Trump bans EPA employees from giving social media updates

Re:Trump bans EPA employees from giving social media updates by badsock on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @10:20PM (#13478174)

You were incorrect and you admitted it, which is good, but then you immediately move the goalposts and then use that to pretend that you were justified in your original assertation.

That's a shady rhetorical technique, and I suspect you're arguing in bad faith. That's worth some downvotes.

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Re:Trump bans EPA employees from giving social media updates by 3131s on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @10:38PM (#13478247)

Wait, were they incorrect?

My interpretation was that GP meant that Obama did the same thing (firing existing politically appointed ambassadors) and then in addition filled the positions with people who had donated to his campaign (hence not the "exact same thing", but worse).

I really don't know the facts here, but my cursory reading of the Wapo article does seem to suggest that Obama did essentially the same thing in 2008. Or am I missing something?

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Re:Trump bans EPA employees from giving social media updates by jack9 on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @11:17PM (#13478462)

> You were incorrect and you admitted it, which is good

Ironically, you are incorrect and have strangely doubled down on it in some sort of pyrrhic victory dance of failure.

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Re:Trump bans EPA employees from giving social media updates by scrollaway on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @11:36PM (#13478560)

badsock has posted exactly once in this entire thread.

Give your fellow HNers the benefit of the doubt.

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Re:Trump bans EPA employees from giving social media updates by true_religion on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @12:04AM (#13478699)

It surprised me too. I thought he was the original poster, but the original commenter was 'jquery'.

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