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wildeyed

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37. What does 'inflammatory to whom' even mean?

Reply to angstlessk (Reply #10)

Mon Dec 4, 2017, 09:05 AM

Dec 2017

Inflammatory means intended to arouse angry feelings. This article is intended to arouse angry feelings in those who already predisposed to thinking that vote totals were hacked without providing any facts to back up the speculation. Also, Charles Pierce is not an expert on any of what he is writing about. Hack has two meanings....

It's clickbait, basically. Effective too, since I click on this dumb article every single time someone posts it here thinking it might contain actual, real evidence. But no. It's the same dumb article, back from the dead, over and over and over.

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Esquire: Russians may have hacked vote totals [View all] triron Dec 2017 OP

why not? K&R... spanone Dec 2017 #1

K&R for the Greatest Page. emulatorloo Dec 2017 #2

Older article - any updates? N/T FreeState Dec 2017 #3

June 2017 BadgerMom Dec 2017 #22

This was published in June. It would be good to get spooky3 Dec 2017 #4

This article doesn't really say anything we didn't already know, and its headline is misleading bearsfootball516 Dec 2017 #5

Oh hell yes they altered the results kimbutgar Dec 2017 #6

Inflammatory greeny2323 Dec 2017 #7

Inflammatory to whom? angstlessk Dec 2017 #10

To the crowd who think hacking is impossible and anyone who disagrees is wearing tinfoil kcr Dec 2017 #36

What does 'inflammatory to whom' even mean? wildeyed Dec 2017 #37

It kinda reads like it was written during an all-nighter JDC Dec 2017 #11

Bulshit...no way the GOP asshat won and eventually it will come out and Trump and the GOP liars Demsrule86 Dec 2017 #38

I've always cilla4progress Dec 2017 #8

I have never doubted this.....its too easy to accomplish for them not to be hacked Ferrets are Cool Dec 2017 #9

I have never doubted it either. Demsrule86 Dec 2017 #39

Voters filed suit over machines in GA special election delisen Dec 2017 #12

They did WHATEVER they MFM008 Dec 2017 #13

To think our voting machines are secure is ludicrous. Wake up folks. YOHABLO Dec 2017 #14

They were indeed DESIGNED to be easily hacked. sandensea Dec 2017 #15

If this is true, what has changed since the stolen election? What confidence do we have this won't C Moon Dec 2017 #16

Been saying this for more than a year. joanbarnes Dec 2017 #17

old article, essentially speculation. onenote Dec 2017 #18

Check unhack the vote.com benld74 Dec 2017 #19

From their site, the summer hack story Gabi Hayes Dec 2017 #20

Go back to the Bradblog.com in 2012 leanforward Dec 2017 #21

Vote hacking could easily be an inside job in USA, not necessarily carried out by Russians. diva77 Dec 2017 #33

kick orangecrush Dec 2017 #23

Another one for the "No Shit Sherlock" Files. Lil Missy Dec 2017 #24

It seems the GOP is complicit with this ratfucking. SergeStorms Dec 2017 #25

I am also. triron Dec 2017 #26

K & R for exposure. SunSeeker Dec 2017 #27

This... Pachamama Dec 2017 #28

That may be why even the Obama administration discounted the plausibility triron Dec 2017 #30

So we'll get a re-do, right? nt Laffy Kat Dec 2017 #29

There should be a multi-party inquiry. Doodley Dec 2017 #31

They ever do a follow low up? blimablam Dec 2017 #32

Hitting mainstream get the red out Dec 2017 #34

republicans happy to commit treason against the USA Achilleaze Dec 2017 #35