goDel
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I believe we're in massively different threads :S Edit: you guys!
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Good piece. Didn't agree with all of it, but definitely a good critique. The WWE comparison was right on the nose :)
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Apart from the legalese, the report is good reading, imo. It's a great summary of a lot of stuff that's familiar, but has turned into some giant plate of spaghetti if you'd follow the media. Mueller creates order by presenting the facts. I'd argue it's mandatory to read the report if you're going to make an informed decision about 2020. But again, I'll shut up again. It's none of my business and all that...
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Not arsed to read, tbh. It's blindingly obvious populism is wilfully blind to left/right. It's both left and right, and neither. It shouldn't be in the image. Putting it in some graph about leftist ideologies is a sign of old world thinking. A graph like that really doesn't help me believe I should read that piece.
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I agree in the sense that the attention is too much focussed on "winning over Trump". As at this point, it's less about Trump and more about the democracy itself. The institution. So besides having a good story going into 2020, it's about keeping the democratic institution running. They have a job to do besides thinking about 2020. Putting all the eggs in the 2020 basket is lose-lose, I'd think.
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Somehow I get the impression people got outlandish expectations of what Mueller could do. The worst part, there's still a lot of work to do and plenty people have become sick of the entire story already. Which is exactly what Trump wants. There's still some way to go. (as it was never supposed to finish with mueller) The dems in congress are constitutionally required to finish the deal. Regardless of the final outcome (read: reps voting against impeachment). As that's the most likely scenario. If you're really sick of the whole Trump ordeal, just give the dems the space to do "due process". It's really not an option to do nothing with this report. No matter how hard the Trumpists love to make you think so. Congress has to fulfil it's duty. And in the end it's the voter with the final power, as the 2020 elections will be here faster. Trump will stall every- and anything. OK, I'll shut up now. :/
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Populism as a leftist ideology? WTF!? Yeah sure lets start on the same page
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(this was a passive aggressive comment which meant: yes, do it! again!)
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Agree. His intro argument was unbearable to watch. And just skipped it after 5 mins of his pseudo philosophic meandering. As it felt like it was going nowhere. Enjoyed Zizeks opening argument better. He was more to the point. And seemed better prepared. Peterson, again, was going into his familiar anti-Marx schtick. I think I like him more if he's in discussion with politicians. I guess because the average politician is worse at pretending to know what they are talking about.
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interesting legal analysis of the mueller report. essentially it is argued mueller couldn't come to a "guilty" conclusion, but instead either "not guilty" or "not not guilty" were the only options available.
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Warner Music Signs an Algorithm to a Record Deal
goDel replied to Joyrex's topic in Music Discussion
yeah obviously. i think i wasn't clear. the idea is that there's always going to be people who just put their software out there for free. kinda like ae and those files they recently put up. so who's going to buy into some app when there's going to be al kinds of free open source options available? this endel app's gotta be quite something for people to put in some money. -
Warner Music Signs an Algorithm to a Record Deal
goDel replied to Joyrex's topic in Music Discussion
the interesting thing to me, is how they think to have some kind of business model wrt open source generative music apps. they really have to add something of value compared to other free options. which, imo, is highly unlikely. it's hard to see how this will turn into something viable. -
nvrmind
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a democrat with a spine! good!
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I kinda agree with the general response to Recall. But I'm curious to hear it in the context of the full album. I might change my mind about it. Maybe it makes more sense between the other tracks. And it brings associations of an Untilted-era Ae-Plaid collab. Although I currently appreciate LCC way more than Recall, to name an example. But again, i think the track needs more context.
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there's not much actual shit (Russian conspiracy) to hide. that's what Mueller said. he didn't. mueller didn't speculate about why trump lied whatsoever. rather the opposite: because he couldn't interview trump, he couldn't make any assessment about his intent. he said he couldn't make the case that trump or his people conspired with the russians to hack the dnc and/or clinton. appart from that, there was plenty to hide and plenty evidence they were hiding evidence (and trump trying to kill the investigation). people were pleading the 5th. evidence had been destroyed. people were lying. and much of it was in the hands of russians and therefore outside the hands of mueller. mueller def did not come to the "it's all smoke and mirrors" conclusion. thats mostly barrs spin of the outcome. not muellers.
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sorry, i just disagree. and i think you've misread my reply. i said i was curious to your sources if you haven't read the report. that's not faulting you. barr said there isn't anything behind the curtain. the report shows plenty going on behind the curtain, imo.
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i really don't understand about nothing much behind the curtain. and especially the added "as mueller detailed". not sure which sources you're parroting as you admitted not having read the report. so this leaves me just curious. who says there's not much behind the curtain? where in the report does mueller say there's nothing there?
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pffff dingbat. yo momma etc ;) aux, i think you should read the report. the conspiracy thing is more a counter intelligence thing and looks really bad. regardless of whether the evidence lived up to the small definition which was inside muellers mandate. don't forget there's a reason why there's still plenty investigations going on. the biggest irony is the stone case. somehow stone is indicted for stuff that goes to the heart of the so-called collusion investigation, and yet, here we are. nothing on trump/campaign and stones indicted for collusion!? what... the only logical explanation for this discrepancy is that mueller used a very specific definition in his report (which he explained) and all the other stuff, outside of the scope of his mandate, is given to other prosecutors. it's good to be sceptic about all the hype. but i'd argue that goes both ways. barr/trump has created a beautiful hype of himself. it's better to believe neither, imo. to me the amount of lying coming from the trump campaign speaks volumes. and trump was basically doing business with russians during the entire campaign. not illegal. but potentially compromising the minute he became the president. regardless of criminality, this is problematic.
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books.
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? people have been convicted for less. way less. nothing middling about what they've found. there's some discussion about intent (as per barrs ridiculous defence of trump saying he wanted to end the investigation because it was so difficult being a president while being investigated) and most of all the regulations saying you can't indict a sitting president. edit: @aux
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Smacking. Also, tec, not looking for a smoking gun, you silly fruitcake. Are you sheathe number two?
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No Brits on the Enterprise. But definitely a Scott! Scotland going independent confirmed!
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Please ignore this passive aggressive post to ignore this if you want a read through of the report by none other than the devil himself. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1118631217212067841.html Or in other words: people talking about a nothingburger report either haven't read it, or are trumpists.
