Don't be naive. That is absolutely not the point of why they initially stalked her on Facebook.
When it comes to killing goats this is how I imagine Williamson will be when campaigning for support.
What I can't get over about this spin is THEY DIDNT DOXX THEM BECAUSE OF THEIR JOBS. That was AFTER they already stalked their social media accounts! That was their fallback excuse! Just like gamergate always did when they doxxed someone.
Everyone keeps running this narrative that she "made him look bad". No. She didn't. I thought he had a satisfactory answer to a legitimate question. And most people I've heard takes from felt the same. He made it clear that his campaign has systems in place to address the issues of his last campaign, and that he was severely disappointed by the news that people were behaving badly in his campaign.
First all of he absolutely did not mess up that exchange despite your attempt to make it sound like that earlier in the thread. And it's extremely fucking relevant. You want to run with this narrative that she humiliated him and the Bernie bros are so pissed at her. She didn't, she asked a good question, he gave a decent but not perfect answer.
Nice weird deflection to gamergate. A woman working for a lobbying firm in D.C. asking a question on a televised town hall is extremely relevant. And she's clearly not the only case of this happening but everyone is focusing on that because she asked the sexual harrassment questions of course the bros are out for vengeance.
It's not weird. It is 100% apt. The comparison is eerily identical in deflection.
Because the comparison is remarkably similar.
Gamergate is now viewed as a trial run for the tactics used in the 2016 election.
This thread has become hyperbolic, so... not sure if you are being serious or glib. The cross section between democratic socialists and alt right types is not very large.
So it's TYT fault (even though they are not the one's that originally found this out IIRC) that CNN was dishonest about this woman's profession. In what scenario can you ask "Where did this tough question come from?" Never? And again, you're assuming that it started with her, there were multiple people that had dishonest professions listed on CNN. A lobbying firm, CNN whoever could astroturf a town hall and we would never be allowed to know anything about it.
No one is saying those doxxing these innocent people are Gamergaters. It's that they are copying textbook Gamergate tactics to deflect and spin why they got doxxed.
Explain to me this, why did they stalk a college student on Facebook in the first place? There was no reason to assume CNN "hid" her career.
100% serious. The tactics were the same. Not saying the people were.
Ah, so someone working from a lobbying firm asked a tough question to a presidential nominee and CNN was dishonest about her profession?
You wouldn't know CNN was being "dishonest" if they didn't stalk this college kid on Facebook to dig up dirt on her.
How is anyone supposed to verify anything's truth if people aren't allowed to sniff test by looking into the people that were selected for questions? For the record I think it was incredibly inappropriate for TYT to punish the info on their program, but many in here are acting like there is no reason to snoop and do some detective work about people involved in the political process and campaigning. Especially when it was revealed that more than one person was not clearly represented as who they really were. It's lying by omission.
It's not specifics but it's communicating his understanding of how these basic dynamics are involved and the importance of the third part.Mayor Pete said:
That is not an excuse for stalking a college kid on facebook to try and dig up dirt on her.
Because there is nothing nefarious about people looking up publicly named PUBLIC people to verify they are who they say they are. Especially with an outlet like CNN that's taken a severe nosedive in their reputability in the last several years since being run by a reality to clownshow producer.
I heard about 20 minutes of this on the way to work this morning.
That's fair I guess. I guess I'm more used to answering and processing questions the way Bernie did. Sequentially. Maybe the first part wasn't the crux of her question, but it was the first question nonetheless. "The Democratic is more and more women and POC, how will you appeal to them?" If that wasn't important then I feel she should have cut to the chase and just asked "what is your campaign doing to make women feel safe after the sexual harassment allegations within your campaign?"
Yes we need more Fake News and less finding out about the truth.
Are you equating people who want more transparency in a televised political town hall involving a high profile candidate with online libs calling everyone a russian troll?
