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Waitaminute… I thought Microsoft had a data sharing agreement with the FBI that would have resulted in them sharing at least the general overview of what went down without the RNC even being involved….

Picture if you will; a large government where checks and balances are out the window. A 2 party system co opted by a single force, where both sides are working towards a common goal, but they mask it with temporary solutions, they do this to keep the general populace too worried about paying bills than to concern themselves with something that doesn't really impact them like government corruption. Within this system you have pillars of control, the police, militias, and military. The single entity deeply entwined with both political parties is feeding select agents into police forces, militias, and any military unit they can get assigned to. They do this to identify like minded individuals, individuals vulnerable to becoming an agent, and individuals that stand in the way. They plan over decades and decades making tiny advancements whenever the chance arises, a lever with constant pressure that takes any extra room available. The single entities end goal being to subvert the government, pass a single law, or series of laws with convoluted wording, and install some form of social system that kept just enough people comfortable that there isn't enough rocking the boat, and installs themselves as either shadow, or public defacto leader. They need large number of police on their side to quell potential rioting, and military to keep allies at bay while the power transfer is completed. They have just been looking for the right person to force their hand long enough they feel complicit, and go along in the form of becoming an officially elected emperor, or empress. What would that look like? One party throwing siege hiels, while the other forces out a career politician to force in a district attorney that does what she's told? Or would it look like white police brutalizing black people as a way of identifying who is safe to keep around? Would it look like supreme court justices granting themselves immunity to bribery? Or the same supreme court granting the president the power to do whatever so long as the president claims it was done for the country? Emperor Napoleon style. Can you picture it? What would it look like to you?

This really goes to show China is considering invading Taiwan within the next 4 years.

Ah, the party of law and order, skirting the law again.

I don't like it, but I get it.

I mean, if the Dems managed to hide and deny the DNC email hack in 2016 we might have eked out a Clinton win. And I'm extremely conflicted on that; I would rather know about Bernie getting snubbed but I don't know if that's worth the timeline we're in.

We really need to make all hacks mandatory disclosure. It's just going to continue happening until companies have to start paying for it.

Mandatory disclosure to law enforcement within 7 calendar days for all companies and organizations. For all non-profit organizations, all political organizations and groups, and any business that provides a service to consumers; public disclosure with notice of actions taken to mitigate in the future, within 30 days. Resulting fines of 1% of total parent company/organization gross revenue, per day past the deadline. Resulting fines split between public education, healthcare, and transit.

If there are similar subsequent successful hacks within 5 years, fines multiply with each event. They either fix their issues, or pay for their incompetence and corner cutting. No business provides a service or product that cannot be replaced by someone else. If it's an effective regulatory monopoly like say a utility, all relevant management (including any sort of board of directors or operations committee) requires replacement after multiple security failures.

Make it fucking hurt, because that's all that these companies understand.

B...B...B...BUT HER EMAILS!