gdog05

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[–] gdog05@lemmy.world 9 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Crinklecut fries

[–] gdog05@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

The wars were costly to the American taxpayers and soldiers (and their families). But it was very lucrative if you were invested in Halliburton, Blackrock, etc. Huge, huge transfer of wealth with almost no accounting done.

[–] gdog05@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

I have been doing ADA compliance professionally for a while. There is no magic on this one. There's no existing solution that doesn't require manual interference because it requires context. Human context. It has to be understood to be understandable. There's a few things you can do to improve overall accessibility but nothing in a suite. I specialize in InDesign and it's probably the most powerful document solution going. But it requires a lot of work to meet the most basic of requirements.

[–] gdog05@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago

I think their goal is to tear everything down so the people are forced to rely on them for food, medicine, everything. True feudal state situation. Voting and personality are not needed with that mindset.

[–] gdog05@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

He definitely is he's just counting on the numbers being whatever he tells the Russian hackers to make them be. He likely won't be campaigning without the ego feeding crowds. He'll (as if by magic) win the popular vote. I believe this was the purpose behind feeding all of our personal data in the government systems to Russia. They'll pinpoint people to switch their votes and while I don't know the plan on exactly how they'll use the data, Defcon hackers showed exactly how they'll be doing the vote tampering.

[–] gdog05@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

These fuckers are all too weird to blend in even in Portland. They've been spotted immediately from what I hear. Let that sink in.

[–] gdog05@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Because they're both too fucking weird and angry to ever be elected by anyone. Just parasites riding the shark.

[–] gdog05@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I've heard that before too but being an old bastard, I'm pretty certain Clinton didn't do it until after he was debating Bob Dole. Bob Dole used this gesture because he held a pen during debates. And he held a pen in his non-dominant hand because he had an injury in WWII and the way his hand curled made him look weak.

[–] gdog05@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

That's the big question isn't it? I don't know the legality behind it, but being paid by someone other than the citizenry is extremely problematic. Taking an oath to the Constitution (that protects the rights of the people) while being paid by an individual, well that starts turning the corner from standing army to being mercenaries.

[–] gdog05@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I think it's just them realizing that without the military protecting them by threat or actual force, they're liable to be literally on the chopping block. To that end, I will note that the private military contractors have seemingly been disturbingly quiet for having an authoritarian in power.

[–] gdog05@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (6 children)

They got private donors to fund the troops, I believe.

[–] gdog05@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

I also didn't know about the Nazi connection, it looks like something a biker would have, which should have been a red flag to the imagery I guess, but it looks like a kind of standard skull to me otherwise.

I have a raised eyebrow on Platner. He seems genuine. A couple of odd details admittedly. But unless he's some kind of psyop candidate, he seems fine enough. I do wish his cover up for a Nazi symbol was much further away from the accusation than Celtic symbols.

 
 
 
 
 
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