*** Official Politics Shitposting Thread ***

[Poopadoop]

Numerous. Click the wrong link, open the wrong attachment, go to the wrong web page, or just have an unpatched vulnerability in the OS or any of the apps he's using. Any specific service account (such as twitter) can be typically easily hacked, unless he has some robust measures for password management, uses 2-factor auth etc. Oh and of course social engineering, but that's an issue no matter the device.

Any guesses on what Trump's password is? I'm going with 'Ivanka-36-28-36'

[wufwugy]

Any guesses on what Trump's password is? I'm going with 'Ivanka-36-28-36'

quality shitpost. the madman hisself would be proud.

[Poopadoop]

Numerous. Click the wrong link, open the wrong attachment, go to the wrong web page, or just have an unpatched vulnerability in the OS or any of the apps he's using. Any specific service account (such as twitter) can be typically easily hacked, unless he has some robust measures for password management, uses 2-factor auth etc. Oh and of course social engineering, but that's an issue no matter the device.

Inb4 Putin sets up GoldenShowers.com phishing site.

[wufwugy]

On second thought, compromising his twitter might not be that big of a disaster. I was assuming there are no official POTUS twitter accounts, but clearly there are. Obama used it. This means that it is probably the case that the account being hacked and somebody posting something like "JUST LAUNCHED NUKES LOLOLOLOLOL GG" isn't believed by national security to be something other states would take seriously.

[Jack Sawyer]

On second thought, compromising his twitter might not be that big of a disaster. I was assuming there are no official POTUS twitter accounts, but clearly there are. Obama used it. This means that it is probably the case that the account being hacked and somebody posting something like "JUST LAUNCHED NUKES LOLOLOLOLOL GG" isn't believed by national security to be something other states would take seriously.

Obama's was using Secure Devices© not personal devices. He has vociferously complained how he was only allowed to have a shit old phone by the NSA people. People were on his account security from day 0.

There are many many attack vectors brah. Including recovery email, the actual phone number, etc...

Plus, as we have witnessed, Obama's twitter usage does not compare to Trump's

[wufwugy]

Obama's was using Secure Devices© not personal devices. He has vociferously complained how he was only allowed to have a shit old phone by the NSA people. People were on his account security from day 0.

There are many many attack vectors brah. Including recovery email, the actual phone number, etc...

yeah im not saying it couldn't be compromised. im reforming my initial claim that compromise would be very bad since after further thought i think it's reasonable to think that no foreign state would make any immediate decisions based on something from his twitter account. at first i thought maybe they would but now i think that's wrong.

it would certainly be embarrassing for him though

[CoccoBill]

^You're thinking much too small, only about one attack vector, posting on twitter under his name. How about seeing his calendar, would China be interested if he's meeting with Taiwan, or GM that he's meeting with Toyota? Israel that he's meeting with Palestine leaders? Would China be interested in his emails, or say the Dems interested in his correspondence with Bannon? China listening to his phone calls? Or any classified information pertinent to his job leaking out, which was the whole point of the outrage with Clinton's emails?

[wufwugy]

Yeah that's other stuff. I was responding to the story and how it made it sound like the only thing he uses that device for is twitter. Obviously if he keeps Melania nudes on it, problem.

[BananaStand]

This is pretty luke-warm as far as hacking concerns go. I find it extremely hard to believe that they tried to give Trump a more secure phone and he just said "naw...this rig I bought at best buy works just fine".

I'm sure there's more to the story than that. I'm far from an expert on cyber security, but I would expect that there are measures that can be taken to make Trump's phone more secure than one off the shelf. Some of those things have already been mentioned in this thread. I'd find it hard to believe that no one at the secret service had the same thought.

Also, it's possible, plausible, and even likely that security measures have been added to Trump's phone. And whatever they are, it's probably best that they be kept secret. The fact that you don't know, and are left to wonder, is probably a good thing.

Furthermore, Trump didn't become a hacking target just since becoming president. This is something he's had to deal with his whole life.

Considering how much burning hatred there is for Trump, the fact that this letter was only signed by 14 members of congress suggests to me that this is total bullshit. 14 out of 535 is hardly a quorum.

And this is no where near the same thing as Hillary. Trump's calendar and personal twitter account are not "classified" information. That's a special designation given to information of particular concern to national security. There are procedures that you MUST follow when you come into contact with that kind of information. Hillary didn't follow those procedures. That's why she got in trouble.

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[wufwugy]

Oh damn my boy Distinguished Professor Taleb with the elbow from the rooftop!

https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/833870349217447937

If you want to teach someone a real skill, teach him how to fail. He will never learn it in school.

[wufwugy]

Women are replacing men with government and men are replacing women with pornography.

I lold.

[wufwugy]

Don't mind me

JUST REDPILLING BITCHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZZZZZZZZZ

[wufwugy]

Very smart man. When he takes a dump on his own head he can tell it's feces almost immediately.

[BananaStand]

My kids make decisions using 'eeny meeny miny moe" all the time.

Am I racist???

http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/%E2...qXy?li=BBnb7Kz

[OngBonga]

Yes but what do they say for the second line? Who are they catching by the toe?

[BananaStand]

Yes but what do they say for the second line? Who are they catching by the toe?

Apparently it doesn't matter.

[OngBonga]

Apparently it doesn't matter.

Of course it matters.

Primark have pulled the t-shirt becuase it's bad press, not because of any legal obligation. There was an airliner that used the rhyme "eeny meeny miny mo, take a seat it's time to go", and there was uproar from the African-Americans on the plane. Legal pressure followed, and courts found in favour of the airliner.

The rhyme was not origianlly a racist rhyme, as far as I'm aware. I think it's "catch a tiger by the toe". Therefore, using the rhyme is not de facto racist.

If people are going to take offence at innocent uses of the rhyme, fuck them. I'm a Birmingham City fan, a crappy football team in England. Our local rivals, Aston Villa, have a song about us, sung to the tune of "Walking in a Winter Wonderland". Does that mean I should take offence when someone sings Winter Wonderland? They also sing "fight fight wherever you may be" to the tune of Lord of the Dance. Let's ban a hymn because a bunch of morons sing silly aggressive lyrics to it.

[BananaStand]

Of course it matters. .

nah man, the way I read the article, the shirt doesn't even contain the second line.

I'm a Birmingham City fan, a crappy football team in England.

Am I racist if I cringe because you referred to 'soccer' as 'football'? Or are you being jingoist by not recognizing that America stole your sport's name fair and square?

[Poopadoop]

America stole your sport's name fair and square?

Indeed. And that's why the whole world outside of the US and Canada associates the world 'football' with a game where you kick a ball around meaninglessly for 90 minutes, with the occasional incident of someone brushing against someone else and the other person then rolling around on the ground like they'd been hit with a sledgehammer.

[OngBonga]

For our our racial sensetivity here in the UK, we still find it funny to run around like a child pretending to be a plane when we hear the Dambusters theme. It's like a reflex to a British person, it could be the most British thing there is. The Germans and Russians would find this highly offensive, considering the operation it refers to killed 600 Germans and 1000 Soviet labourers when the dams flooded.

But, pretending to be a plane is fun, and it's an awesome piece of music.

[Poopadoop]

For our our racial sensetivity here in the UK, we still find it funny to run around like a child pretending to be a plane when we hear the Dambusters theme. It's like a reflex to a British person, it could be the most British thing there is. The Germans and Russians would find this highly offensive, considering the operation it refers to killed 600 Germans and 1000 Soviet labourers when the dams flooded.

But, pretending to be a plane is fun, and it's an awesome piece of music.

I don't see how that is remotely racist...

[Savy]

I feel like the vast majority of topics that come up in life can be answered by "didn't south park already deal with that".

[OngBonga]

Your silly game is gridiron, or eggball, or perhaps even throwball.

[Poopadoop]

Your silly game is gridiron, or eggball, or perhaps even throwball.

Haha, eggball. I'm gonna start using that.

[OngBonga]

Honestly, if I wanted to watch a bunch of men chuck and egg about, I'd watch a game of rugby. No pads. Proper.

[OngBonga]

Even Australian throwball is better than your crappy game.

[Poopadoop]

Even Australian throwball is better than your crappy game.

I'm from Canada mate, our game is hockey - by which I mean the game played on skates, not a bunch of butch girls running around in skirts whacking each other in the ankles cause their sticks aren't made properly to hit a ball with.

[OngBonga]

While we're at it, cricket is tons better than baseball. Cricket takes five fucking days, at least a proper game of cricket does. And even then, it's best of five games, so that's up to 25 long days of cricket. You have no idea how much weed I get through during the Ashes series.

[Poopadoop]

While we're at it, cricket is tons better than baseball. Cricket takes five fucking days, at least a proper game of cricket does. And even then, it's best of five games, so that's up to 25 long days of cricket. You have no idea how much weed I get through during the Ashes series.

Sometimes more is not better. Both baseball and cricket suck turkey nuts.

[OngBonga]

Sometimes more is not better. Both baseball and cricket suck turkey nuts.

More is better when it comes to England vs Australia in test cricket.

[Poopadoop]

More is better when it comes to England vs Australia in test cricket.

I beg to differ.

The issue I have is with any game that has so little action. Those are barely sports. I mean if you call baseball and cricket a sport you are only one step from calling darts and snooker sports.

[OngBonga]

I beg to differ.

The issue I have is with any game that has so little action. Those are barely sports. I mean if you call baseball and cricket a sport you are only one step from calling darts and snooker sports.

Snooker is great. Definitely a sport. I'll begrudingly accept darts is a sport, even though it's crap.

Chess is the iffy one. Is it a sport if there is no physical aspect whatsoever?

[OngBonga]

Question... what does FIFA stand for? How about UEFA? How about AFC? CAF? CONCACAF? OFC? There's a common letter in all of those acronyms, and it's not S.

Time to adopt MLF, or continue to be awkward.

[Jack Sawyer]

Question... what does FIFA stand for? How about UEFA? How about AFC? CAF? CONCACAF? OFC? There's a common letter in all of those acronyms, and it's not S.

Time to adopt MLF, or continue to be awkward.

call it the Major International League of Football

BOOM, sales go up immediately

[OngBonga]

Again, I'll be honest... I'd rather watch a bunch of girls in skirts running around with sticks than watch a bunch of dudes skating round a rink trying to fight each other while pretending to care about what the score is in their girlie game made manly.

[Poopadoop]

girlie game made manly.

More like you've taken a manly game and made it girly because you're all too busy sipping tea and watching cricket, you fancy boys.

[OngBonga]

More like you've taken a manly game and made it girly because you're all too busy sipping tea and watching cricket, you fancy boys.

Sipping tea and smoking spliffs, I'll have you know.

The spliffs are important. Beer works too, which is the more popular anti-boredom agent when it comes to test cricket.

[Poopadoop]

Sipping tea and smoking spliffs, I'll have you know.

The spliffs are important. Beer works too, which is the more popular anti-boredom agent when it comes to test cricket.

A good spectator sport is one where getting loaded to watch it is optional, not obligatory.

[OngBonga]

A good spectator sport is one where getting loaded to watch it is optional, not obligatory.

Perhaps. But it's kinda like going to a techno club without taking pills. You can still dance, and it's still a decent night out, but it's not the blinder it could've been.

[OngBonga]

Lol, there is no way darts is a sport. You cannot play a sport with 75% body fat composition.

Sorry, but it requires technical precision. Archery is a sport, so too is darts.

[Poopadoop]

Sorry, but it requires technical precision. Archery is a sport, so too is darts.

Just because someone spends all their free time at the pub throwing darts and gets good at it does not make them an athlete.

[OngBonga]

Just because someone spends all their free time at the pub throwing darts and gets good at it does not make them an athlete.

Yeah well the word "athlete" might not be appropriate for a fat twat who can throw tiny arrows accurately, but sadly "sportsman" is.

[Poopadoop]

Yeah well the word "athlete" might not be appropriate for a fat twat who can throw tiny arrows accurately, but sadly "sportsman" is.

It strikes me as a funny use of the word. My sense is people only use it 'cause there is no other word for a fat twat who can throw tiny arrows accurately. 'Dartsman'?

It also gets used for people who do other non-active things like shooting or archery. Still don't see them as sports. To me a sport is something where you have to have some level of physical fitness to be good at it.

[OngBonga]

Is it a sport? Ask this question... can Stephen Hawking play it? Yes/no.

If the answer is yes, it's not a sport.

[Poopadoop]

Is it a sport? Ask this question... can Stephen Hawking play it? Yes/no.

If the answer is yes, it's not a sport.

By that definition, wiping your own ass is a sport.

[OngBonga]

By that definition, wiping your own ass is a sport.

It probably is, somewhere in the world.

[OngBonga]

I can still watch cricket when I have no weed, but I'd generally be doing something else too, perhaps playing poker, or chess, or talking shit to people on the internet.

[Poopadoop]

I can still watch cricket when I have no weed, but I'd generally be doing something else too, perhaps playing poker, or chess, or talking shit to people on the internet.

Don't tell me I'm missing a cricket match right now. Oh wait, I'll just check in on Sunday and see who's winning.

[OngBonga]

Who can wipe their asses clean the fastest after a ridiculously hot curry? Yeah that could be a sport. Probably in Australia.

[Poopadoop]

Who can wipe their asses clean the fastest after a ridiculously hot curry? Yeah that could be a sport. Probably in Australia.

So basically any imaginable competition is a sport to you? How about a spelling bee?

[OngBonga]

So basically any imaginable competition is a sport to you? How about a spelling bee?

Hawking can play spelling bee. Nope.

[Poopadoop]

Hawking can play spelling bee. Nope.

If there were a machine hooked up to Hawking's brain that allowed him to use his brain activity to control a machine that wiped his ass, would that then make him a sportsman? Or would we need a new definition of what a sport is?

[Poopadoop]

That said, these guys are prolly pretty fit. I don't know if this gets called a sport or not, but it's pretty impressive.

[OngBonga]

If there were a machine hooked up to Hawking's brain that allowed him to use his brain activity to control a machine that wiped his ass, would that then make him a sportsman? Or would we need a new definition of what a sport is?

I'm gonna have to give this some careful consideration and get back to you on it, if onyl because it seems like a fun thing to ponder while getting stoned.

Also, I'm going afk to play a few rounds of battlefield.

[OngBonga]

It's not just physical fitness, it's phsycial technical ability. And that does require a certain level of fitness, I mean the fat twat needs to not get a tired arm. I would after probably twenty minutes of darts, because I never play darts.

Snooker certainly requires stamina. I've played it, and you can definitely start to get tired if you're playing for a few hours.

They are just about active activites. Just. I kinda see where you're coming from, but it's not like chess, in which all you need to do is to be able to visualise the position, and communicate your move.

[Poopadoop]

It's not just physical fitness, it's phsycial technical ability.

On that analysis, caligraphy is a sport. So is being a good barber. They both definitely have physical technical ability.

And that does require a certain level of fitness, I mean the fat twat needs to not get a tired arm.

Ok, but the fat twat also probably couldn't walk a half mile without needing a break to drink a beer. So calling him 'fit' would seem a bit of a stretch. Being more fit that someone who never does any exercise at all wouldn't be my definition of fit.

it's not like chess, in which all you need to do is to be able to visualise the position, and communicate your move.

True, but there is also mental stamina as well as physical. Don't a lot of those grandmasters find their matches exhausting?

[OngBonga]

Horseback archery is definitely a sport, if it indeed exists in a competetive manner. No problem with that.

[Jack Sawyer]

[Jack Sawyer]

Bernie Sanders is a Moron vid. Can't have more than 1 vid in a post, dumb PHPBB

[Savy]

Ong if you could only pick one sport to watch for the rest of your life what are you picking?

edit - called ong wuf, sickest burn ever.

[OngBonga]

Probably cricket.

[OngBonga]

On that analysis, caligraphy is a sport. So is being a good barber. They both definitely have physical technical ability.

Ok, one more thing is necessary for it to be "sport"... it must be played in a competetive manner.

[OngBonga]

True, but there is also mental stamina as well as physical. Don't a lot of those grandmasters find their matches exhausting?

Indeed, and then there's the mental games that we sometimes see, such as Fischer vs Spassky in Iceland. At the highest level, I think it is just about a sport. But where I'm at... Hawking could probably beat me, so nah, can't accept it's a sport.

[Savy]

Indeed, and then there's the mental games that we sometimes see, such as Fischer vs Spassky in Iceland. At the highest level, I think it is just about a sport. But where I'm at... Hawking could probably beat me, so nah, can't accept it's a sport.

How's he moving the pieces?

[OngBonga]

All he needs to do is communicate his move. He doesn't need to physically move the piece. It can be done on his behalf.

Of course, I could insist that he moves his pieces himself, thus guaranteeing me a win, ableit a boring win on time after 1. e4.

[Poopadoop]

Of course, I could insist that he moves his pieces himself, thus guaranteeing me a win, ableit a boring win on time after 1. e4.

I wonder what 'You're a cunt' sounds like in an electronic voice.

[Savy]

All he needs to do is communicate his move. He doesn't need to physically move the piece. It can be done on his behalf.

Of course, I could insist that he moves his pieces himself, thus guaranteeing me a win, ableit a boring win on time after 1. e4.

Moving the pieces is what makes it a sport then.

Also why would being smart make him good at chess? If you're rated 1800ish then I'd put money on you being much better than him.

[OngBonga]

Moving the pieces is what makes it a sport then.

Right, so it's a sport when it's face to face, but not online?

[Savy]

Right, so it's a sport when it's face to face, but not online?

That'd be an e-sport.

[OngBonga]

I wonder if punching Hawking in the face is like punching a child in the face?

[Poopadoop]

I wonder if punching Hawking in the face is like punching a child in the face?

I wouldn't recommend it.

0:38 for Hawking vs. Ong in chess

[OngBonga]

Mental note... take small EMP device to chess game vs Hawking.

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