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by hackuser 10y ago
> How would you characterize them? IMHO: Either an active proponent of or otherwise credulous about Russia's and Trump's propaganda. It takes very little skepticism to see through them.
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by hackuser 10y ago
> t should not be a real phone. i.e., No baseband or actual cellular connection. Couldn't you use a small tablet?
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by hackuser 10y ago
> To prevent spam I suspected that, but have they openly said it? I suspect it's also to deter criminal activity.
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by hackuser 10y ago
It's not hyperbole to say that's an impossible leap of speculation: You know what someone's actions were in a particular situation based solely on their age?
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by hackuser 10y ago
Do you happen to know of any of the bots' names?
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by hackuser 10y ago
> And you are in a privileged position to discern these? Yes, as privileged as everyone else. We can and must make judgments - open-mindedness is important, but to withhold judgment indefinitely is foolishness and reckless endangerment
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by hackuser 10y ago
> I am not making a moral judgment about any of the strategies That's part of my point; it's similar to saying 'I make no moral judgment about the strategy of jumping off a tall building.' It implies it would be reaso
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by hackuser 10y ago
I avoided praising him too much in order to avoid other questions, but since you bring it up: We should also remember his advocacy of some bad things, including some arguably discriminatory or at least condescending policies toward his blac
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by hackuser 10y ago
If only your comments were skeptical.
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by hackuser 10y ago
Ah, more false equivalencies; more noise and FUD. All information that isn't public is the same! All situations involving it are the same! Truth and lies are the same and there is no way to tell the difference ... except that they are
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by hackuser 10y ago
A hallmark of propaganda campaigns is to create endless noise to obscuring the signal, including with false equivalencies and endless questions ('how do we really know vaccines are safe'?) > It may or may not make sense. The sa
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by hackuser 10y ago
In today's NY Times: A Back-Channel Plan for Ukraine and Russia, Courtesy of Trump Associates A week before Michael T. Flynn resigned as national security adviser, a sealed proposal was hand-delivered to his office, outlining a way fo
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by hackuser 10y ago
> the media doesn't do its job of ensuring leaks are accurate What is that based on? In the articles I read, they discuss the credibility of the information in detail.
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by hackuser 10y ago
Don't forget the evidence that isn't public.
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by hackuser 10y ago
It's impressive to watch you try to come up with more FUD.
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by hackuser 10y ago
> the Democratic party isn't facing up to the problems in their own party that led to that outcome They aren't? I read plenty about it.
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by hackuser 10y ago
> can you imagine Trump explicitly criticizing the deep state? He has many times. As examples: He has openly and frequently attacked the intelligence community over their conclusions about Russian hacking and election interference. He sa
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by hackuser 10y ago
Daniel Patrick Moynihan[0] wrote a book called Secrecy. If I remember it correctly, I took away two main points: * A highly valuable asset within government is information and thus workers are incentivized to hoard it and protect its value,
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by hackuser 10y ago
> How do you write an entire article like that without anyone asking "hey so, how is this a risk?". We don't know what they did in the course of writing the article or how the article ended up as it is. Maybe they did ask
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by hackuser 10y ago
Agreed and well said. Normally I would just upvote you, but I think it's important for others to see that many agree with you.
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by hackuser 10y ago
I don't see one mistake as a meaningful sample. Of course the Washington Post makes some mistakes.
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by hackuser 10y ago
> People lost faith in media after their support for Iraq war. These criticisms toward the media and 'it's not like it used to be' allegations have been going on for generations.
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by hackuser 10y ago
This reminds me of the Neptune example above. Sorry, I'm not going to play the game.
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by hackuser 10y ago
> money that likely was already taxed one or more times That describes all money everywhere, to a great degree. Think of it this way: The money you have, unless you printed it, came from someone else. And unless that someone else printed
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by hackuser 10y ago
Political communication is not about transferring information or truth, but about manipulation. You and I aren't consumers of it or citizens, we're targets. Another way to think about it is the old poker advice: "If you look
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by hackuser 10y ago
Thank you. Would you share with us a quick overview of the differences?
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by hackuser 10y ago
I can't read the whole comment; it's too long. But there are many well-documented examples of racist (or more precisely, prejudicial) and authoritarian behavior by Trump. It would be wrong for the news media to omit it. Your perso
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by hackuser 10y ago
> the press is now playing the role of 'political opposition' I strongly disagree. Their job is discover and publish information important to the public and 'speak truth to power'. Trump doesn't like that role, o
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by hackuser 10y ago
> He's once again raising important questions that were ignored before. Which questions? Criticizing the news media has been a national (and international) sport continuously for a very long time, at least 200 years it seems. Also,
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by hackuser 10y ago
> once the extensions get comparatively neutered My impression is that's not an accurate characterization; do anyone know of a serious analysis that supports it? As I said in the GP, there's not much concern with the facts and

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