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People are retroactively upset that they didn't do this during our election.
by forthefuture 9y ago
People are retroactively upset that they didn't do this during our election.
- imron 9y agoAll the while pretending it was only one side engaged in such tactics.
- tessierashpool 9y agoThe Russians took out ads to depress African-American voter turnout, in Trump's favor. The Clinton campaign did not do anything remotely similar.
- imron 9y agoWell, at least future candidates know that they no longer need to spend billions on their campaign and can just spend a few hundred thousand on targeted Facebook ads instead. > The Clinton campaign did not do anything remotely similar. We are in agreement then that Clinton campaign was on a whole 'nother level.
- phs318u 9y agoApologies, but going off-topic to respond. It's highly likely that when all the Russia stuff plays out, Trump's campaign will be seen to have been so full of moles as to make the Cambridge Five look like amateurs. In terms of sheer audacity, the Russian campaign is unprecedented in ambition and success. The CIA will be unpicking this cluster-fuck for a decade at least.
- jessaustin 9y agoAfter Trump is reelected he will close down the CIA. (To be clear: without my vote! He is a cretin and a horrible man and I would never vote for him. Still, I can be happy about happy events...) That action will deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, but he won't get it.
- puppetmaster30 9y agoYou have a lot of imagination.
- tyfon 9y agoI'm not sure if this constitutes politics or what on HN, but as an outside, not taking part in the election and living in another country, here is my observation on this point. Hillary f*ed up the Bernie Sanders campaign using pretty much the same tactics, only it was not the "Russians", they just did it themselves[0]. If anyone are to be accused for a dirty campaign it is her. [0] https://www.salon.com/2016/06/20/congressional_black_caucus_comes_out_forcefully_against_bernie_sanders_proposed_transformation_of_democratic_primary_process/ https://www.salon.com/2016/06/20/congressional_black_caucus_...
- lern_too_spel 9y agoOn the contrary, your article doesn't say what you claim, and Clinton led the charge to enfranchise black voters. https://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/politics/democrats-voter-rights-lawsuit-hillary-clinton.html https://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/politics/democrats-...
- sschueller 9y agoAre you absolutely sure about that? https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/56638#efmAAGAA2AGJAI2 https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/56638#efmAAGAA2...
- owebmaster 9y agoOh boy, as a Black guy I'd like to be able to flag this comment alone. This accusation is racist and criminal.
- squozzer 9y agoLet's stipulate the ads were deployed. Any proof that they worked?