Well. like I've mentioned several times in the past I guess, things like this have been going on a long time, Lee Attwater taught Karl Rove many things.
The practice and practitioners of ratfucking never went away. One of Donald Segretti's guys was a young Karl Rove and he's still in the business.
What Segretti and other were doing was subverting the election process and it would be interesting to know if this story was yet another case of the Repubs continuing to be ... ratfuckers!
Brian
Oh we should have known the Republicans are behind it. Wow how did I not see this?
That is just stupid.
The whole thread is stupid. That possibility is no more stupid than the OP's insinuation.
Duck test...
If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.
When the dirty tricks the Republicans are known for are precisely this kind of game I feel more than justified in connecting the dots...
I think the Repubs are getting a bit desperate given the utter failure to kill Hillary in the Benghazi hearings.
Brian
You have a hard on often for Hillary?? As was stated previously -- you have to be a special kind of stupid if you think....https://medium.com/@1e3d0077c3ca4df4...1-bb7647415a71
Yet another game of connect the dots.. except these dots are too big for even the blind to make the connections.
At this point, Hillary could possibly grow a pointed tail and horns and still become our next preside
Yet another game of connect the dots.. except these dots are too big for even the blind to make the connections.
Make sure to put on your aluminum foil hat and you should be OK.
Maybe you need to apply that "duck test" also to Hillary as it points more to her than anyone else.
Even though both theories seem a little screwy to me. Probably one of the Hillary Pac's getting too far out there... Meh
Well I'm on record here as not being a terribly big fan of Hillary -- go ahead and check if you like. While it's possible Hillary's team were playing the game this thread appears to suggest the fact that the Republican's have demonstrably done precisely the same type of ratfucking and have never actually stopped doing it makes it vastly more likely that the Repubs are behind this than Hillary.
Combine the hacking skills of the team that broke into the Climate Scientists network and stole emails they then cherry picked to make the scientists look bad with the ongoing dirty tricks that Donald Segretti and Karl Rove were part of I feel no need to don a tin foil hat.
It's not paranoia if it actually happened -- and Segretti et al surely did play the same kind of game.
Say, how did your team do in the Benghazi hearings? Butt hurt much!
Brian
They're so big that they literally can't connect anymore? So... they don't actually connect?
Evidence suggesting the OP is a child molester ["Alleged"]. It doesn't actually matter what that evidence is (because it literally does not exist), the point is WE NEED TO INVESTIGATE.
It's imbecilic bullshit like this that makes this forum an intellectual wasteland. AT has the potential to have a legitimate forum for political discussion and destroys any credibility by giving this bullshit the same weight as actual politics, or news, or a cat walking across the keyboard during an ether frolic. Why does this subforum even need to exist on a tech forum if there's going to be no litmus test for the topics that are discussed? If you posted a thread accusing someone of lying in the HW&Tech threads without evidence, that thread gets closed immediately. In P&N? "We can't close it, WHAT IF IT'S TRUE? Let them call each other slurs for another three months..." It ends up giving a voice to colossal morons for the advancement of an agenda of abject stupidity, and why? Seriously, what is the rationale for allowing this nonsense to be allowed to proliferate? This subforum used to have some integrity (I know it's hard to believe, but it's true). Now? What's the point? Is this just a place for us to gather to call our political opponents assholes?
Do you understand what you just wrote? You identified the problem in P&N as "ignorance, misinformation, and hyperbole," yet the vote was about name calling and abuse. Those are two very different things. Polite misinformation is far less useful than impolite, but informed, honest discussion.I don't remember this forum ever being anything other than a wellspring of ignorance, misinformation, and hyperbole. That's the way the membership wants it.We had a vote about name calling and abuse, we decided we're all for it. ...
Do you understand what you just wrote? You identified the problem in P&N as "ignorance, misinformation, and hyperbole," yet the vote was about name calling and abuse. Those are two very different things. Polite misinformation is far less useful than impolite, but informed, honest discussion.
Not sure where this is going. In the first place, Hillary voters:
A. Won't believe it.
B. If made to believe it, will insist it's a Republican smear rather than Hillary.
C. If made to accept it's Hillary, won't care.
I see no way this could possibly matter to anyone.
Ugh, another attempt to drum up "controversy" surrounding Hillary Clinton. I've said it before and I'll say it again: I've witnessed this charade play out over my entire adult life and a significant part of my childhood. Since 1993, the Republicans have thrown accusation after baseless accusation against her just to see what sticks. They've cried wolf far too many times for me to count. From "Hillarycare" jabs, to whitewater, to the Lewinsky scandal, to scare tactics of "First Husband" Bill in a dress, to Bhengazi, to the email scandal....you just can't take any of it seriously anymore. This is just icing on the cake.
Firstly I don't have a team, and my butt doesn't hurt at all. Thanks for asking!
And your "private theory" is just mere speculation and paranoia.
While I'm tempted to focus on your use of the phrase "mere speculation and paranoia" and given the genesis of this thread in the first place your mention of this is, well, comical. The Repubs have had a long standing practice of using dirty tricks up to and including breaking into the Democratic headquarters, you know, Watergate, in an effort to embarrass Dems and part of that game involved stealing Democratic stationary and then fabricating false stories using that stationary.
One of the guys that worked with Donald Segretti was a young Karl Rove.
It's not speculation and paranoia if they've done this before! The only thing that's new here is the use of the internet and the tags identifying the path those documents took -- or didn't take!
But, since I'm not part of either team and don't know with 100% certainty what actually happened I'll guesstimate the odds that the whole story is a Republican dirty trick at about 99.44%.
Hey, I'm feeling charitable!
Brian
Not sure where this is going. In the first place, Hillary voters:
A. Won't believe it.
B. If made to believe it, will insist it's a Republican smear rather than Hillary.
C. If made to accept it's Hillary, won't care.
You misspelled a word there Sparky. It's actually spelled D E L U S I O N A L.While I'm tempted to focus on your use of the phrase "mere speculation and paranoia" and given the genesis of this thread in the first place your mention of this is, well, comical. The Repubs have had a long standing practice of using dirty tricks up to and including breaking into the Democratic headquarters, you know, Watergate, in an effort to embarrass Dems and part of that game involved stealing Democratic stationary and then fabricating false stories using that stationary.
One of the guys that worked with Donald Segretti was a young Karl Rove.
It's not speculation and paranoia if they've done this before! The only thing that's new here is the use of the internet and the tags identifying the path those documents took -- or didn't take!
But, since I'm not part of either team and don't know with 100% certainty what actually happened I'll guesstimate the odds that the whole story is a Republican dirty trick at about 99.44%.
Hey, I'm feeling charitable!
Brian
I disagree. Any discussion that involves a personal attack is useless. It's not going anywhere. Name calling is just one symptom of the issue.
My point stands, few come here for information, they seek justification, or to make accusations. This place is at it's very best, a shouting society. I'm ok with that as it's what I expect.