@ericgarland You can automate the personalized propaganda for each individual, using evolutionary algorithms in psychological warfare.

They haven't just lost this tool with only 10 days left.

They'll struggle to reconstitute it & coordinate across multiple platforms.
@ericgarland These platforms gave white supremacists, conspiracy theorists and foreign-intelligence assets a captive audience without people having to leave a "legitimate" site for some neo-Nazi forum or Russian social media.

Imagine trying to coordinate sedition when social media knows it?
@ericgarland So either you give up the refined algorithms and enriched data of existing social media, which let you test and refine messaging and calls for action in real time, in exchange for losing most of your following and scattering the rest across multiple niche sites...
@ericgarland Or you try to keep coordinating across major social-media platforms which are increasingly banning your primary vectors for misinformation and deleting their messages.

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@LincolnsBible While the indifference people are showing not only to strangers but also the lives and health of their friends and loved ones is disturbing, there may be more forces driving this attitude than we imagine.

You already know about the vast, targeted psychological warfare online.
@LincolnsBible Allegedly being executed by actors such as Cambridge Analytica, Russian intelligence and other actors, via social media.

But there's another factor, built into this medium.

The steady addiction to the dopamine release of using it.
@LincolnsBible Others discuss this more in depth, but the goal of so many product manufacturers and service providers is to capture their audience by addicting them.

But even people who, say, play video games incessantly have trouble doing it all the time. They have work, school, etc.
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Let's try to remember all the people who have effectively *already* pled guilty to tax evasion on their tax returns in 2020.
Check me on this, but I don't think leaving out significant sources of income on your tax returns is somehow exonerated by neglecting to fill out that part of the form altogether.

@IRS_CI wanting it made *crystal* clear is understandable, however.
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@ericgarland Can we all pause for a moment to appreciate the sheer genius of dropping this response to Trump's first, insane pardon, as he dangles full, sweeping pardons for *everyone* inside and outside his Administration?

The possibility of state charges puts him, personally, at risk...
@ericgarland With *every* pardon.

People like @TheRickWilson, who have studied Trump intensely, realize he is intensely self-centered.

If there is a real possibility that each successive pardon offered in exchange for something - money, silence, loyalty, favors - increases the likelihood...
@ericgarland @TheRickWilson He will not only end up in prison, but in a *state* maximum-security prison, like Rikers Island, what are the odds he will endanger himself personally to do so?

*Worse,* what happens when that not only occurs to Trump, but to everyone relying on him for a pardon?
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@markyzaguirre @TheRickWilson We've also been treating this 4-year, slow-motion explosion like new geography rather than the snapshot of a blastwave and scattering shrapnel that it is.

It's not just that none of this was sustainable.

It's how much of their reserves our adversaries burnt down to attempt it.
@markyzaguirre @TheRickWilson "Destroying their reputation."

Lawyers going into court with spurious arguments or spouting conspiracy theories and clear falsehoods are facing far more than a stern lecture or the scorn of their peers.
@markyzaguirre @TheRickWilson See also the incredibly granular map counterintel and law enforcement now have of the offshored wealth being illegally onshored via money laundering and other illicit exchanges.

Or of the online, illegal-influence networks.

Darknet black markets.

Cryptocurrency.
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@TheRickWilson Actually, if you're going to take this conspiracy down, as sprawling as it is, you need more than just ordinary open-and-shut cases.

You want to bring charges for the most shocking and repellent things their worst members have done.

Why? It forces their allies to turn on them.
@TheRickWilson You can expect more of their worst deeds to surface in the near future.

Epstein videos? Sexual abuse of actresses? The terabytes of videos of unspeakable acts the @FBI has seized from the Darknet?

All of that and more.
@TheRickWilson @FBI You have the treason, espionage and sedition happening live, on the airwaves and over social media.

You have all the hidden, odious acts boiling now to the surface via Ghislaine, Epstein tapes, automated facial recognition, etc.
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@ericgarland And for anyone who thinks this will all go away with just a few prominent criminals going down...

The evidence will *never* stop.

Innumerable, blatant crimes, often occurring in front of the entire world, are bound by oceans of hard evidence in a maelstrom of undeniable proof.
@ericgarland What? Did you *think* I was kidding?

We have civil rights in America and the West.
@ericgarland To employ the full power of quantum computing & a host of other tools before dictatorships could use them to destroy us, the only alternative was to let everything turn into a single, vast, interconnected crime scene.

Not so much "probable cause" as "beyond a reasonable doubt."
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