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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
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Don't you know, cynicism is cool and politics and politicians are the worst thing ever. Saying those two things over and over again makes you the smartest person in the world even if you don't really know what you're talking about.
edited 27th Oct '16 11:33:53 AM by nervmeister
To be fair, I can see it as valid criticism - most other elections, a candidate with as many scandals and potential conflicts of interest (read: "pay for play" allegations regarding the Clinton Foundation, which she blatantly sidestepped at the final debate) would have been sunk... normally. It's just that Trump is just that bad that she's a more viable pick due to Better the Devil You Know.
Also, I could easily see Trump using the "I was just running as a lark, and I still beat so many people" excuse a few years from now.
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"As far as scandals goes, the Democrats are held to a ridiculously higher standard than the Republicans. The fact that Clinton is catching flak when most of her scandals are imaginary or exaggerated says so.
Mark Sanford getting reelected while Anthony Weiner getting thrown under the bus also proves so.
edited 27th Oct '16 11:50:50 AM by NoName999
That's what happens when one of the oldest and most successful cable news networks is owned and run by people like Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes.
Of course, the biggest scandal facing HRC, the one for which all the others are more or less just things to hide behind?
She's a woman running for President — one who might actually win.
Even if that isn't the only reason, it is the core of the almost zealous blind hatred and fear many feel towards HRC.
edited 27th Oct '16 11:56:25 AM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprisedIf most of those scandals had merit, that would be one thing, but they don't. The fact that a lot of other politicians would unfairly be sunk by nothings doesn't mean it would be any fairer of Clinton was sunk by nothings.
Edit: Anyway, hasn't the Clinton Foundation stuff been mostly debunked too? Like how she doesn't actually get any money from it personally and how she backed out of things because of the conflicts of interest that could arise? Because that just sounds like reflects well on her.
edited 27th Oct '16 11:59:56 AM by LSBK
I actually feel more comfortable voting for HRC after all of this. She is arguably the most vetted politician ever by this point. And given how little actual dirt was dug up on her, and how utterly mundane it was compared to the wild conspiracies her enemies invented, I'm actually okay with the idea of HRC being the next POTUS.
Because at least 40% of the American electorate are idiots, apparently.
edited 27th Oct '16 12:05:17 PM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprised
The Remnant is really just a bunch of hipster doofuses whose minds have collapsed towards repeating tired conspiracy theories ad nauseum.
I know this girl who is diehard pro-Bernie, and for the past week, most of her Facebook feed has been posted articles about how the US has a patent for an AIDS cure involving colloidal silver and that its complete lack of media exposure indicates a government conspiracy against curing AIDS. Yeah.
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."MOST patents are for things that never pan out, because the person who applied for the patent never invented the thing, or was just crazy. There's a patent to use your tv's emag signals to control your brain. Doesn't mean it's going to do anyone any fucking good. That's not the way brains work OR electromagnetic signals.
Say to the others who did not follow through You're still our brothers, and we will fight for youRational Wiki brings up a lot of supposed dirt on her, but it reads more like ideological disputes and Ron the Death Eater than anything else. As far as politicians go she doesn't have that much in terms of unambiguous corruption and hypocrisy other than subjective feelings.
@The Wanted
Luckily nobody said that all the critiques of her are misogynistic. Just some of them. Want to try again?
Rational Wiki, while fun, is populated by many of the worst dregs of the Internet left. Their article on Obama, for instance, frequently seems to have confused him for George W.
edited 27th Oct '16 12:59:57 PM by AmbarSonofDeshar
