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Re: House panel looking into Reddit post about Clinton's email server

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Post by WalterSear » Tue, Sep 20, 2016, 1:16 AM UTC

School-Cotton wrote: post #68

WalterSear wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

100 million people faffing about vs 6 full time guys who are presumably professionals in the field? And really, it's not 100 million people. That's just the number of people on the site. In actual fact, it's probably a handful of people at most.

100 million people (or a handful, whatever) who don't have to worry about Bill Clinton and various other powerful figured pressuring them into compliance. You can believe that, against all odds, Bill really did just talk to Loretta Lynch about grandkids. Even so, the point was still made.

"Noice grandkids you got there. Wouldn't want anyfink to 'appen to em, would we now?"

Re: House panel looking into Reddit post about Clinton's email server

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Post by CptJamesCook » Tue, Sep 20, 2016, 1:16 AM UTC

"The Reddit message was sent on July 23, 2014, according to an archive of the page saved by other users. The day before, the Benghazi Committee had reached an agreement with the State Department on the production of related records"

Re: House panel looking into Reddit post about Clinton's email server

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Post by mindcrime » Tue, Sep 20, 2016, 1:17 AM UTC

losvedir wrote: post #73

mindcrime wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I honestly can't understand how anybody is considering voting for Clinton or Trump. If this world was anything close to reasonable, Gary Johnson would win in a landslide. shrug

As a Gary Johnson supporter myself, I freely admit that he has some extreme policies that can turn off a lot of voters. But what really frustrates me is how many people I've heard from that do prefer him but are afraid to vote for him because of the spoiler effect. I keep (wishful thinking) envisioning a scenario where he gets just enough votes that all of a sudden everyone on the fence realizes that maybe he could w…

But what really frustrates me is how many people I've heard from that do prefer him but are afraid to vote for him because of the spoiler effect.

Yeah, I know what you mean. It's just that this time around, BOTH "major party" choices are SO bad, that you look at it and think "who cares whether Gigantic Douche or Turd Sandwich wins?" Ya know?

Re: House panel looking into Reddit post about Clinton's email server

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Post by nostromo » Tue, Sep 20, 2016, 1:17 AM UTC

mhomde wrote: post #35

danso wrote: post #2

The r/conspiracy thread where things unfolded: https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/53fw9x/bleachbi... One of several archived copies of the r/exchangeserver thread, "Remove or replace to/from address on archived emails?" (the user stonetear deleted his account during the r/conspiracy thread): http://archive.is/FXcao

Just when you thought this election couldn't get any weirder... there's a major scoop about Clinton on r/conspiracy

Hillary attacking the Pepe the Frog meme was the point at which I had to pinch myself to wake up.

Re: House panel looking into Reddit post about Clinton's email server

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Post by bpodgursky » Tue, Sep 20, 2016, 1:19 AM UTC

discodave wrote: post #77

jimmywanger wrote: post #26

The actual facts aside, this makes her appear far less electable, as her campaign camp looks like it's being run by a bunch of clowns. Just from a PR perspective, this could not have come at a worse time. The collapse at the 9/11 memorial, the "basket of deplorables", and the mention of the Pepe meme on her official website. Right after a couple of muslim terror attacks, some evidence surfaces purporting that she tri…

> The actual facts aside I happen to believe that facts are important in a Presidential race. Essentially your response is repeating talking points of the Trump campaign... which is OK, 1st amendment and all that but to pretend like you're making a constructive addition to the discussion / debate is folly. Right now America has a choice between Trump, a racist, mysoginist demagogue who has never held a public office…

Unfortunately, it's very easy to be both experienced and terrible at your job.

Re: House panel looking into Reddit post about Clinton's email server

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Post by monochromatic » Tue, Sep 20, 2016, 1:20 AM UTC

peteretep wrote: post #32

> Citation needed if you're > going to "correct the record." This is not Reddit, and it is not a place for accusing people of being paid shills. Please desist.

Well... not exactly an accusation, but I will admit it was a reference that was uncalled for. I have no reason to question the motives of that commenter.

Re: House panel looking into Reddit post about Clinton's email server

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Post by brown9-2 » Tue, Sep 20, 2016, 1:20 AM UTC

jimmywanger wrote: post #26

The actual facts aside, this makes her appear far less electable, as her campaign camp looks like it's being run by a bunch of clowns. Just from a PR perspective, this could not have come at a worse time. The collapse at the 9/11 memorial, the "basket of deplorables", and the mention of the Pepe meme on her official website. Right after a couple of muslim terror attacks, some evidence surfaces purporting that she tri…

> and the mention of the Pepe meme on her official website

mentioning a meme on her website is disqualifying?

Re: House panel looking into Reddit post about Clinton's email server

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Post by shagie » Tue, Sep 20, 2016, 1:20 AM UTC

kevhito wrote: post #60

CamperBob2 wrote: post #37

Long-shot speculation: I wonder if the Democrats have decided that Hillary is going to lose against Trump. Maybe they, and not the GOP, are throwing her under a very fast bus. Does anyone know what happens in the unlikely event that Clinton is placed under indictment before the election? Does Kaine move up the ticket? Does the DNC pick someone else entirely? What options do the electors have?

I was getting ready to point out that Hillary really has a large lead, even if the day-to-day talking heads insist on making this and every race/issue seem as if it is 50/50 split. Then I checked 538.com [1]: they have her at 60% chance of winning -- pretty strong lead and hardly a normal time to throw someone under the bus -- but those graphs should be terrifying team Hillary. [1] http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com…

My preferred stats site has firmly switched to Tannenbaum (of Minix) and http://www.electoral-vote.com - 538 has felt more like horse racing for ESPN this past cycle than statistical analysis and news items.

Re: House panel looking into Reddit post about Clinton's email server

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Post by iamdave » Tue, Sep 20, 2016, 1:20 AM UTC

adamrezich wrote: post #22

iamdave wrote: post #14

This is interesting. I was up drinking beer with a friend until 5am this morning talking about the very phenomenon of breaking news coming from social media and sites such as Reddit. He pointed to the Boston bombing and Dallas shooter situations as reasons why the press should "just ignore" social media; his entire argument boiled down to 'bad data exists along side good data, therefore throw it all out" I didn't nec…

The Boston Marathon bombing fiasco was the result of reddit trying to deduce stuff in the real world based on photos and video and the like. This is reddit trying to deduce information based on reddit posts, on reddit. I think that's an important distinction.

I think so too, and that's a distinction that I tried in our debate to bring up. Broadly, my entire argument was around the use of social media, or at least the existence of social media bringing many new points of reference when looking at historical events in ways we didn't have before, and that if one wanted to, they could go and mine tweets, shares, likes, reddit posts from a fixed point in time and look at sentiment.

Well, because some sentiments were wrong (in his opinion because people like Kim Kardashian are allowed to tweet), the whole notion needed to be thrown out.

So I agree, it's an important distinction-though that distinction is inherently part of the "riddle" so-to-speak.

Re: House panel looking into Reddit post about Clinton's email server

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Post by CamperBob2 » Tue, Sep 20, 2016, 1:21 AM UTC

kevhito wrote: post #60

CamperBob2 wrote: post #37

Long-shot speculation: I wonder if the Democrats have decided that Hillary is going to lose against Trump. Maybe they, and not the GOP, are throwing her under a very fast bus. Does anyone know what happens in the unlikely event that Clinton is placed under indictment before the election? Does Kaine move up the ticket? Does the DNC pick someone else entirely? What options do the electors have?

I was getting ready to point out that Hillary really has a large lead, even if the day-to-day talking heads insist on making this and every race/issue seem as if it is 50/50 split. Then I checked 538.com [1]: they have her at 60% chance of winning -- pretty strong lead and hardly a normal time to throw someone under the bus -- but those graphs should be terrifying team Hillary. [1] http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com…

The reason I'm worried is that it's becoming increasingly clear why the GOP was so enthusiastic about blocking Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland to SCOTUS. That never made any sense, except in a bizarro world where they were very sure they weren't going to lose the Presidency.

Nate Silver has been wrong at every single juncture, as have the rest of the polls. We're off the beaten path and down the rabbit hole, and now we're staring at a trap door in a dark sub-basement that even the rabbit didn't know was there.