AltaGuy has a magnetic personality and exudes positive energy, which is infectious to those around him. He has an unparalleled ability to communicate with people, whether he is speaking to a room of three or an arena of 30,000.
AltaGuy has a magnetic personality and exudes positive energy, which is infectious to those around him. He has an unparalleled ability to communicate with people, whether he is speaking to a room of three or an arena of 30,000.
These will truly be the greatest, most entertaining 4 years ever. Scandal after scandal, tweet storm after tweet storm, what more could we ask for in the President of the United States of America?
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I think there really would be big money in someone/company creating a trademarked symbol that every verified news story had to get permission to use and it would be like a certification that the news story you're reading is real. Too many dumb Americans falling for fake news stories about Trump, good and bad.
Yeah...this is just about the worst idea ever for freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and begins the slippery slope into state-run or corporate control over "the truth" when one company or agency is the one with the power to determine what is real or not with their stamp of approval. Corruption would be inevitable. Information in the real world is grey and not black & white. Think again about what you are proposing.
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Based off how Rubio is questioning Tillerson, it's looking like there's a decent chance he doesn't get confirmed. With McCain, Rubio and Graham, that's enough votes to block him.
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But the notion that 4chan was the source for the memo or any of the information in it is more than just baseless– it’s easily disproved.
The supposed “proof” for the 4chan genesis theory was a November 1 post on 4chan’s /pol/ board in which an anonymous user claimed he gave Republican “Never Trump” operative Rick Wilson a fake story about Trump and Russian spies.
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That’s certainly vague to begin with, but note the date: November 1. Mother Jones was reporting on the memo as early as October 30. In a tweet, MJ’s David Corn confirmed that the memo published by Buzzfeed was the same one he received… before the supposed trolling.
More to the point, everything we know about the memo’s source from CNN and The New York Times contradicts the notion that it could possibly be 4chan or Wilson. According to those outlets:
The intelligence community knows who the source is, and considers him generally reliable
The author of the memo is ex-British intelligence, with extensive Russian contacts
The intelligence community also knows his cources and considers them”credible”
Some of the memos were circulating as early as the summer of 2016
Some /pol/lacks (uh, their term, not mine) have gotten around these inconvenient facts by claiming Wilson used independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin as an intermediary. But again, McMullin is ex-CIA, not MI6.
Wilson himself came out and bluntly said he wasn’t Buzzfeed’s source. “I’ll settle it this way; if — arguendo — I had been their source, I hereby release the authors of the story, its editors, and BuzzFeed generally from any off-the-record/background protections of anonymity I would have asked for,” he said. Since Buzzfeed hasn’t subsequently come out and named Wilson as their source, it seems likely it wasn’t him.
Does that mean the memo is accurate? That’s still inconclusive. But what is conclusive is that the intelligence community knows enough about the source of the allegations to consider them credible and worth investigating, and that some anonymous guy on 4chan almost certainly had nothing to do with it.
Will that stop Drudge, the alt-right, 4chan, Trump, and his supporters from claiming otherwise? Of course not.]
Yeah...this is just about the worst idea ever for freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and begins the slippery slope into state-run or corporate control over "the truth" when one company or agency is the one with the power to determine what is real or not with their stamp of approval. Corruption would be inevitable. Information in the real world is grey and not black & white. Think again about what you are proposing.
I think you could devise something where things met certain journalistic standards. Confirmation of information from multiple independent sources, properly sited information.
A process wouldn't determine what was the truth just that the proposed truth met reasonable profressional journalistic requirements. Essentially the same way the FDA regulates medical claims.
The bizarre thing about the reaction to this on reddit was all these people saying, "Y'all are so dumb for falling for something that 4-chan started. You should all totally trust 4-chan now when they say they're behind these rumours."
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