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How has it worked already?

Dragging people for public spectacles in Congress, lawfare through frivolous lawsuits, frivolous investigation through a variety of agencies, wasting the orgs time in court, allies doxxing org members to intimidate them with stochastic terrorism.

If you haven't been paying attention to how Trump and Co have been weapoinzing government to silence critics or pressure private orgs, you haven't been paying attention.

What happened to Harvard?

What happened to CBS/Paramount?

What happened with 60 Minutes?

What about ActBlue?





Harvard is extensively grant funded; that was the administration's leverage.

CBS's owners were existentially dependent on DOJ approval of an impending merger.

60 Minutes is a CBS property.

Nothing has happened to ActBlue.

So again I ask: how exactly is the House supposed to accomplish anything with Wikipedia?


maybe step back and think about what this targeted, repeated, deeply meticulous sequence of challenges to this very narrow topic of conversation is communicating about you, and is achieving in the net sense

is this the right application of your time and energy? perhaps that time and energy is more usefully spent fighting against the actively malicious current US political administration, than deconstructing arguments in that same vein?


No, I think I'm just going to continue having the discussion we're having here.

fair enough! your call. just know that this is, well, it's not a good look. if you don't care then more power to you.



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