Seth Rich story resurfacing

[Grooveriding]

https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/about/traffic/

That cesspool is likely run by a propaganda team, either attached shadily to Dump's campaign or by the Russians. Weak minded show up there and get indoctrinated and turned into bots. The sort of shit they believe is crazy. Although I would guess a good amount of them are just kids who like to post stupid shit and get themselves worked up.

Conspiracy theorist whackos like Cernovich and Jones are gospel to that bunch. I joked that a student could do their thesis on cults using that subreddit. Turns out there are students using it for exactly that, but for studying how fake news and conspiracies propagate into group-think, rather than the cult victims of fanatical Trumpettes that go there to reinforce their CDB.

 

[Pens1566]

Supposedly the "investigator" has been working for Faux News. Family is disavowing of the current story. Nothing-burger.

 

[fskimospy]

They overtook r/politics in April: https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/about/traffic/

In pageviews, they are far behind in uniques. That implies a smaller group of super-committed people, which is exactly what I would suspect. I wouldn't be even the slightest bit surprised if they were trying to game the system to increase their pageviews too, considering how they have repeatedly tried to game Reddit's algorithms to promote Trump content.

I also wonder what percentage of their uniques is just people like me going over there and looking at the shit show for entertainment value. It reminds me of the old days of Portal of Evil and SomethingAwful where they would highlight particularly insane forums for people to go laugh at.

 

[mnewsham]

Supposedly the "investigator" has been working for Faux News. Family is disavowing of the current story. Nothing-burger.

The prevailing narrative being pushed out of /pol/ is that of COURSE the parents disavow it, they don't wanna get shot too.

What a farce.

 

[fskimospy]

The prevailing narrative being pushed out of /pol/ is that of COURSE the parents disavow it, they don't wanna get shot too.

What a farce.

That's some pretty awesome circular reasoning.

 

[vi edit]

For those that haven't read this, 538 did a great breakdown of traffic between /r_thedonald and other subreddits.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/dissecting-trumps-most-rabid-online-following/

 

[UglyCasanova]

Y'all have to admit there's at least a little smoke with the Seth Rich story.

 

[Moonbeam]

Bernie lost because he was a bad candidate that never found a way to expand his appeal outside of his white base. It's time to accept that.

Indeed so. We have to accept the fact that Sanders couldn't overcome the blindness of the majority of Democrat voters and in particular, the Democrat establishment who did what they could to keep him our of the running. Democrats care more about party then they do about the fact that our democracy is dead. The main thing for them is to run their favorite candidate, not the one with the right message. We can't prove that Sanders would have won if nominated, but we do know that Clinton lost and that fact, before hand, was predicted by many based on the irrelevancy of her message to the folk who cost her the election. Of course, millions of Clinton voters would have voted for Trump if Sanders had been the alternative, because, well you know, Democrats are irrational and vengeful. Thanks, however, for giving her her due chance at glory even though it didn't pan out, as so many predicted.

If we are going to pour salt in people's wounds, let me help. I want to play too.

 

[IronWing]

Y'all have to admit there's at least a little smoke with the Seth Rich story.

No, there's a lot of smoke, yuge smoke.

 

[UglyCasanova]

Murdered. Not robbed though. Worked for Clinton campaign. Killed shortly after email release. Wikileaks offering a reward for his murder. Assange saying it was an inside leak that gave it to him. Apparently evidence of communication between Rich and Wikileaks..... Profit?

 

[fskimospy]

Murdered. Not robbed though. Worked for Clinton campaign. Killed shortly after email release. Wikileaks offering a reward for his murder. Assange saying it was an inside leak that gave it to him. Apparently evidence of communication between Rich and Wikileaks..... Profit?

They probably used the same assassin that killed Vince Foster.

 

[HomerJS]

Funny this is all Fox News and the rest of the right wing propaganda machine want to talk about. Anything to distract away from Trump giving away state secrets.

 

[Pens1566]

They probably used the same assassin that killed Vince Foster.

Why wouldn't they. That was a successful op. /sarcasm

 

[mnewsham]

Murdered. Not robbed though. Worked for Clinton campaign. Killed shortly after email release. Wikileaks offering a reward for his murder. Assange saying it was an inside leak that gave it to him. Apparently evidence of communication between Rich and Wikileaks..... Profit?

Yeah, wikileaks TOTALLY wouldn't offer a $20,000 reward for something they knew would never get claimed when it would only give them more media attention and further distract from whatever trump nonsense is going on.

Come the fuck on, why would the DNC or Hillary even want him killed? If anything they'd want to expose his bullshit and make the people see it was an inside job and not their incompetent IT staff being unable to stop Russian hackers.


IF seth was involved in leaking info AT ALL, it would be FAR more in the interest of Russia to have him killed than it would Hillary, who could use him to testify that it was Russia, or whatever else it may be.

 

[UglyCasanova]

Huh? Why would it be better for the DNC if it was an inside job vs the Russians?

 

[mnewsham]

Huh? Why would it be better for the DNC if it was an inside job vs the Russians?

....because the whole thing about the russians getting her emails was she was sooooo incompetent we can't possibly trust her with presidential information.

It would look much better if Seth were simply a pissed off DNC staffer leaking to who he THOUGHT were non-russian wikileaks. If he was colluding with the russians directly, then that just leads more credence to the idea that the russians were tying up loose ends.

 

[Commodus]

Y'all have to admit there's at least a little smoke with the Seth Rich story.

But there won't be fire -- even if you're highly skeptical, there's more evidence of Trump campaign ties to Russia than there ever will be for the Rich conspiracy theory.

 

[UglyCasanova]

....because the whole thing about the russians getting her emails was she was sooooo incompetent we can't possibly trust her with presidential information.

It would look much better if Seth were simply a pissed off DNC staffer leaking to who he THOUGHT were non-russian wikileaks. If he was colluding with the russians directly, then that just leads more credence to the idea that the russians were tying up loose ends.

Ah true I suppose, but really neither situation is a good one.

 

[mnewsham]

Ah true I suppose, but really neither situation is a good one.

Sure, but one looks distinctly worse for trump. Any more direct evidence of russian involvement, even if not tied to him directly is going to make him look worse simply because all of his other russian ties already found.

 

[xthetenth]

No, I think it's a deliberate flailing attempt at changing subjects. Twitter has over 250,000 mentions of Seth Rich today. The bots are going apeshit trying to spam news feeds.

Right. What I'm getting at is that it's as much an attempt to change the subjects they themselves are exposed to in order to avoid introspection and prevent having to actually engage with the rest of the news as a potential threat to their worldview. They need something desperately and this is something.

 

[Jhhnn]

Murdered. Not robbed though. Worked for Clinton campaign. Killed shortly after email release. Wikileaks offering a reward for his murder. Assange saying it was an inside leak that gave it to him. Apparently evidence of communication between Rich and Wikileaks..... Profit?

There is no evidence that anybody is aware of- just innuendo. If you have some, produce it.

 

[MomentsofSanity]

Y'all have to admit there's at least a little smoke with the Seth Rich story.

I think it'd be more accurate to say if you believe in the story you're likely smoking something.

 

[Vic]

Fake News

 

[zinfamous]

Y'all have to admit there's at least a little smoke with the Seth Rich story.

Hey, remember that time Trump gave away classified secrets to the Russian foreign minister? lol--that was nuts!

 

[Victorian Gray]

Murdered. Not robbed though. Worked for Clinton campaign. Killed shortly after email release. Wikileaks offering a reward for his murder. Assange saying it was an inside leak that gave it to him. Apparently evidence of communication between Rich and Wikileaks..... Profit?

Who put out the contract, Bill or Hillary? And I wonder if they used the same person they hired to assassinate Kathleen Wiley's cat.