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New comment by sonotathrowaway in "The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV's Ambassador with the Avignon Papacy"

sonotathrowaway — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:00:49 +0000

Wait until you find out how many Latino people serve in the military.

New comment by sonotathrowaway in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

sonotathrowaway — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:23:02 +0000

Next time you wonder why a Trump supporter has a bad argument, remind yourself there was a nonzero number of them who literally drank bleach and Lysol after he told them too.

New comment by sonotathrowaway in "Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries"

sonotathrowaway — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 15:36:48 +0000

You mean like how the Houthi’s unilaterally decided to shut down Red Sea shipping and the US Navy is still powerless to restore it?

New comment by sonotathrowaway in "Foreign tech workers are avoiding travel to the US"

sonotathrowaway — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 21:03:07 +0000

One of the implications of having the worst education in the nation is that a lot of facts would surprise them.

New comment by sonotathrowaway in "MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies"

sonotathrowaway — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 18:05:04 +0000

Genuinely believing that only one person in America dies in a home invasion is hard to take seriously.

I imagine most preteens in America have a better grasp of reality than the one you’re espousing here.

New comment by sonotathrowaway in "Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado"

sonotathrowaway — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 04:42:33 +0000

Can you let Obama know Libya wasn't his fault and he bears absolutely no responsibility? He seems to be living in that alternate reality - you'd think he would be a better judge of what reality existed, but alas not everyone is as observant as you. Surely the US cannot be held responsible for any action of NATO, they have no relation with that organization at all.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/12/barack-obama...

While you're there you should also let Hilary Clinton know that she wasn't a war hawk either, and the no-fly zone just spontaneously appeared with no US involvement at all.

New comment by sonotathrowaway in "An 'Administrative Error' Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison"

sonotathrowaway — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 14:06:53 +0000

You’re an ms-13 member, actually.

New comment by sonotathrowaway in "New York Times shut down Tor Onion service"

sonotathrowaway — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 01:59:06 +0000

Their comment is vastly more substantiated than your feelings are. We all know that NYT suppressed a story about unlawful mass surveillance, then published it to avoid being scooped.

This is besides the mountains of bullshit they pushed to promote the Iraq war - propaganda they have never, and will never fully admit to.

New comment by sonotathrowaway in "DeepSeek transfer users' data directly to the Chinese government"

sonotathrowaway — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 16:24:02 +0000

Yes, censorship incidents like the red scare, Hollywood blackballing, and outright assassinations (hi Fred Hampton) would definitely never happen in the United States.

That’s why Bush illegally wiretapping every American citizen was excusable - Bush would never retaliate against critics, like trying to kill Valerie Plame for exposing his lies.

New comment by sonotathrowaway in "DeepSeek transfer users' data directly to the Chinese government"

sonotathrowaway — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 03:35:19 +0000

This is after they had been caught wiretapping every citizen in the country, with controls so loose that analysts could use it to stalk their exes.

New comment by sonotathrowaway in "DeepSeek transfer users' data directly to the Chinese government"

sonotathrowaway — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 21:53:49 +0000

I genuinely don’t know which country you believe has checks and balances.

New comment by sonotathrowaway in "Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon"

sonotathrowaway — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 23:25:57 +0000

New comment by sonotathrowaway in "TikTok goes dark in the US"

sonotathrowaway — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 14:38:00 +0000

They know their argument is bolstered by the truth being widely known in this case, so it benefits them to leak it.

Why is it so important to you that the truth is suppressed?

New comment by sonotathrowaway in "TikTok goes dark in the US"

sonotathrowaway — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 15:42:29 +0000

So you’re admitting that the call was real, we should just ignore it because it’s inconvenient to your beliefs?

New comment by sonotathrowaway in "Scientist treated her own cancer with viruses she grew in the lab"

sonotathrowaway — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 16:46:33 +0000

It was very odd reading an article where people were debating the ethics of a woman saving her own life, as if it was potentially a shameful act.

New comment by sonotathrowaway in "Scientist treated her own cancer with viruses she grew in the lab"

sonotathrowaway — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 16:44:08 +0000

You’re confusing legality with ethics, which are not the same thing.

New comment by sonotathrowaway in "NTSB Issues Urgent Safety Recommendations on Boeing 737 Rudder System"

sonotathrowaway — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 16:19:12 +0000

A long time ago I was in auto sales. I had a customer who worked at a factory that produced parts for many brands of automobile.

That customer would only buy a Honda car, because they said they observed how absolutely strict Honda was regarding the quality of parts that they would purchase.

Their quality control process for a random part was so meticulous that it gave them faith in the brand as a whole.

New comment by sonotathrowaway in "NTSB Issues Urgent Safety Recommendations on Boeing 737 Rudder System"

sonotathrowaway — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 16:14:37 +0000

Step 1: spin out all your suppliers into their own companies

Step 2: use pricing power to force your suppliers to cut corners in order to survive.

Step 3: claim plausible deniability for the scores of suppliers giving you substandard parts. Roll in your money while telling the rest of the world you couldn’t have done anything differently.

New comment by sonotathrowaway in "US hospital told family their daughter had checked out when in fact she'd died"

sonotathrowaway — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 00:11:08 +0000

Or they needed to keep the body long enough that any evidence of malpractice could be hidden.

New comment by sonotathrowaway in "Europe is in danger of regulating its tech market out of existence"

sonotathrowaway — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 16:06:30 +0000

The EU just has to hint that they’d move closer to china, and all this supposed leverage would evaporate.