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.

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    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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      Protect. Your. Fucking. Data!

      Scumbags like this make fortunes off your digital behavior. Protect it like you protect your wallet.

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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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          Doing just fine. smartphone is app lite, social media is the plague, streaming services all fucking blow.

          use open source.

          avoid social media.

          pirate.

          use encryption.

          be a ghost.

          your participation in modernity is entirely self-driven.

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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.

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              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.

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                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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              Im a system engineer pulling in about 130k a year. I barely even have a cellphone. It’s not hard to reject netflix and facebook.

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                  Whatever chud. Go be terminally online. I don’t give a fuck. I’m not a little bitch and I make good money. Live your life. Be a sucker.

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        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

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      I never wonder why morally corrupt people are rich.

      It is the about the only way you can become wealthy.

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      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!

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    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

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    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?

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    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.

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    First, a moment to acknowledge that his wife, who evidently didn’t do anything wrong, got shot behind this.

    Now, we dance!

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      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.

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    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.

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      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.

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    As the trump-cultists come to the realization their god-emperor is a fraud, many will take this turn.

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    “alright time for my murder suicide. what was I supposed to do first? uhhh probably suicide then murder? we’ll see how that goes”