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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Correct the Record is a Hillary aligned PAC (it started out during the primary race) that focuses on countering social media memes, sometimes with memes of their own.
...you see why the meme sharing types are upset.
I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiotDoesn't matter if enough people think he's a good businessman.
Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.@ IAT:
Then you wouldn't like the sometimes outright hostile interviewing approach of British political journalists Jeremy Paxman
and Andrew Neil
, which have sometimes drawn complaints for being too hostile?
CTR (and to a lesser extent because of funding disparities Trump's equivelant) goes beyond memes, it's a full blown online propoganda unit. If you've ever encountered China's "Fifty cent army" or Russia's paid trolls, you'll get the idea of what Correct the Record is about. It's smaller In scale and hopefully limited just to election years, but it erodes what little community there is on the Internet, and makes users even more paranoid about each other's intentions than they already are.
edited 7th Oct '16 4:59:51 AM by CaptainCapsase
It was pretty much ruined when people started acting like /pol/ite users on 8chan wherever they went. It's no more toxic than attack ads or Facebook morons' shitposting obsession.
A truly amazing photo of Ted Cruz
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edited 7th Oct '16 3:39:05 AM by Krieger22
I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiotOh, Sad Ted Cruz. How your memes light up my day.
Wait, if Trump is a terrible businessman, then how come he's still a rich upper-class guy? Is he rich enough that his wealth could absorb those business disasters without removing him from the millionaire bracket?
And not to revive last night's drama, but as someone has to play devil's advocate... I can sympathize with the death-wishing posters, because there's clear qualitative difference between merely holding abhorrent beliefs and willingly endangering other people's lives for the sake of upholding those beliefs (extra points if said endangerment involves duping those other people into believing in them).
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.I think it's been noted previously that if trump had taken the loan his father gave him and threw it into an index fund (which are almost impossible to lose money on at the cost of having a very meh return) he'd have more money. Or to be a bit more caustic: motherfucker lost money in casinos. You're either a shite business man or up to some highly illegal shit if you lose money with a casino.
Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?The other thing about Trump is that he's surprisingly cheap (relatively speaking) when it comes to his expenditures. Like, his private jet is really old and he bought it used. There's a lot of stuff like that surrounding him, when if he was genuinely as rich as he claimed, he probably would have bought, if not new, at least a plane that wasn't over 30 years old.
And before they fell apart, the most successful one wasn't actually being run by Trump. It was being run by Ivana, his first wife. And he constantly sniped at her behind the scenes and her success may actually be part of the reason why he had an affair. Because Trump can't stand to be upstaged, no matter how much the upstaging benefits him. He would rather crash his own fortune than have someone look better than him.
edited 7th Oct '16 6:03:03 AM by Zendervai
Also Trump's business is Real Estate, which isn't directly managed by Trump. It is a very profitable business if you are big enough, which the Trump family is, and Real Estate is a field of business really hard to bankrupt, it is pretty much like oil in that regard. You'd need Venezuela levels of incompetence to bankrupt Real Estate.
Trump ventures outside Real Estate are usually what end up failing, because his ego and his reality bubble prevent him from realizing that not even most millionaires and billionaires are willing to pay exuberant prices on on extravagant services Trump's focused on offering.
Inter arma enim silent legesTrump has also managed to schmooze his way into debt forgiveness and bailouts from various folks over the years.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Well, Trump's also caused a lot of people to lose their jobs, and the idea that a politician must be graded on the same scale as a businessman in terms of direct employment is kind of ridiculous.
Krugman: What About the Planet?
Remember that big "technical" issue that hasn't been brought up at the veterans' forum or either debate thus far? Why is the media just... ignoring it?
edited 7th Oct '16 6:31:22 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
x6 According to Forbes, the NY real estate didn't do as well as usual in the past year, which cost Trump about $800 million.
I get the feeling that part of why no one in the media is asking about this is because the 6 or so corporations that own the media don't want to talk about it.
edited 7th Oct '16 6:51:41 AM by M84
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Also Trump's business is Real Estate, which isn't directly managed by Trump. It is a very profitable business if you are big enough, which the Trump family is, and Real Estate is a field of business really hard to bankrupt, it is pretty much like oil in that regard. You'd need Venezuela levels of incompetence to bankrupt Real Estate.
Then how do you explain the recession eight years ago?
Incompetence? And a lot of those banks are still around, everyone else got screwed but they were too big to fall so they bailed them out.
Newsflash: Trump's ground game is still a joke.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trump-clinton-field-offices/
I wonder how many Trump supporters will turn out on Election Day, and get sent home because they aren't registered?
edited 7th Oct '16 6:59:06 AM by Rationalinsanity
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

I am unfamiliar with Correct the Record. What is it?
Oh God! Natural light!