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What the wrecker thinks about relations with other countries
Sage commentary about what the wrecker thinks about relations with other
democratic countries.
*[The wrecker] claims simply to want deals with dictators, but he seems also to
crave validation from them. By contrast, he thinks it is humiliating
for the US commander-in-chief to be seated at a round table as the peer
of a German chancellor or the prime minister of Canada – barely a
proper country. The idea of coordinating foreign and trade policy on
the basis of shared respect for political pluralism and the rule of law
is an idea Trump finds absurd, if he even understands it.*
*Over time, reluctance to say aloud that [the wrecker] is an
authoritarian menace to the US’s constitutional republic becomes
complicity in the assault.*
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WhatsApp "help" gives wrong phone number
Someone asked the WhatsApp "help" chatbot for a train company's
customer service phone number and it gave some other user's
phone number.
When the user objected to that, it generated output that resembled
what a human being would say if trying to excuse that mistake or claim
that nothing was wrong.
The article quotes someone criticizing this chatbot in a way that
assumes it is capable of understanding what was defective about its
output, and even ideas of ethics and responsibility as applied to its
own output. How foolish!
That Artificial Stupidity system does not understand what it means to
help someone, does not understand what it means to harm someone, and
does not understand what it means to be honest — or deceptive. It
only looks for ways to make pertinent-sounding responses based on
frequency tables.
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Salafi Arabian journalist executed for criticizing government
Salafi Arabian journalist Turki al-Jasser has been executed for
criticizing the government of Salafi Arabia on ex-Twitter, after 7
years in prison with torture.
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Florida's attorney general found in contempt of court
Florida's attorney general was found in contempt of court for ordering
state agencies to disregard a court order against enforcing a state law
to arrest unauthorized immigrants.
So far, magat officials have played at defying court orders. I think
that was meant to make their supporters eager to see real defiance and
a showdown that might make the federal courts powerless. Then what
steps could judges take? I fear that would be the end of rule of law
in the US.
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Indian deportation thugs forcing Muslim Indians into Bangladesh
Indian deportation thugs are grabbing Muslim Indians and forcing them
across the border with Bangladesh.
Bangladeshi border guards reject many of them, saying they are
Indians no Bangladeshis, and force them back to India, sometimes by
arduous (and unguarded?) routes.
A few years ago, India passed a law allowing it to claim that people
were immigrants if they didn't have documents to prove their forebears
were Indian citizens. Another law allowed such people to claim
Indian citizenship, but not if they are Muslims.
Put them together and they combine as a recipe for labeling a Muslim
Indian who was born and raised in India as an unauthorized immigrant,
so as to expel per.
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Speed of bully's attack on democracy
The bully's attack on democracy and freedom in the US is rushing ahead
much faster than today's other authoritarians did.
It is unfair to list Hugo Chávez as one. He held real elections and
the people really voted for him.
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Right-wingers in Brazil trying to completely wipe out abortion
Abortion is almost prohibited in Brazil, but religious right-wingers are
trying to get rid of the "almost".
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Deportation thugs attacked protester Jose Manuel Mojica
Deportation thugs attacked protester Jose Manuel Mojica, then accused
him of attacking them. Fortunately, the charges against him have been
dropped.
Full justice calls for charges against the agents who attacked him.
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Congress to request permission 12 hours in advance of visiting deportation prisons
The bully has ordered members of Congress to request permission 12
hours in advance before visiting deportation prisons.
This would give the employees of the prison company a chance to clean
up the signs of cruelty.
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Bully forbids entry to US from 12 countries
The bully has forbidden (with narrow exceptions) entry into the US of
the nationals of 12 countries: Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of
the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia,
Sudan and Yemen.
Referring to this as a "Muslim ban" is false. According to Wikipedia,
four of the countries — Burma, Equatorial Guinea, Haiti and Republic
of the Congo — have few Muslims (those in Burma are a persecuted
minority, the Rohingya).
Eritrea is more or less evenly divided between Christians and Muslims.
Meanwhile, many mainly Muslim countries are not covered by the ban.
These include Albania, Bangladesh, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Malaysia,
Morocco, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Syria, and Turkey, and some
more.
It seems clear that the motives for the ban are political, not racial
or religious.
I don't see a sensible reason for the ban. The US has quarrels with
some of these countries, but not all. And it is perverse to deny a
person asylum because of something bad about the country perse is
fleeing from.
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How Democratic Party leaders support war with Iran
*How Democratic Party Leaders Quietly Support [the bully's] March to
War With Iran.
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British activist with "spy cop" as a lover
One of the British activist who had a "spy cop" as lover pursued her legal case to the end, and it ended in victory. She received all the
confidential reports he had made while spying on her. Now she has
published them.
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