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Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group

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Re: Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group

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Post by dragonwriter »

charliesharding wrote: post #68
jak92 wrote: post #29

He's nice and all, but can we go back to electing Presidents who have had lots of executive and political experience ?

But he's not just nice.. He's pretty, played in a band, and is exceptionally good at hand waving. In debate he masterfully dodges substantive discussion in favor of vast, inclusive, amorphous nicety rhetoric. Unfortunately however, he may be too white and male to appease his party's intersectional hierarchy.

> Unfortunately however, he may be too white and male to appease his party's intersectional hierarchy.

Given that the top two Democratic candidates for 2020 by current polling are Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, I don't think there's much reason to think that being white or male is a huge disadvantage.

His thin resume, OTOH...

Re: Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group

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Post by s_y_n_t_a_x »

LMYahooTFY wrote: post #66
microcolonel wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately, he doesn't appear to have any actual policy platform related to the presidential run; at least, the other day when I visited the site I saw only merchandising.

Is he late in this sort of thing? Is it typical for candidates to have their own platforms put forth outside of the incumbent party platforms by this point?

Yes, at least verbal. Even Warren is throwing pitches. Albeit not ones I agree with fully, but still she and others highlight specifics

Re: Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group

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Post by gaze »

theli0nheart wrote: post #65
ratling wrote: post #45

I don’t believe this. The GOP is desperate to discredit him because he puts Texas into play a couple years early. This smells like a weak hit job. I’m not sold as Beto as the candidate but this is a weak meme. 2/10 be best.

> The GOP is desperate to discredit him because he puts Texas into play a couple years early. This smells like a weak hit job. He agreed to be interviewed for this, so this would be a pretty poor attempt at a hit job if it was one. Source: > No one in cDc would talk about O’Rourke until I promised not to publish before the 2018 election. That was OK: I wanted the full story for my book, which spans decades, rather th…

As far as I can tell, he’s trying to smush down attention on his voting record by creating as much buzz as possible about how he’s antiestablishment.

Re: Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group

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Post by badwolf »

paulgb wrote: post #63
Kurtz79 wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You joke about it, but it is kind of scary that some obscure tweet or facebook post one did in their teens might be used against them when running for (whatever) public office...

It really concerns me that my generation will have a smaller pool of politicians to choose from because of precisely this factor.

Or people will get to a point where nobody cares that someone sent noodz, or said stupid things when they were younger, since pretty much everything everyone does or says is now online, maybe we'll all start to realize that we're all in the same boat, and we should stop sweating the insignificant things

Re: Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group

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Post by gknoy »

puzzle wrote: post #25
arbitrage wrote: post #10

Wonder what his handle was.

"Psychedelic Warlord" Well, at least he didn't turn out to be Satoshi. That would be one of the few ways to top this.

On the bright side, the Secret Service are one of the few organizations I'd trust to keep one safe if one were Satoshi. ;)

Re: Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group

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Post by isoskeles »

LMYahooTFY wrote: post #59
busterarm wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't this the guy that just said that within a generation white people will be shooting up Asians? I'm not sure how writing off a demographic of people not even born yet is going to go for his campaign. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWQNiiC0AzA

What's your point? I'm not certain of my inferences from your comment, but you seem to be missing the context of what he's saying. He's leading into that with the underlying (and very valid IMO) assumptions that economic trends can yield predictive power for cultural outcomes, and that China (and thus Chinese people to the more homogeneous populations of the US) will be heavily demonized due to the ongoing economic s…

It's an fairly divisive comment to accuse some group of people of the futurecrime of murdering your own people in churches. That's a serious accusation of something that hasn't happened yet.

I don't remember anyone blaming "Asians" for Virginia Tech, and rightfully so.

Re: Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group

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Post by theli0nheart »

gaze wrote: post #85
theli0nheart wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The GOP is desperate to discredit him because he puts Texas into play a couple years early. This smells like a weak hit job. He agreed to be interviewed for this, so this would be a pretty poor attempt at a hit job if it was one. Source: > No one in cDc would talk about O’Rourke until I promised not to publish before the 2018 election. That was OK: I wanted the full story for my book, which spans decades, rather th…

As far as I can tell, he’s trying to smush down attention on his voting record by creating as much buzz as possible about how he’s antiestablishment.

Yep, you nailed it. If anything, he's going to milk this for all that it's worth. He's not going to get far in the primaries by being an establishment candidate.

Re: Beto O'Rourke's membership in America's oldest hacking group

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Post by pastor_elm »

busterarm wrote: post #12
jlisam13 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Andrew Yang knows about it, check him out https://www.yang2020.com

Isn't this the guy that just said that within a generation white people will be shooting up Asians? I'm not sure how writing off a demographic of people not even born yet is going to go for his campaign. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWQNiiC0AzA

Didn't a white guy just shoot up a middle eastern church yesterday?
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