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Bullock is killing it.



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When does this end? It's already 10.



I'm not a big fan of student loan forgiveness but Pete has the most reasonable policy here.



The Tulsi and Yang show tomorrow night! That's all I'll be watching from it at least. I don't care to endure Biden, Booker, and Harris all on the same evening, ugh..

Hopefully they each get longer than like 2 mins to speak.

I may have to check out the Sanders and Warren portions for tonight. Again, don't have the stomach to wade through 2 hours of Neolib talking points and identity politics. 

I'd like Warren a lot more if she'd drop the ridiculous "reparations" and "eliminate the electoral college!" insanity. Sort of done with Bernie.

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"We hold these truths to be self-evident - all men and women created by the, go-you know.. you know the thing!" - Joe Biden

CNN did a way better job than NBC. This debate was pretty solid.

Winners: Buttigeig, Warren, Sanders, and Bullock.

Solid Showing: Beto, Williamson, and Hickenlooper.

Losers: Delaney, Ryan, and Klobuchar.

Buttigeig really won me over. He had really good policies and was well spoken. He's up there with Yang for me now. Sanders and Warren held their own against the moderates. Bullock did a great job at setting himself as an alternative to Biden but with less baggage.

Beto held his own. Way better than last time. Williamson impressed me. Hickenlooper has done a lot of the things in Colorado than he is running on so he showed that he could get things done.

Delaney and Ryan got destroyed. Klobuchar didn't really do much and was pretty boring.



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I disagree with Bullock using Republican talking points on immigration. Really all he did was repeat talking points from Obama's administration to get his point across.



I love this woman..

https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1155914753652318215?s=20



 

"We hold these truths to be self-evident - all men and women created by the, go-you know.. you know the thing!" - Joe Biden

Companies have the right yo establish what they want represented on their platform. I hope Gabbards lawsuit fails.



jason1637 said:
Companies have the right yo establish what they want represented on their platform. I hope Gabbards lawsuit fails.

Couldn't disagree more. These corporations have way too much power.

These companies in Silicon Valley essentially holds a monopoly on public discourse online. Once you've established a monopoly, you need to be kept in check and keep a level of fairness without stepping on the rights of others. You can't have your cake and eat it too.

Yeah I don't think she'll win, but I'm glad she's trying, as it sends a message, and she has a case for collusion or malfeasance since Google has apparently cut revenue from her campaign for no discernible reason while not (at least reportedly) doing so for other candidates.

It's time to start treating the internet and social media as a public service. And people need to be treated equally and fairly under these conditions. Companies can certainly have guidelines/terms of service, but they need to enforce them equally, which these guys have proven they simply haven't. If not, they're going to be the target for government intervention and possible regulations on the grounds of discrimination, which I think they absolutely should be.

Big tech needs to be broken up, or at least regulated. Even Warren agrees with this, which is part of the reason I'm at least somewhat I'm on board with her. 



 

"We hold these truths to be self-evident - all men and women created by the, go-you know.. you know the thing!" - Joe Biden

the-pi-guy said:
DarthMetalliCube said:

Couldn't disagree more. These corporations have way too much power.

These companies in Silicon Valley essentially holds a monopoly on public discourse online. Once you've established a monopoly, you need to be kept in check and keep a level of fairness without stepping on the rights of others. You can't have your cake and eat it too.

Yeah I don't think she'll win, but I'm glad she's trying, as it sends a message, and she has a case for collusion or malfeasance since Google has apparently cut revenue from her campaign for no discernible reason while not (at least reportedly) doing so for other candidates.

It's time to start treating the internet and social media as a public service. And people need to be treated equally and fairly under these conditions. Companies can certainly have guidelines/terms of service, but they need to enforce them equally, which these guys have proven they simply haven't. If not, they're going to be the target for government intervention and possible regulations on the grounds of discrimination, which I think they absolutely should be.

Big tech needs to be broken up, or at least regulated. Even Warren agrees with this, which is part of the reason I'm at least somewhat I'm on board with her. 

Her revenue was probably cut due to being suspected as spam, due to her surging.  Was not likely due to a Google conspiracy against her.  

Maybe so, but does she not have a right to recouping loses during this time in one way or another? Should Google not have accounted for the possibility of this happening in their algorithms? And why was Tulsi seemingly the only candidate who had the misfortune of this adsense snafu? Sounds like a bit of a convenient excuse to me that the one overtly anti-war, libertarian-esque candidate who has already gone on record for standing against censorship and suppression of speech by big tech just happens to be suppressed by big tech..



 

"We hold these truths to be self-evident - all men and women created by the, go-you know.. you know the thing!" - Joe Biden