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Meta-Comment: While I really don't doubt a bunch of racist trolls would do something like this, I've seen /b/ do enough dumb shit over the years, but I don't se
by mieseratte 8y ago
Meta-Comment: While I really don't doubt a bunch of racist trolls would do something like this, I've seen /b/ do enough dumb shit over the years, but I don't see why these papers (NPR, WaPo) don't at least include an example, i.e. screen-shot, of the calls for vote-rigging. Would make the cynic in me, and hopefully others, thinking this is a stunt for free press, like with the Clock Kid, go away.
- threeseed 8y agoNASA made the claim about vote rigging. You really think they would lie just to get some free PR ? And the "clock kid" incident wasn't a stunt. The child was actually accused of being a terrorist, handcuffed and detailed by police. And then when the news spread he was subjected to continued racial and xenophobic taunts.
- mieseratte 8y ago> NASA made the claim about vote rigging. You really think they would lie just to get some free PR ? Well, I thought journalists were supposed to do investigative work and not just publish a PR statement, but so is today's media. > And the "clock kid" incident wasn't a stunt. There sure were a lot of folks there saying he was pretending it was, and jokingly or not that's going to get you a real bad response in this day and age. But since it "validates" a lot of folks' views on how the world is, of course they want to believe and parade it around.