehandle]

I don’t know the story of that one individual, but Cruz’s line of questioning was way off base. It’s illegal to ask someone’s political leanings or activity on a job interview, as it should be. He’s gotta know that.

Out of line? What did you expect him to get a Larry King like softball question?Statistics by who Facebook? Ted asked him bluntly about Diamond and Silk, a million followers and given no answer, just lame excuses. Pure liberal censorship exposed. Ted asked If Move on were dropped , etc or if any democrstic sites were dropped either, non answers from the weasel. He admitted in the interview the politics of liberal Valley is where he is from. The VR headset developer Luckey evidently didn’t fit in. Personally, I don’t know why he even stuck around working there after the buy out.

I knew of the spying/privacy games back 10 years ago were going to become an issue eventually as people, the dumb general public who watch the Kardashians are certainly fasinated with fame, and the narcissistic generation bought right into it, sharing too much.

I dont use any of these platforms at all.

Btw, I have been checking daily and collecting my search results and finding any generic political topics that these “black boxes” as you claim: google and youtube are ranking results skewed to CNN, WA post, etc. no matter what you guys think there is a huge bias.

The hearing had plenty of time too with other Senators wasting their time and grandstanding instead of questioning. I wish the house would have let Maxine Waters in simply for entertainment.

 

[mr-x]

PA School District Arms Teachers With Small Baseball Bats
http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/11/pennsylvania-school-district-arms-teachers-small-baseball-bats/

I'd rather have the rocks.