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Comment Re: Good (Score 1) 185

âoeForced to Flee Central Americaâ(TM)s Northern Triangleâ (2017) say 31.4% of women in transit through Mexico sexually assaulted or raped.

That was only among asylum seekers, and the report clearly indicates that the difficulty of asylum seekers making it into the country is the cause of it.
If you really gave one flying fuck about it, you'd stop advocating for a wall, as interdiction by US CBP is the only thing that saves these poor fucking people from having to sign up to be smuggled across the border.
The actual source.

The violence against women migrating in general is directly correlated with the building of the wall, as it leads migrants to cross over in more dangerous and remote areas.

Nobody is being intellectually dishonest except for you, you fucking piece of shit.
There is only one fucking way this works.
Either you're against those brown people coming in, and thus OK with their systematic rape,
Or you're against their systematic rape, and so you want that wall to go away and increased processing at the border.

But the fact is, we know which you want. You like the rapes happening- it increases the deterrent.

Comment Re:response to AI (Score 0) 78

Being that the list is sorted by score, and alphabetically, it's pretty dumb to mention someone's position on it, now isn't it?
The US has a score of 84/100. France is at 89/100.
The difference is not as great as you want it to be.

Don't ever let rationality get in the way of your political mouth-foaming, my friend. The world just doesn't have enough people like you.

Comment Re:Blame NAT... (Score 1) 78

NAT traversal is a solved problem.
Most ISPs these days are using TR-69 managed CPEs, and they're managed over the same NAT that they've got you behind. And they don't have special holes poked.
All we need is a STUN server, and a quick evaluation of what the kind of NAT it is (full-cone, half-cone, etc)

None of this has anything to do with NAT.

Comment Re:Blame NAT... (Score 3, Insightful) 78

This is completely wrong.

1) NAT traversal is a very solved problem.
2) Centralized services do not require more bandwidth than peer-to-peer. And frankly, I think you have no idea how cheap bandwidth is for us these days.
3) Video-conferencing takes surprisingly little bandwidth. You'd be amazed how well it compresses.

and then use existing standards like SIP instead of relying on centralised services.

Ah yes, SIP.
That protocol that is notoriously defeated due to NAT... wait no. It isn't. Because NAT traversal is a very solved problem.

The centralization is about money. Nothing more.

Comment Re: Nah, its post 2016 turnabout (Score 1) 140

I read the entire thing (hence why I said, "if you read the transcript...")

However, if you actually look at the broader context of what he said, he also kept drawing a moral equivalence between the essentially neo-nazi

No. That is an outright falsehood.

not all strictly neo-nazis, more of a basket of deplorables

Are we now saying every right winger is a neonazi?

rally-goers and the counterprotestors who, notably, did not murder anyone by ramming crowds with their cars.

Are we assigning group blame for teh actions of one piece of shit?

The fixation on the one sentence does create a problem for both sides of the debate. Ultimately, the entire context has to be considered, but that is ultimately pretty damning for Trump.

Oh I agree. But the problem is, if you remove that sentence, or put its surrounding context around it, it's quite clear that the only comparison he was making, was between people who wanted the statue up, and people who wanted it down.
Now, I'm more than happy to do my own generalization here- that almost all of the folks who wanted the statue up are at least subtly racist.
However, that doesn't make them violent pieces of shit.

Comment Re: Good (Score 1) 185

The Oxford Comma is, indeed, optional. If you've had too much concussive damage done to your brain via repeated blowbangs- then I will indeed cut you some slack, there. My apologies. Educated and non-brained-damaged people use the comma. Purposeful ambiguous sentence construction is the hallmark of a stupid person.

Illegal immigration breeds human trafficking, molestation and rape.

This is a stupid claim to make.
Being born in the South does too, yet we haven't cracked down on all of you daughter fuckers, yet.

Half of women and children get assaulted on their journey here.

Complete fabrication. Sourced from Trump's bullshit. The final, actual number, is about 1 in 10. 1 in 3, if you include all of the women that tried to pay for their transit with sex. 1 in 2 if you are pulling numbers out of your ass in order to prop up the argument made by your Dear Leader.

Legal immigration is the only proper way to have immigration.

The problem is that it's hard to take your intentions seriously when we know you get off on Federal Agents beating brown people and shooting the "libtards".
You have the intellectual honesty of a weasel assuring a chicken that they're a good travel partner.

Comment Re: Good (Score 1) 185

But you are not answering my question. Do you think that if the US reduced the flow from their country of political influence and illegal arms trade that that would help at least a bit the people of south America, and if not why not.

I did answer your question. Though you've added clarification that would change my answer.
With "at least a bit", then sure. ok.
The US is not responsible for the current crop of left-wing dictatorships there, though.

I'm not talking of blame. I didn't mention it and find it's often a way to avoid, for example, progress in conflict resolution.

Fair- that was me reading into your words. If it was inappropriate- then I'll cop to that.

Supposing that was true, it could just as well be an example of the extend of damage some kinds of colonial rule can have on society.

Maybe.
They were dictatorships before colonial rule, too. (Absolute rule by divine Kings)
I think more accurately, the transition from the US to a democratic republic was the unusual outcome.
Hell, it took France quite a while to end up there after throwing their Kingly yoke.

Can you give an example? I'm not sure I see how that's different from blaming them for the oppression of others.

More nuanced than I can offer. It's a good read.

If you want, you could say that I'm "blaming the people of South America for the oppression of their dictators".
But I mean, at some point, you have to, don't you?
You want democracy, and you want a lack of outside intervention.
Who does that leave to achieve it?

Comment Re: Sounds great (Score 1) 123

No argument, there.
The target of ATF Phoenix's dumbfuckery was different, in that case.
But ultimately, it was the same stupid tactic, by the same fucking people, aimed at a different segment of the illicit gun trade.

i.e., "Fast N Furious wasn't the first time the ATF had done this, either." is factual and intellectually honest, and attempts at trying to make it some kind of "Scandal of a Presidency" is really just some partisan bobblehead bullshit.
OIG found in both cases, neither Holder or Mukasey had any idea what those dumbfucks were up to.

Comment Re:Systemd is sabotage (Score 1) 104

Long story short, there is nothing organic about SystemD at all and in fact, appears to be shoved on us with great force. I wonder why that is....

It wasn't shoved on anyone.
A dude at Redhat wrote it, Redhat adopted it for its platforms because it filled a need. Other distributions adopted it because they agree.
It's that fucking simple.

Saying it was shoved on you with great force is like saying a President was. There was a system that selected it. Your participation in that system was optional. There was always a chance, that even if you did participate in that system, you weren't going to win the vote.
Distributions that adopted systemd have corporate governance boards who make decisions like this, and they did- democratically.

At some point, you just have to accept that you're in the minority, and the feelings of the majority aren't some kind of conspiracy.

Note: I never made any argument about the technical merits of systemd. Not interested in litigating on Poettering's behalf. But calling its very organic adoption an instance of sabotage is just you failing- utterly- to find the truth within the facts.

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