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monolith
climber
state of being
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Nov 25, 2017 - 11:47am PT
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Damn, thank goodness for people who can analyze these comments for spamming, but the day will come soon when spam comments will be generated and be hard to detect.
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Bruce Morris
Trad climber
Soulsbyville, California
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Nov 25, 2017 - 03:13pm PT
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The "free market" consists of 10 VPs, who all sit on the same ANSI Committees and enact regulations that benefit the companies that put them there. They all know each other and compromise to reach decisions for their bosses' mutual benefits.
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Nov 25, 2017 - 10:55pm PT
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This is just the tip of the Trump iceberg (and we're the Titanic).
Deregulation is indistinguishable from lawlessness. Big Corporations can't be trusted to regulate themselves, or act in the interest of society. Those corporations act in the manner of sociopaths and psychopaths.
Trump's entire administration is focused on deregulation. The false narrative is that America is being strangled by regulation, when, in fact, regulation is all that keeps big corporations from strangling the public.
Every time the government reduces regulation, big corporations take advantage in unethical, illegal and injurious ways. It's in the nature of their legal mandate to create shareholder value at the expense of everything else.
It is truly astonishing to me that after all the deregulation disasters that have occurred in the past few decades, that false narrative still carries weight with some people.
Chairman Pai, appointed by Trump, is the one spearheading the effort to dismantle net neutrality, in favor of unregulated monetization of the internet. Others at the FCC oppose Pai's proposal, but he has the force and weight of Trump behind the proposal. It is highly likely that every effort will be made by Trump and his cronies to end net neutrality, to the point of enacting illegal and unconstitutional laws (c.f. the muslim travel ban).
So, at this point, all we can hope for is that Jared Kushner "flips like a pancake", when Mueller tells him he's looking at twenty years in a Federal Penile Facility, and he turns on Trump to save his own ass.
Failing that, we're probably screwed until at least 2021.
Here's a brief blueprint for the First Horse Of The Apocalypse
Understanding Chairman Pai’s Proposal to Dismantle Net Neutrality
That document was prepared by FCC Commissioner Clyburn, who is a defender of net neutrality, and who is an opponent of Chairman Pai's proposal.
The American Empire has become unwieldy, and too large for one leader to effectively govern.
It is time to split the empire into two parts.
The East and West Coasts will be one part, governed by a reasonable president.
The Midwest will be another part, governed by King Trump.
The people who voted for Trump will get what they want, and the rest of us will get what we want.
The Coastal Empire will have net neutrality, and will exist in a lightly regulated, reasonably taxed environment.
The Middle Kingdom will no longer have fake news, and there will be no business taxes, no business regulation, no government interference, no government services, and it will be surrounded by a big wall.
Everyone will be happy.
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Bruce Morris
Trad climber
Soulsbyville, California
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Nov 26, 2017 - 01:02pm PT
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Deregulation is indistinguishable from lawlessness.
But, of course, then there are the banks who want to go on a lending spree that will lead to a bigger financial meltdown than we witnessed in 2007. Goodbye Dodd–Frank! Let the good times roll!
Short-term greed, long-term disaster.
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Winemaker
Sport climber
Yakima, WA
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Nov 26, 2017 - 02:59pm PT
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Short-term greed, long-term disaster. Yeah, also 'Privatize the profits, socialize the losses.'
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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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Nov 27, 2017 - 08:14am PT
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How Democracy dies? Voter Suppression + Court Packing + Killing Net Neutrality
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/11/26/1718710/-How-Democracy-dies-Voter-Suppression-Court-Packing-Killing-Net-Neutrality
By A Siegel
Sunday Nov 26, 2017 · 3:43 PM PST
Virginians (and, well, the majority of Americans vicarious) felt rather good a few weeks ago. We turned out and turned many Republicans out of office while keeping a Democrat in the Governor’s mansion. It felt good .. but basking in the sun can’t last long while Donald remains in the Oval (or, well, anywhere he has access to the Football & with any power) as the threats and crisis seem never ending.
Sarah Kendzior has penned a painful — but must read — piece "Gutting net neutrality is a death knell for the resistance". It is a searing piece as Kendzior lays out how a series of GOP and Team Trump efforts could leave the 2017 Virginia election as perhaps one of the last truly democratic (even if flawed) elections in the United States.
Consider these pieces:
•Voter suppression almost certainly tilted Wisconsin, if not other states and the Electoral College, to Donald Trump. This was with an Obama Administration Justice Department actually interested in fighting voter suppression. Now, we have Jeff Sessions who sees enhanced voter suppression as the epitome of his life ambition, with a Trump-ista Justice Department lining up on the wrong side of voting rights cases and the Voting Commission working diligently to create excuses and justification for increased voter suppression. ◦Voter suppression will worsen ...
•The potential GOP packing of the courts such that by fall 2017 the majority of the Federal judges will have been appointed by Putin’s Puppet occupying the Oval Office. Let’s remember that Trump’s appointments have been more out of the mainstream than those W nominated (with many of them amazingly simply not qualified for the nomination based on (lack of) experience putting aside their fringe legal concepts). ◦Trump’s judges will not defend voting rights.
•The end of net neutrality will undermine the ability to communicate truth, enabling ever more domination of #AlternativeFacts and regime propaganda, and weaken the ability of those seeking to defend Democracy to communicate and organize. ◦Many will not know of voter suppression and the courts’ complicity in voter suppression … and it will be hard to mobilize public outrage as elections are manipulated/fixed to keep the GOP in power.
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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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Nov 27, 2017 - 08:14am PT
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Sands Motel , Las Vegas
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Nov 27, 2017 - 09:00am PT
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Voter suppression is legal , the result of having 24/7 Fox fake propaganda to scare and suppress less intelligent conservatives into voting against their best financial interests via higher medical costs , de-funding of social security , and higher internet service which is a tightening of the noose around free speech... It's not a stretch to conceptualize the russians jumping on board this propaganda train to attain results favorable to their national interest...
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WBraun
climber
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Nov 27, 2017 - 09:08am PT
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More empty headed loons posting total brainwashed horsesh!t.
Like the Russians are behind everything now.
You brainwashed idiots deserve everything you're getting since you refuse to even think clearly.
There's no hope for you loons.
Net neutrality has been killed years ago.
Youtube, Facebook, Google etc etc have been scrubbing the sh!t out of everything except brainwashing propaganda you brain dead loons regurgitate here daily.
Just check Google jigsaw for an example.
There's a ton of sh!t you haven't heard of it yet since you're all in the same brainwashed room .....
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Craig Fry
Trad climber
So Cal.
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Nov 27, 2017 - 09:16am PT
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There's a ton of sh!t you haven't heard of it yet Please tell us the sh#t we haven't heard yet, I want to know..
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Sands Motel , Las Vegas
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Nov 27, 2017 - 09:38am PT
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I can't wait to hear the ton of sh#t brainwashing stories... Will it be the " Israel using tactical nukes " alternative news release..? Always good for a few laughs..
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 27, 2017 - 09:52am PT
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‘Jigsaw’ is an appropriate name for the former Google Ideas because jigsaws are crude tools. A mindful woodworker uses a coping saw.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Nov 27, 2017 - 09:55am PT
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I can't believe someone hasn't called me racist for disagreeing with an Obama policy.
I can't believe you worship Mammon.
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WBraun
climber
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Nov 27, 2017 - 09:59am PT
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You can see how the nutcase tool monolith spreads his horsesh!t again and again.
It's right there in front of everyone https://jigsaw.google.com/
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monolith
climber
state of being
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Nov 27, 2017 - 10:06am PT
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Oh, but veterans today explains the sinister real purpose of jigsaw.
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WBraun
climber
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Nov 27, 2017 - 10:08am PT
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You're the one that's pointing to other web sites as sources not me.
I did not link any site.
See what a tool you really are ......
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