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[mainiac]

You just need to make longer points.  Then your original post about the placebo can be diluted.  In fact make entirely new posts that dont mention the placebo angle at all.  That way they will have the memory of the placebo and be as strong as possible.

[Starver]

Well around these parts they bill themselves as an alternative to medicine.

I see no problem as long as people don't mind undergoing the alternative to being healed...

But I fear this is a diversion.  While someone pretends to reach into you and extract a tumor that looks strangely like sheep offal.

[RedKing]

I'm having a hard time summoning pity for Hillary Clinton not getting fair treatment from the media, considering the primary.

It wasn't until the New York primary that anyone bothered to ask Bernie Sanders what his plan to break up the banks was.  He already had no chance of winning.

Awww but the media treated poor little bernie bad when they did nothing but talk about how he excited people and americans are unsatisfied with the status quo.

I didn't say Bernie got unfair treatment. Bernie gave them an underdog story to report, and they ate that shit up, although it was typically in the context of "but what chance does the plucky little Vermont senator have against the power of the Clinton machine?"

I'm talking about how they all but called the election for her as soon as she announced her candidacy. Or how they consistently included superdelegate counts in her totals, making it appear that she was already 1/4 of the way to winning before the voting even started. Most people (especially those with only a passing interest in politics) want to be on the winning team, it's just human nature. If you were asked to pick a team to root for in a sports event that you had no interest in, and were told that the score was 38-3, most people would pick the team with 38.

[mainiac]

If you were asked to pick a team to root for in a sports event that you had no interest in, and were told that the score was 38-3, most people would pick the team with 38.

Not in Maryland they wouldn't.  Hating the Yankees is a fucking religion here.  We might like the O's but we hate the Yankees.

And the effect you are talking about is very small in either direction.  While the effect of implying nonstop for months that she mishandled classified information and then never breaking the news that she didn't was fucking huge.  She is considered as untrustworthy as Donald Trump for something that never happened.

[mainiac]

it's that she had so many pledged delegates before the primaries even began.

It's basically cheating to ask elected democratic officials to vote for the democrat who is the standard bearer for their cause and not the man who only signed up to highjack the party and left the nanosecond he lost. /s

[mainiac]

Makes sense.

[mainiac]

IIRC, yes.

[Frumple]

It's basically cheating to ask elected democratic officials to vote for the democrat who is the standard bearer for their cause and not the man who only signed up to highjack the party and left the nanosecond he lost. /s

Huh. Y'know, I hadn't noticed he actually did go back to being independent when he returned to the senate, and indeed basically goddamn immediately. Had wondered previously if he was going to do that or not, but apparently so and even more shamelessly than I was expecting. I guess theoretically he could actually be doing what the aide said and holding that particular position as one, and will return to claiming to be a democrat after, but... at this point, I don't think I'm going to be holding my breath.

Seriously bloody regret my primary vote at this point, for all I made it expecting th'guy to lose my state. I may like some of the positions sanders pushed for but he's been pretty damn scummy this past year or so. Definitely more than a little disappointing. Kinda' liked the guy before this campaign cycle started

[mainiac]

Good, good

[SalmonGod]

Even if he's gone back to labeling himself an independent, hasn't he been dutifully endorsing Hillary ever since he lost the primary?

[RedKing]

Even if he's gone back to labeling himself an independent, hasn't he been dutifully endorsing Hillary ever since he lost the primary?

The only thing worse than an infidel is a heretic.

[Strife26]

Even if he's gone back to labeling himself an independent, hasn't he been dutifully endorsing Hillary ever since he lost the primary?

The only thing worse than an infidel is a heretic.

What about new prophets? Aren't they even worse?

[PTTG??]

Hillary aught to run on likely dying soon. "I will likely die in office, unlike my opponent, who has years of terrible legislation ahead of him."

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Something I learned not too long ago is that Clinton is younger than Trump. You read that right. Younger by two years.

Trump is actually the one more likely to die, also because men don't live as long.

[Frumple]

Even if he's gone back to labeling himself an independent, hasn't he been dutifully endorsing Hillary ever since he lost the primary?

He has, but that doesn't change that it's functionally backstabbing the organization he just spent several months taking significant advantage of. Well, backstabbing more. Dude got a metric fuckton more out of the democrat party than he put in, and then promptly dipped when metric fuckton didn't end up being goddamn everything. "Hey, thanks for giving me what was probably the largest political boost of my goddamn career! Peace out chumps. What? Help you folks some in return? Nah." Except it was less "thanks" and more "fuck you". Since, y'know. He may be endorsing clinton but he also seems fairly intent on pissing on the group he just used (fucked over, to a fair extent, really) to drastically improve his visibility and crap.

Sanders seems to be intent on making it really damn clear he ran as a democrat in bad faith, with zero intention of actually doing much of anything for the party except take advantage of the name for a campaign cycle. Doesn't sit right with me at all, y'know? If he'd stayed independent from the beginning it wouldn't bother me much, if at all, (and he probably wouldn't have made the news basically at all, but still), but that's not how he decided to play things out.

I'll be a little less pissed if it actually turns out he does what that aide said, or makes at least some sort of notable contributions to the organization he just got a serious boost from in the interim, but, again. From how this election cycle's played out my expectations of sanders vis a vis that sort of integrity are pretty damn low.