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by tptacek 29 days ago
There's a whole subthread that already covered this ground. The passage obviously implicates Lim --- the subject of the entire document --- a reporter, in lawbreaking, without alleging facts sufficient to establish that liability, and was written by the DA's office. When Trump's DOJ does this sort of thing, we all (rightly) freak the fuck out.
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DOJ puts an accusation with clarifying text in semi private document? They don’t do this, they do much worse things (and get, rightly, much worse response).

This document isn’t great, but comparing it to Trump administration actions isn’t great either. As well as focusing on it rather than on a substance of the article in question (which is, about Garry Tan accusations in a first place).

Thank you for your comment though it made me go back and reread the linked text more critically.

> Thank you for your comment though it made me go back and reread the linked text more critically.

Yeah he was just making stuff up.

I like that I explained incontrovertibly that your statement was wrong here and your response is “somewhere else we established that he was a bad guy and that means the bad guy is trump”

lmao that nothing that you said is true at all in any way, and was trivial to disprove but you’re sticking to the vibes anyway 8-)

tptacek: “The DA for San Francisco and the DA for Chicago were the same guy and I know that because the SF guy is Trump because I did not read what he wrote and theres a thread about that“