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Re:George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on... by shostack on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @07:12AM (#13480758)
I've noticed this a lot in Reddit too. There I feel it is A distraction tactic. Posters seek to make a comment about very in every Trump thread and it is always some distracting sound bytes about the emails or something. Totally irrelevant to the thread at hand.

Seems to work like a charm to derail conversation about the real topic at hand.

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Re:George Orwell’s 1984 is currently the top selling book on... by TheGirondin on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @09:54AM (#13481808)
Because it show the duplicitous nature of people like you. Clearly this wasn't an issue Hillary, so it's obvious that is all political nonsense.
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