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I tried following that twitter thread but I just got bored with all the details. Why should I care? The obsession with Hillary is like some weird social disease

• microcolonel 7y ago
  If you aren't willing to read a couple paragraphs of text from a PhD who is sympathetic to your politics, you aren't even in the conversation. Why publish your opinion if you admit you are unwilling to make even the slightest effort to back it up?
  • mikeash 7y ago
    Why derail the conversation and start talking about Hillary Clinton’s relationship with some professor when the original topic was Donald Trump and his attacks on the legitimacy of the 2016 election? You’re right, they’re not even in this conversation, because they’re wondering why it even matters at all.
    • microcolonel 7y ago
      > You’re right, they’re not even in this conversation, because they’re wondering why it even matters at all. Well, I'll set your mind-reading aside. > Why ... start talking about Hillary Clinton’s relationship with ... professor when the original topic was Donald Trump ... 2016 election? Because Hillary Clinton is in active denial, with a seeming corporate motive, about the election at least as much as you've accused Donald Trump of intending to be. Nobody in that race is clean of this particular accusation. I brought up the recent example of conduct related to that state of denial specifically because it demonstrates that if we're going to go down that road, nobody will emerge without mud on them.
      • mikeash 7y ago
        What does “denial” have to do with anything? My complaint is about undermining the peaceful transition of power that is fundamental to the idea of democracy.