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Published 8 years ago by Cobbydaler with 4 Comments
by Cobbydaler
8 years ago 4

The Secret Agents Who Protect Obama on the Internet

A team of people who constantly sift through hateful online comments to find would-be assassins or terrorists

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  • Autumnal
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    I can't imagine how depressing, frustrating, and exhausting that job must be. I have immense respect for trawling the trolling.

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    • ColonBowel (edited 8 years ago)
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      Can you imagine the amount of hate they have to sift through everyday. This is the worst opposition to a president I have seen. The far right has gotten ridiculous. Remember when someone shot the Congresswoman that was in the crosshairs of Palin's map?

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      • Autumnal
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        Christ, I'd forgotten all about that, that election was nuts

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  • ColonBowel
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    From the "More in-depth article on the 'ROPE' tweeter":

    "The agent from the secret service was cordial," Gullickson wrote. "He just needed to insure I was not a threat. Which I'm not. It wasn't meant to be racist. It was a parody of the Obama hope meme."

    Gullickson repeated his assertion that "Obama has committed treason. ... My only regret is being called racist when my opinion of the president has more to do with him being a communist as opposed to being black."

    What a POS. If you have to explain that it's not racist, it's probably racist. Of all they ways they could have gone with it, they went with a method that was used to terrorize Black people in the US. Really? WTF

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