travmatt

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by travmatt 10y ago
>I don't think what Rajiv wanted is really relevant here, he supported Hillary and was rewarded for it in a very inappropriate manner, that's corruption. For better or worse (probably worse), or current definition of corruption
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You seem to be caught in the notion that you acquire information in a vacuum, and that propagandists don't subtly alter or omit information as to further their own interests. Best of luck with that. With regards to Sanders, as best I c
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by travmatt 10y ago
Your comment really doesn't make sense in relation to what it is responding to.
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I think a preponderance of the evidence would suggest Russian involvement, from the incident response report, the overwhelming agreement of the intelligence community (on background, of course), to the excellent reporting by Joseph Cox of v
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If people decide to rebel against the appointment of unqualified people to impactful positions by electing trump to the presidency... that would nicely summarize the cognitive dissonance of this election.
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>Rajiv Fernando was not qualified to be on this particular natsec expert board that comes with a Top Secret clearance. I don't disagree with you. >Political patronage isn't necessarily wrong when you're handing out the
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I think the phrase you're groping for would be 'political patronage', not 'actual corruption' - unless you're alleging he fundraised for the Clinton campaign with the express intention of obtaining that particu
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> Just because the hack was linked to Russia and they have been at loggerheads with the US, you should not be using that sentiment to discredit the actual information. Correction, Russia is in hostilities with the United States, and is a
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You should probably start with the incident report published by the incident response firm responsible for investigating the DNC hack: https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/bears-midst-intrusion-democ...
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Did you mean to respond to me? I just said that the Russian intelligence services will use the trust they've established (by disseminating truthful information) in order to spread lies when it comes closer to the election - do you not
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That's exactly Russian tradecraft - they build up trust with the leaks of true information, then layer in false, damning allegations. We'll likely see the worst lies directly before the elections, so as to aid Trump the most.
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Also in Japan, as even a nuclear disaster isn't impetus enough to forego 'saving face': On July 5, an independent investigative commission established by the Japanese Diet issued its final report on the accident at the Fukush
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Can you source that? I'd be interested in learning more.
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I'd argue Europe's brilliant idea to carve up the Middle East into countries intentionally designed to be sectarian is a root cause of today's problems. America took the lid off the problems, but we didn't draw the lines
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4) preserving the union meant fighting his own party politically just as much as the south. The radical republicans like Thaddeus Stevens were true abolitionists and deeply committed to the equality of all races - he was more than willing t
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The South seceded over slavery - the north waged war to preserve the Union.
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Indeed it could, and Sherman famously predicted that the only reason the south continued in its fighting was that it was not properly suffering the consequences of the war they chose to instigate - that if he unleashed the terror of war upo
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There's not really an analogy with student to make. One program sabotaged the operation of existing technologies. The other program advanced the technological state of nuclear weapon development in hopes that its flaws wouldn't be
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The last I checked I was an atheist, so I'm not sure how I'm pushing a Christian narrative. Furthermore, you mean my anti-Shia narrative, since nothing I've indicated so far has anything to do with Sunni's, seeing as Ira
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I personally find the subject-changing 'what-aboutism'of Chomsky-ists tiring and repitive, but I'll bite. Iran is currently the largest exporter of religiously inspired extremism, bar none. They are not engaged in short-term
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I disagree with the supposition 9/11 was proven to be a state sponsored attack, showing that individuals inside the Saudi government funneled money to terrorism isn't equivalent to saying that Saudi government planned the attack.
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I was responding to the notion that the US doesn't like Iran, I was hoping to elucidate some reasons as to why.
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I can understand the notion that there is enough fault to go around, and that every group is incentivized to see the fault in every other group. But my point is that Iran is unique in that it foments religious terrorism as matter of state p
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It's less of 'will they put a bullet in you' and more of 'Iran is the worlds greatest expert in the development and use of IEDs explicitly designed to maim and murder American forces, as in they have engineering staff em
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I'm not associated with that region in any way, but I'm struggling to find a way in which calling someone a camel-herder isn't designed to be an ethnic slur.
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Iran is the inverse of most middle eastern countries. The elites in Iran hold anti-western sentiments while the common people are a little more liberal in their views towards America. Most middle eastern countries have the situation reverse
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To be fair, Iran is the largest exporter of religiously inspired terrorism in the world, bar none. No other country has a deep institutional commitment to cultivating and supplying terrorism that can match Iran. Edit: I'd encourage all
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I never endorsed any given plan, I pointed out that any given plan will be resisted by people who find it politically expedient to do so. I'm no political scientist, but Im almost willing to guarantee that if you took a bunch of them a
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Is this a trick question? I believe that every eligible American citizen should be able to exercise their constitutional right to vote, this is an idea known as franchisement. I don't believe there is such thing as special accommodati
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There is a certain political party that is harmed by high voter turnout in the USA and is actively engaged in disenfranchising demographics that don't share their worldviews. They certainly will oppose efforts to make it easier to vote

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