DISCLAIMER - I'm breaking my rule about not participating on the /pol board, but will refrain from talking directly about the candidates or parties, rather just tactics.
Like everyone else, I've been blown away by the events of the last week. The video, the debate, the media finally shedding their veil (not entirely voluntarily, of course) and not even attempting to maintain a facade of objectivity, Wikileaks, the magic appearance of violated women, James O'Keefe, etc.
While no one knows Assange's motivations for the Clinton email leaks - could be pro-Trump, could be anti-Clinton, could be trying to prevent WWIII, could just be "doing what he do" and bringing the info he has to light.
James O'Keefe and Project Veritas, well, there's no questioning his motivations. Very anti-Clinton, and thus pro-Trump.
In both cases, I've wondered all week why in the world they're not dropping the most damaging things they have, but rather are slowly and steadily releasing things that while relevant, aren't (to borrow O'Keefe's words) atomic bombs.
I happened across a tweet telling O'Keefe to hurry up and drop everything he has. His response left me dumbfounded for a moment.
Quite the "ah-ha!" moment for me. They're using the student's (Clinton and Obama's) tactics of the master (Alinsky) against them. O'Keefe, most certainly. Whether Assange and Wikileaks are intentionally doing it, we don't know...but intent or not, O'Keefe's picture sums up what Assange has been doing all week, and will apparently continue to do.
On the fringes of the web (8chan), it is widely believed within Anonymous that O'Keefe has Clinton on hidden camera calling African Americans the N-word and that Assange has the deleted Clinton emails. Believed to a degree of near certainty. You can bet that both campaigns believe that right now as well. So in effect, by Alinsky's rules for radicals, the mere thought that either or both of those things are coming is as bad or worse than it actually happening. Thus the reason for not unloading everything you have at once, or the best stuff first. Besides Alinsky tactics, there is also the 24-hour news cycle at play there as well.
I don't have any idea how it will ultimately play out, but it sure seems that the Wikileaks emails are "death by a thousand cuts." I'm not sure on O'Keefe just yet. The videos he's released so far are interesting, but not particularly damaging. So far.
Anyway, I broke my own rule about posting here because I have found all of the above fascinating and wanted some discussion on it.
Like everyone else, I've been blown away by the events of the last week. The video, the debate, the media finally shedding their veil (not entirely voluntarily, of course) and not even attempting to maintain a facade of objectivity, Wikileaks, the magic appearance of violated women, James O'Keefe, etc.
While no one knows Assange's motivations for the Clinton email leaks - could be pro-Trump, could be anti-Clinton, could be trying to prevent WWIII, could just be "doing what he do" and bringing the info he has to light.
James O'Keefe and Project Veritas, well, there's no questioning his motivations. Very anti-Clinton, and thus pro-Trump.
In both cases, I've wondered all week why in the world they're not dropping the most damaging things they have, but rather are slowly and steadily releasing things that while relevant, aren't (to borrow O'Keefe's words) atomic bombs.
I happened across a tweet telling O'Keefe to hurry up and drop everything he has. His response left me dumbfounded for a moment.
Quite the "ah-ha!" moment for me. They're using the student's (Clinton and Obama's) tactics of the master (Alinsky) against them. O'Keefe, most certainly. Whether Assange and Wikileaks are intentionally doing it, we don't know...but intent or not, O'Keefe's picture sums up what Assange has been doing all week, and will apparently continue to do.
On the fringes of the web (8chan), it is widely believed within Anonymous that O'Keefe has Clinton on hidden camera calling African Americans the N-word and that Assange has the deleted Clinton emails. Believed to a degree of near certainty. You can bet that both campaigns believe that right now as well. So in effect, by Alinsky's rules for radicals, the mere thought that either or both of those things are coming is as bad or worse than it actually happening. Thus the reason for not unloading everything you have at once, or the best stuff first. Besides Alinsky tactics, there is also the 24-hour news cycle at play there as well.
I don't have any idea how it will ultimately play out, but it sure seems that the Wikileaks emails are "death by a thousand cuts." I'm not sure on O'Keefe just yet. The videos he's released so far are interesting, but not particularly damaging. So far.
Anyway, I broke my own rule about posting here because I have found all of the above fascinating and wanted some discussion on it.
