my 2 cents.
seems perfectly ok to use LEGAL data, which is not what happend here.
Are we saying the Trump administration used illegal data from Cabridge Anaytica?
Zuckerberg came out and said "We hope there is not another Cambridge Analytica out there, We will go through all our apps that access large amounts of data."
I don't really know if there's an actual law about this, but it seems to be information that is not generally available to anyone outside FB itself. But FB was ok with it in 2012 because Obama.
the ones that seem completely out of touch with reality AND any form of good governance seems to be repubs....
The Dems started this and now both sides abstracted this away with identity politics (vote for us because of our stand on abortion/gun control/religion/etc.), But the central purpose of government is deciding who gets what benefits and who pays the costs. Edit: And if you actually look at who benefits from both sides and it's just different groups of rich people... Until now.
Back in 1975 it was actually possible to support a family on a single income at a factory (plus plenty of those jobs to go around). The neoliberal policies (started by Reagan actually) have been disasterous for what used to be the lower middle class. Free trade (meaning domestic manufacturing can't compete with china) plus unrestricted illegal immigration (I have nothing against immigrants, but this causes wage suppression) have combined to turn formerly nice blue collar neighborhoods into ghetto war zones.
But no, blue collar types just voted for Trump in droves because they're bigots and deplorables. If the Dems keep shrieking this nonsense for another 2 years I think Mr. T will be in for another 4.
On another note, I also think it was quite short sighted of us to ship all our manufacturing jobs and know how to China. We happily sold along the EXACT thing that allowed us to win WWII. It'll probably cost us the next war with an actual near-peer enemy...
