08-16-2016, 05:44 PM
My friend posted this little exercize:
Teed Rockwell
Yesterday at 11:37am
Hey Kids!! Would you like to build your very own Clinton scandal? Then follow these simple instructions:
1) Make up an accusation, and demand that it be investigated. Let your imagination go wild on this one. Murder, espionage, theft, whatever you think will scare people the most.
2) In the process of this investigation, you will find some kind of suboptimal behavior. Nobody's perfect. Every organization has rules that everyone breaks, even though it would arguably be better if they kept them. The chances that a Clinton has broken one of those rules are very high.
3)People who work for any organization know that certain rules can be safely bent, and don't worry about it. But the general public, including you and me, have no way of making intelligent judgments about this. The rule always looks good on paper, or it never would have gotten onto paper in the first place. So the next step is to point out the possible dangers of breaking this rule in as hysterical tone as possible, and claim that no one who feels entitled to break that rule should ever be trusted with public office.
4) When someone points out that numerous other public officials have done the same thing, you have two available strategies:
A) Find some difference between the Clinton's behavior and the other case, and claim that this difference is essential. It doesn't matter how trivial the difference is. The distinction between essential and accidental is impossible to define anyway, so table pounding is always the best strategy for drawing it.
B) Claim that if you had your way, these other public officials would also be prosecuted. This is an easy claim to make, as you don't have the power to prosecute, and most of the other officials are either retired or dead.
So there you have it, Kids. Everything you need to make your very own Clinton scandal. Why not do it today? Have Fun!
Teed Rockwell
Yesterday at 11:37am
Hey Kids!! Would you like to build your very own Clinton scandal? Then follow these simple instructions:
1) Make up an accusation, and demand that it be investigated. Let your imagination go wild on this one. Murder, espionage, theft, whatever you think will scare people the most.
2) In the process of this investigation, you will find some kind of suboptimal behavior. Nobody's perfect. Every organization has rules that everyone breaks, even though it would arguably be better if they kept them. The chances that a Clinton has broken one of those rules are very high.
3)People who work for any organization know that certain rules can be safely bent, and don't worry about it. But the general public, including you and me, have no way of making intelligent judgments about this. The rule always looks good on paper, or it never would have gotten onto paper in the first place. So the next step is to point out the possible dangers of breaking this rule in as hysterical tone as possible, and claim that no one who feels entitled to break that rule should ever be trusted with public office.
4) When someone points out that numerous other public officials have done the same thing, you have two available strategies:
A) Find some difference between the Clinton's behavior and the other case, and claim that this difference is essential. It doesn't matter how trivial the difference is. The distinction between essential and accidental is impossible to define anyway, so table pounding is always the best strategy for drawing it.
B) Claim that if you had your way, these other public officials would also be prosecuted. This is an easy claim to make, as you don't have the power to prosecute, and most of the other officials are either retired or dead.
So there you have it, Kids. Everything you need to make your very own Clinton scandal. Why not do it today? Have Fun!