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JonF
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Message 161 of 5796 (843205)
11-14-2018 1:39 PM
Reply to: Message 160 by Faith
11-14-2018 12:58 PM


Re: Dan Crenshaw Has a Message For Faith
Good idea. When are you going to start?

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JonF
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Message 168 of 5796 (843239)
11-15-2018 8:32 AM
Reply to: Message 166 by Faith
11-14-2018 9:06 PM


Re: Diamond and Silk censored by Facebook
Yes, we know what they claimed.

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JonF
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Message 171 of 5796 (843270)
11-15-2018 4:52 PM


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Data from Crowdtangle, a social media analytics platform owned by Facebook, show that total interactions on Diamond and Silk’s Facebook page were steady. The total interactions metric covers the total number of reactions, comments, and shares of content posted to the page. Diamond and Silk’s Facebook page actually received more total interactions in March 2018 (1,088,000), when they were supposedly being censored, than in March 2017 (1,060,000). Diamond and Silk received more interactions in January 2018 (1,328,000), when they began complaining about censorship, than in any month the previous year.
...
In other words, Diamond and Silk videos now get more video views on Facebook than Rachel Maddow, even though Maddow’s show has a much larger page and is the most popular cable news program in the country
...
The data shows there is absolutely no case to be made that Facebook is censoring Diamond and Silk’s page. Their content is actually performing significantly better than providers of liberal political video. Yet their claims, made without any data, have been widely repeated: by members of Congress and the media alike.
http://thinkprogress.org/...censorship-hoax-a764012eed5b/amp
Think Progress is, of course, unabashedly liberal. But the article is based on hard numbers.
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JonF
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Message 179 of 5796 (843311)
11-16-2018 8:32 AM
Reply to: Message 173 by Faith
11-16-2018 2:51 AM


Re: Violence breaks out as first wave of migrant caravan arrives in Tijuana, Mexico
Did you read that? The caravan wasn't violent. The residents were.
Of course, Jesus would have beaten the crap out of them too. He hated brown people.

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JonF
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Message 180 of 5796 (843312)
11-16-2018 8:36 AM
Reply to: Message 178 by Faith
11-16-2018 4:33 AM


Re: DOJ says Matt Whitaker can serve as acting attorney general
That's the official opinion. Yet to be tested.
Even "hooray for torture" John Yoo disagrees.

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JonF
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Message 182 of 5796 (843315)
11-16-2018 9:33 AM
Reply to: Message 181 by Faith
11-16-2018 8:41 AM


Re: Violence breaks out as first wave of migrant caravan arrives in Tijuana, Mexico
That's the point. It's called sarcasm.

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JonF
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Message 185 of 5796 (843337)
11-16-2018 12:28 PM
Reply to: Message 184 by caffeine
11-16-2018 12:09 PM


Re: Diamond and Silk censored by Facebook
Several right-wing-semi-celebrities claimed Facebook was censoring them. In today's Congress that's a guaranteed congressional investigation. Probably Obama's fault. Or Hillary, or both.
Facebook did send diamond and silk an "unsafe to the community" email, which Facebook claims was sent in error. It had no effect on their page, as you can see from my message above.
Edited by JonF, : No reason given.

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JonF
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Message 194 of 5796 (843362)
11-16-2018 7:37 PM
Reply to: Message 187 by Faith
11-16-2018 5:39 PM


Re: Acosta’s credentials to be restored - for now
So you have no clue what the judge said in his ruling.

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JonF
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Message 195 of 5796 (843363)
11-16-2018 7:40 PM
Reply to: Message 188 by Faith
11-16-2018 5:45 PM


Re: Diamond and Silk censored by Facebook
I posted the statistics with a link to graphs. The letter had no effect on their page, as you can see from my message above.
Feel free to present their statistics, of course.

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JonF
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Message 196 of 5796 (843365)
11-16-2018 7:51 PM
Reply to: Message 189 by Faith
11-16-2018 5:48 PM


Re: Violence breaks out as first wave of migrant caravan arrives in Tijuana, Mexico
Oops, you're right OK, not racism. aporophobia

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JonF
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Message 198 of 5796 (843367)
11-16-2018 8:15 PM
Reply to: Message 190 by Faith
11-16-2018 5:55 PM


Re: Violence breaks out as first wave of migrant caravan arrives in Tijuana, Mexico
There's nothing about jumping any fences or viva shouting at your link. Or do you mean at Mexico's southern border? Either way, that doesn't seem to me like lack of eagerness to become Americans. They might well still love their home country as they flee in fear.
The link does say "about 300 local residents gathered by the encampment to demand the migrants leave the upscale Playas de Tijuana neighborhood and go to the facility.". Did it occur to that their attitudes towards poors in their "upscale neighborhood" might not reflect the attitude of the average Mexican?
How do you know they hate America? How do you know they are willing to crash our border?
I'm praying my heart out for a sane, wise and nonviolent solution to this situation.
Some have said "Good Christians would meet the caravan at the border with water, food, clothing, medical attention, whatever they needed."

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JonF
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Message 199 of 5796 (843368)
11-16-2018 8:59 PM


No comment.
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President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees have had some unusual hobbies and pet causes.... Add to that list Neomi Rao, Trump’s nominee to replace Brett Kavanaugh on the powerful DC Circuit, who has written at least two law review articles and a blog post in which she defended dwarf-tossing.
Especially popular in Florida bars, dwarf-tossing is the strange spectacle in which competitors throw Velcro-clad little people at a wall or mattress like a shotput. The longest toss wins. The sport has been banned in some American states and parts of France, where a judge upheld such bans because of considerations of human dignity. Rao considers these laws an affront to individual liberty that fails to recognize the right of the dwarf to be tossed. In one article, she wrote that the decision in France upholding the dwarf-tossing ban was an example of dignity as coercion and that it demonstrates how concepts of dignity can be used to coerce individuals by forcing upon them a particular understanding of dignity.

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JonF
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Message 233 of 5796 (843486)
11-18-2018 9:22 AM
Reply to: Message 203 by Faith
11-17-2018 3:54 PM


Re: Violence breaks out as first wave of migrant caravan arrives in Tijuana, Mexico
There are videos that show them on both sides of the fence. Turns out scaling that high fence is no problem for these guys. I wonder how many American young men could do that.
But they couldn't scale Trump's Wall, right?
How do you know they hate America? How do you know they are willing to crash our border?

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JonF
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Message 234 of 5796 (843487)
11-18-2018 9:27 AM
Reply to: Message 206 by Faith
11-17-2018 4:03 PM


Re: Diamond and Silk censored by Facebook
They had no reason to lie about it...
Nothing other than lots of free publicity and stoking hate for liberals.
...so who knows what those numbers represent?
They represent traffic at their Facebook page.
Somebody said there can be traffic but invisible to the public too
The good ol' "somebody said".
"Somebody" was wrong.
I used to get hundreds of viewers of my blogs and then it suddenly dropped to tens. They changed something on my dashboard about the same time which made it impossible for low-tech me to figure out how to access Comments or anything else. It was a mess. I knew which subjects would end up at the top of a Google search page too, and at that same time my blog wouldn't show up there any more, maybe at the bottom, maybe not even on the first page. I don't know why they'd bother to censor my little blog but it seems something like that must have happened.
And therefore censorship. Right.
Edited by JonF, : No reason given.

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JonF
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Message 235 of 5796 (843488)
11-18-2018 9:28 AM
Reply to: Message 207 by Faith
11-17-2018 4:05 PM


Re: Acosta’s credentials to be restored - for now
As Mark Levin pointed out on his show yesterday such appointments aren't necessarily anything more than "horse trading" rather than concerted appointments anyway, but he could inadvertently have appointed a closet liberal, why not?
Yeah, they sure are doing a lousy job of vetting these people.

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