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#1 Damedius
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@zaryia said:

Sorry, I was MOSTLY replying to the TC @Damedius (conveniently MIA) not you. I just wanted to make sure you and MJK knew what the real figures were. His title was extremely mis-leading, and the youtube title was a downright lie. They spent several millions to "try" to influence the election through interference/meddling, not just $4700. I mostly wanted to just fact check and/or clarify this specific position. But you also have to understand several conservatives at several sites, including this one, denied interference even happened at all for years. I have no clue why the GOP and Conservatives are constantly lying or mis-leading about this particular issue.

And I agree on what most of what you said. But, advertisements and trolls reaching 100s of millions of people (especially in SWING STATES, as they targeted) and the DNC Hacks (which reached millions) probably did at least have SOME effect. And in an election that close, it gets pretty important.The thing is, like you alluded to, we will never know if it was enough to actually change the outcome of the election. It could have been meaningless or it could have just barely swayed enough swing States. My guess is It probably didn't make or break the election, but it's still super bad and has to be stopped.

But the fact that they did try to interfere was a big no-no. I completely agree, we can't let it just slide or downplay the facts (like some in the GOP and conservative such as the TC are doing).

I think you are ignoring the Elephant in the room when it comes to interfering with the US government. If you really care about election interference.

http://fortune.com/2016/03/21/aipac-israel-lobby-election-2016/

This week, the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee will hold its annual policy conference, and attendees will be hearing from some of the biggest names in politics. Every remaining presidential nominee except for Bernie Sanders will address the crowd, as will Vice President Joe Biden, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan. Essentially, anyone who wields power or wants to wield power in Washington will be there.

AIPAC and the “Israel Lobby” in general—a loosely connected group of lobbyists, politicians, and Political Action Committees dedicated to strengthening America’s connection with the Jewish state and advocating for support of Israel in international relations—can be a bit of a political land mine. When criticizing the actions and policies of the State of Israel, it is easy to step into territory that many would deem anti-Semitic.

But it is impossible to ignore the fact that AIPAC, the biggest, most powerful group in the Israel Lobby, has got serious juice when it comes to Washington politicking. The group has one of the most sophisticated lobbying efforts around, including a highly professional set of lobbyists on the Hill who know how to get congressman to vote their way when it comes to issues affecting Israel. They also have representatives throughout the country who can lobby congressman from their home districts.

In 2015, a total of $4,189,000 was spent on Pro-Israel lobbying. AIPAC accounted for $3,388,700 of that.

It is important to note that AIPAC does not directly contribute to candidates, nor does it give money to PACs supporting candidates. They don’t explicitly endorse candidates for the presidency or for lower offices. What they can do, though, is use their influence to get their donors to give to candidates and PACs that will be favorable to Israel and to AIPAC.

Already in the 2016 campaign cycle, $7,168,396 has been donated to federal campaigns by Pro-Israel individuals and PACs, according to data from Open Secrets. In the 2012 cycle, a total of $15,102,201 was donated to such groups.

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https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/370122-another-software-upgrade-suppressing-evidence-is-fbi-standard-procedure

Congressional investigators were rocked this weekend when the FBI notified them that five months of text messages from a top FBI investigator into the Trump campaign’s Russian connections had mysteriously vanished.

The FBI-issued cell phone of Peter Strzok, whose previous texts to his mistress (also an FBI employee) showed fierce hostility to Trump, suddenly had problems due to “software upgrades” and other issues — and voila — all the messages between the two from Dec. 14, 2016, to May 17, 2017 vanished. Strzok, who oversaw the Trump investigation from its start in July 2016, was removed from Mueller’s Special Counsel investigation last summer after the Justice Department Inspector General discovered his anti-Trump texts.

The FBI has a long history of “losing” evidence that would tarnish its halo. And for most of the agency’s history, judges and Congress have let the FBI sweep its dirt under the rug.

In the Ruby Ridge case, when an FBI sniper gunned down an Idaho mother holding her baby in 1992, the chief of the FBI’s Violence Crimes division was sent to prison for destroying evidence. When a Senate committee held hearings three years later, four FBI agents took the Fifth Amendment rather than tell the incriminating truth about their activities on the Ruby Ridge case. A subsequent Senate report concluded that the five successive FBI reports of internal investigations of the episode "are variously contradictory, inaccurate, and biased. They demonstrate a reluctance on the part of the FBI initially to take the incidents at Ruby Ridge seriously.” Sen. Herbert Kohl (D-Wis.) complained, "I would be asked by the FBI to believe (Ruby Ridge) was almost a model of (good) conduct. The conclusion, is drawn, from ... all the people we've heard, that no one did anything wrong of significance or consequence."

The FBI suppressed mounds of evidence regarding its final assault on the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas, on April 19, 1993. The FBI had always vehemently denied that it had any blame for a fire that killed nearly 80 people; six years after the attack, investigators found pyrotechnic rounds the FBI fired into the building before the conflagration erupted. Attorney General Janet Reno lashed out at the FBI for destroying her credibility.

Newsweek reported that, according to a senior FBI official, “as many as 100 FBI agents and officials may have known about” the military-style explosive devices used by the FBI at Waco, despite Reno’s and the FBI’s repeated denials that such devices were used. The FBI deceived Congress and a federal judge by withholding information that it had six closed-circuit television cameras monitoring the Davidians’ home throughout the siege. The resulting films could have the key information that could resolve the major issues of Waco but the FBI withheld the tapes for years, until they were impounded by U.S. marshals.

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https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-15/mueller-scrubbed-messages-peter-strzoks-iphone-oig-recovers-19000-new-fbi-lovebird

The Justice Department's internal watchdog revealed on Thursday that special counsel Robert Mueller's office scrubbed all of the data from FBI agent Peter Strzok's iPhone, while his FBI mistress Lisa Page's phone had been scrubbed by a different department, according to a comprehensive report by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released on Thursday.

After Strzok was kicked off the special counsel investigation following the discovery of anti-Trump text messages between he and Page, his Mueller's Records Officer scrubbed Strzok's iPhone after determining "it contained no substantive text messages," reports the Conservative Review's Jordan Schachtel.

Mueller's team was unable to locate Page's iPhone, however the DOJ's Justice Management Division (JMD) similarly scrubbed her phone - resetting it to factory settings.

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#4 Damedius
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@Damedius:

1. Dude. Please stop. Cora's is that she's juat 20 and she was exposed to a new culture that she feels is great and yet to understands it's flaws. That's it. That ia nearly every 20 year that lived abroad or is an otaku, or is over naive. I empathies with her because that use to be me. I got over that. And Cora did get over that.

You're basic point to hate her is because she is a dumb 20 year old.....which all 20 year old's are. Get off your high horse.

2. Don't try. They only were male centric post genophage. Before that it was and kind is still might equals right no matter the gender.

If you think the female krogan are acting odd then you need to look warlord shiagur...who was the last female warlord from the genophage war. Stated in me2 by grunt.

They only had female not be worriors or go off planet for only one krogan generation to breed.

The living apart thing they do now is only a post genophage result. Also this is dicided by the female clan....they can undo it if they see fit to.

Sorry but anyone complaining about how the krogan live in mea is full of bull.

1) 20 not 6. There is no excuse to call yourself an Asari Commando if you are human. That would be crazy.

2)They left for Andromeda prior to the genophage being cured.

I'm not sure why you are defending horrendous writing and decisions. It's the reason why the game bombed.

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@dreman999 said:

@Damedius: this is why I hate modern day bioware fans, their are alot that bring their anti/pro sjw with them no matter what game they play.

Dude, any pro she story or message is so buried in this game you literally have to go out of your way to find it.

None of the story was effected in any way. Most who claim this can even point out were on the plot this pro sjw stuff is.

Their only 2 gay character who you only find out are gay if you directly ask them other wise their is no hint that they what so ever. NONE WHAT SO EVER.

And the only other point is one tran character you have to hunt down who also no long says the line that pissed off people in the firat place.

Seriously, how do people upset over this play other bioware game or even dragon age which has way more of what you hate because "sjw b's" . I mean Dao has a character that hits on you if your male or female. And another who hints to you they are bi.

Where was all this bs hate during Dao? Or jade empire? Or kotor? Or Bg2.

Nobody talks like Cora but a gender studies major. It makes no sense that she identifies as Asari Commando. She is a human that trained with Asari Commandos. She is not an Asari Commando.

Second the Krogan. Krogan's are already established as a patriarchal society but they decided to make them politically correct The writer decided they had to smash the Krogan patriarchy by introducing Nakmor Morda. This means they chose ideology over story.

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I think the bigger problem is there willingness to destroy their stories to be politically correct. I didn't really mind it or notice it as much until Mass Effect:Andromeda.

The game and it's mechanics weren't all that bad. It was the writing that hurt the game.

Listening to Cora go on and on about how she identified as an Asari Commando hurt her character.

Smashing the Krogan patricarchy in my opinion was a terrible choice. We have come to expect the Krogan to be a certain way. There was no need to try and make them politically correct or add the most ridiculous slap fight in gaming history.

Then there was just really bad writing throughout. Like "My face is tired." and when the one girl is talking about programs like they were drugs.(I'm guessing the writer does drugs and knows nothing about programming.)

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#7  Edited By Damedius
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Basically what happens is that companies give up on getting paid back on the debt owed to them. They then try and sell that debt owed, in order to recoup some of their losses.

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#8 Damedius
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@dreman999 said:

Explain Cora Harper.

And then explain her butt.

I identify as an Asari Commando.

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