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Remember that Dominion (voting systems) sued Sidney Powell for $1.3 BILLION? (See first two paragraphs of this journal article.
Concurrently, elsewhere, there is an ongoing dispute because Sidney Powell sued the Michigan governor for (OMG!) stealing the election! (This is the same duly elected governor that a group of domestic terrorists tried to kidnap and murder some months back. With the happy approval of some SN readers.)
In the Michigan case the State AG is now asking the court to sanction Powell for lying. The AG points to Powell's defense in the Dominion lawsuit against her. Powell defends herself from Dominion by saying, pharaphrased: everyone knows I am a lying liar and I go on Fox Noise and lie all the time, and so no reasonable person would have believed any or all of the lies I told.
I guess it's one thing to tell those lies on Fox, and get sued for $1.3 BILLION for doing so. It is another thing to tell those same lies in court.
These lawsuits all seem to be getting much better traction in court by presenting facts and evidence than the 60+ lawsuits filed by Trump about the election being stolen, which went through the hands of 80 judges, many Republican judges, and many "in Trump's pocket" judges.
The wheels turn slowly when there is something really there to grind on. I'm assuming SN readers might like updates on the progress.
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Dominion vs Fox News
Aside, I didn't think it worth mentioning in a journal article at the time, but since we're here, you probably all know there is yet a third lawsuit by a voting machine company. This was the $1.6 BILLION lawsuit by Dominion against Fox News. A direct link to the PDF of the complaint is here. This is 443 pages long. But don't despair! The complaint is only the first 139 pages. Which I have read, back on the day it came out. All the remaining pages are the exhibits supporting the complaint.
Dominion Voting sues Fox for $1.6B over 2020 election claims
Just bury your head in the sand and keep telling yourself the election was stolen.
Your vote is your voice. Democracy doesn't always go the way you would like it. When it doesn't, you don't have permission to try to overthrow the majority to put a minority government in power, and somehow believe that is legitimate -- while calling yourself a patriot. Four years ago democracy didn't go the way the majority of the population wanted -- but nobody tried to overthrow the government, or kidnap and murder state governors or congress members. Even if the court doesn't uphold your zero-evidence based fantasies, doesn't mean the court system is not working properly. Especially when handled by judges of your own party, and some of them appointed by the very person you are trying to forcibly put into power against the majority.
Use the soap box first. If your message is so bad that people don't agree with you at the ballot box, then maybe re-examine the message. That same advice applied to Democrats four years ago.
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Conspiracy theories make stupid people feel special to have a secret unique nugget of information.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday April 11 2021, @05:27AM (10 children)
Where in the world did you get the idea that I was a "law and order" type? It certainly wasn't from reading my stuff, much less thinking about it! And I'm not conservative. Just throwing that out since people get it wrong so much.
For example, my last journal, which you posted in several times, was about the Floyd killing which was an abuse of power by the police. If I were truly "law and order", Floyd definitely would fall on the unlawful and disorderly side. Yet I sided with him over the police.
Similarly, I'm not conservative. Admittedly in US politics there are two groups heaped into the conservative label: social conservative and fiscal conservatives. I've very liberal socially. And very liberal economically. So not seeing the point.
There's something wrong with the narrative.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday April 11 2021, @05:52AM (9 children)
Don't conflate economic and political/social liberalism. Socially you're slightly right of center at best. Economically you're extreme far-right (laissez-faire). In a word, "libertarian."
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday April 11 2021, @06:07AM
Perhaps you should do that read and think thing you were talking about. I don't do that conflation.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday April 11 2021, @06:12AM (7 children)
"Far right" economically here doesn't mean conservative, let us note. It doesn't even mean far right.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday April 12 2021, @12:28AM (6 children)
You're doing the thing. The I said not to do. Conflating the social and economic axes. Economically speaking, far left is Communism, centrally-planned economics. Far right is extreme laissez-faire.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday April 12 2021, @03:58AM (4 children)
Not in the least. I don't even mention the social axis, much less conflate it.
Which makes little sense, since there's nothing far left or right about those things. For example, markets and centrally-planned economies have been around for thousands of years. Anywhere there's organized trade, there's a market. And most empires have some sort of centrally planned economy as part of the package, even if they lack the power or competence to do it successfully ("all roads lead to Rome" for example).
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday April 12 2021, @06:37AM (3 children)
Are you learning-disabled? I'm not asking this to be rude or mean, I'm genuinely wondering if you have some sort of information processing disability. Very little of what people say seems to be understood by you.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday April 12 2021, @07:39AM
Funny how you follow that up with [soylentnews.org]:
Funny how you claim over and over that you got me figured out and then you ask this. It indicate to me (and should indicate to you as well) that your claims are flawed. I'll note also that there have been at least three such diagnoses over the years: autism, psychopathy, and information processing disability. Let's move on.
The problem here is that labels aren't truth. What you assert as far right or far left in economics isn't right or left. Maybe it made sense in revolutionary France or some time in the screwed up world of political correctness, but that time is gone. This is one reason I rarely use the terms "left" and "right" (usually in response to someone else who uses those terms).
And most of the ideas have been around a while making identification as conservative or not rather weak. For example, the idea that a government should be held to fiscal constraints (such as living within a budget) is a newer idea than the idea that the government should be helping poor people. Yet it is traditionally considered more conservative than the latter.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 12 2021, @06:02PM
Ooooh downmod brigade found azuma and hollow's little spat! Down with lefty amirite bois???
(Score: 2, Touché) by Runaway1956 on Monday April 12 2021, @07:24PM
You just don't get tired of the batfucking crazy shit.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday April 13 2021, @06:36AM
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