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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
~I Love Dogs: Eh, I suspect that it will blow over within a few months, in terms of direct political agenda setting.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanAlso, it's terribly ironic that a website dedicated to forced transparency via leaking information would even be on Hillary's case about violating confidentiality protocol in the first place.
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No one is undecided about anything in this election anymore, let alone on Clinton. Which means this leak changed exactly zero opinions.
Jesus...
These people are the Trump base? It's even worse than I thought. Fucking retards, it makes me deeply sad to see such a profound level of toxic stupidity.
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You don't want to go to rationalwiki for unbiased stuff. You want to go there when you want a laugh on some fundies' expanse.
Both Sanders and Trump voters do have a legitimate commonality: They're tired of the Elites of their parties playing their Country Club Beltway Yuppie games, all the while never addressing the concerns of normal Americans (healthcare, taxes, Social Security, college costs, low wages, etc.). Now the end goals are likely/potentially different, but both Sanders and Trump's campaigns address major concerns to a plurality in both parties, who both want a fair shake.
The exact crossover of supporters is something to dispute, but they're both reactions from the general public from both ends that the system has failed them, and they want the System to put up or shut up. If it wasn't for Hillary's good name, I suspect, we might be seeing the same insurgency takeover in both parties.
Ah yes, I'm aware of that. It's funny, but it's very biased. But that's fine, because it was created to make fun of Conservapedia.
But in this case, I think they're on solid ground calling self-described "neoreactionaries" as massively misguided ignoramuses and racists.
But anyway yeah, self-consciously fascist reactionary people are rare, but apparently they love Trump.
@Regarding wikileaks: I'd say it's importance to Clinton's chances depends on whether or not it gets on major news networks, Dogs. Remember a couple of weeks ago when some of you were predicting that one nutter of a KKK guy was voting Clinton because she was somehow a plant of some sort would ruin her chances? There's tons of newsgroups on the internet talking about all kinds of things, but they don't necessarily penetrate very deep into public consciousness and reach a relatively small audience. Major news networks have a far broader reach with the information they disseminate. And with this tragedy in Belgium I'm betting this thing slips by major news networks without a blip. And quite frankly, people have probably already made up their minds about the whole Clinton email thing so most who hear about this will probably not change their minds.
Also does wikileaks even have any currently relevant information anymore? Gotta say what they released the last time appeared to basically be a whole bunch of office memos and gossip.
Trump may have never held a political office, but he is the very definition of The Man who buys politicians for himself. Calling him an "outsider" is ridiculous.
His platform is based on the idea that he knows how corrupt the system is because he helped corrupt it.
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"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"So according to US Uncut, there have been a number of issues at Arizona polling places
involving long lines for everyone and lifelong Democrats suddenly being registered under a different Party, and thus unable to vote in the Democratic Primary. Anyone able to find a slightly more mainstream source for this info?

I'm personally hoping the Wiki Leaks thing blossoms into a big deal that overshadows the Hillary email scandal crap.
Whatever your opinion might be on Hillary using a private server for discussing potentially confidential information, nothing she could have said could possibly outweigh the risk of taking said potentially confidential information and posting it on the internet for the world to see. If WikiLeaks is attempting to condemn Hillary with the content of her emails, they're doing so by committing a much greater offense.
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