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That is ... a pretty persuasive piece of messaging, imo

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From another point of view, if you were a sitting USA judge, on a bench, in a courtroom, and some guy (a candidate for any public office) you didn't even know exists turned up on the news and the story was about photos of said candidate naked in a hot tub with his wife AND your two daughters, also naked, would you think, "Neh,, phfft, not a problem."?

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If damn near every Republican in DC is so quick to join in on the coverup, it is safe to say that most of them know very well that their party is in deep shit with Russia and election fuckery.

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So if a Google search returns only (left wing) facts and doesn't return (right wing) bullshit then it is the political bias and not the bias for Truth that is the cause?

Here's an idea to get right wing ideas more prominence in Google searches: start telling the truth

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Use a little reverse psychology on the Trump Dead-Enders by telling them they should vote for the Democratic candidate just to prove the election is rigged. They are too stupid to argue.

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Thanks Vladimir!

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That exactly what I explained to my mother this week. I told it’s about gerrymandering and voter suppression now. Told her that ALL ELECTIONS NEED GOTV ENERGY

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I Googled "flat-earthers," "anti-vaxxers," and "breathairians."

The results were obviously biased against flat-earthism, anit-vaxxing, and breathairianism.

Just to be sure, I Googled 0/0=1. Once again, the bias was obvious.

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Me haz "ah ha!" moment! in France, adult mixed couples getting naked together in a private hot tub is totally normal and unremarkable behavior, but over here..."Oh My Gob Eww La La it's A SCANDAL only deviant sexual perverts do that shit." (not my view, but this is USofA and I am in the middle of it so there's that)

ergo, in your sweet French innocence of believing that "nudity is not sin", my analogy went zoom right past you!

I sorry! REALLY! Plz be by friend some moar.

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So, lemme see if I have this straight:You're an undecided voter, and you are trying to decide who to vote for. It's pretty certain that you're deciding on the basis of policy, since if you were deciding on the basis of racial invective and hate you'd've already decided. So you do a search for things about policy. And who talks about policy? Why, Mme. Clinton. Lardass has no policies at all, just hate and anger. So yes, you're going to think, well, Hillary actually has plans. I think I shall vote for her instead of the clown who can only bellow about Mexicans.And Two Scoops think this is Google's fault.

And we won't even get into the fact that a sample size of 95 voters is downright homeopathic.

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You give him too much credit: https://www.picclickimg.com...

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the reason they weren't giving up information is because they were guilty. They were guilty of it. And they know they're guilty of it.

"So, what you're saying is that people only refuse to share information when they're guilty, is that it? OK, then, let's talk about your tax returns, shall we?"

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No worries, water under the bridge.

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So how many voters were manipulated by the 10 minutes of Trump the major news networks aired for every 1 minute of Hillary?

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In part because I'm sure there was a check in that set of Russian checks with THEIR name on it.

The thing that concerns me is that McClatchyDC first started reporting about the possibility that the NRA was washing Russian money and hanging it up with the Republicans right after the PARKLAND shooting. That was so long ago I don't even know how long ago that was -- but that's not only then how long they've been stalling, but that also TOOK AWAY TIME for people who want secure elections to be able to force foot-dragging legislators into securing them when they obviously don't want to ... which

I'm ... actually disturbed more people aren't kind of panicking and shouting about this.

So I will do the other thing I've been doing ever since I found out about this (and also about the fact that the reporting happened so long ago; Dallas News has been reporting on Ruth May's research about Russian money in GOP coffers for TWO YEARS) -- I will, once again, as I've been doing for at least six months now, put up all the information I have on McConnell's being compromised by Russia AND China, oligarchs AND sanctioned banks (why, for example, do we not hear more from the New York Times about their investigation into Elaine Chao, McConnell's wife and also Secretary of Transportation? Was it killed??), as well as the Dallas News reporting on Russian money in GOP coffers, and hope that someone with more authority to do something about it than I do actually runs with it

https://twitter.com/dallasn...

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