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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: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday April 12 2021, @04:47AM (11 children)
Karma kind of boils down to "what goes around, comes around" on a spiritual level. What you pass around is going to come back to bite you in the ass. And, as I suggest above, you don't even know what you pass around. Your attitude of moral superiority ain't winning you any points in this, or the after life. Which is ironic, since you don't have the morals of a tomcat.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday April 12 2021, @06:47AM (10 children)
See, you're using all those words in an order that makes sense, but your central thesis is empty. Sorry Runaway, but while I know I'm not some shining paragon of virtue--that is, probably not much better than the median and/or the arithmetic mean of human morals--I am *definitely* better than the mode or most common level of human morals I see expressed in the world around me.
I'm guessing you don't have much of a statistical background, but the term for this uneven distribution is "right skew." This is what happens when the bell curve, rather than being a perfect Gaussian or normal distribution, is slanted. In this case, the bulk of the distribution is pushed to the left, leaving a low, long tail off the right edge.
It is not with any sort of pride or vanity I say this; it's an ongoing series of observations I've made for almost 3 decades now, ever since I was old enough to understand the concepts of morality. If this offends you, and I can see that it clearly does, you need to ask yourself why this is the case. I suspect some part of you is aware of this skew in the distribution of human morality, and is equally aware, if only on a subconscious level, that you've regressed to the mean and that regression to the mean in a right-skewed distribution is not a good thing. I may be giving you too much credit for self-awareness, of course...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday April 12 2021, @07:17AM (9 children)
[04/11/21 22:48:04] howdy
[04/11/21 22:48:59] oh gods
[04/11/21 22:49:06] it figured out irc
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday April 12 2021, @09:14AM (8 children)
What's the matter, Runaway? You don't like that I don't like some people and am not nice about it?
Boo stupid hoo, kiss my entire ass. Freeze peach. Don't like it, leave. What else is there to say on the subject? I'm good-aligned, not nice-aligned.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2, Touché) by Runaway1956 on Monday April 12 2021, @03:14PM (7 children)
Just noting that you are a contemptible little wench, who respects no one. You know the rules on the channel. At the same time you were expressing your contempt for Khallow, you were also telling Bytram to go fuck himself. You don't have to abide by any rules, at anytime, or anywhere.
All that karma, lol!
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 12 2021, @06:00PM (3 children)
Wait, suddenly rules matter? To mr. Disinfo himself? What about free speech? What about hating CoC? Only for IRC? What about insurrection over democratic elections? Suddenly rules don't matter because BLM RIOTERS!?? As if they didn't arrest and punish them?
Go fuck yourself you ignorant hillbilly. The best metaphor I can think of for you is Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes the comic. Whiny entitled brat that thinks he is the pinnacle of evolution. Never wrong, no need to learn, just shout and complain your way through life
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday April 12 2021, @07:16PM (2 children)
FYI, IRC is run kinda like any business. #soylent is the "front office" so to speak. You come in through the office, introduce yourself, ask for technical help, get directions to various workshops, blah blah blah. There is a mandate that the front office be kept clean. For those who wish to be vulgar, or exercise other undesirable tendencies, other channels exist, and you can even create your own channel. Just keep it out of the front office.
I respect that, 'Zumi don't.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 12 2021, @08:36PM (1 child)
None of this is true. It was just invented by Buzzard as an excuse to kick Azuma a couple weeks ago. Runaway has been being rude and obnoxious for much, much, longer than that.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday April 12 2021, @10:39PM
Buzzard didn't do it. The word was passed down to Buzzard from on high. Way up high, where you dare not venture for fear of a nosebleed.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday April 13 2021, @12:43AM (2 children)
Sorry-not-sorry I made you piss your Depends again, you overgrown toddler. Here's an idea: if I bother you that much, *stop interacting with me.*
This isn't hard. But you've said before you're not going to let any woman get the last word because "then she thinks she's won," riiiight?" Along with a lot of bitching and moaning about how your sisters were unfairly treated better than you by your mother, your ex-wife divorced you, etc etc etc.
You know, if you have serious problems relating to every woman you have any appreciable amount of social contact with, *maybe the problem isn't women; it's you.*
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday April 13 2021, @01:11AM (1 child)
ROFLMAO
That isn't precisely what I said, but it's close enough in your case.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday April 13 2021, @01:29AM
The decision is yours. We know you're too weak and stupid though, so I'll just keep kicking your wrinkled, senile old ass up and down the aisle until you have the inevitable rage-induced stroke and we can all get on with our lives. ...well, except you obviously, but you know what I mean.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...