Thank you. At least I can count on you and Jerry to behave like humans.
1. I had forgotten about the First Step Act. Maybe the only useful piece of legislation that was passed under Trump. I'll give his administration credit for that.
2. Agree that the incident described in that article is very troubling. Without knowing more specifics, like whether he broke the law while doing his research, I'll refrain from making a conclusion. I'll point out that Biden likely had absolutely nothing to do with this, so in the context of our Biden v. Trump slapfight, this has little bearing. Certainly less than our POTUS calling the press "the enemy of the people." Which scenario is truly more "chilling?"
3. You're upset that police were looking for a guy that set fire to a church? The protesters at the Kavanaugh hearings were not violent, and they were arrested for disrupting a public proceeding. Am I missing your point here?
4. This one is tough for me. On the surface, I hate that government would attempt to strong arm tech companies into censorship. Of course those companies have every right to police themselves; the government does not have the right to force them, if that's what happened. It sounds like the injunction was overly broad, which any of you that have ever worked on policies for a large company realize is the entire point when writing them. Make them broad so there's plenty of legal wiggle room for interpretation. Seems like it could have been handled better.
Where I get bogged down is thinking about how much ridiculous, dangerous, and flat untrue information was being thrown around during the pandemic. That bad information got people killed, ruined lives and families, and damn near tore our health care system apart. We're still feeling the effects of that in the medical world, and Trump is at the center of the whole wretched mess.
And for the dopes that tell me what I think, or where I get my news, you're always wrong. I'll watch CNN or Fox if there's breaking news, but don't otherwise. I avoid all social media, except for this lovable little cesspool, where I'm only inundated with League Champion's completely fukked Twitter feed. Which is entertaining, but totally useless for real information gathering.
I appreciate your post Volty, and respect your willingness to have a conversation, as opposed to screaming about fascist bootlickimg bastards ad nauseum, like certain other jagoffs.