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In reply to the discussion: Internet sleuths nailed Malaysian MH17 as a missile attack hours before anyone else... [View all]reorg
(3,317 posts)11. about your vocabulary
Here is a short video from a rally of the "terrorists" in Donetsk:
so you can take a look before drones are sent in to destroy them.
While prattling on about the acumen of "internet sleuths", you cite three official Russian sources. I hate to break it to you, but had I posted these articles in LBN they'd have been deleted immediately due to their origin, deemed unreliable on this here internet sleuth territory.
Then you proceed to post some YouTube videos and Twitter messages that don't appear to prove anything, and conclude with something that was posted by the Kyiv Post and may or may not be authentic.
So, if we take your apparent conclusion, that militants of the "Donetsk People's Republic" may have made an error and caused this horrible accident when they attempted to shoot down a military supply plane - what does this prove, what exactly did the sleuths get nailed?
What should have been known all along, and for this you didn't need Internet sleuths, Russian news agencies or even CNN: that fighting was going on in this area, that planes had already been shot down and that it was highly irresponsible for airlines not divert their planes in order to protect their passengers and crews. I don't get this. They flew in a straight line right over a war area:

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Internet sleuths nailed Malaysian MH17 as a missile attack hours before anyone else... [View all]
ReverendDeuce
Jul 2014
OP
it's not that simple, people on the internet don't have to worry about credibility, news orgs most
JI7
Jul 2014
#4
I get it, my aim was more at those who ALWAYS roll their eyes about Internet sleuthing... n/t
ReverendDeuce
Jul 2014
#6
You appear to be confusing CNN with 'anyone other than internet "sleuths"'
muriel_volestrangler
Jul 2014
#19
Thanks. And CNN definitely was reporting a lot of this stuff very early on.
pinboy3niner
Jul 2014
#29
If you remember, social media was also spreading many false rumours as facts, for Boston
muriel_volestrangler
Jul 2014
#22
WOW! It's all over LBN and national media! Thanks for showing us the background!
freshwest
Jul 2014
#18
Where's Sarah Palin on this? We already heard from Bomb, bomb, bomb McCain. This is so horrible...
freshwest
Jul 2014
#30
The separatists claimed to shoot down a Ukrainian cargo plane today at that location
muriel_volestrangler
Jul 2014
#26
I dont have a bias in this fight but when a Russian source said that Ukrainians shot down a plane
rhett o rick
Jul 2014
#27
Claims about your own side are more credible than ones about your opponents
muriel_volestrangler
Jul 2014
#33
My point is that it seems that some here believe Russian news sources when it suits them and try
rhett o rick
Jul 2014
#36
You use the same sloppy tactics. People take issue with Russia Today in specific, you rephrase that
Bluenorthwest
Jul 2014
#39
"But no one would argue that RT is just a mouthpiece for Putin." Really? No one??
rhett o rick
Jul 2014
#44
The very fact that you think you speak for the "reality based community" proves you know
rhett o rick
Jul 2014
#46
LOL. You can't be series. Why was it alerted on? Why was it more conspiratorial than
rhett o rick
Jul 2014
#31