5 ms·
Obviously the pizzagate stuff is stupid and unfounded. It does a great disservice to people that were victims of real sexual abuse. But can't you see the vast
by yarou 10y ago
Obviously the pizzagate stuff is stupid and unfounded. It does a great disservice to people that were victims of real sexual abuse.
But can't you see the vast amount of corruption? The DNC rigged the primary for one candidate. We need to hold our political parties accountable for their actions.
- mullingitover 10y agoThey preferred a candidate, but 'rigging' implies fraudulently manipulating the votes, which didn't happen. I'd like to see the RNC's emails now. What kind of dirt do the republicans have? Is it not being released because it's being used to blackmail them?
- Natsu 10y agoDespite some unsubstantiated rumors, there is no proof they were ever hacked.
- wavefunction 10y agoRigging doesn't specifically mean manipulating votes. It means taking what is presumably an open and fair contest and taking some actions to ensure it isn't. The big things that came out of the leaks for me is the explicit and cosy relationship with specific members of the media who were instructed to produce and disseminate certain messaging against Bernie Sanders. They also asked those "media resources" to prop up Trump, Cruz and Carson because they naively believed that Trump would be a push-over, for example.
- KVFinn 10y ago>The DNC rigged the primary for one candidate. Clearly there were people within the DNC who preferred clinton, but in what sense did they rig the vote? See: http://electionado.com/canvas/1478880826459 http://electionado.com/canvas/1478880826459
- equalunique 10y agoThere was a conflict of interest between the top election official for Brooklyn and a "Clinton Super-delegate" http://reverbpress.com/politics/battlegrounds/ny-poll-worker-who-dropped-thousands-from-voter-list-paid-6-6-million/ http://reverbpress.com/politics/battlegrounds/ny-poll-worker... Whatever the case was, 126K Brooklyn-based democrats were unable to cast votes in the primary http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/officials-investigating-why-126000-voters-were-purged-from-ny-rolls/ http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/officials-investigating-... Brooklyn is one of the parts of the NYC area that have ultra liberal demographics, so one could draw the conclusion that Brooklyn's voting power would have tipped the NY primary towards Sanders.
- travmatt 10y ago>But can't you see the vast amount of corruption? Every time I see someone write something like this my knee jerk reaction is to either assume they're lying or they are clueless. Can you point to the vast amount of corruption you claim is self evident?
- virtuabhi 10y ago1) Selling ambassdor positions to the donors (check the xlsx file which has higher paying donors getting 'better' countries) 2) Co-ordinating with Super PAC https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/807308520546848769 https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/807308520546848769
- neuronexmachina 10y ago1) This doesn't make it right, but it's a common practice for a President to give a percentage of ambassadorships (typically 30%-40%) to donors and friends. Obama, Clinton, and both Bush's all engaged in this practice. It's unusual though to extend this practice to the Cabinet, as Trump has done.
- travmatt 10y agoI could even name some Reagan donors turned unqualified ambassadors. I can't tell if people hawking such ridiculous ideas are truly naive or are just following a motivated reasoning to reach some post-hoc justification of their dislike.