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5 Feb, 10 tweets, 3 min read
Ok... I sat through the "Absolute Proof" video, so you don't have to.

Here are the main claims: (And the Truth)

Claim:
* Dead People Voted in Michigan *

Truth:
Epoc times based their report on voters w/similar names or typo'd birthdates.

michigan.gov/documents/sos/…
Claim:
* PA illegally counted Biden ballots three days after the Election

Truth:
B/C of issues with USPS service (crippled by the Trump-appointed head of USPS), the PA Supreme Court allowed ballots for ALL candidates to be counted up to 3 days later.
pacourts.us/assets/opinion…
Claim:
* Col. Phil Waldron clamed 26% of votes were flipped from Trump to Biden during a "Test Run" of sequestered machines

* There were no sequestered machines, & therefore no "test run." The original poster later attributed the rumor to a "friend of a friend" of the source.
Claim:
* Dominion is controlled by China

Truth:
* Absolutely no proof, not even circumstantial, presented for that claim.

dominionvoting.com/election2020-s…
Claim:
* The machines were hacked and digital Votes for Trump were deleted or switched to Biden

Truth:
The PAPER hand-recount matched the digital count. Unless they could hack they machines, the voters AND the hand-counters, this isn't possible.

sos.ga.gov/index.php/elec…
Claim:
Melissa Carone was an IT worker for Dominion who reported jamming and invalidation issues to her supervisor.

Truth:
Carone was a one-day contract worker hired through a temp agency to clean the glass on the scanners.

fox2detroit.com/news/melissa-c…
Claim: Matt DePerno claims that multiple MI ballots w/the same signature were counted.

Truth: There are no signatures on MI ballots. (They're on the envelopes and are checked BEFORE they're moved to the count.)

leadstories.com/hoax-alert/202…
Claim: Dr. Ayyadurai claims that MA officials destroyed the ballot scan images.

Truth:
There are no scans. MA uses paper ballots and no images are saved. to comply w/state law.
Claim: Dominion was hacked as the data transited the Internet.

Truth:
The modems on the machines automatically turn off when in "Voting" mode. The traffic is encrypted. Snapshots of ballots are kept on the machines to compare AND there are paper ballots.
The thing is...

None of this is new.

These are the exact same claims that MAGA folk have been making for three months.

-- Well... that was certainly better than binging Season 5 of #TheExpanse 😡

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Fr. Robert R. Ballecer, SJ Profile picture
4 Feb
To address the "TAX THEM NOW!" folk.

(Respectfully... I fully understand why it makes sense to them.)

Consider that the Catholic Church's various entities operate as non-profit organizations under 501(c)(3) of the IRS tax code.

To tax the Church, you'd remove that exemption.
Here's the thing... the Catholic Church is a SMALL part of the non-profits in the US.

Quick facts: (2016)
- There are 1.54 million+ non-profits in the US
- These non-profits generate $1T+/yr (5.6% GPD) to the economy
- 501(c)(3) contribute HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS in services/yr
Source:

nccs.urban.org/project/nonpro…
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1 Feb
Dear @GOP (& @SenatorCollins),

We know what you're doing.

Delaying COVID-relief in the hopes that it will become politically advantageous for you to denounce the delay.

You're justifying your actions by saying you want to look at "the numbers."

So, here are some numbers:
66% of Americans have been forced to raid their retirement savings during the pandemic.

kiplinger.com/web_docs/kipli…
The wealthiest .1% in this country made $3.9 Trillion at the same time that the 99% lost $3.7 Trillion in wealth.

businessinsider.com/billionaires-m…
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30 Jan
Early on I, like most of the tech press, framed privacy concerns of the Internet economy as "trading advertising for services."

I was slow to realize that our private info wasn't being used for advertising

... but as a way to SHAPE how we see the world.

wsj.com/articles/apple…
- THEY had internet services that could entertain, connect, & enable ME.

- I had personal information THEY could sell to companies wanting to target goods & services to a receptive audience.

Not only was it a consensual transaction, but it SEEMED as if we got the better deal.
After all, what were we REALLY trading?

Browsing patterns? Location data? Emails?

For most it was data that not only did we not care about, but we didn't know that data was being created in the first place.

That assumption was true... at first.

Then enter "Big Data."
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14 Jan
You could look at the past week & reasonably think MAGA/Q folk MUST know it's over.

But the thing about conspiracy theories is that they never end: they morph into new theories while maintaining that they've ALWAYS been right.

For MAGA/Q, it's "the plan" - Let me explain.
Right now the narrative running through the darker parts of the Internet involves "The Storm."

The Storm is a conspiracy theory that ALL of this - the election loss, the rhetoric, the insurrection, the 2nd impeachment - are part of Trump's master plan to root out the Deep State.
You see, in Trump's infinite wisdom he realized he could never MAGA as long as there were traitors in his own party.

So he came up with The Storm as a way to know who was truly a believer in MAGA, and who was a RINO.

This has all been an elaborate trap to catch those traitors.
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17 Aug 20
Not too long ago I was part of an exercise to determine how difficult it would be to identify people involved in protests w/just the metadata (including location) from the cellular network.

We had a semi-simulated data set that used real info w/swapped IDs

... It was CRAZY easy
Once we sorted the data, we could track movement patterns of the devices & see which devices were communicating & moving w/each other.

In our data set, the vast majority of devices were burners or otherwise obfuscated, but we quickly figured out which devices were daily drivers.
As it turns out, that's enough.

If you find the daily drivers (and that becomes STUPID easy if you have access to more metadata) then you have a real-ID reference point.

From there, you can spot all the devices that are moving or communicating w/the real-ID.
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3 Jul 20
There is a question I get asked quite a lot, & I'd like to address it.

There are many variations of the question - sometimes asked seriously, sometimes out of mockery - but the gist is always:

"If you're a priest, why don't you ACT like a priest?"

It's a good question.
Thing is... they're not REALLY asking,
"why don't you ACT like a priest?"

They're asking,
"why aren't you acting in the way I EXPECT a priest to act?"

... that expectation can be born from experience w/priests, or from preconceived notions of what the priesthood represents.
I know the "traditional" roles of a priest: pastor, confessor, counselor, administrator, etc. -- and those ALL important parts of the ministry of the Church.

However... if ALL priests ONLY did those things, our ministry wouldn't just be stunted... it would die on the vine.
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