It seems like there's no longer *any* pressure on public servants to defend the arguments they're making, or to even make them *appear defensible,* so long as the target is right, the speech is charismatic & the phrases pattern-match to the verbal attire of the political tribe
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What scares me isn't just that it's a farce, what scares me is that I actually think a large number of people listen to this **and genuinely believe they've heard a coherent and well-supported argument.** It doesn't stand up to a moment of reflection, **and it doesn't need to!**
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Anti-monopoly legislation does not exist to prevent companies from buying their competitors, which a great many are not only capable of doing but actually do, on a regular basis, in broad daylight, in the course of regular business.
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Maxine Waters is a lifelong comedy sketch and like our very own Dianne Abbott is a gift that just keeps on giving to her political opponents.
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Almost nothing said in that hearing came within spitting distance of the ostensible purpose of his testimony, which was to answer Q's about the new crypto-payments project FB is overseeing & how it would fit in existing regulatory framework. I think there was 1 AML/KYC question
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Sheeple are led to even follow Maxine Waters. MAXINE WATERS! You can’t even make this stuff up.
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Also the US Constitution prevents the government from restricting/prohibiting freedom of speech which is what they want to force Facebook to do for them by proxy.
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