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Old 09-21-2020, 09:32 AM   #3961
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Honestly, not even surprised at Monday morning news like this from that country anymore:

https://twitter.com/user/status/1308018445770993667
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Old 09-21-2020, 09:57 AM   #3962
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Yeah.... but what does an "anarchist jurisdiction" even mean?

I feel like there always using bombastic language down there for fairly benign events.
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Old 09-21-2020, 09:58 AM   #3963
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Yeah.... but what does an "anarchist jurisdiction" even mean?

I feel like there always using bombastic language down there for fairly benign events.
It means places that aren't pro-Trump will be punished and have federal funding withdrawn. The verbiage used is just a backdrop.
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Old 09-21-2020, 01:18 PM   #3964
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With Trump forcing a joint Walmart and Oracle purchase of Tik Tok with a > 50% ownership of the company, are the Americans essentially stealing IP and technology via bullying?
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Old 09-21-2020, 01:21 PM   #3965
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With Trump forcing a joint Walmart and Oracle purchase of Tik Tok with a > 50% ownership of the company, are the Americans essentially stealing IP and technology via bullying?
It was probably stolen IP to even get off the ground anyway.
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Old 09-21-2020, 01:33 PM   #3966
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With Trump forcing a joint Walmart and Oracle purchase of Tik Tok with a > 50% ownership of the company, are the Americans essentially stealing IP and technology via bullying?
Maybe, but it's not like making market access contingent on technology transfers is anything China can complain about. It's a taste of their own medicine.
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Old 09-21-2020, 02:11 PM   #3967
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Yeah.... but what does an "anarchist jurisdiction" even mean?

You’re standing right now
with nine delegates from 100 gangs.
And there’s over 100 more.
That’s 20,000 hard-core members.
Forty thousand, counting affiliates,
and 20,000 more,
not organized but ready to fight.
Sixty thousand soldiers.
Now, there ain’t but 20,000 police
in the whole town. Can you dig it?
Can you dig it?
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Old 09-21-2020, 02:58 PM   #3969
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Yeah.... but what does an "anarchist jurisdiction" even mean?

I feel like there always using bombastic language down there for fairly benign events.
It's a way for Trump to frighten rural white Republicans who have never left their own small, insular communities that big cities are filled with scary black and brown people. Yes, really.
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You’re standing right now
with nine delegates from 100 gangs.
And there’s over 100 more.
That’s 20,000 hard-core members.
Forty thousand, counting affiliates,
and 20,000 more,
not organized but ready to fight.
Sixty thousand soldiers.
Now, there ain’t but 20,000 police
in the whole town. Can you dig it?
Can you dig it?
Now I want to play The Warriors video game again.
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With Trump forcing a joint Walmart and Oracle purchase of Tik Tok with a > 50% ownership of the company, are the Americans essentially stealing IP and technology via bullying?
I think that description is a bit too far but it about time that the US took a strong stance against China and Chinese companies. I think more needs to be done overall against IP theft by China.

I found this article pretty hilarious:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tikto...html?.tsrc=rss

"Hey Facebook, I know my government banned your company from doing business in our country, but please help us not get banned in yours."
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Old 09-21-2020, 07:53 PM   #3972
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Honestly, not even surprised at Monday morning news like this from that country anymore:

https://twitter.com/user/status/1308018445770993667



Cuomo responds.


https://www.nydailynews.com/news/pol...zey-story.html


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“I believe the president is fundamentally a bully... you can’t bully New Yorkers,” the governor said during a conference call with reporters on Monday. “The president of the United States can’t interfere with federal funding for cities and states just cause he feels like it. We have laws in this country."




Cuomo’s comments came after the Department of Justice designated New York City, Seattle and Portland as “anarchist jurisdictions,” claiming local officials have allowed property destruction and violence during protests over racism and police brutality.


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“He was rejected by New York, he was rejected personally, he was rejected professionally, he was rejected unequivocally by the election....the people who know the president best like him least," Cuomo said of Trump.
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With Trump forcing a joint Walmart and Oracle purchase of Tik Tok with a > 50% ownership of the company, are the Americans essentially stealing IP and technology via bullying?
I see it as fair game for the US to ban Chinese apps and companies if they want to, and what they seem to have agreed on for having Oracle share and manage data has similarities with how things work in China for some American companies, but forcing this sale outright would have been super aggressive.
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McConnell rejects US funding billing likely triggering another government shutdown. I wonder what the play is here? Try to use the shutdown as leverage to get their RBG supreme court GOP nominee through? US needs to go to snap elections instead of having the government shut down like this.

https://news.yahoo.com/mcconnell-une...174800884.html
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McConnell rejects US funding billing likely triggering another government shutdown. I wonder what the play is here? Try to use the shutdown as leverage to get their RBG supreme court GOP nominee through? US needs to go to snap elections instead of having the government shut down like this.

https://news.yahoo.com/mcconnell-une...174800884.html
It's really stupid politically. When you look at Trump's popularity over his term, it was at its lowest during the shutdown. Even lower than COVID/economy crash.
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Old 09-22-2020, 08:07 AM   #3976
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Shocking. Absolutely shocking.

Said nobody.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1308405696963248130
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Romney agrees to hold vote on Trump's SC nominee. This essentially guarantees that Moscow Mitch will now have enough votes to move forward.

Bunch o' scumbags. All of them.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/0...nominee-419898

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This is a power grab to insure that the Republicans will win another term for Trump, and every election going forward, regardless of vote. So long as they can mount a legal challenge, and not even a good legal challenge, they will now know that the Supreme Court is in their back pockets.
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Old 09-22-2020, 08:49 AM   #3979
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Wasn't Romney a hero for the left during impeachment? So much for that. Guy still wants to be president. No go is Republican primary death.


Also, I wish they would at least use the argument that Trump isn't a lame duck, but Obama was. While that's not a great argument (especially when you consider how close we are to the election), at least it's not as corrosive as the argument that the acceptable behavior depends on the alignment of the political parties involved as if that's in any way supposed to be what the Constitution intended.
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Old 09-22-2020, 08:52 AM   #3980
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Wasn't Romney a hero for the left during impeachment? So much for that. Guy still wants to be president. No go is Republican primary death.
Hero? Is demonstrating a tiny iota of humanity considered heroic now?
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