A former GOP donor, who once made headlines after calling former president Barack Obama the N-word, fatally shot himself after attempting to kill his wife, according to reports.
In case you were wondering how an obviously insane person comes to be that rich, it’s from stealing your data.
Apparently he was the founder and chief data scientist at SMA Communications. From their website:
SMA Communications owns data on over 247 million consumers and over 49 million business contacts. We also have over 179 million registered Voters, 165 million automobile owners, Social media connections and more.
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Good luck. If you want to interact with the modern world- have a smartphone, use social media, streaming services, etc., you’re going to have your data sold. And if you don’t do it, the corporation you work for is probably doing it. The horses are already out of the barn. Our data is not ours anymore.
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You’re delusional if you think you’re a “ghost” online. You can make it harder to track you, but you’re never, ever invisible.
You don’t have to be - all you must do is have the value of selling your data be lower than the cost of acquiring it.
I would say Lemmy is a form of social media.
Good luck getting a job that pays anything but starvation wages.
You don’t have to be on social media to get a good job.
A lot of jobs ask you for social media contacts. They also advertise via LinkedIn and Indeed, which require personal data. So you don’t have to be, but you’ll be lucky if you get one. And, like I said, once you get one, the company could easily just sell the data you give them. Are you going to refuse to give them your information too? Why would they hire you? Why would they keep you?
This is the same “everyone can do what I did” nonsense I get from rich libertarians.
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“If I can be a system engineer, everyone can be a system engineer!”
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YOUR*
I agree, but this list doesn’t sound particularly like digital behavior, though I’m sure that’s included. Credit card companies were selling your receipts long before online shopping, voter reg (though not it’s history) is public, a lot of this is just buying straight from companies or scraping.
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Oh nevermind he fixed his spelling mistake by changing project to protect
No, Destraight. You are the data
I never wonder why morally corrupt people are rich.
It is the about the only way you can become wealthy.
That or inheritance. Then the corruption is a side effect.
Jesus, imagine being next-of-kin and this was your inheritance. If it were a physical factory I’d order it shut down and burn it, then leave the smoking ruins as a warning to others.
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I love that the picture they chose was of him standing between DeSantis and the very stupidest Trump offspring (which is a hell of an achievement!) just to rub it in how the GOP has absolutely no standards beyond dollar amounts!
In a freaking obnoxious USA blazer to boot
Absolutely! I also love that, as of the day after the article went live, the dumbass son is identified as the OTHER dumbass son 😂
Wait is that not Eric? I’ve thus far refused to learn the difference.
Something something wrapped in a flag and holding a cross…
Eric Trump is offended. He thought he was the best at being the very stupidest Trump offspring.
He can take comfort in his winning stupidest-LOOKING Trump offspring by a mile even though junior has no chin…
Man, if you pitched these news stories to a studio as ideas a decade ago, they’d call you absurd and outlandish as they laughed you out of the room
And nothing of value was lost.
Hey now! Bullets ain’t free.
But they are back to being relatively affordable. I’d say this was a good way to spend one.
Oddly enough, I did have that on my Republican Bingo card.
It was the free space on mine.
Nice shot, man.
For those who didn’t: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_Man_Nice_Shot
Republican moment
Just legal gun owner things
There were good people on both sides
I am a lefty and I own guns. This comment is dumb
edit, i get the point you were trying to make now, by reading other posts of yours.
Was he not a legal gun owner?
Okay this comment is actually stupid.
Saying this is a legal gun owner moment is as stupid as saying it’s an Antifa moment when someone tries to loot a store during a protest or counter protest.
He was a legal gun owner who used his legal gun to try and execute his wife – something that seldom happens in countries that don’t hand guns out like candy.
Not even kind of close. Legal gun owners can be responsible and law abiding citizens, but you know the ones everyone hears about are not that kind of person. Why don’t the good and wholesome law abiding gun owners root these people out? Is it because a significant segment of that population shouldn’t own guns, even if they say THEY aren’t the problem?
To put it simply… If you had a Gatling gun on your vehicle, would you have used it by now? Most of us would admittedly say yes. Most of us, given unfettered access and anonymity, would have at least thought about doing something really stupid and illegal if everyone had Gatling guns mounted on their vehicles.
Most of us would have killed someone if the likelihood of being caught was minimal… Which is why unfettered and semi anonymous access to firearms is an awful idea
While I agree with the sentiment, I wouldn’t have killed anybody.
Good people find the idea of ending someone’s life innately abhorrent and will hesitate to do it even if their lives are in danger.
It’s why militaries (arguably) make sure to train it out of people and why abused women and targeted minorities aren’t actually levelling the playing field by carrying a gun with them everywhere.
That said, what you’re describing is one of the major issues with permissive gun laws – it only takes a split second to kill someone (or yourself) with a loaded handgun in arms reach.
Okay this comment is actually stupid.
Many GOP heavyweights took to social media to give tributes, including Trump and DeSantis.
So DeSantis donated the guy’s campaign contributions after he kept using the N word but he still decided to give tribute after the guy attempted murder?
Despite, or because?
Glad he is gone now.
Nice when the trash takes itself out.
Imagine taking the family out for a burger, and this cunt-sack ruins it by eating a bullet in front of you and your family.
Wait, he did this in public?
What a POS.
Yep. A BurgerFi
If I found out who it was, Id loudly proclaim that he was a scumbag and that I’m buying a round of shots for us to party right through it.
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Damn, that headline just keeps goin’, don’t it?
Wow that’s too bad. Anyway now his rich widow can recover and go waste her Inheritance on whatever trivial bullshit she likes. It won’t help the world, but it’s better than actively undermining it.
After what she’s gone through, shall she recover well and have a good time.
It would be nice, if everyone that suffers a life-changing traumatic event like hers, would have the means to take their time to recover, digest the trauma, get over it and finally be able to re-enter life’s daily struggle, timing everything at their own pace, without having to fear financial ruin.
Even more, if the trauma was caused by someone else, ripping you out of your life.
Now that’s a headline
First, a moment to acknowledge that his wife, who evidently didn’t do anything wrong, got shot behind this.
Now, we dance!
She was a psychologist and didn’t notice this dude was fucking crazy? I don’t want to blame her for being shot, but for her to be willing to put up with him she couldn’t have been innocent of the other stuff he’s done.
Right, wonderful amazing people don’t marry pieces of shit like this guy, wife is probably just a much of a racist piece of shit.
