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New comment by chowchowchow in "ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data"

chowchowchow — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:59:47 +0000

> Those who disrespect my countries law do not deserve to benefit from my great country.

Why? All laws or only some?

> Well they clearly aren't trying hard enough if they are in the country without a proper visa.

This reads as an uninformed statement.

New comment by chowchowchow in "ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data"

chowchowchow — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 23:15:23 +0000

>This is systematically not true as citizens can not be legally deported.

And yet.

>If someone is not a citizen and are here illegally they should be removed, no matter their intentions. If you are willing to break the law to stay here, I personally don't want them back in the country.

Without even getting into the subject of kids who are brought here.. I just have to say, why? Immigrants are net contributors in the US. Many of these people who are here "illegally" are in a bureaucratic maze and are attempting to follow the rules. Some aren't, sure, but we live in a society where we don't draconianly punish people for a certain level of breaking the rules in cases where there is no real harm done. And I say deportation, particularly to 3rd country like the USA is doing now sometimes, qualifies as very draconian.

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chowchowchow — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 00:19:23 +0000

not being motivated enough to vote against != support in terms of claiming a popular mandate. If I just don't care who wins, you can't say I support either candidate.

At most you could say my inaction prevented the winner from losing I guess.

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chowchowchow — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 07:00:12 +0000

Eh. You can’t claim the non voters all implicitly support him though since they didn’t know the outcome ahead of time. I’ll agree they didn’t sufficiently oppose him ahead of the 2nd time to bother voting. But that’s far from support.

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chowchowchow — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 03:28:13 +0000

49.5% of 65% of eligible voters voted for him.. hardly a majority any way you slice it, either of voters or of the broad population.

New comment by chowchowchow in "AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'"

chowchowchow — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 21:10:06 +0000

And to add: the new features are take or leave it. you're right, who cares about new features on _twitter_, it was ossified already.

Becoming the worst place on earth is a far weightier outcome of the aquisition and firings.

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chowchowchow — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 19:05:53 +0000

I dont know; they may well have been on the ads and moderation side. And they did add the hangouts/voice calls stuff, but that may have been an acquisition, I'm not sure.

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chowchowchow — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 16:13:36 +0000

On the other hand while yes it's still running, twitter is mostly not releasing new features, and has completely devolved into the worst place on the internet. Not to mention most accounts now actually are bots like Elon claimed they were 3 years ago.

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chowchowchow — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 23:46:30 +0000

Isn’t it to sell home currency denominated debt…?

New comment by chowchowchow in "CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract [updated]"

chowchowchow — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 18:20:15 +0000

I am certain you can find more than one quote of his relating to Project 2025. In any event this also doesn't disagree with what I said more broadly, which is, he was not forthright about his plan to do exactly what Project 2025 said, so you can't say he's doing exactly what he said. But anyone with a hint of insight could understand that was his plan.

I'm responding to someone who said Trump is doing what he SAID he would do, and that is all I intended to correct.

New comment by chowchowchow in "CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract [fixed]"

chowchowchow — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 15:27:47 +0000

Obviously

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chowchowchow — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 14:53:00 +0000

That’s exactly right and what I said. The guy above said Trump is doing what he said he would. He isn’t.

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chowchowchow — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 14:32:53 +0000

Actually Trump repeatedly said he didn't know about project 2025. He's so scattered in his campaigning that it's possible to pretty much justify any action as "what he said he would do." But saying executing project 2025 is exactly what he SAID he would do defies all reality. It may be what intelligent observers expected him to do but it is not what he said.

Edit: good lord people I’m not defending Trump I’m saying he lies about everything including that he lied and said he wasn’t going to do project 2025. Read the post I’m responding to!

New comment by chowchowchow in "Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website"

chowchowchow — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 19:17:49 +0000

Filing is a challenge, and the rules governing what most people pay are simple.

You’re just being obtuse. We can stop now.

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chowchowchow — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 05:02:49 +0000

That people don’t know how to do it and thus many pay companies to do it for them. Most of these people’s taxes are extremely simple from a tax code perspective.

New comment by chowchowchow in "Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website"

chowchowchow — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 05:02:07 +0000

Everyone pays $1 and $1 only is not simple enough? Can’t please some people.

New comment by chowchowchow in "Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website"

chowchowchow — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 03:00:31 +0000

I like how the dude you’re replying to is parallelizing being wrong about this in every reply thread.

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chowchowchow — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 02:58:36 +0000

Thought experiment: taxes for everyone are $1 but you have to climb to the top of an icy glacier to place a single dollar bill in a collection box. Is it easy to file these taxes?

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chowchowchow — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 02:57:10 +0000

The people with complicated taxes are rich. Most people have dead simple taxes tax-code wise. W2, standard deduction, dependents, maybe some interest deductions. You’re just being obtuse now. Removing random capital loss carryover loopholes or what have you has nothing to do with mainstream tax prep.

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chowchowchow — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 21:07:14 +0000

I’m not and these tweets aren’t relevant to what I wrote.