You just can't stay in a single train of thought can you?
Yes these wires are "caused" by global warming in that the areas where they are occurring are hotter and dryer for more time per year. To the extent that forestry practices and reservoir levels are a contributing factor, those things are controlled by agencies she is not in charge of so she couldn't have directed them to do anything beforehand.
And yes, if these fires are still going or new ones pop up after he takes office he will bear blame. I'm struggling to understand why you folded him into a conversation about what you see as her bad behavior however.
They don't talk about it because fleeing DURING the disaster was the bad part. Which the Mayor of LA didn't do.
Again - these things are not the same. They are not "well you have to understand ..." nor are they "Whatabout ...." They don't resemble each other beyond two career politicians traveling.
Your link goes to a New York Post story the committee reposted - which doesn't say that anyone forced Facebook/Meta to do anything, simply that Facebook looked at the initial laptop story and concluded it match the parameters of and FBI alert for campaign disinformation from Russia. That they couched it as aligning them with the Biden Administration is unfortunate, but not evidence of anything beyond misplaced political savvy.
Not sure why you think it lends any credence to the idea that Facebook was coerced/forced to do anything by anyone.
1) She was already out of the country as part of an official delegation of US officials attending the inauguration of Ghana's President. Which means she didn't flee the disaster as it was unfolding.
2) She is apparently headed back and will be in LA shortly if she isn't already.
These things are not the same, and pointing them out as if they were looks trollish.
Meta deciding to censor initial content regarding the laptop - which they quickly walked away from - to curry favor with an incoming Biden administration is EXACTLY the same thing as trying to curry favor with an incoming Trump administration by rolling back content moderation and fact checking. Its a business decision not forced on them by anyone beyond their shareholders.
Aside from the very real danger to humans here, there's another story that will get buried for months but is critical to how this plays out - the same major insurers who have dumped homeowners in Florida because if hurricane risks have also dumped California homeowners due to fire risk. That's an economic disaster waiting to compound the wildfire damage.
It kept him in the news cycle on a day when Jimmy Carter was moved from Georgia to DC to lie in state prior to his funeral. Your call on how closely those two things are correlated.
The challenge that affected the largest number of voters was Griffin’s argument that voters who did not have a driver’s license number or Social Security number on file should not have been allowed to vote. State election officials say there are myriad reasons a voter may not have those numbers in the database — many of which are no fault of their own. But Griffin argued it could lead to ineligible voters being able to cast a ballot. The State Board of Elections disagreed. In mostly party-line votes last month, the board, which has a 3 to 2 Democratic majority, dismissed all of his protests.
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Meta's retreat from fact checking (trying out Elon X) makes malicious rewriting of history even easier:
Christian nationalists rationalize their will to dominance on false claims that they are the "true" Americans and the rest of us — liberal Christians, non-believers, non-Christians — are interlopers. That's why fake history is central to their project. Barton, for instance, focuses mainly on falsifying evidence that the founders didn't "really" believe all that stuff about the separation of church and state they wrote directly into the Constitution and defended in the Federalist Papers. Instead, he concocts a fictional history where they wanted Christianity imposed by law on the nation.
Elon Musk has definitively proved the more speech is NOT even in the same galaxy as better speech. More hate speech is still more hate. And if the gobs and gobs of money Meta is making are "getting burned" I'd be happy to be thusly accosted.
For one thing, I think that crime is bad and we, as a society, should put forward more resources into making sure that women aren’t set on fire, even if it is statistically rare that it happens.
I’m more than happy enough to argue that “arresting criminals and trying them” probably sounds like fascism to someone sufficiently compassionate.
We have NOT nationally or locally stopped doing that.
I think crime is bad too. That's a moral statement.
So is the idea that throwing more money at it won't fix what's wrong, because what's wrong is that policing can't solve the underlying drives of crime.
Like I said though, you can not drive the occurrence of crime to absolute zero. Even in the Judge Dredd distopia that you seem to favor.
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You drew the analogy with your OP. Perhaps you should own it.
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The argument is that Republicans can't be bad because Democrats do things that look the same if you squint hard enough.
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You just can't stay in a single train of thought can you?
Yes these wires are "caused" by global warming in that the areas where they are occurring are hotter and dryer for more time per year. To the extent that forestry practices and reservoir levels are a contributing factor, those things are controlled by agencies she is not in charge of so she couldn't have directed them to do anything beforehand.
And yes, if these fires are still going or new ones pop up after he takes office he will bear blame. I'm struggling to understand why you folded him into a conversation about what you see as her bad behavior however.
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They don't talk about it because fleeing DURING the disaster was the bad part. Which the Mayor of LA didn't do.
Again - these things are not the same. They are not "well you have to understand ..." nor are they "Whatabout ...." They don't resemble each other beyond two career politicians traveling.
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Since Jay is more concerned with aesthetics it seemed an appropriate word.
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Your link goes to a New York Post story the committee reposted - which doesn't say that anyone forced Facebook/Meta to do anything, simply that Facebook looked at the initial laptop story and concluded it match the parameters of and FBI alert for campaign disinformation from Russia. That they couched it as aligning them with the Biden Administration is unfortunate, but not evidence of anything beyond misplaced political savvy.
Not sure why you think it lends any credence to the idea that Facebook was coerced/forced to do anything by anyone.
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1) She was already out of the country as part of an official delegation of US officials attending the inauguration of Ghana's President. Which means she didn't flee the disaster as it was unfolding.
2) She is apparently headed back and will be in LA shortly if she isn't already.
These things are not the same, and pointing them out as if they were looks trollish.
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Meta deciding to censor initial content regarding the laptop - which they quickly walked away from - to curry favor with an incoming Biden administration is EXACTLY the same thing as trying to curry favor with an incoming Trump administration by rolling back content moderation and fact checking. Its a business decision not forced on them by anyone beyond their shareholders.
On “Multiple Wildfires Rip Through Los Angeles Amid Historic Winds”
Aside from the very real danger to humans here, there's another story that will get buried for months but is critical to how this plays out - the same major insurers who have dumped homeowners in Florida because if hurricane risks have also dumped California homeowners due to fire risk. That's an economic disaster waiting to compound the wildfire damage.
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That report doesn't say what you think it says.
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It kept him in the news cycle on a day when Jimmy Carter was moved from Georgia to DC to lie in state prior to his funeral. Your call on how closely those two things are correlated.
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Trump said it so it must be important. Just like taking back the Panama Canal or taking over Greenland.
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This actually surprises you?
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Because like Jay he wants Judge Dredd, mistakenly believing he would become a Judge.
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The GOP has learned things from Trump:
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I don't praise liars.
And yes, private companies can do whatever they want.
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I would prefer Johnson being publicly shamed for lying. And those defending his right to lie being publicly mocked.
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Meta's retreat from fact checking (trying out Elon X) makes malicious rewriting of history even easier:
https://www.salon.com/2025/01/07/why-mike-johnsons-fake-jefferson-prayer-matters/
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That transformation worked for Trump and Gabbard, so ...
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Elon Musk has definitively proved the more speech is NOT even in the same galaxy as better speech. More hate speech is still more hate. And if the gobs and gobs of money Meta is making are "getting burned" I'd be happy to be thusly accosted.
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I think the January 6th Attack on the Capitol is in form, function, and morality akin to the Beer Hall Putsch.
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Which resources other then additional money would you redeploy from where to prevent another woman from being set on fire?
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Do you ever read your own stuff?
We have NOT nationally or locally stopped doing that.
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I think crime is bad too. That's a moral statement.
So is the idea that throwing more money at it won't fix what's wrong, because what's wrong is that policing can't solve the underlying drives of crime.
Like I said though, you can not drive the occurrence of crime to absolute zero. Even in the Judge Dredd distopia that you seem to favor.
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Doing X can lead to Y, Z, Q, E, and even A. You are no more assured of the outcome breaking your way then I am of it breaking my way.
Do you remember when the election didn't break my way what I said? No? I said I was wrong about America and what we valued.
I can't ever remember you saying your aesthetics were wrong.