Kyle Kulinski: The Most Preposterous Argument For Hillary Clinton Yet

[Jack Rabbit]

Next time somebody from Camp Weathervane makes a ridiculous Citizens United-like argument about there being no evidence that Mrs. Clinton is influenced by money she receives from crooked industries like banking or fossil fuels (or the employees of such industries, if that sophistry is brought up), just point them here. (URL: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017347968)

Posted to YouTube March 29.
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[cprise]

1. I like this guy

But I do disagree about his videogames example of McFeminism. The way females are portrayed in games IS very important because games have become such a huge part of entertainment media.

[bjobotts]

4. Sure...like porno. Oh the way women are portrayed is sexist. It's a fucking video game

[cprise]

7. Its not "a game". Its 95% of them.

If its an issue for traditional entertainment, its an issue for games. There's no exception for games, especially when they claim the right of artistic expression on the issue of violence. You can't be both "just a game" on the issue of sexism and highfalutin "artistic expression" on the issue of violence.

[bjo59]

12. Agree with you.

I've stopped arguing about this, though, because for decades and decades it always boils down to a belief that cultural representations effect the ways in which people perceive and experience reality versus a belief that cultural representations have no effect on people's perceptions and behaviors at all. There's no convincing people who think fictional narratives don't effect people's realities that it is otherwise (and I obviously believe that it is otherwise!).

[Kelvin Mace]

2. *sigh*

He was interesting enough until he dismissed sexism in the video game industry as trivial. Given that women in that industry have been threatened with rape, mutilation and death for DARING to criticize the plethora of misogyny found in video games, it is NOT an insignificant issue.

That said, the point too many people miss when they claim that you can't prove corruption in political donations, is that they concentrate on finding an obvious quid pro quo. Hey, here's a $5,000 donation, give me a government contract! Yes, that kind of corruption is hard to find because so little of it is done. The standard corruption is not for doing something, it is for doing nothing. Politicians are masters of creative inaction, looking like you are doing something, while doing nothing.

Say you have a new tax bill going forward at the state/local level that is very popular. Say that new law is going to cost my $20 million a year business an extra 1%. Well, 1% of $20 million is $200,000 a year, or $548 a day when passed. Well, every day that the bill is delayed lets me keep $548 in my pocket. Say there are 13 members on the Tax Committee and I want to donate $5,000 to five of them. How long do those 5 members have to delay that bill to pay back that $25,000 "investment"?

45 days.

Every day beyond 45 is money in my pocket.

How can such a bill be delayed? Oh, there are lots of ways, even for fairly popular bills. Referral to sub-committees, study committees, law committees and rules committees. Requests for budget office scoring. Procedural delays. Attaching controversial riders. Missed deadlines. Lost paperwork, etc, etc, etc.

In the end, three years go by, and the law is finally passed, and I have seen a $575,000 return on my $25,000 donation.

This works at all levels of government, you just scale up or down depending on who you are buying to not do something.

[ish of the hammer]

8. nice explanation. thank you. and I have 153 million reasons not to vote for Clinton.

[bjobotts]

3. Can't trust her. She sold out and is part of the millionaire club.Her rhetoric is for show

[PatrynXX]

5. I just don't understand why she's attacking Bernie when Greenpeace has nothing to do with him.

She needs to get out of that poltiician bubble. I don't think Bernie lives in it. Greenpeace is well confrontational. albeit don't put them in the same room as Sea Shepherd. SS calls them a lobbying group now..

[Peace Patriot]

6. Excellent analysis! K&R 1,000x!!!

Thanks so much for posting this, Jack Rabbit!

[Hawaiianlight]

9. 1 Democrat on the top 20 list of oil and gas $ recipients, Guess who

Hillary would make the republican party proud.

https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/recips.php?ind=E01&recipdetail=A&sortorder=U&mem=Y&cycle=2016

[Jack Rabbit]

10. She does the Third Way proud

Since the lat seventies, the mission of the DLC/Third Way has been to make the old Democratic Party into a second Republican Party with Bill and Hillary as the vanguard/fifth column, you're right, the Republicans should be proud.

[Duppers]

11. Damn!! Look at the link, folks. ^^^

But it doesn't mean shit to her supporters. However, bet they screamed about all the rethugians taking the cash before the primaries.