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

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Post by Dagwoodie »

int_19h wrote: post #107
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

Realistically, given how little exposure third party candidates get, there's no chance of any third party winning this year. Most voters don't even know they're running. Thus, it becomes a choice of 1) making a symbolic vote for a third party to "show them", 2) helping Clinton win, and 3) helping Trump win. Given the potential outcomes of Trump vs Clinton, a lot of people believe (rightly, IMO) that this electoral cy…

Curious, can anyone comment on how fair NPR is in terms of covering 3rd party candidates? How about covering all candidates during a primary? I'm sick of great candidates being steam rolled in the popularity contest we have in politics and I wonder if we have anyone that covers them all adequately.

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

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Post by conanbatt »

cloakandswagger wrote: post #119
imron wrote: post #95

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> huh? It's horrifying https://www.hillaryclinton.com/post/donald-trump-pepe-the-fr... Edit: In response to your edit, she's attacking a cartoon frog . In seriousness. Not only that, but she's trying to attribute characteristics to that frog that simply aren't any core part of why people post Pepe memes. All of that questions the sensibilities of her campaign. Basically her campaign is going all out trying to paint T…

I especially love the pop-up modal asking me "Is Trump unfit to be President?" on that site. There's only a single button (I Agree), and clicking the X in the corner to close the modal causes the button to be pushed at the same time. For someone as "experienced" as Clinton, her campaign is astoundingly incompetent.

I clicked the link, saw that popup and had to share that abomination. What the hell.

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

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Post by School-Cotton »

ben174 wrote: post #146
School-Cotton wrote: post #53

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Who cares? Literally what point are you making? Dude, do you think this is a football game? That scoring a point against your opponent negates points scored against you? I suspect a big chunk of the people complaining about this would have complained even harder when Bush did it (if what you say is true), if they had been old enough to be aware what was going on, and had social media like we do now. So, what is your…

On the football game analogy: yes, there are two teams. One of these teams will win. Both teams suck but at the end of the day, most people will want to vote for the person who made the most points. It's actually exactly what it is.

I am not discussing who you should vote for. I am discussing whether Hillary Clinton is a corrupt person. Those are two different questions.

If Trump[1] is even worse, then sure, vote for Hillary. But that doesn't mean that she's good or that people have to like her.

As an aside: if that were the argument Hillary fans had been making the whole time: "Yeah, we know Hillary is bad and corrupt, but at least she's way better than Trump, so you should vote for her", then I would respect them a lot more.

Instead, it's mostly been a chorus of "OMG, why are you dragging up conspiracy theories about her e-mails! You right-wing simpleton! Go back to Breitbart and argue about lizard people!"

Nothing is more annoying than people being smug when they're actually wrong.

[1]: Trump is Hillary's competition, in case anyone didn't know. Not sure why anyone is still talking about Bush.

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

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Post by Retric »

dilap wrote: post #30
xenadu02 wrote: post #11

> "As a PST file or exported MSG files, this could be done though, yes? > The issue is that these emails involve the private email address of someone you'd recognize, and we're trying to replace it with a placeholder address as to not expose it." From the way it reads it looks like he is asking how to bulk remove an email address from the archived messages so when they are turned over they don't contain the redacted…

What adam12 said -- sure, running a private email server to avoid FOIA is just Bush-level shady (though I'd hope the bar acceptable behavior would be higher than 'Bush did it'). But modifying and deleting evidence to thwart a subpoenae from the FBI is real bad.

It's 7 months, prior to the first subpoena. This is a question for redacting information, which is fairly common when doing releases to congress etc.

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

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Post by Zpalmtree »

minikites wrote: post #128
MichaelGG wrote: post #120

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Curious, do you have a handful of racist Trump quotes? Not stuff about illegals, but actual racist stuff (like not wanting to rent to blacks or something)? Trump aside, electing someone that's openly corrupt (DNC Wikileaks show they went against Bernie, against rules) seems to be far more dangerous to the future of the US and worldwide democracy. Up until now, corruption was sort of assumed, but if a publicly corrupt…

You don't think his rhetoric against undocumented immigrants is racist?

Last time I checked "undocumented" immigrants aren't a race, and they also broke the law. It's not racist to attack people breaking the law.

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

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Post by Zpalmtree »

nostromo wrote: post #84
mhomde wrote: post #35

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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.

M E M E M A G I C

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

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Post by Retric »

School-Cotton wrote: post #125
mcphage wrote: post #96

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> Literally what point are you making? The point I'm making is that I don't think you, or anybody else actually cares about the emails—they care it's something they can criticize Clinton for. Before her, nobody gave a shit. After her, nobody will give a shit. They don't matter, except that they can be used to criticize Clinton. So of course nobody complained about it with Bush, because nobody cares about them. > I su…

> The point I'm making is that I don't think you, or anybody else actually cares about the emails Based on what evidence? > they care it's something they can criticize Clinton for. I'm no fan of Trump either. I wish Clinton were a good candidate so she would wipe the floor with him. > So of course nobody complained about it with Bush, because nobody cares about them. I was 12 years old when Bush was elected. That's w…

Based on nobody criticizing the several prior people in that same position that did the exact same thing.

Sure, if it was just one or two that's one thing, but A email is public in the first place and B when your the fifth person in a row to do something you generally assume that's just how it's done.

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

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Post by douche »

thatswrong0 wrote: post #145
minikites wrote: post #128

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You don't think his rhetoric against undocumented immigrants is racist?

I don't think he's said anything about having a problem with legal immigrants.

I suspect he might end up sleeping on the couch if he did

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

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Post by School-Cotton »

phil248 wrote: post #114
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…

How many more decades of witch hunts and investigations before we find some damn fire?

What do you mean? We found it. This is fire.

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

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Post by goatlover »

int_19h wrote: post #107
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

Realistically, given how little exposure third party candidates get, there's no chance of any third party winning this year. Most voters don't even know they're running. Thus, it becomes a choice of 1) making a symbolic vote for a third party to "show them", 2) helping Clinton win, and 3) helping Trump win. Given the potential outcomes of Trump vs Clinton, a lot of people believe (rightly, IMO) that this electoral cy…

Doesn't this get said every single election, though?
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