In an interview on “Fox & Friends,” Trump referenced proposals from Democrats in the coronavirus stimulus negotiations that would have vastly increased funding for absentee and vote-by-mail options. The final package included $400 million for the effort, which was far less than what Democrats had sought. “The things they had in there were crazy,” Trump said. “They had things — levels of voting that, if you ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.”
levels of voting that, if you ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again
Los Angeles taxpayers are on the hook for about $55 million stemming from "dozens of lawsuits and claims involving Los Angeles County deputies associated with tattooed groups accused of glorifying an aggressive style of policing," reports The Los Angeles Times. These secret cop societies have names like the Vikings, Regulators, 3000 Boys, and the Banditos, and their street gang-like criminal behavior extends back to 1990. Elected sheriffs and an FBI probe have been unable to stop the violent groups from operating. From The Los Angeles Times:
"This has been a cancer of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department for decades," said Ron Kaye, an attorney who represented Carrillo. "The only reason that this type of illegal activity and lawlessness under the color of law can survive is if the department and its administration looks the other way."
Another lawsuit involving a bicyclist shot and killed by deputies in South L.A. was settled for $1.5 million in 2018 in part because one deputy had probably committed perjury when he denied that he was a member of the Regulators operating out of the Century station, officials said.
Several of the payouts involve the 3000 Boys and the 2000 Boys at Men's Central Jail. A top jail official had described exclusive gangs of deputies who would “earn their ink” by breaking inmates’ bones.
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Anonymous2020-08-12 14:53
Good! Fuck them and I hope they bring the Democrats with them.
Facebook has removed a post from Donald Trump’s page for spreading false information about the coronavirus, a first for the social media company that has been harshly criticized for repeatedly allowing the president to break its content rules.
The post included video of Trump falsely asserting that children were “almost immune from Covid-19” during an appearance on Fox News. There is evidence to suggest that children who contract Covid-19 generally experience milder symptoms than adults do. However, they are not immune, and some children have become severely ill or died from the disease.
“This video includes false claims that a group of people is immune from Covid-19 which is a violation of our policies around harmful Covid misinformation,” a Facebook spokesperson said.
The Twitter account for Trump’s re-election campaign, @TeamTrump, also posted the video, which Twitter said violated its rules. “The account owner will be required to remove the Tweet before they can Tweet again,” a company spokesperson said of @TeamTrump.
During a press briefing on Wednesday afternoon, Trump repeated his false claims about children and the disease.
The removals are the latest in a recent string of enforcement actions by social media platforms against the president over violating content rules related to misinformation, hate speech and threats of violence.
Trump’s presidential campaign and tenure in office have been defined by his aggressive use of social media platforms to spread racism, xenophobia, threats and misinformation. For years, the US-based social media platforms that enabled his broadcasts were hesitant to enforce their own rules against him.
But the combined crises of the coronavirus pandemic and widespread civil unrest over the police killing of George Floyd appear to have inspired greater resolve among social media executives, with Twitter and Twitch taking action against Trump for threatening protesters, spreading misinformation about voting and, in Twitch’s case, using hate speech.
Facebook has been more reticent to take action against the president over his speech. When Trump quoted a 1960s racist police chief by posting, “When the looting starts the shooting starts” during the uprisings over the police killing of George Floyd, the statement was widely condemned as incitement to violence and removed by Twitter.
Facebook defended Trump’s right to post the statement, however, prompting anger among Democrats and civil rights activists. The company said it considered the statement to be a warning rather than a threat, because it came from a state actor.
While Wednesday’s post is the first time that Facebook has taken action against Trump’s account for coronavirus misinformation stated by the president himself, earlier this year the company did remove a series of ads and an organic post by Trump that featured a symbol historically associated with Nazis and in July it removed a video Trump shared to his account promoting an unproven cure for coronavirus.
Courtney Parella, the deputy national press secretary for the Trump campaign, responded to Facebook’s takedown with a statement that mischaracterized Trump’s appearance on Fox News.
“The president was stating a fact that children are less susceptible to the coronavirus,” Parella said. “Another day, another display of Silicon Valley’s flagrant bias against this president, where the rules are only enforced in one direction. Social media companies are not the arbiters of truth.”
The battle over misinformation on Facebook has proven politically contentious, with ongoing action for and against removal of content. Trump and the Republican party have repeatedly claimed without evidence that major tech companies are biased against conservatives.
On Wednesday, the same day of Facebook’s most recent removal, a group of 20 state attorneys general released a letter calling on the company to prevent the spread of hate, harassment and disinformation. In antitrust hearings last week, Republican lawmakers repeatedly grilled Mark Zuckerberg over the same issue, claiming the platform should leave these posts up.
No evidence has emerged to suggest that tech company moderators (or the rules the tech companies ask them to enforce) display partisan political bias. Most of the platforms do have rules against hate speech, the incitement of violence and dangerous misinformation about Covid-19.
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Anonymous2020-08-16 0:32
>>164 This shit right here is why the Jews will be expelled once again someday.
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Anonymous2020-08-16 17:18
EXECUTE ALL TRUMP SUPPORTERS! DONT SPARE THESE NAZIS! NO MERCY TO THE RACISTS!
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Anonymous2020-08-16 17:30
>>165 No. You, whites, will get massacred first and then everyone will live happily in the world where the white skin color doesn't exist.
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Anonymous2020-08-16 17:56
Reminder that JunJun is still cute.
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Anonymous2020-08-16 19:52
6. Advocating violence for a cause where organized action through peaceful protests and political pressure is known to work, and where violence can only undermine the cause to the status quo's delight, automatically marks you as an agent provocateur, and not a bright one either since you immediately give yourself away. -- https://dis.tinychan.net/read/prog/1596796049#reply_27
>>173 Programming should be banned as the white privilege.
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Anonymous2020-08-17 7:22
This post is for those who don't want to live in Russia, but don't qualify to immigrate legally to American or Canada.
Beside living in the country you despise and the emigration, there is the third way: internal immigration.
For that we will need to gather enough supporters from all over the world, and then seize the land inside Russia. I.e. just coming armed to some region, cleansing the Russian mongols there and declaring that area to be English and White only, then barring the entry for all Russians.
Obviously the region territory must be economically viable, like say cutting the Russia in half. Similar to Israel cutting Middle East from Africa. That way we can ask for funding from all the Russian enemies, be it China or the West.
To strengthen our numbers, we can invite all English speaking people, especially the right wingers. I.e. invite South Africans, who are tired of Niggers, or American right who wants to build the purely white country.
Given that we need strong and violent people, ready to defend their rights, we need to establish the strong racial and cultural norms since the beginning. I.e. no Gooks, Niggers or Muslims. No languages but English. We will have to demolish everything Russian there and rebuild it from the ground, using the Western standards. I.e. no commie blocks or other communist garbage for subhumans.
Even if you're not a Nazi, that is your only choice if you don't want to live in Russia, and want to be a free man.
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Anonymous2020-08-17 7:24
>>176 As an alternative to cleansing the Russians we can turn them into slaves, first castrating them, so they wont procreate, since we will need cheap labor to build the new country for the White people.
>>173 "Keep stuff like that out of our circles" was also tried with the suffragettes. Fast forward a bit and women have the vote. Fast forward a bit more and a woman won a popular vote for the presidency by roughly three million votes over a white supremacist neonazi.
A lesbian hippie flower girl who wants to heal and help everyone, who wants understanding and harmony between people and the living planet and who wants to bring about universal peace "would have joined NSDAP".
Cloud being superhuman blonde and blue-eyed soldier.
Cloud's initial hair was black, the blond was a later design change to further dilute his masculinity so that the loser crowd could more easily use him as a self insert, same as his overcompensating sword. Cloud was not good enough to qualify for soldier and had to sign up as a common shinra grunt; during Nibelheim he served under actual soldiers like Zack and Sephiroth. His mental disorder, his inability to muster anything more than the most superficial interest in either girl and his obsessive fixation on the male antagonist would however fit NSDAP perfectly.
The main antagonist's name, (((Sephiroth))), hints to the parasitic kikes threatening our planet.
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Anonymous2020-08-19 10:01
>>185 Why would you advertise your inability to differentiate between "hired [...] to give flowers" >>185 and "would have joined NSDAP" >>183 so openly?
Around the time news broke on Monday afternoon that the New York City Police Department would disband plainclothes anti-crime units that had been tied to several high-profile police shootings, someone calling themselves “ltdad613” started a thread on Thee Rant, a police message board that purports to host current and former NYPD employees. “I wouldn’t want to be a [Commanding Officer] for the next few compstats,” ltdad613 wrote. “This is right from [New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio]. I feel for anybody still on the job.”
Elsewhere, the posts on Thee Rant were much darker. In one Monday thread, “dominop” wrote that “A Firing squad would be a good cure for ANTIFA!!!” Other users chimed in to say snipers or napalm might be more fitting.
Thee Rant is just one node in a wider web of right-wing police media. On similar message boards, in Facebook groups and on news sites such as Law Enforcement Today — a sort of Breitbart-like outlet written by and for police — there is a fervent narrative that police are under nonstop siege, and that antifa in particular is a constant threat.
This police media ecosystem is not necessarily a broad representation of what most cops believe. But inside this echo chamber, which has thousands of users and readers, extremist views dictate the narrative. Wild misinformation and bigotry are rampant, with people who claim to be current and former officers posting debunked falsehoods and racist stereotypes about protesters.
Intense public focus on police behavior in recent weeks, following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, has led to the termination of several law enforcement officers who posted conspiratorial or racist messages on their personal social media pages. When these posts are singled out for scrutiny and have a real officer’s name attached, opprobrium comes quickly, but most of those posts would be right at home in right-wing police media.
“What I think we have here is a market for this kind of racist and divisive garbage across the internet, and unfortunately police are participating in that wave that is witnessed across various professions,” said Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino. “It pains me as a former NYPD officer to see this,” he said. “These posts are devastating.”
Levin doesn’t think people should assume that “cops en masse subscribe to this,” but he does see dangerous potential, because online echo chambers tend to “self-accelerate” bigoted beliefs. For “police in particular, who so often have to hold their tongue and try to restrain themselves,” he said, “online it becomes even more [of an] accelerant.”
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Anonymous2020-08-20 10:36
FBI operatives are ready to kill all kikes, niggers and beaners
>>190 There are plenty of things to criticize the FBI over, there's no need to fabricate bullshit debunked in your own link.
The FBI Records Vault tweet, however, was not a direct link to the “Protocols,” but to a PDF containing the agency’s records on the document. Along with several pages of the original document are various letters, including a 1964 memo from the Subcommittee on Internal Security that called the “Protocols” a “fabricated ‘historic’ document” and described it as “crude and vicious nonsense.”
Protocols of Learned Elders of Zion: https://t.co/BpI5Tc8oKc — FBI Records Vault (@FBIRecordsVault) August 19, 2020
the FBI issued the following statement to a Guardian reporter:
Earlier today FOIA materials were posted to the FBI’s Vault and FOIA Twitter account via an automated process without further outlining the context of the documents. We regret this release may have inadvertently caused distress among the communities we serve. The FBI often receives information from members of the public, which is captured in our permanent files and released under FOIA law. The FBI must process historical files that were collected in the past some of which may be considered offensive.”
That was the FBI winking to the people "kristallnacht soon"
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Anonymous2020-08-20 11:42
For example >>191 during the Vietnam war protests the FBI used their false-flagging puppets led by Sam Melville to go as far as bombing federal buildings. Of course the media were forbidden to even bring up the question of whether it was at all believable that anti-war protesters would undermine their own cause by doing exactly what the authorities could best use against them.
>>192 They said it was an automated response to a FOIA request and also called the “Protocols” a “fabricated ‘historic’ document” and described it as “crude and vicious nonsense.” If you take any statement in support of your position as genuine and any statement against it as "winking" then you have retreated into unfalsifiability which automatically renders your position void. At that point not only are you assuming the conclusion but your position becomes religion rather than an argument.
Law Enforcement Today claims to be the largest law enforcement-owned and -operated media company in America. It has repeatedly promoted far-right conspiracy theorists and authoritarian policies, particularly during the recent mass demonstrations against police violence.
Founded by Robert Greenberg, a Florida police captain who has called his outlet “a platform for the voice of law enforcement,” LET has more than 800,000 followers on Facebook and runs a syndicated radio show. Much of its content is provided by former or current police officers, and it offers paid memberships of $75 a year to gain access to “the patriotic content that the social media giants don’t want you to see.”
The site’s articles often bear only a passing resemblance to reality. Earlier this month, Law Enforcement Today published an article calling for the arrest of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, accusing him of aiding and abetting “antifa” terrorists. The post cited numerous far-right media activists, including anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer, and suggested that Democratic officials including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), Rashida Tlaib (Mich.) and Ilhan Omar (Minn.) are antifa sympathizers. It also baselessly attacked Tlaib and Omar, who are Muslim, as “arguably anti-Semites and ISIS supporters (if not in words, in actions).”
“Law Enforcement Today supports Laura [Loomer]’s demand that Dorsey be arrested and prosecuted for promoting an insurrection against the United States,” the article says. It also suggests that politicians such as Omar who have expressed support for the current protests against police brutality and systemic injustice should be arrested as well.
The article is published under the pseudonym “Sgt. A. Merica” and claims to be “written by several staff writers, including retired and wounded law enforcement officers.” Law Enforcement Today says it verifies the identity and background of its authors before publishing.
When it isn’t stirring fear of antifa, much of the site’s coverage focuses on law enforcement officers who have been harmed in the line of duty. It also regularly criticizes elected officials who are seeking to curb police powers, part of what the site calls a “war on law enforcement.” The consistent message is that police are perpetually under attack, and that the government — with the exception of President Donald Trump — does not have their back.
In recent weeks, rumors of antifa reaching small towns have created a kind of moral panic in some communities, leading to armed groups patrolling the streets. Law Enforcement Today has eagerly trafficked in these conspiracy theories. One LET article quotes a source purporting to be an anonymous Connecticut state trooper, who warns that riots in rural areas would be reminiscent of guerrilla warfare in Afghanistan and Iraq, and that “once they start moving into rural America, there will be a LOT of bloodshed.”
Another one of Law Enforcement Today’s recent articles is a far-right screed that claims the Black Lives Matter movement and antifa are using protests to “destroy America from the inside.” The piece echoes common white nationalist talking points: It blames the “radical left” for attacking “our Judeo-Christian heritage,” and claims that Western society faces an existential threat in part from “mass immigration from sub-Saharan Africa and the middle east.” LET tagged the article as one of its “must reads.”
The site also ran an article endorsing far-right congressional candidate Marjorie Greene, who in a campaign ad from early June warned “antifa terrorists” to stay out of her rural Georgia district ― while cocking a gun ― and who has spread a conspiracy theory that billionaire George Soros is funding protesters. Greene has also voiced support for the far-right QAnon conspiracy movement. Facebook removed Greene’s ad from its platform for inciting violence.
Another Law Enforcement Today post promoted a Florida sheriff who responded to unfounded social media rumors of riots moving into small towns by encouraging homeowners to arm themselves and shoot people encroaching on their property. Multiple articles include tweets from QAnon conspiracy theorists.
False, incendiary claims about antifa have rocketed around the right-wing media ecosystem, from Twitter to Fox News and ultimately to the White House. Trump recently tweeted a baseless claim that Martin Gugino, a 75-year-old man who was seriously injured by police in Buffalo, New York, may have been an antifa instigator.
Greenberg, who founded Law Enforcement Today in 2007, is listed as a police captain with the Indian Creek Village Public Safety Department on its official website. It’s not exactly a rough-and-tumble job on the front lines of American policing. Indian Creek Village, Florida, is a tiny island enclave for the superrich that bills itself as “the world’s most exclusive municipality.” At the time of a Miami Herald report in 2014, it had only 86 residents, whose combined net worth exceeded $37 billion. Jay-Z and Beyoncé previously owned a home on the island. (Incidentally, Law Enforcement Today ran an article earlier this month opposing Apple Music’s support of Black Lives Matter and criticizing “cop-hater Beyoncé,” who was included in Apple’s playlist.)
The offices of the village public safety department and of its mayor did not respond to HuffPost’s requests for comment on whether they have any policy on conduct or work outside of the department, or about Greenberg’s current employment status. Law Enforcement Today did not respond to repeated requests for comment.