Anonforthis

I agree with this post. I love capitalism but I don’t think much of our current crop of capitalists.

We had large wealth disparities a century ago but those at the top had the horse sense to give back to the poor. Rockefeller and Carnegie built universities and libraries. Rockefeller had a PR firm tell him to hand out shiny new dimes to kids on the street. These aspie tech tards today like Bezos spend their money putting Katy Perry and Gayle King into space. If American oligarchs (sorry, only foreigners are oligarchs. Americans are successful entrepreneurs) spent 5% of their wealth on children’s hospitals or funding a free college, they would be bulletproof.

I’m doing fine but I can understand why some of those who aren’t are upset.

Could it be said that online dating apps are video games for women?

Amazing how people react so viscerally to atomic weapons. The firebombing of Tokyo and Dresden killed more than the atomic bombs. I’m not saying we should use them casually.

I repeat. The Japanese killed between 12 and 20 million Chinese alone. Kept Korean women as sex slaves. Americans only give them a pass because of residual guilt from the bombings.

I recall hearing a historian describe giving a speech in Asia about the war and how so many non- Japanese Asians were aghast and even angered that Americans were second guessing their bombing.

1. The DOJ believes that they are guilty of multiple crimes.
2. This freezes the $800 million war chest that the SPLC would have used to fund protests and democratic politicians.

It is one of those rare, happy moments in life when doing the right thing also benefits you.

Not a bot. I am a long time listener, first time poster and submitted a link to the essay in an earlier post in this thread. I’m not making a judgement yay or nay, just posting this essay for thought. Might be a nothingburger, might not.

“ That’s sketchy enough, but the indictment really begins to grip when it describes the scores of fake bank accounts the SPLC created and used to launder money to its “informants” in the hate groups. It would go like this: the SPLC would dream up a preposterous-sounding business that didn’t actually exist. A few examples include: “Fox Photography,” the “Tech Writers Group,” the “Rare Books Warehouse,” and —I am not making this up— the “Center Investigative Agency (CIA).”

Those names! Rare Books Warehouse? Really? Was “Totally Legit Business, LLC” already taken? And … CIA? Are you kidding me? Did all the SPLC’s lawyers have a great laugh over that one? I bet they aren’t laughing now.

Anyway. Next, after brainstorming retarded names for their fake businesses, the SPLC would open a fake account at a bank, fund it, and use the money to pay “informants” and hate groups millions of dollars. We might call that a “left-wing laundromat.” The indictment calls it both “money laundering” and a “conspiracy to commit money laundering.”

Mind you, none of these businesses ever existed. No customers. No vendors. No products or services. To convince the banks to open accounts for their invisible businesses, the SPLC lied on the account applications. In writing. The DOJ now has it dead to rights.

Then —critically for the indictment— in 2021, one of the banks investigated SPLC’s accounts, discovered they were made up, closed them, and got the SPLC to agree in a letter confirming they were all fake and actually owned by the SPLC.

The DOJ has the letter.

The SPLC has lawyers. Lots of lawyers. Its lawyers, it turns out, did not bother to read the Bank Secrecy Act. The SPLC’s lawyers now need lawyers of their own.”

“Their intent is completely irrelevant and beside the point.

First of all, it’s 100% legal (though unsavory) for law enforcement agencies to fund criminal informants. Law enforcement trades cash for tips all the time. In theory, when it does happen, it includes records, receipts, is regulated by internal rules and policies, and is under LEO supervision.

But it is not legal for a private citizen or company to fund criminals. Not even as informants. You can’t cosplay as a cop and start making citizen’s arrests when somebody cuts you off in traffic. And you definitely can’t pay neo-nazis to organize violent rallies. Even if you mean well.

Second, their “good intent” is far from clear. One thing is conspicuously missing from the conversation over the SPLC’s “meant-well defense”: any evidence of prosecutions and convictions. If, over decades, the SPLC did use their informants to help shut down hate groups, then where is their track record, their belt of scalps? You would think the SPLC would have already posted that list on its website by now. You would think they’d be feeding allied reporters all the examples of all the bad guys they helped put behind bars using their informant network.

But … there’s nothing. No examples. No bad guys. No scalps. Under the law, when a reasonable person would speak in their own defense, but don’t— it can be inferred as an admission by acquiescence. It doesn’t look good. It looks like the SPLC’s hate-money never helped catch anybody.

So when you see someone claim without evidence that the SPLC was “only” infiltrating hate groups to turn the information over to the FBI or something, just ask: WHO??? Who was arrested? Who was prosecuted? Who was convicted by the SPLC’s heroic efforts?”

I’m unsure about arrests. This writer seems to think that the most important matter is the freezing of $800 million 6 months before the midterms.

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