The Empire Files: Abby Martin Exposes John Podesta

in politics •  8 years ago 

In this very detailed documentary by Abby Martin, she explores who John Podesta is, his history in DC, and divulges a huge amount of information about his contacts and lobbying history. This was released 2 days ago, and does not include the very latest leaks from Wikileaks, or any of the more outlandish rumors being pushed\posted around on the forums. The documentary stays focused on political contacts, types of donations\money received, and includes a disturbing amount of information about foreign influence on the person who could actually become the White House Chief of Staff.

Published on Nov 5, 2016
With the Wikileaks release of thousands of emails belonging to John Podesta, very little is known in US society about Podesta himself. While he’s maintained a low profile, John Podesta is actually considered one of Washington’s biggest players, and one of the most powerful corporate lobbyists in the world.

In this episode of The Empire Files, Abby Martin explores John Podesta’s political rise, his vast network of corporate connections and his think tank "Center for American Progress." Learn why the Podestas and the Clintons are a match made in ruling class heaven.

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Yes, poor broken cheetah. I include the description of the videos as a courtesy to the users.

It's too bad your developer can't figure out how to detect that.

  ·  8 years ago (edited)

Why even reply? The bot did not make any accusation, it just reported a similar link. If ignored this bot post would likely make no difference to your post and would not have derailed comments.

As an aside, removing even the slightest hint of accusatory language from the comment was something that I repeatedly encouraged the developer of the bot to do. There were several revisions before it reached its currently neutral (IMO) tone. So I agree with your take that reposting (including with copying a reasonable amount of descriptive language) is not itself abuse or misconduct.

How is linking back like that not helpful? I think your defensiveness made this into far more of an issue than it needed to be.

If no one complains about broken things or stupid ideas that chase normal people away, how would the project owner ever know? You saw my post, so it had a chance to have a positive effect. Unfortunately you chose to tell me I'm wrong for speaking up and call me defensive, even when it was posted in a joking manner. This is pretty much the standard response to any and all user feedback around here. Why do you think the complaints have gotten so numerous and sound so annoyed?

So I agree with your take that reposting (including with copying a reasonable amount of descriptive language) is not itself abuse or misconduct.

Great, then you should agree that if it cannot even detect and allow that, it is fundamentally broken.
It shouldn't bother people that just share the description with a video or picture. At All. That is what normal people call nagging. People don't like it. They will just leave if they cannot make it stop.

Take a second and step out of your bubble. Go find a person that is not a cryptonerd or developer, just a regular facebook\reddit type person. That is the target market. Have them post something, and when they get nagged immediately and receive no comments or votes, ask them what they think.

, then you should agree that if it cannot even detect and allow that, it is fundamentally broken.

No I disagree that posting a comment with a relevant link has anything to do with 'allow' or not.

Your original post was perfectly allowed.

The bot comment provided additional information, without negative consequences or judgment.

Nice way to refuse to discuss if it functions as expected.

Here is how the Better project views the cheetah nagbot messages.
It costs newbies votes.

We don't judge the quality of the contents, and we don't have man-power to detect plagiarism(But we will skip the posts that cheetah had commented)
https://steemit.com/robots/@better/better-10-11-2016

There is a direct example of the public perception of "the nagbot post".
That is the problem I am pointing out. It can't be made any clearer.
You either give a shit or you don't.

  ·  8 years ago (edited)

Replying to your later comment about the Better project, I would disagree with their interpretation. Cheetah commenting does not imply plagiarism. I think the creator of the Cheetah bot would disagree with their using it in that manner as well, but ultimately it is up to the Better project to do what they would like. Maybe you should take up your complaint with them?

No. I'm done wasting time on this. You made it clear you don't care about the public perception or user experience.
This is why people keep leaving.

@smooth word.
I'll remember not to reply later when i post the announcement cause that cute bot might come after me as well.
btw left you a reminder in chat thank you.

EDIT : Thank you for getting back speedy quick.

Yet "out of your courtesy", I believe, you even forgot to mention in the text, that the second part of the description is not yours. Which is plagiarism, as simple as that.

So fing what? It's news.

You content monitors are chasing normal social media users away with this stupidity.

Everybody shares everything now, Twitter\Instagram\Youtube\articles\sounds\pics, the only problem is this site will not let you embed\link it properly like EVERYWHERE ELSE ON THE INTERNET.

But whatever, you just keep chasing the normals away to make yourself feel important, you wouldn't get along with them anyway...

The source of the second part of the description is: https://youtu.be/9fat63bqvG8

Not indicating that the content you copy/paste is not your original work could be seen as plagiarism.

Some tips to share content and add value:

  • Using a few sentences from your source in “quotes.” Use HTML tags or Markdown.
  • Linking to your source
  • Include your own original thoughts and ideas on what you have shared.

Repeated plagiarized posts are considered spam. Spam is discouraged by the community, and may result in action from the cheetah bot.

Please, format your text accordingly, add quotes.

Thank you.

Thank You!

Why? Your bot still bitches people out if a stupid simple search finds any text match, and you let the youtubes with no description go without a warning, when they are actually profiting off of not including the authors information and description.

Let me repeat that, I just got nagbotted for including the original description, when I could have left it out and actually made a few cents... I don't even give a shit about cents. I post this stuff for interesting conversation, and your nagbot kills that.

This youtube description problem is concrete proof your project has failed, and censorship\nagging is not the way to go on a "decentralized free speech platform". Linked embedding solves the problem, but you are spending time nagging people instead.

Instead of wasting time coding the automated Steemit PC Content Bots, why don't you focus on figuring out tools for normal users to share news and videos and quotes correctly?

Have you seen his fingers? Freeeeaaaky.

I have been avoiding that whole psyop\rabbit hole.
If any of that shit is true they better start arresting people quick, before they all escape.

Evil stuff

It's no creepier than any other religion. At least some old dude in a wizard robe isn't sucking the blood from a newly circumcised baby. (Did I go too far?) ;)

Yeah, can't argue with that. The really uptight ones believe some crazy shit!

I guess we should just be happy that the new administrations imaginary friends are less likely to try to spiritcook the help.