Shakes
2mo ago
Gait analysis is one subset of video and image analysis, which is generally pretty good. I wouldn’t convict anyone on it but it’s very good for narrowing suspects.
And in this case it’s extremely suspicious that the suspect lives next door to the guy registered on the metro card / getaway vehicle. And neither was ever staked out.
Shakes
2mo ago
Define “they”. I think there are a lot of smart people on this forum and other places who fell for the Russiagate scam or should otherwise realize they were wrong about the Deep State. This matters insofar as we want smart people to realize what we’re up against.
Shakes
2mo ago
Image and video processing in general is very sophisticated. Much more sophisticated than the public is aware. No comment on whether this specific application is any good or not.
If only Blaze had just used good old reliable “anonymous sources”. Then we could believe unhesitatingly, as with stories that Donald Trump is a Russian intelligence asset, Donald Trump wrestled his presidential limo driver, Donald Trump called soldiers losers and suckers, etc. etc. These are all stories I was treated as some kind of crazy MAGA partisan for having the temerity to doubt.
Then — between this and the revelation of Arctic Frost, perhaps it’s time to have another conversation about The Deep State. As in, the thesis that the security state operated a slow-moving coup against Donald Trump might have been right about everything. That there really was a vast conspiracy to destroy Trump. And MAGA was right about everything.
Shakes
2mo ago
I trust Donald Trump. I imagine there were naysayers who said it was foolish to trust Alexander, or that Napoleon was just a pawn in a far greater scheme.
Shakes
3mo ago
I live in Washington DC and physically know the people running DHS Comms. These are not the people who were running DHS a year ago. It’s entirely rational for me to trust different people differently.
Shakes
3mo ago
Please state directly what you are implying without putting implications in my mouth.
Shakes
3mo ago
The security state officers that lied about Hunter's Laptop are enemies of Trump.
While it's useful to speak of "the government" lying, this is an abstraction. A government is made up of people. And it's unremarkable to trust some people over others. The people running DHS are not the people who lied about Hunter's Laptop. It's totally consistent to trust the one and not the other.
Shakes
3mo ago
It’s highly rational to start trusting the government again when people you don’t trust are replaced by people you do trust.
Shakes
3mo ago
One reason to treat these claims differently is that the people making them physically changed because we had an election in 2024.
Shakes
3mo ago
My question is mostly, is it normal for the Red Tribe to believe the "official story" over their "lying eyes?"
These stories are all the worst sort of fake news. Man detained at airport for having a JD Vance meme on his phone. Fake. Black baby zip tied. Fake. ICE kidnaps 13 year-old. Fake. Over and over again.
It’s rational to doubt the press when they’re lying. It would be irrational to believe the press stories over the trivial refutations.
Donald Trump is bigger and more successful than the idea of James Bond and he navigates the 2020s fine. Elon Musk too for that matter.
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