For a brief period of time Twitter was revealing the IP address locations of users and virtually every right wing influencer was located in Russia or Pakistan with a smattering of them in India.

Surprisingly I don't think they were very many out of China.

These were accounts pretending to be Americans to incite Americans into right-wing politics.

And there were a *lot* of them.

I don't think I would give up internet anonymity for the sake of shutting down those accounts. And besides it would only be a matter of time before they fired up vpns. And I don't think I would give up free access to vpns for the same reason.

But I understand why countries outside of America are looking at doing just that. They see what's happening over here and they don't know what to do about it.

I would rather see more education and teaching critical thinking but especially in America we can't have that. If you start teaching kids how to think critically they are going to point the skills at whatever sacred cows their parents have and that gets really unpopular really fast especially with religious texts.

Well, they may have been "filled" with ethnic Russians when all those Russian soldiers "went on vacation" in the region a few years back.

It's someone else masquerading as rsilvergun. Some random anonymous jackass who seems to think they're doing something other than wasting time and making a pointless mess.

They're like bridge trolls but live in the service tunnels under airports.

I thought it might have been a way to force a ruling that would prevent a Democrat President from doing the same to oil extraction and pipeline leases.

What makes you think that there are people who want to, "use the n-word in public", but don't? I've never heard of such a person. I have heard people go ahead and do it, and they didn't seem like they felt constrained. They were a-holes who wanted everyone to know it, so that's what they did.

Seriously, you keep building straw men in your mind, and it isn't doing you any good. Are you any happier because you've imagined even worse attributes to assign to people you disagree with? Is your daily life better because of these straw men dancing in your head? Or are you just fueling your own downward spiral?

Please don't put yourself through that.

Stop falling for the scam. Those lower courts issue rulings they know will not stand so that Democrat politicians have something to campaign on. It's all BS and they know it.

Sadly, it's well-supported by falsehoods.

The intent was for everyone to have access to military-grade weapons so that they could form militias. Early drafts specified they be the same sort of guns used in the Revolution, but that was removed, apparently for futureproofing. So, I wouldn't be surprised if the founders would have included select-fire (what you called automatic) rifles, had they known they would exist, as that's what you'd want your militia trained on.

And do keep in mind that the AR-15 was designed for civilian use, but it was so effective that the military ordered a select-fire version that became the M-16. The founders would not have had an issue with that.

And that's not meaningful growth. It doesn't make more stuff or more services or make life better for anyone it just replaces jobs.

When companies replace people with AI, tax them higher. When they hire people, tax them less. It'll work.

I have a robot vacuum that does a pretty good job, and an upright if it doesn't. It would also take longer than 15 minutes to vacuum my house.

Dog hair murdered my Roomba, but the replacement Shark (one of the self-emptying ones) hasn't had any trouble.

Of course! Think about how many people have them in their homes and businesses. The CCP won't want to lose access to all that data.

I bought an i3 on a Black Friday deal a couple years ago to replace a Shark that had become pretty loud. Well, the Roomba was only slightly quieter than the Shark had become, choked more often on throw rugs, and the mounting brackets for the rollers got completely destroyed by dog hair (irreplaceable part melted). Replaced it a few months ago with a new Shark that was cheaper, cleans better and is quieter.

It's sad to see someone go from the top of an industry to the trash in a few short years.