2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Damning Hillary Clinton with Faint Praise [View all]intersectionality
(106 posts)Honestly this whole thread is about purity testing purity testers, and as such seems like a really bizarro world thread. People deserve criticism, and politicians deserve it especially. While the goal is to get Hillary elected, it shouldn't be to get Hillary elected at the expense of the electoral process. While you find nothing about the emails disturbing, it isn't just the right wing that finds them disturbing. Anyone who works in tech knows that these type of ignorant decisions are at the base ignorance that is the slow march to killing everything from government transparency (respond to the damn FOIA requests and stop delaying, please) to net neutrality (a hypothetical Senator saying 'I don't understand technology and thus the way these lobbyists are talking to me about it really makes more sense than the phrase "net neutrality" - besides, the bill they want me to push is called "internet freedom act" so what could go wrong?').
The crazy thing is, all these pieces that you don't want talked about are really the only pieces that Donald "literally Hitler" Trump can hold on to. When you dismiss them out of hand rather than making comparative statements about them (i.e. politicians, especially those who have never worked as tech developers or really in business for the past decade or so, are just generally ignorant about security in tech), you make it sound like there is something to hide. And that's where this thread really leads to - another purity test. She's not Jesus Christ, and failure to willingly address her decision-making without claiming it somehow nullifies my Democratic voting record for the past decade will make the discussions on this board less valuable.
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