Posted on Nov 1, 2017

Facebook couldn’t answer this one simple question from Senator Mark Warner

Capt Dwayne Conyers

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Social Media... a sieve, not a bucket...

Facebook couldn’t answer this one simple question from Senator Mark Warner

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Posted 7 y ago

Responses: 4

CPT Jack Durish

Posted 7 y ago

I don't see how postings from fake accounts or real ones could affect the outcome of elections. Regardless of the source, they are merely words, opinions. I'm swayed by words and opinions when they're rational, stated rationally, and substantiated. It there are merely petulant whining (and Lord knows there's been a lot of that recently) they carry no weight with me. I think that Congress could do a much better job of immunizing citizens from spurious pressure if they would simply close down the US Dept of Education and allow local districts to educate children rather than indoctrinate them. The problem is that once people become indoctrinated they are susceptible to more of the same.

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Capt Dwayne Conyers

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Well, CPT Jack Durish, it’s like when there is rich creamery ice cream being served and you came to the diner for a steak dinner, but the person next to you is eating that rich creamery ice cream and you see the light glistening off the scoops in the bone china bowl and you can see the swirls of caramel and bits of nuts and the more you think about the flavor of that rich creamery ice cream you may be persuaded to tell the waitress you would like to savor a bowl of that rich creamery ice cream.

Or, maybe not...

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CPT Jack Durish

7 y

Capt Dwayne Conyers - Say what? Why are you doing this to me? I'm on a diet...

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Maj Marty Hogan

7 y

I would have just had both.. just me?

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PO1 Don Gulizia

7 y

Capt Dwayne Conyers - Not the right analogy. I seem to recall it was a choice of either a chum bucket or a barrel of dog crap. The "fake" accounts were just telling us how awful each choice was going to be. Occasionally, someone would say why the dog crap wasn't as bad as the chum or the chum not as bad as the crap. I didn't like either choice and would have rather eaten gruel. But that wasn't a choice, so I opted for the chum bucket.

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