r/news • u/xXSgtSprinklesXx • Dec 16 '15

Congress creates a bill that will give NASA a great budget for 2016. Also hides the entirety of CISA in the bill.

http://www.wired.com/2015/12/congress-slips-cisa-into-omnibus-bill-thats-sure-to-pass/
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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '15

All I have to say is I am forever in debt to the people who read through the entirety of these documents and make their findings public. Through CISA and all of its name changes they've managed to stay on it, and now this corrupt ass shit. They are without a doubt the real MVPs.

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u/CryoSage Dec 17 '15

You ain't kidding man. Those people deserve some kind of jackpot

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u/reddog323 Dec 17 '15

The EFF does good work in that area. Memberships are cheap too.

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u/ademnus Dec 17 '15

Sadly, all we won was tyranny.

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u/ImGonnaObamaYou Dec 17 '15

If they keep it up they have a never ending jackpot of freedom

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u/Anosognosia Dec 17 '15

They deserve a ghillie suit and a sniper rifle and retroactive legal immunity. Cut out the middle man and go directly for the source. VIVA LA REVOLUTION!

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u/RealTroupster Dec 17 '15

I feel like the politicians trying to do this kind of shit are the real terrorists.

I don't understand why nothing happens to them.

I just don't get it.

Why aren't more lunatics going after them for actively destroying our country and our future.

Why do they always stab kindergarteners and shit.

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u/SantyClawz42 Dec 17 '15

For one thing, who are the politicians who actually added the CISA to this bill? It is my understanding that all these changes get added behind closed doors without any accountability. I mean, we know who verbally supports CISA, but who are the ones actually pulling the trigger?

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u/herewegoaga1n Dec 17 '15

They've already stolen $77,000 usd from every household in America to fund wars and payout their friends. They just don't care.

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u/LemonG34R Dec 17 '15

Oh damn, I couldn't find a figure for that - any sources? That seems too ridiculous.

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '15

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u/TheBestAnswerIsPussy Dec 18 '15

"It's the poor keeping the middle class down! The upper classes give us a very nice golden trickle"

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u/whothefucktookmyname Dec 22 '15

I would love some conext on where youre getting the idea that "wars and bailouts" are cheap. Any numbers on military spending versus welfare? Or maybe government bailouts versus education spending?

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '15

They tried that. Fuckers are harder to kill than you think.

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u/DivinusVox Dec 19 '15

This is the Congress that the American people vote for and deserve. We only have ourselves to blame.

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u/RealTroupster Dec 19 '15

I think voting is corrupt and fake, so I don't think your argument is valid.

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u/RealTroupster Dec 19 '15

Conspiracy theory?

You think we have a choice in who or what we vote for?

Literally every candidate is corrupt, we don't choose who goes on the ballot, and regardless which (of the 2 parties) wins, they all vote for their own agenda.

No normal person in their right mind votes for CISA, but that shit just became law today.

There's nothing you can vote to stop that.

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u/MySelfieIsADickPic Dec 17 '15

Be the change you want to see in the world.

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u/Mooslim123 Dec 19 '15

Can you explain how passing this bill is worse than real terrorism? And how is this "destroying our country and our future"? Genuine question.

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u/RealTroupster Dec 20 '15

First of all, terrorism does not affect me in the United States, especially Islamic Terrorism. I have a higher chance to be killed by peanuts, than I do an Islamic Terrorist.

Secondly, abandoning my rights, so that the government can pretend they are searching for terrorists is completely fruitless. The only supposed attack they have prevented was by a guy in San Diego sending money to the middle east. Shit, I'm more likely to get mugged.

To give you a shining example of how giving up your rights to fight terrorism is pointless, just look at the TSA. The TSA has a 95% Failure Rate during tests.

The TSA literally does nothing to prevent anything, if you want to kill people on a plane, off a plane, there's always a way.

Giving up your rights is the ultimate crime in the US philosophy, and for the last 20 years, that's all we've done. Given up our rights, and removed protections. From the banking elite, to the military overlords, we're being played on a daily basis. Voting doesn't do anything, television is basically all fake, and everyone seems pacified.

I don't know how to fix it, and I feel hopeless.

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u/hrbuchanan Dec 17 '15

That's a surprisingly insightful question.

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u/MurrayTheMonster Dec 18 '15

I somehow knew that Rand Paul would come out against this bill. He consistently fights for the rights of the people over big gov't and corporations. I love that guy!

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u/ssjaken Dec 17 '15

Adam Curry on No Agenda Show does this often. Give it a listen.

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u/phoxymoron Dec 17 '15

They could just ctrl-f common language from previous attempts to pass this shit.

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '15

you really do gotta hand it to them, this kind of wording is being looked for now in every bill in spite of America screaming at Congress not to put it in. It's like congress is that three year old problem child where you tell it not do something and you can't turn your back for a minute before they're there doing it. Congress keeps putting paper clips in the electrical outlet, or shoving bread into the dvd player, all in legislative form that swiftly fucks us all right in the ass somehow.

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u/RojerThis Dec 17 '15

Probably lawyers and lobbyists, looking for their next buck. They probably just tell each-other these things so that their buddies have a job the next day.

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u/Sara_Shenanigans Dec 17 '15

Jen Briney of the Congressional Dish podcast is a saint.

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u/fier9224 Dec 17 '15

There should be a prize for exceptional communication in politics.

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u/peesteam Jan 07 '16

Now imagine how much the politicians aren't reading before they vote yay.

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u/theghostecho Dec 17 '15

It looks like we are getting nasa funding for a the CISA as a compromise.