StrangeSox

It's what some people's pearl-clutching about protests often break down to, but I certainly don't endorse that idea. The whole point of public protests are to cause disruption and unease to draw attention to your cause.

Years before ‘Aleppo moment,’ Gary Johnson showed little interest in details of governing

QUOTE (SpankyEaton @ Oct 4, 2016 -> 06:44 AM) So this dude was bluffing the whole time? He's been bluffing for months. He's said since early this year "listen guys I'm totally going to END Crooked Hillary's campaign with my upcoming leaks!" only to completely fail to deliver every single time.

The proper way to protest is to do it so no one is offended or upset or even mildly inconvenienced.

To be fair, calling "wikileaks has nothing" is pretty easy these days. The best part was promoting his upcoming book because of course that's how low he's sunk.

Lmao called it.

Oh that was definitely somewhat tounge-in-cheek. Obama has Libya and Syrian and Yemen and expansion in Afghanistan and I'm sure others that aren't coming to mind immediately.

Obama and an early draft of his memoirs http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/...presidency.html

Ugh why is Walsh still my kicker

Obama is non interventionist compared to bush, but he's had plenty of his own adventures.

I like Minnesota's matte helmets

NY AG sends Cease and Desist to Trump Foundation for operating without proper certification. https://twitter.com/Fahrenthold/status/7829...src=twsrc%5Etfw

It's too bad that the Tribune didn't use their platform to push for some electoral reforms that could actually give third parties a chance.

If you want us hegemony weakened that means countries like Russia and China gain more influence, and saying "oh those are just regional issues" would let the us off of the hook for all of the horrendous garbage it has done in the Americas.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 3, 2016 -> 10:03 AM) Trump crapping all over vets with ptsd https://mobile.twitter.com/briantashman/sta...964275463716865 https://mobile.twitter.com/anamariecox/stat...969673067421697 Wonder what his shareof the military vote will be after saying women and Trans people being in the military is because of pc and that suicidal vets are weak.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Oct 3, 2016 -> 10:13 AM) The bolded has been established multiple times. You said Assange was an employed by the Russias. He hasn't worked for RT since 2012. Unless you can substantiate otherwise, your claim was wrong. What relevance is there to the second line? The fact that HRC is talking about droning Assange, even if in humor (which is only assumed here), it shows that HRC wants to get rid of him. If he didn't matter and was as terrible as everyone in this thread says he is why is someone as important as HRC even talking about him? You get rid of an annoying fly even if ultimately that's not that big of an annoyance. Wikileaks isn't irrelevant but calling them one of the biggest threats or concerns is overblown is all. And while Clinton may be too much of a hawk, she wasn't seriously considering a drone strike on the Ecuadorian embassy in London (if she even said that at all).

Wikileaks had indeed released information on many different governments, but curiously not Russia and dismisses the largest leak ever because it was bad for putin. Us hegemony has led to bad things for sure, but Russian hegemony would undoubtedly be worse. Don't let a strong dislike for American foreign policy cross over into excusing atrocities by others. Far leftists make the same mistake far too frequently. Russia also annexed part of Ukraine and have been backing separatist forces for a few years now, so they have influence on the world stage.

Trump crapping all over vets with ptsd https://mobile.twitter.com/briantashman/sta...964275463716865 https://mobile.twitter.com/anamariecox/stat...969673067421697

You may have missed when he derided the Panama papers as anti putin, which I'm pretty sure was pointed out to you in this thread. They also never talk about Russia really, which is the point- no damaging info about Russia ever comes out of wikileaks.

That argument has never bitten anyone in the ass really,really hard, right? But the answer to the question you asked soxbadger is readily apparent. Russia is his employer because he works for Russian state TV, and he routinely excuses or denies Russia's wrong doing. Wikileaks has definitely exposed some things both good and bad, but they've repeatedly undermined their own credibility.

Are you aware that rt is a state sponsored propaganda wing of the Russian government? That's not the same as "not having mainstream acceptance." Hell, going to crazy town InfoWars would be less suspect.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 3, 2016 -> 09:23 AM) There isn't really "soft support" or "enthusiasm" outside of the supporters. That's not what any of the polling says though

That's quite the inflation of assanges influence, but unless Clinton was pulling a beckett moment with that statement then it's just an (unsourced) joke. Why make such a big deal about the announcement and "assassination fears" and put off actually releasing the Clinton destroying info, unless it's really just another overhyped nothing like several past announcements from assange eg his release during Clinton's dnc speech that was going to blow up her campaign?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 3, 2016 -> 09:20 AM) There is nothing that is going to be said between now and November that will change the supporters of either candidates minds. All of these "surprises" will be justified by their own support bases. It literally doesn't matter. Lots of things can still influence soft support and how enthusiastic people are to actually make the effort to vote.