RE: Tara Reide. Who is this Lucy Moore?

[BlueLucy]

This is an interesting post.



https://medium.com/lucymoore_28804/serious-question-tara-do-you-want-me-your-old-confidant-coming-out-and-telling-all-your-real-fc9a51b4ebd3

[dhol82]

1. Well that might be an interesting thing to explore

[nsd]

2. Corrected link

Link to Medium post

[BlueLucy]

3. Thank you .

I was having a hard time with that.

[tblue37]

21. You need to remove the @ sign to post a Medium link. nt

[Cha]

4. Hi, BlueLucy.. the link works if you take the "@" out of the url..

https://medium.com/lucymoore_28804/serious-question-tara-do-you-want-me-your-old-confidant-coming-out-and-telling-all-your-real-fc9a51b4ebd3

You can edit your OP and put the link in.. Thank you.

I haven't heard of Lucy Moore before.

[The Magistrate]

6. Sounds Like Someone Worth Knowing, Ma'am

People like Reade leave a lot of ticked-off folks in their wake. Usually one chalks up encounters with that sort of trash to experience, moves on and forgets. But when one of those bad pennies starts making waves and becomes a sort of public figure, it is likely more than a few will remember, and speak up....


"Defeat of a dangerous enemy is something to be for."

[still_one]

14. +++ there are different ways to handle the "@" symbol in a url within DU, but what you sad is the

perfect way to deal with it

[Squinch]

5. I have never seen the source "Medium" before. This is the second

time today I have seen it linked here.

The first was to lend credence to the right-wing conspiracy theory that CV was released from a Chinese lab.

Also, they say this:

"Anyone can publish on Medium per our Policies, but we don’t fact-check every story."

So, while I like what this linked source says, I don't find it particularly credible.

[nsd]

7. True, by itself a Medium article is not anything.

But if "Lucy Moore" is a legitimate person who comes forward on the record, then it becomes something.


Editorial aside: a lot of articles in "legitimate" publications (like Slate and Salon) are basically worthless -- the publishing medium nowadays doesn't tell you much -- you always have to consider the evidence and arguments on their own merits.

[Squinch]

8. Well, I checked. Medium does seem legit. It's a kind of public-sourced site

started by one of the founders of Twitter.

Not that that lends it any credence, really. That's the kind of platform that the Russians used last time to screw with us.

And you're right. There is a lot of crap journalism out there.

[BlueLucy]

11. We won't know if it's real unless Lucy comes forward.

That would be very interesting.

[FreeState]

9. Medium's been around 8+ years

It’s as credible as it’s journalist - it’s more like a news blog.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium_(website)

[Squinch]

12. Yes, as I said in post 8, it does seem legit, but given it's structure, it still doesn't

seem like a source I'd trust.

I'll wait to see this woman come out to other news platforms before I get my hopes up.

[still_one]

22. Medium is legit. This particular link is an unpublished source as Medium states

Further information is needed before this should be considered credible

[BlueLucy]

13. Yes but IF this person comes forward like they say they might..

It would be interesting.

[still_one]

17. +++

[The Magistrate]

10. Depends On Who Is Posting, Sir

I have read sound and well informed articles there, and also some swill. This seems to be a comment in reply to a post by Reade, rather than a stand alone piece. It has a good ring to it.

And to be blunt, a whisper campaign against Reade is useful, and to be encouraged, even if it were to spread lies, at least so long as those lies were plausible not readily checkable. Sometimes, a punishment can be just only if it contains some element of injustice....


"Defeat of a dangerous enemy is something to be for."

[Squinch]

15. I understand what you are saying, and in the past I would have agreed with it without reservation.

But there was just too much manipulation in the last election cycle for me to get my hopes up from something in a source like this without other confirmation.

And while I think a whisper campaign is good when we benefit from it, the general public's acceptance of whisper campaigns hurts our side much more often than it helps us, historically. I don't know if that means we should up our efforts at creating whisper campaigns, or try to make the general public less accepting of whisper campaigns.

In my perfect world, it would be the latter, but this is certainly not my perfect world.

[The Magistrate]

16. Would That This Were A Perfect World, Sir, But Alas....

"This is the best world possible. Everything in it is a necessary evil."

[Squinch]

18. What is that from? A bit dark, but an interesting point!

[The Magistrate]

19. If Recollection Serves, Sir, And It Was A Long Way Back I Learnt It Off

It was said by Prof. Robert Oppenheimer, of atom bomb fame.

It seems to me the distillation of the Gnostic (nee Neo-Platonic) dichotomy between Spirit and Matter, by which Spirit is the Good and Matter is the Evil. So by definition, evil is necessary for there to even be a material world, which undoubtedly we are in. Not a view I subscribe to personally, mind, but something in it that statement does ring true even so.

[trof]

20. Well, I was in love with Lucy Moore in the 1st grade.

But I don't think it's the same one.