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What are we comparing Hillary's corruption to exactly?

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by fchowd0311, Oct 16, 2016.

  1. fchowd0311

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    I posted this in a RL thread which means no one will take it seriously, so I am making a new thread.

    What are we comparing Hillary's corruption to in relative terms to make accusations such as "Hillary is the most corrupt politician of all time?".

    What I find most hilarious about the "Hillary is the most corrupt politician ever" platitude is that what are we comparing her 'corruption' to? 30 years of hit pieces, investigations that were self admittedly political and partisan in nature(straight from the mouth of GOP politicians), leaked emails, leaked transcripts etc.

    So where are the leaked RNC emails? Where are all the leaked emails of Trump's campaign managers? Newt Gingrich this morning explicitly stated "Hillary Clinton is the most corrupt politician of all time". K, Mr. Gingrich, can we have the RNC emails leaked, yours also Mr. Gingrich along all your speech transcripts etc so we can compare? How the **** can you make this claim when we have no relative comparison?

    If you want to make the case that Hillary Clinton is abnormally corrupt relative to the field, then the only rational thing a skeptic would ask to have an even playing field and have RNC emails leaked, prominent GOP politician speech transcripts leaked etc.

    Newt, if you are so confident in your claim, why not tell the RNC to post all their private emails to the public? I think it's only fair.

    Only one side is having all their private correspondences leaked. Trump nut huggers can't see that. They can't see the pure hypocrisy because they are idiots.

    The mere fact that wikileaks ONLY 'leaks' out DNC/Hillary leaks should be a giant red flag of outright bias for any rational skeptic but of course, no one ever pegs a Trump supporter as a 'rational skeptic'.

    The most ironic thing about these 'leaks' is in effect, it is making Hillary one of the most transparent candidates of all time.
     
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    Could you explain how a "platitude" could be discussed to the length which you have done so here in this thread?
     
  3. fchowd0311

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    A platitude is "Hillary is the most corrupt politician ever". That's a overplayed statement with no nuance and no relative measurement to compare to and half of our population just accepts that notion without any depth of critical thinking hence 'platitude'.
     
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    Wow. This is hilarious. Hillary's got so much dirt that he's actually begging the RNC for some of theirs.
     
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    Hillary is no saint, but to say she is the most corrupt politician is just stupid, I guess soon she will inherit the title of the worst president ever in history from Obama.
     
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    Republicans do nothing wrong until the media finds it. Then, once they do, there's clearly a media bias.


    Duh.
     
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    Clinton is basically the best criminal ever. Apparently she gets away with murder (to some literally) but nothing can be found on her.
     
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    Secretary of State Salary-200K a year
    Hilary Clinton Net Worth-33 million.

    She is pretty damn corrupt.
     
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    Communist. Why don't you believe in the free market? You think a Yale Law grad with a career in high level government work as a senior and secretary of state isn't going to net a demand from entities to have them appear/lecture or speak?
     
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    How does her net worth prove your point? Are you saying that all rich people are corrupt?

    The average actor makes 52k
    Tom Cruise net worth is 480 million
     
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    Sorry, but foreign donors are paying 500k for a 20 minute speech? Wake up.
     
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    Pretty clear she is taking donor money and helping foreign governments. That is illegal and treasonous. It will be disgusting when she is president. Sure looks like it will happen to.
     
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    Yes? The Clintons are some of the most recognizable individuals on the planet. They are basically celebrities. Celebrities net similar amounts of money for for appearing in ads or other events.
     
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    So do you have any explicit evidence besides conjecture?
     
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    Helping foreign governments do what?
     
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    http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/201...dnc-clinton-campaign-accepting-pay-play-cash/
    PAY TO PLAY!PAY TO PLAY! I'm sure CNN wouldn't go over this in to much detail.

    She has your best interest in mind. That is clear.

    I mean, I take most people who spend their day on the message boards to be pretty intelligent folk but stop playing dumb.
     
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    Ads have marketing value. Private lectures do not. Don't tell me Bill and Hillary say motivational stuff that can't be said by other people esp. at that price.
     
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    And this email is not from Clinton, either. Yet, what you did here was take 2 emails from people other than Clinton herself and said, "See? That proves Clinton is corrupt!"

    Help me out guys- what is this logical fallacy called?
     

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