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2016 Postmortem

Baobab

(4,667 posts) Tue May 17, 2016, 08:30 PM May 2016

Keep the possibility in mind that those people leaving threats, yelling may be fakes- [View all]

Anybody who has ever demonstrated about anything must realize that quite frequently people working for the other side pretend to be demonstrators and deliberately break things or get violent as a way of trggering a response against peaceful demonstrators. When one considers that the stakes in this election are three deals that basically take over the future world, which cannot be reversed by politicians legislators or presidents, we have to realize that possibly hundreds of trillions of dollars is at stake-

I think we should expect trickery.

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Keep the possibility in mind that those people leaving threats, yelling may be fakes- [View all] Baobab May 2016 OP

I'm sure some of them are fakes griffi94 May 2016 #1

You know some of these websites have huge numbers of fake people tryin to get people to hate Baobab May 2016 #6

I think the paid operative theory is way overblown griffi94 May 2016 #10

why are you ignoring the economic aspect. Hillary's agenda will cost big groups of people huge amoun Baobab May 2016 #11

Because I don't do conspiracy theories griffi94 May 2016 #12

Neither do I - Pick an area where people still have something to lose! Baobab May 2016 #14

Everybody has something to lose griffi94 May 2016 #15

I tend to agree with you. nt Jitter65 May 2016 #13

They had a audio of a supposedly 'Sanders' supporter trashing/cussing somebody on CNN... TheProgressive May 2016 #2

If it makes you feel better to trust fantasy over evidence, enjoy your self-soothing, fact-free Maru Kitteh May 2016 #5

Absolutely. What a gold mine for those old tricksters! Peregrine Took May 2016 #3

It was proudly announced that Brock is spending a million dollars to disrupt. djean111 May 2016 #4

Whoever is spending money I would expect more like a million dollars a day. Baobab May 2016 #7

That could very well be - it is not like those people are known for telling the truth about anything djean111 May 2016 #8

I hope that's true renate May 2016 #9