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[Cosmug]

I don't identify as conservative because modern conservatives are fucking idiots that believe conservatism was created by Reagan in the 80s and it's only purpose is to suck off corrupt monopolies instead of doing anything useful to preserve the culture, heritage, and wellbeing of the United States.

Conservatives should be conserving something.
Liberals should be in favor of liberty.
Radical should be a politically neutral term for those proposing radical change.
It’s all fucked up these days so I’m on the Opinionated Asshole party now.

 

[The Pink Panther]

Or the political paradigm will shift in the 2020s and the Conservatives will be back to wanting to censor everything like in the 90s.

Maybe a reverse religious right where the right-wing tries to censor everything the left is doing to censor?

 

[Godzilla@1989]

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Did Obama cried when blacks were suffering under him? Nope.

Seriously, when the fuck did it became mainstream to judge a politician based on the way he acts rather than the policies and how he or she governs. Because let me tell you that Obama may have acted kind, but he was dogshit at policies.

 

[It's HK-47]

Are.. Are you seriously insinuating that nowhere in the Bill of Rights was the individual right to carry a firearm present until 2008? Chris I know you're a journalist but buddy, it's been there a fuck of a lot longer than Scalia. The Bill of Rights, including the 2nd Amendment, does not say that the government grants these rights to the people. It declares that the people already have these rights, and that the government can’t take them away.

In District of Columbia v. Heller--which is what I assume you're talking about--the court held 5-4 that "The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia." That doesn't mean that Scalia popped out his fairy wand and magically made the Second Amendment's terminology something completely different, that means that the Supreme Court looked over the Second Amendment and ruled that's what it always meant. They didn't change it, they clarified it.

The Bill of Rights isn't there to limit the citizenry, the Bill of Rights is there to limit the government. Get bent you disingenuous nerd.

 

[CamelCursive]

Obama's "crying" theatrics when Sandy Hook got shot up were only slightly more authentic than that one girls' dad that was laughing and asked "are we rolling?" before mustering up a piss poor 'grieving father' peformance. I've seen Nigerian Prince emails that are more convincing.

 

[The Pink Panther]

Lol. Cuomo literally just said to the fucker you have no business thinking about what you can control, and you should let the state control it.

ALRIGHT. (hypothetically) I'll let your corrupt older brother control it. The one you always interviewed on CNN? Lol. Get bent, Cuomo.

 

[Godzilla@1989]

Are.. Are you seriously insinuating that nowhere in the Bill of Rights was the individual right to carry a firearm present until 2008? Chris I know you're a journalist but buddy, it's been there a fuck of a lot longer than Scalia. The Bill of Rights, including the 2nd Amendment, does not say that the government grants these rights to the people. It declares that the people already have these rights, and that the government can’t take them away.

In District of Columbia v. Heller--which is what I assume you're talking about--the court held 5-4 that "The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia." That doesn't mean that Scalia popped out his fairy wand and magically made the Second Amendment's terminology something completely different, that means that the Supreme Court looked over the Second Amendment and ruled that's what it always meant. They didn't change it, they clarified it.

The Bill of Rights isn't there to limit the citizenry, the Bill of Rights is there to limit the government. Get bent you disingenuous nerd.

Fuck that cocksucker.

 

[Marchesa of the Vast]

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Tiny brains believe photo ops are doing something.

People who are suckered by these kinds of things are just religious zealots.

 

[CamelCursive]

When I see a politician or a political pundit advocate against firearms, I think of them as a burglar trying to convince me I don't need a lock.

 

[Candlelight Desolation]

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So at least 31.2k people think tweeting means you do not care about this country. Wow. Those are the kind of people who believe everything MSNBC and CNN tell them.

 

[Jigglyjogglers]

Are.. Are you seriously insinuating that nowhere in the Bill of Rights was the individual right to carry a firearm present until 2008? Chris I know you're a journalist but buddy, it's been there a fuck of a lot longer than Scalia. The Bill of Rights, including the 2nd Amendment, does not say that the government grants these rights to the people. It declares that the people already have these rights, and that the government can’t take them away.

Remember that these people quite literally think that rights are privileges the government grants us. Therefore a right does not exist until government declares it does, and is forfeit any time the government decides we don't deserve it. This fundamental view of themselves (and the rest of us) as the government's children/property to do with as it pleases and grant us privileges is ultimately why there can be no understanding between the far left and anyone who would rather be a citizen than a subject.

A free man is always free, while one who would be a slave will invent chains in his own mind even if there aren't any around his neck.

 

[verissimus]

Remember that these people quite literally think that rights are privileges the government grants us. Therefore a right does not exist until government declares it does, and is forfeit any time the government decides we don't deserve it. This fundamental view of themselves (and the rest of us) as the government's children/property to do with as it pleases and grant us privileges is ultimately why there can be no understanding between the far left and anyone who would rather be a citizen than a subject.

A free man is always free, while one who would be a slave will invent chains in his own mind even if there aren't any around his neck.

You forgot an important fine print there. That is, everyone's rights who aren't to the Left are privileges because God (or rather the State in their case) forbid that any Leftist be deprived of their freedom of speech.

 

[Vorhtbame]

Remember that these people quite literally think that rights are privileges the government grants us. Therefore a right does not exist until government declares it does, and is forfeit any time the government decides we don't deserve it. This fundamental view of themselves (and the rest of us) as the government's children/property to do with as it pleases and grant us privileges is ultimately why there can be no understanding between the far left and anyone who would rather be a citizen than a subject.

Silly Nazi, the only unalienable "rights" you have are to make yourself a parasite. All the hard drugs until your brains dissolve, all the sex until you contract diseases, all the food until you're too fat to move!

 

[Leonard Helplessness]

The replies to this are an unending river of denial, and it’s just precious.

 

[heyitsmike]

Granted, I only speak for myself, but who else can, really?

Are you LGBTQWERTY or nonbinary or a POC or a womyn? Because apparently straight, white, cisgender liberals think they can.

 

[Hux]

Remember that these people quite literally think that rights are privileges the government grants us. Therefore a right does not exist until government declares it does, and is forfeit any time the government decides we don't deserve it. This fundamental view of themselves (and the rest of us) as the government's children/property to do with as it pleases and grant us privileges is ultimately why there can be no understanding between the far left and anyone who would rather be a citizen than a subject.

A free man is always free, while one who would be a slave will invent chains in his own mind even if there aren't any around his neck.

Why can't these people just move to the EU and leave the rest of us alone already? Most of them already think the EU is infinitely superior to the US in every way and they'll be in good company with the rest of the snobbish bootlicking pussies that are just like them that already live there

 

[TaimuRadiu]

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When I heard Trump give a speech about El Paso I literally heard his voice breaking up. I didn't watch it, but I did listen to it.

 

[Ghostse]

We talked about this in the star wars thread but you have to remember with investments, it's not about making some flat amount of money back. Rather it's about making that amount PLUS the interest you would gained had you just put that money in a bank. Say the bank was offering 2% annual interest. 2 bil put into that means you would have an extra 40 mil.

So it's not like Twitter making 1 bil means they would break even in 2 years - they'd have to make the 2 bil PLUS the 40 mil in our hypothetical.

In short, twitter is screwed unless there is a major turn around.

(Part of me is wondering if after Trump or during his 3rd term we're going to see the social media & streaming bubble pop.)

You forgot the ol' "inflation means you're making money when you borrow money" chestnut.
I'm going to tl;dr this that using a bank's interest return is not a great metric for an investment because you're not taking into account full risk of the market, unless the only other thing you would have done with that money is put it into a bank; and the people who put money into twitter were not going to put their money into a passbook savings account.
Its really inapplicable in this case because two billion is how much cash Twitter has burned through; they've raised much more than two billion. Plus good chunk of the money they burn goes to paying back loans & obligations to early investors; the smart folks have been getting their 2% and then some.

But that's immaterial because its also not really about making money back, its about having a fucktardedly inflated stock price you can ride to make more money, and try to not be the one holding the bag when people stop believing the hype and start really looking at numbers. Twitter went down to $15/share in 2017, and is at $42/share today. A 300% return over two years selling shares to suckers beats the $0.20 per share profit.
Or to put this another way, Twitter had a max price of almost $70/share. If you bought in at the max (and assuming the stock price stays at $42, and revenue stays at $0.20/share/quarter), it will take 150 quarters, or almost 40 years, to make back that $30/share of lost value. Conversely, twitter's IPO started at about $40/share and was $70/share in about 3 months; if you had bought IPO shares and sold them at that max, you'd have made $30/share - 40 years of current twitter profits in two months.

That's where the money is, the fact twitter has stopped burning cash and is making a few cents a share is just a nice bonus you can use to lure in more suckers.

Anyway, I was a little pessimistic. I'd forgotten Twitter made $1.2 Billion in 2018, and they made ~$300 million in 2019 Q1, so they will have made more money than they burned by year's end if 2018's trends continue for 2019.
(Another correction, the two billion they've burned has been since inception, not since IPO)

I don't use adblock but at the same time I don't ever click through links.

So yeah, they're showing me ads but I'm also lowering their engagement rate and making their sites less attractive to advertisers.

They aren't just showing Ads, they are showing engagement. If you sign into to twitter account and interact in away, you're helping them.

 

[AnotherPleb]

Why can't these people just move to the EU and leave the rest of us alone already? Most of them already think the EU is infinitely superior to the US in every way and they'll be in good company with the rest of the snobbish bootlicking pussies that are just like them that already live there

The problem is those cunts would come crying to the US if anything happened since they're used to Pax Americana. Fuck them, ship their asses to Somalia.