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Interesting Links for 31-10-2018
- How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language
- (tags: programming language history design )
- German ex-nurse admits killing 100 patients
- (tags: murder germany healthcare )
- The people embracing their disabilities for Halloween
- (tags: halloween disabilities costumes )
- RPGnet bans posts in favour of Trump
- (tags: politics usa roleplaying )
- Venice flooded by high tide – in pictures
- (tags: Italy flooding )
- Need to relax? Try this live stream of a Norwegian train in wintery countryside
- (tags: Norway video beautiful )
- US Power generation CO2 emissions are lower than they have been since 1987
- (tags: co2 usa electricity GoodNews )
- Climate change: Low cost, low energy cooling system shows promise
- (tags: viaDanielDWilliam heat materials )
- The FBI has been asked to investigate claims that women have been offered money to fabricate sexual-harassment allegations against Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
- (tags: fraud conspiracy usa politics republicans )
- Android's under-5s apps have unfair and deceptive ads
- (tags: advertising children phones games OhForFucksSake )
- John McDonnell faces down Labour critics and vows to back tax cuts for the rich
- (tags: labour tax inequality )
- The image in this tweet is also a valid ZIP archive, containing a multipart RAR archive, containing the complete works of Shakespeare.
- (tags: Shakespeare compression security )
- Vitamin D levels in the blood linked to cardiorespiratory fitness
- (tags: fitness vitaminD )
- ‘Tory-free’ wish banned from Edinburgh 2050 word cloud
- (tags: conservatives funny marketing Edinburgh scotland )
Mueller
I wonder if it the target is not Robert Mueller but the concept of sexual harrassment.
If one was worried that sexual harrassment allegations would be problematic for one's own politcal tribe one might wish to de-weaponise them.
Assume that Robert Mueller has not sexually harrassed anyone and is known to be a well-mannered person. Therefore the chances that a number of false allegation would be rapidly exposed as false and discovered to be part of an orchestrated campaign to discredit him.
This in turn discredits attempts to discredit people by accusing them of sexual harrassement (or worse). With one very obvious and well known attempt at a false flag operation you can then push a narrative that all the other (real) allegations are actually part of someone else's campaign to orchestrate false accussations against prominent men.
Why might you do this? Perhaps you are worried that your tribe is more likely to be damaged by accussations of sexual harrassment because a) your tribe has more men than women, b) your tribe has more badly behaved men, c) key figures you wish to protect are known to you to be sexual harrassers, d) your tribe suffers more damage for a given level of accussation.
And if you are wrong about Robert Mueller not being a sexual harrasser then more, real allegations emerge in a Me Too cascade and you have damaged Mueller.
I dislike being this paranoid.
Re: Mueller
And Republicans already ignore sexual harrassment allegations. Not sure that this will make a difference there.
Re: Mueller