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Pro-Clinton Super PAC Caught Spending $1 Million On Social Media Trolls (usuncut.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from US Uncut: A Super PAC headed by a longtime Clinton operative is spending $1 million to hire online trolls to "correct" Bernie Sanders' supporters on social media. Correct The Record (CTR), which is operated by Clinton attack dog and new owner of Blue Nation Review David Brock, launched a new initiative this week called "Barrier Breakers 2016" for the purpose of debating supporters of Senator Bernie Sanders -- or "Bernie Bros," as they're referred to in Correct the Record's press official release -- on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and other social media platforms. The "Barrier Breakers" will also publicly thank Hillary Clinton's superdelegates and fans for supporting her campaign. The paid trolls are professional communicators, coming from public relations and media backgrounds. "The task force staff's backgrounds are as diverse as the community they will be engaging with and include former reporters, bloggers, public affairs specialists, designers, Ready for Hillary alumni, and Hillary super fans who have led groups similar to those with which the task force will organize," CTR stated.
Even better if the trolls themselves could be outed, especially the higher-profile ones...
All Super PACs are terrible and need to be outlawed, they are just ridiculous.
Their affection for lies and treachery is the fundamental defining property of the Clintons. Remember when Bill Clinton was president and gave his Democratic constituency nothing of what he promised, while essentially running a Republican administration? Hillary is going to be no different.
The only difference is that Brazilians trolls are really easy to be identified by the stupidity and nonsense of their comments.
So they're actual Hillary supporters then?
If they restrict themselves to posting factual information they are bots, not trolls
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” -Joseph Goebbels
Conservative, mod down for violating
Astroturfing has become something of the norm over the past 5 years; I've seen a huge spike in it on the various forums out there. Everything from MS's products ( Windows 8/10 trolls are somewhat infamous ) to politicians to celebrities.
Welcome to the future. I wanted flying cars, got this.
I want a redo.
Mod me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
*sigh* and here I thought that people accusing one another of being a shill in online discussions was just people being dicks.
But I guess it is a real thing - now when someone blindly claims climate change is fake or evolution is a communist plot, or Bernie Sanders wants to destroy America, I will have to consider two alternatives? Either they are just ignorant idiots or they are paid to spread lies. I'm not sure what depresses me more.
These are communications majors who make $10/HR at McDonald's, not senior developers making 150k.
This is why we need to raise the minimum wage. Professional trolls need to be able to feed their families too and it should cost people more to spread (mis)information on the internet.
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There seems to be a concerted effort to talk about David Brock and his machinations. There was a clip on the David Pakman show where they basically said he wasn't *really* liberal - which is pretty funny considering all of the Democractic PACs he runs.
Anyways, this smells an awful lot like a Sanders-backed astroturfing campaign focusing on Brock's own astroturfing campaigns. // Not a Hillary fan at all // Nor Sanders, but he, at least, seems like a decent guy
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Easy way to get mod points, but just because Rush Limbaugh said it, doesn't make it true.
Goebbels actually thought propaganda should be truthful.
It is perhaps comforting to thinking of the Nazis as evil in every way, but the true evil comes from how they trusted the system in which they worked without question.
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Funny wording there. How are you "caught" via a press release?
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>> Only $1 million?
That was kind of my thought too. On the other hand, that's probably $1M more than her camp thought they'd be spending in the primaries a year ago. (A year ago, I if someone told me that some white guy would run up a 42% vote against the coronation candidate in her "home" state during the Democratic primary I would have either called them nuts or predicted the guy was Cuomo.)
These are communications majors who make $10/HR at McDonald's, not senior developers making 150k.
And yet the communication majors will be producing something relatively more worthwhile than the drivel we continually see coming out of these developers.
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There is a similar group doing the same thing in Brazil to help in the coup against President Dilma. The only difference is that Brazilians trolls are really easy to be identified by the stupidity and nonsense of their comments.
Well played, sir troll.
For those not following Brazilian politics, Brazil has been plagued by corruption scandals and economic woes, leading to not a literal coup, but a supermajority vote by the Brazilian House to impeach President Dilma Rousseff, which means it moves to the Senate for confirmation, then an actual trial. It's an emotionally charged issue (some representatives actually burst into song during the impeachment proceedings), but being resolved peacefully.
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Great job attacking the source but are you claiming a Hillary Superpac is not spending a million dollars astroturfing?
If video games influenced behavior the Pac Man generation would be eating pills and running away from their problems.
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>> something relatively more worthwhile
Found the English major. Also found why they can't get that job making more than $10/hour.
Not to say that real ones don't exist, but I've long been skeptical about the super-misogynistic Bernie Bros and (without getting overly conspiratorial) they've just felt false-flag to me.
Reading this makes me wonder if I wasn't just being silly thinking that.
Regardless of that and whether or not it has anything to do with the story, I follow a few pro-Clinton people who seem to have an almost clinical compulsion to attacking Bernie (ironically typically about how negative he and his supporters are)
I have to question what Clinton supporters' endgame is. I've heard everything from "Not a true democrat" (It's true, I'm an independent), "Blue no matter what" (um no, I'll evaluate everything in play), to worse. Do they all forget that this is the primary? So you've not only pissed me off and alienated me and you're going to want me to vote for your candidate in November?
Keep it up and wonder why Hillary loses to candidate X in November because of all those "Not real democrats" decided not to deal with the "real" democrat.
There's a broken window fallacy if I've ever seen one. I would say that anyone spreading misinformation for hire is creating negative value because someone else has to clean up all the mess they make. Are you going to claim that the shills and trolls hired by people like the Koch brothers are also providing something more worthwhile than software developers? If software developers make another shitty social network or pointless app, I can ignore it completely without problem, but when paid idiots spew nonsense it becomes potentially harmful to me should others believe in it and act wrongly based on that misinformation.
No, those aren't paid trolls cyberstalking you.
Just a few bored people who like to poke the local crazy to watch him jump.
why is this Slashdot headline? that's how coke and pepsi, ford and chevy, etc., do it now a'days.
nothing to see here - move along
See my fellow slashdotters?
They are watching all possible forums to post lies if they find someone trying to describe what is happening. Who accuses me of being a troll ignores the detail that the process is happening illegally by not having a justification, under Brazilian law impeachment proceedings can only occur in response to the crimes committed by the President (which did not happen). He also omits to you the fact that Congress is completely corrupt, you may have seen the circus that they did in the lower house vote. Plus, he also omits detail that the judiciary is involved in the coup too.
And as they did in 1964, they also try to say that the coup is a "process within the law." If this were a baseball game, they would have purchased the judge, inspectors and commentators to claim that they are "playing fair".
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I kind of remember that the paid shills for Bernie were being paid by Karl Rove - back at the time when they thought Bernie was a non-entity, but could be useful in helping muddy Hillary. Not sure if Bernie has paid shills any more, but there sure is a lot of ugly vitriol on social media coming from Bernie 'supporters'. This may be the Tea Party effect - where shady backers got the ball rolling, but tapped into a reservoir of genuine ugliness that was waiting to be gathered into a 'movement'. You may not like HRC, but the mysogeny suffusing the over-the-top social media criticisms of her are reminiscent of the racism suffusing lots of criticism of Obama. That's not to say you can't criticize them without being racist or mysoginist - just that the genuinely racist and mysoginist critics tend to discredit all of the critics - including legitimate ones. Just like genuinely antisemitic critics of Israel can be easily used to discredit legitimate criticism there.
In any case, "Correct the Record" seems more like an attempt to counter a negative social media presence than to be one itself - if such differences matter...
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Well played, sir troll.
For those not following Brazilian politics, Brazil has been plagued by corruption scandals and economic woes, leading to not a literal coup, but a supermajority vote by the Brazilian House to impeach President Dilma Rousseff, which means it moves to the Senate for confirmation, then an actual trial. It's an emotionally charged issue (some representatives actually burst into song during the impeachment proceedings), but being resolved peacefully.
It's quite a bit more complicated than that.
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I like Bernie himself, and even a lot of his proposals. But you could spend $1 Billion, and not even make a good start on correcting all the misconceptions his supporters are tweeting.
Using reddit as some kind of indicator is, uh .. well, that's quite a little bubble you're living in.
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Can that even make a dent compared to the legions of trolls that provide their services for free?
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Did fucking APK just make a complaint about sockpuppets when he himself is a fucking shill sockpuppet beyond shill sockpuppets?
The pure fucking irony.
Hey, whipslash, I thought you were getting rid of this fucktard.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
And yet the communication majors will be producing something relatively more worthwhile than the drivel we continually see coming out of these developers.
Please give us just one example of each. Seriously. Let's see it.
You forgot to mention that while corruption scandals were in all parties, they affected most of the guys who are impeaching the president.
Also, the president is not involved in any corruption issue, so the scandals did trigger the impeachment, but they are not the cause or excuse for it. They accuse her of misreporting public finances, not a crime, just something they don't like.
True, the president has no legislative power, but he has immense executive power, as much as congress will let him get away with, through both unilaterally appointing people to a wide range of powerful positions, and issuing executive orders that have the force of law in the absence of legislative censure. And with congress being as... ineffective as it has been in recent years, that censure is rarely wielded.
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I assume English is a second language to you, since you obviously don't understand the meaning of "shill". ALL shills are paid! If you're not getting paid, you're NOT a shill.
Look it up, son.
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You're not supposed to point out that the president doesn't have as much power as the public thinks the position has and spoil the illusion.
The problem, however, is that none of what you say, while being literally true, has anything to do with it. You see, the people who are really pushing for this, and are expected to pick up the "slack" after Rousseff are at least equally corrupted, and themselves prominent suspects in various ongoing investigations regarding corruption, financial wrongdoings etc, etc.
Face it. It's a power-grab and a coup in anything but the name. It will solve literally nothing. Meet the new boss, probably even worse than the old one. GG, well played.
I don't really doubt the veracity of the article. But I wonder where these Hillary trolls are posting their astroturf? I sure don't see it on any of my feeds. I get a whole lot of Bernie's supporters trolling me (Presumably for free?) with their Hillary is Satan/Hitler spam than I see attacks on Bernie.
Don't get me wrong, I do plan to vote for the guy, at least in my state's primary. But his "Bros" are really starting to piss me off. And if he doesn't capture the nomination, I certainly won't sit at home and pout with a "I didn't get my way so the country can just BURN. Whaaaaa...) attitude in November like they say they will. Hillary may not be my ideal choice, but she's a damn sight better than Trump or Cruz.
Imagine all the people...
This seems to be another example of the existing legal framework not keeping up with technology advances.
Outside of true campaign finance reform, even under existing laws, if a PAC buys a television ad spot, it has to disclose who paid for the ad.
Seems like a natural extension to this existing framework would be to require all paid-for posts to include a disclaimer that it was done for pay by a PAC.
The PACs would then be subject to audits and subjected to fines if examples were found where posts weren't properly disclaimed.
I'd extend this law to all paid-for postings. Make it $1,000 fine per non-disclaimed post and a lot of astroturf would dry up quickly.
The article is written by USUncut- a magazine founded by the original founders of Occupy Wall Street.
They have posted a whole series of negative articles with questionable and unproven evidence against clinton and is largely responsible for her negative outlook since the primaries began.
I think Hillary Clinton is responsible for Hillary Clinton having a negative outlook since the primaries began.
No amount of fantasy is going to cover up what she fundamentally is.
Yes, correcting people who are wrong is just disgusting. We should of course be encouraging insane beliefs instead of correcting special snowflakes who can't accept that they're just wrong.
Said the paid troll.
Or are you this guy? Duty Calls
The pseudo-anonymity of discussion forums like Slashdot, Disqus, or any of the other platforms make them fundamentally vulnerable to paid trolling. I usually assume that many of the posts written on hot-button discussions about issues such as politics or global warming are made by paid trolls. There is a percentage of the readership of forums that believes that all of the posts are made by disinterested citizens; that is the market for such paid trolling. Paying posters gives the appearance of legitimacy to the propaganda they put out. If there is a large readership for a particular forum, then paying posters to post is likely to be a relatively inexpensive means of reaching large numbers of readers. Its expense can be reduced by having single posters create posts under different user names, and across different forums. A single poster could create many hundreds of posts per day, reaching tens or hundreds of thousands of readers. I simply don't trust much of what I read on these forums.
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is creating negative value because someone else has to clean up all the mess they make.
Like the mess I and my team have to clean up every day because of the negative value created by developers?
Having us clean up their mess is not creating value because it takes time away from us by not allowing us to do the things which need to be done. Instead, we have to spend our time finding ways around the cruft developers have created or explaining to people why the latest and greatest software has less functionality than the previous versions. (Google maps for a simple example).
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Goodness gracious, I'm SO shocked. BRB, got to run to my fainting couch.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Reddit is a much bigger bubble than Slashdot, the last time I have checked. I have at least two bubbles to choose from.
What on earth does that have to do with anything? A sample based on reddit users as an indicator of the general US electorate is moronic, completely independent of anything else.
I can't even picture your line of reasoning.
"Old man yells at systemd"
Probably not, but there's plenty of dislike in the US for Brazil's leftwing government, with plenty of attacking propaganda by US political pundits. The last time a coup happen in Brazil it was directly supported by the US. Combine that with the fact that the current president (the one they're trying to impeach) was tortured by US and UK-trained torturers, it's not that far-fetched to assume that some US citizens are also involved in these trolling campaigns (but again, I doubt it's the case for this Igw guy; he's probably just badly informed).
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Hell, I've been doing it for free.
Bern Bros on the internet are almost all completely full of shit. I'm glad to hear somebody is mounting an organized response.
Attack Watch from the Obama campaign?
Yeah, I suspect that they're pretty aggravated by it. It does have the advantage of keeping her name in the news at a time when she might otherwise vanish, and "all publicity is good publicity", but I don't know how much her staff are enjoying those sour grapes.
It shouldn't have come as a complete surprise, though. She's always had high negatives, though it's disappointing that so many of them come from concerted Republican campaigns to smear her. (Remember that Barack Obama had a fightthesmears.com site set up the minute he won the nomination.) It's unsettling to have liberals repeating Republican talking points, in addition to creating their own.
It set her up for there to be some kind of opposition. And the Democratic party has been taking its liberal wing for granted for quite some time, allowing centrists like Obama and both Clintons to get their votes knowing that they'd be unable to get more than the palest pink liberal agenda items actually achieved. I happen to be a left-leaning centrist myself, and think that's about the right thing, but real leftists are understandably upset.
In the end they have the opportunity to realize that they've dragged one candidate a bit left, and get that candidate elected over a far-right candidate. That would be a win, and if it's not the win they were hoping for, it's also the one that doesn't have every Republican and half of the Democrats upset at going too far left. We'll see if they'd rather have half a loaf than none.
explaining to people why the latest and greatest software has less functionality than the previous versions.
That one's really easy. Google doesn't make as much money from third parties using their infrastructure so they'll naturally remove the useful functionality or limit it to something that only they themselves can access. The same happened with Twitter where third party developers made all of these wonderful apps and Twitter clients, but they didn't make Twitter any money or actively hurt their ability to make money so Twitter put a kibosh to them.
If your business is depending on third party code that you have no control over, you're in a very precarious position. You might want to consider moving to OpenStreetMap where you have the freedom to write on maintain your own code and avoid the problem entirely. If you're reliant on a third party you're completely at their mercy unless you have some contract and they're naturally going to have their own best interests at heart and not care about what's best for you.
Hillaryous.
Maybe, but... Do not you find it interesting that "Mr. uninformed" have many "friends" to moderate him up and moderate down everyone who disagrees?
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I think that's more a matter of others taking advantage of an opportunity than a concerted effort of which he is part. It definitely does seem like a mob is hammering you though.
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Keeping scores of people on payroll to advance your propaganda worked — and continues to work — for Putin (with whom Secretary Clinton has "an interesting" relationship).
No surprise, she is among the first to adopt his methods, and even the more prudent politicians will soon have to do it just to remain competitive. It already happened to TV make-up, robo-callers, and teleprompters...
Maybe, there will be a silver-lining in this for the perpetually-struggling "established" journalists — their having been bought may be harder to conceal/easier to prove than the same for tens and hundreds of anonymous nobodies.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
That all this persecution of anonymity — in direct violation of the First Amendment — does not even bother anyone anymore, is the scariest part...
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
There's three ways this thing can end:
1) impeach (dilma goes away, temer gets the power)
2) STF investigation finds dilma (and her vice, temer) guilty and both get removed from power (as does several friends of temer)
3) STF finds nothing on dilma and everything stays the same (unless they find temer guilty, then well, option 1 gets even worse)
They're obviously pushing for the first scenario, because well, second and third don't give em any power.
It's normal. Here in Brazil you do not really have freedom of speech, if you do not agree with the crazy ideas of the extreme right-wings they put several "dogs" after you to post garbage wherever you go.
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It means that your ability to find an exception to the generalization does invalidate the generalization.
To you, and every other moron that attempts faulty logic, there is a simple question. If money did not have any impact why do people spend it? It would be a completely irrational action and everyone doing so would be better off purchasing SuperLotto and Scratch offs. A CEO seeing his finance guy writing a fat check to piss away company money would be fired.
In the real world money does matter, and people do things to get money. People pay money to get those things. It's kind of like bartering. You know, "Can I trade you my sandwich for your Apple"? or "I'll show you mine if you show me yours." like stuff. Okay, you were probably humiliated since yours was tiny, but you get the idea.
Snarky humor aside, generalizations are verifiable and factual.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
Some one charging money for w hat I am doing for free? I have written many positive notes about HRC, I might have been paid for it! HRC owes me big time.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Nixon is smiling in his grave.
I just turned into a Bernie supporter. He must become the new official Most Popular Political Wing....strictly so that we can read yet ANOTHER tearful confessional from David Brock about how wrong he was, how deluded by groupthink, and immersed in the cult...but NOW, finally NOW, he sees the light, This Time For Sure.
Man, David Brock changed his political stripes, but then went straight back to the same basic process of supporting something by crapping on the opposition.
Wow. This is supposed to be news?!? This is nothing compared to the big Clinton picture of all he(they) have perpetrated over the years. I encourage everyone to dig up the inconvenient facts surrounding the Clintons.
Perfectly demonstrates how ethically and morally bankrupt their constituents are; on an epic scale, no less.
Fail society. Sad but true.
You forgot to mention that the vote to impeach Dilma was very questionable to start with. The grounds for impeachment were dubious to start with (accounting tricks that had been used by at least both her immediate predecessors, although admittedly on a much smaller scale). Then add the fact that most of the people who voted yes did not even mention the impeachment charges as the reason for their vote. Finally, add the fact that most of the people who voted to impeach her are provably more corrupt than she is. Most are either indicted or under investigation for various crimes.
As unpopular as Dilma may be (and she is, certainly), this process still stinks (of a coup d'etat - it doesn't always have to be executed through violence) and casts an even heavier shadow over Brazilian democracy, government, and its various institutions than the one that had long been there.
Funding for trolls! Why post your comments for free, when for just pennies FFT will hook you up with someone who will pay you nickles to express those same thoughts!
Generally speaking things that are "Funny" are best when they don't include an explanation.
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I assure you, nobody has paid me for any of these post. I am one of those senior developers wasting my employers time. I'm sure they would rather I was writing code than posting here.
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In the end they have the opportunity to realize that they've dragged one candidate a bit left, and get that candidate elected over a far-right candidate.
Oh BS. Hillary is a proven liar, and will be much like Obama. Obama promised all kinds of things on the campaign trail too, and then as soon as he was elected adopted Bush's policies. Hillary will be exactly the same: nothing she says during the campaign can be trusted. She hasn't been "dragged" a bit left, she's simply adopted some more leftish stances to get votes, and as soon as she's elected she'll abandon those positions just like Obama did. The only thing you can accurately judge candidates on is their prior experience and actions. Hillary supported the Iraq War, DOMA, and the "super predators" bill. Bernie has always been on the right side of these things and hasn't changed his principles.
I'll happily vote for Trump over Hillary. He's flip-flopping just as much as her, but at least he isn't beholden to corporate interests like she is.
robably not, but there's plenty of dislike in the US for Brazil's leftwing government,
Oh, I have a strong dislike of Brazil's leftwing government, don't get me wrong, it cost me thousands. But (many of) the guys voting to impeach are, from my point of view, just as leftwing. Does anyone think Brazil will suddenly not have a leftwing government after this? I sure don't.
The last time a coup happen in Brazil it was directly supported by the US
Yup - the decision was probably made by Kennedy, but LBJ must have known and not stopped it. Nixon get's all the shit for this sort of thing, but it was never just him.
he's probably just badly informed
Well, I didn't see the overt shift to socialism coming ahead of the election, that's for sure. I probably shouldn't have been surprised by it after the fact.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
shill > a person who publicizes or praises something or someone for reasons of self-interest, personal profit, or friendship or loyalty.
Source: dictionary.com
That took me 5 seconds.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Like "mansplaining", "manspreading", "whitesplaining", "cultural appropriation", "death panels" etc.. "bernie bros" are not a thing. It's a marketing ploy used by special interests to manipulate people into a shorthand way of thinking that cuts out rational thought.
I don't deny the brilliance of it, I just checkmark a little box in my brain about someone when they use these types of terms in earnest.
You forgot to mention that while corruption scandals were in all parties, they affected most of the guys who are impeaching the president.
"The other guy does it too" is a terrible excuse for corruption. Impeach em all, says me.
Still, it's so far a non-violent solution. The last time the US had a strongly anti-corruption president taking actual steps to fix things (Garfield), he was assassinated! The VP (Arthur) was on the other side, and the assassin had hoped this would end the anti-corruption efforts. Fortunately for the US, Arthur went a different way, declaring that assassins wouldn't get to change policy, and enacting Garfield's reforms. (No one believed Arthur at first, but as the years went by he really had changed sides.)
No that I think anyone in power is taking real steps to end corruption in Brazil, mind you. Am I too cynical?
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
Exactly. I know several right-wingers who would vote for Bernie. They disagree with him on some policies (namely immigration), but they like that he's honest and has the interest of regular people at heart instead of Wall Street elites. They also (unlike a bunch of morons on both sides) understand that the President has no power to create laws and is limited to signing bills, proposing legislation, and vetoing, plus he has a huge amount of power in starting wars. These right-wingers are anti-war, so Bernie's anti-war positions resonate with them, unlike Hillary's blatant warmongering, and while they may disagree on other policy points, they understand that the President has to work with Congress to get things done so anything he wants that's too extreme just isn't going to get passed, though positive change can be made by pushing for more and compromising for less.
You forgot to mention that while corruption scandals were in all parties, they affected most of the guys who are impeaching the president.
"The other guy does it too" is a terrible excuse for corruption. Impeach em all, says me.
Read again. I never said that. I'll say it differently:
Dilma is clean. The ones that impeach her are corrupt, she is not even been accused of corruption.
If both Democrats and Republicans are saying the same things about her, don't those things transcend from being talking points into actual things? Sounds like consensus agreement to me.
Slashdot still doesnâ(TM)t support Unicode after it was added to the HTML standard in 1997.
Now *that* I struggle to believe. I mean, sure, an honest politician is mathematically possible but ...
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
OK, read the news.
Dilma's impeachment is not about alleged corruption.
They accuse her of making government number look better than they are, by moving money around.
You can call that bad government, or even hiding the truth from the people, whatever, they are not impeaching her for corruption.
If you want to know further, her party has many officials involved in corruption. The trigger for the impeachment was that they accused some guys that were part of the governing coalition, of corruption. The guys felt betrayed, and hit back by trying to overturn Dilma.
The president, again, is not being accused of corruption.
http://www.movetoamend.org/ Try adding your name to this effort for a start. If we don't start coming together in large #'s behind at least some of the more obvious needs, our status as serfs to the global lords will soon be complete.
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“The task force staff’s backgrounds are as diverse as the community they will be engaging with and include former reporters, bloggers, public affairs specialists, designers, Ready for Hillary alumni, and Hillary super fans who have led groups similar to those with which the task force will organize,”
Have any of this staff ever hustled, sweat, or bled in labors producing real, useful goods/services? When $ buys "speech" like this, just go ahead and stamp "fascist oligarchy" or something similar across the country and be done with it. The force of "speech" should lie in it's validity/logic/truth, not in $'s ability to shout down, chant mantra over, or exclude the speech of others.
I watch something like this https://youtu.be/jcQF2AUaWzw and wonder if we stand a snowball's chance in hell of dodging full institutionalized mass slavery...
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No idea what you are talking about, you are completely off-topic.
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
self-interest, personal profit, or friendship or loyalty.
All if which are payments. The original meaning of the word was from show business and carnivals. A magician's shill was the guy who came up to the stage when the magician asked for a volunteer. Unknown to the rest of the audience, he was part of the act and in on it.
It may be a typo caused by not hitting the space bar hard enough, but you might want to look up "lookup".
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Hahaha, nice scramble. I'll just leave you alone now with the delusion that your pride is in tact.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
It's obviously disgusting when the person making the assertions has ulterior motives for convincing you. They will assert their opponents are incorrect, even when that's debatable.
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