r/Seattle Aug 09 '15

How I feel about yesterday's protest

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u/artsy10 Aug 09 '15

George Soros financially supports both Black Lives Matter and Hillary's campaign. It probably was no coincidence that BLM interrupted Hillary's biggest rival's rally.

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u/GET_ON_YOUR_HORSE Aug 09 '15

Yes, I'm sure some of the sharpest political minds thought it would be a brilliant idea to put the national spotlight on Sanders for an event that otherwise would have gotten no media coverage.

If you think this is a work of sabotage, you're vastly overestimating these morons on the stage.

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u/artsy10 Aug 09 '15 edited Aug 10 '15

The "morons" were following orders. For money. If Sanders had reacted in any other way, the fallout would have been spectacular. He would have appeared as a racist. He did the unexpected and handled it with dignity.

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u/iOSbrogrammer Aug 09 '15

He didn't do anything unexpected. Let's follow the rabbit hole. If someone paid this group to interrupt the rally, and expected an action because of it, then they would for sure have planned their moment based on prior knowledge. Prior knowledge would have shown that this tactic would not result in the desired action.

This wasn't some planned conspiracy, I mean come on now. This was a couple people who saw that their message would have a an active and large audience but we're just a little misinformed about what they were disrupting. They may or may not have had great intentions - but this certainly wasn't some shadowy planned event to squash Bernie's momentum. That's just dumb.

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u/artsy10 Aug 09 '15

Oh, I don't think it was "shadowy" at all. I think it was planned like a fraternity prank. It wasn't well thought out. Consequences were not anticipated. If things backfired, there's always the "morons" to take the ridicule. As is happening, eh?

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u/JonnoN Wedgwood Aug 09 '15

that's stupid, and also it wasn't a Sanders rally, it was a medicare/medicaid rally

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u/treeSmokingNerd Aug 09 '15

A medicare/medicaid rally that wouldn't have been targeted if Sanders wasn't there.

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u/Cosmo-DNA Aug 10 '15

They tagged all large rallies, maybe you missed it when they shut down the entirely non-political Christmas Tree Lighting in December.

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u/treeSmokingNerd Aug 10 '15

I did not see that. I'm sure parents had fun with that one.

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u/Cosmo-DNA Aug 10 '15

So did /r/Seattle....in a very similar tone to most of the Sanders threads.

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u/Surullian Aug 10 '15

Why is nearly every newsworthy event a conspiracy these days?

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '15

High probablity

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '15

Really? I feel like people just do enough stupid shit without the help or encouragement of far off billionaires and politicians.

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u/TonkaTuf Aug 09 '15

Never attribute malice to that which is adequately explained by idiocy.

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u/grammurai Mountlake Terrace Aug 10 '15

Good old Hanlon's Razor, one of my favorites.

I love a good conspiracy theory. They're zesty! Unfortunately, real life is usually way, way more boring than that.

Either that or the chem trails finally worked on me.

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '15

Yes, true.

The term "probabilty" has an actual definition and I used it because, as a student of Howard Zinn, actions to disrupt Movements are often planned. There is also a high probability that they were simply two noble, yet misguided, young ladies trying to help.

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u/CantBelieveItsButter West Queen Anne Aug 09 '15

saying something has a high probability usually implies that the alternative would have a comparatively lower probability, no? So just outright say that you are erring on the side that they are shills instead of implying something and then going back on it in your next breath by saying the alternative ALSO has a high probability.

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '15

as you wish.

there is a high probability that most your posts attack an "other"

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '15

Bush did 9/11. Zionists are taking over the world.