Message from @Atkins

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2018-09-13 15:25:10 UTC  

There are a couple of tactics to prevent Google from exercising undue political influence. Minority shareholder lawsuits, threats of anti-trust investigation, and maybe assigning a dollar figure to services donated to political parties and counting that against their contribution limits.

2018-09-13 15:25:25 UTC  

Like , just imagine Trump accusing google and suing them for meddling in the attention for those latino bus rides. Now imagine Hillary doing the same to, say.... McDonald's, saying that too many democrats went to eat burgers than to vote

2018-09-13 15:25:31 UTC  

Like if they're only allowed to donate $500,000 in cash, but they donate $500,000,000 in services that's a big problem.

2018-09-13 15:26:02 UTC  

well the issue with that sort is, what if you just stuff the other faction with services and say you're with them

2018-09-13 15:26:09 UTC  

i don't think companies should be allowed to endorse candidates. not without being labeled a political organization and therefore their efforts count as contributions to their candidate

2018-09-13 15:26:48 UTC  

But google was doing so indoors

2018-09-13 15:26:56 UTC  

So is Twitter and such

2018-09-13 15:27:09 UTC  

The legislation isn't going to stop this sort of thing

2018-09-13 15:27:18 UTC  

And may be used negatively

2018-09-13 15:28:02 UTC  

stop? no. But are you saying there should be no course of action?

2018-09-13 15:28:21 UTC  

the country is already run by corporations enough as it is

2018-09-13 15:28:25 UTC  

Antitrust action is the obvious answer to any company that thinks it's large enough to fix elections.

2018-09-13 15:37:31 UTC  

republicans are too stupid to win the culture war

2018-09-13 15:37:53 UTC  

republican politicians

2018-09-13 15:38:03 UTC  

seeing how rubio reacted to alex jones says it all

2018-09-13 15:38:26 UTC  

we actually have facebook employees onr ecord saying they censor conservative news

2018-09-13 15:38:31 UTC  

twitter employees saying the same

2018-09-13 15:38:42 UTC  

but what does rubio and Rs ask dorsey about?

2018-09-13 15:38:43 UTC  

russia

2018-09-13 15:38:44 UTC  

Rubio is a tool. Completely manufactured.

2018-09-13 15:39:53 UTC  

federal politicians in general are complete garbage. any that aren't complete garbage are anomalies.

2018-09-13 15:40:54 UTC  

Rubio is an example of the Finlandization of the republican party that Trump saved us from.

2018-09-13 15:41:06 UTC  

wasn't rubio a robot?

2018-09-13 15:41:10 UTC  

i recall him repeating his lines

2018-09-13 15:43:29 UTC  

His focus on 'muh Russia' is more evidence that he's carrying water for the left. Gang of Eight was another example.

2018-09-13 15:43:33 UTC  

The Washington GOP settled into its role as controlled opposition to a Dem POTUS a long time ago. That's why they're so lost while Trump is POTUS.

2018-09-13 15:44:28 UTC  

sellouts

2018-09-13 15:44:37 UTC  

Rubio isn't a democrat of course, nor does he have any official ties or sympathies to them, but he represents a strain of the republican party that is so fearful of the democrats they they reflexively favor their policies in some pitiful attempt to avoid criticism.

2018-09-13 15:44:56 UTC  

He's a weak version of McCaine

2018-09-13 15:45:03 UTC  

Stockholm syndrome.

2018-09-13 15:45:27 UTC  

Panders to the Dems, abandons the Republican stance, and is anti Trump

2018-09-13 15:45:56 UTC  

There were Republicans at the hearing that brought up bias. Cruz most notably but there were others.

2018-09-13 15:46:08 UTC  

I think the GOPe still feels accountable to the DC MSM even though Trump has fatally discredited the MSM.

2018-09-13 15:46:30 UTC  

They probably feel accountable to Bill Kristol.

2018-09-13 15:46:43 UTC  

donated a few dollars to a monk who's raising money for a new bhuddist temple and got this. I'm not a huge religion guy but if I had to pick it'd probably be bhuddism for what little I know of it
and furthermore it's just a nice bracelet

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/463054787336732683/489824258004877324/IaOoK-dmO3WkAaT1Y-nEbMP6vl5JIWRfiUdNQM4KFEA.png

2018-09-13 15:47:00 UTC  

Apparently the symbol is just the name Bhudda in mandarin

2018-09-13 15:47:17 UTC  

In a lot of ways DC still might as well be a different planet. That was the perception of DC that got Trump elected.

2018-09-13 15:47:44 UTC  

Doesn't DC vote 92% democrat?

2018-09-13 15:48:09 UTC  

Wikipedia says 91%.

2018-09-13 15:48:26 UTC  

That's the vote of DC residents. They're even further from the political class than we are.

2018-09-13 15:48:36 UTC  

You got scammed bro @King Canuck