Did you go to UR? If so, Meliora! I know what you mean about the tax breaks. Hearing the news about our bid to get the Amazon 2nd HQ (which I didn’t think we were going to), I remember thinking “are we giving the shop away, though?”

I live in Rochester, and it’s a great place, but yeah, the poverty level is bad. I believe our most recent stat for children in the city is 40%. Basically, what you have is a bunch of middle class and even some very wealthy suburbs surrounding a (previously) hollowed out city. But there is hope. I’m about to turn 40,…

I actually agree with not calling it a breach, because that implies the data collection happened accidentally. It didn’t, and to me that is worse.

Spot on! I’ve been saying this for the last two years: Facebook has been ruined by the baby boomers.

It wasn’t just Americans though. They did the same thing in the UK to swing the Brexit vote, and they violated UK privacy laws in the process. You really don’t see how this could be a problem for them? I mean, I don’t think they’re going away any time soon, but this will be a painful bump in the road, for sure.

No, and I agree, I just don’t think it should be automatically assumed that if a candidate takes money from anyone other than an individual/small donor that it amounts to corruption. Also, in the bizarre system of campaign financing that we’ve allowed to develop in this country, technically a PAC and campaign aren’t…

Who the fuck is talking to you, Vlad? Fuck off.

Sorry, but respectfully, I have to disagree with you about Warren’s Native American ancestry being an issue. Anyone who is going to vote for her doesn’t care about that.

Actually, there is. There’s the side that has a history of doing things like this, and the side that doesn’t. Also, have you considered that the Russians wanted it to be known that they did this, as a way to send a message to other defectors?

Yes, I did know that, but it also states in the article that you linked to that he received hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations from a Union super PAC. This is a consequence of our political system having been turned into a fundraising arms race.

Agreed on the first two points, on the last I would ask: what are Dems supposed to do, sit back and not raise money while the other party does?

But don’t you think the data they gathered was then used to feed fake news stories and ads back to Facebook users, who they then knew how to target? I have talked to people who live in swing states, and they have said that Facebook was overflowing with that nonsense in the weeks leading up to the election.

So, to recap: how did we get here? Robert Mercer didn’t feel like paying his taxes, and Putin wanted sanctions lifted, and hated Clinton. Trump? He just wanted to become more famous, and maybe build a new media empire after what was supposed to have been a failed campaign. Now we all have to live with this shit. Oh,…

For real, this thing is going to surpass Game Of Thrones for number of characters and plot threads by the time it’s all over.

Never forget this: they won a small victory, a fluke really, with this election. Everything they are doing right now is going to be undone when we retake government. We own the future, and we are going to win.

I mean, they’re paid to clean up, but that doesn’t mean you should intentionally throw your garbage on the floor. What a prick.

At least Jonah can sometimes be shamed or manipulated into doing the right thing.

But I don’t think Elba or his performance were the reasons the film didn’t do well. I don’t think that’s what you were saying, but just wanted to say that. I think it failed for plenty of other reasons.

I wish I could share your optimism, but we seem to live in a time when a lot of voters do not punish elected officials for fucking them over, but in fact, reward them with re-election.

We still don’t have an explanation of how Maz came to possess Luke’s lightsaber that he lost in Empire.