huh......his wife frannie has been staying at home here in mpls lately, they are usually always together outside of his office. franken was a little bit of a wild man in his snl days. and as a stand up comedian when he was a duo with davis. franken and davis, threw some wild after hours gigs around here when they were in town.
She was in a skit with him where she knew the kiss was going to take place. That's consent.
The photo where he's holding his hands near her breasts without touching and she's got on 4 layers of clothing at least including a flak jacket is equal to raping a kid if you need a way to defend a republican.
But it bills itself as the front page of the internet, I don't think the average person goes to particular subs, they just check for the big stories on the front.
Give it a few minutes. My front page is probably different than yours because of all the subs I have blocked, but I don't have a single post on the first page that is newer than 2 hours old. Both big posts about Franken are only 1 hour old. It just needs more time to get there. I can almost guarantee you this will be on the front page soon, it just hasn't quite made it that far yet.
He was doing it to humiliate her, her case is just as valid as anyone else's.
The fact that people think it's just a bad joke in itself seems like a bad joke to me.
If Franken had done this to someone you cared about and she had these strong feelings you wouldn't sweep it under the rug.
The fact that he is a comedian doesn't excuse his actions and their intent.
It's not sweeping it under the rug to acknowledge that there are degrees to this thing. Are you really saying that taking a humiliating photo of a bad joke wherein Franken pantomimes groping is equivalent to, say, Bill Cosby drugging women and fucking them, or Roy Moore seducing underage girls, or Louis CK exposing himself to his colleagues? They're all valid grievances, they're all inappropriate, but to expect them all to be treated exactly equally is to ignore nuance for the sake of artificially inflating the critique of Franken's behavior.
Reddit is not a place for unbiased news. It never has been, and it never will be. So long as votes affect visibility (i.e. the core mechanic of Reddit), a feedback loop guarantees that only certain opinions make it to the front page. Popular opinions get upvoted and get higher visibility, and, as a result of being more visible, those opinions are seen more and become more popular, thus creating a self-reinforcing loop.
This place is intrinsically designed to be an echo chamber. I don't know why you are even pretending like it's supposed to be something else.
As I scroll past 10 posts about it on here, at it multiple times on r/all since I checked it.. I'll bet it reaches 50-100k upvotes at the least.. your complaint is that it wasn't there quick enough.
What's pathetic is that this sub uses topics like this to create 100+ posts every day that slides actual conspiracy posts out of view.
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1 fraac 2017-11-16
How is it a conspiracy?
1 trouve_ma_juive 2017-11-16
It's news that's being hidden, big stories always make the front page unless TPTB don't want them to.
1 fraac 2017-11-16
Oh, the main front page. Yeah. There aren't really any nonpartisan news subreddits.
1 ICouldBeGeorgeSoros 2017-11-16
If by TPTB you mean reddit users, then yes, I agree.
1 uontheotherside 2017-11-16
How is partisan censorship not a conspiracy?
1 Th3_Admiral 2017-11-16
Who is censoring it? The sub that is always accused of being super liberal (/r/politics) currently has it on the front page.
1 soggylittleshrimp 2017-11-16
It's the #1 story on r/politics. #2 on r/all as I type this.
All of the MSM is reporting on it.
Yet some people here still saying it's being covered up or censored.
1 DeoxyDeoxyDeoxy 2017-11-16
There's no censorship going on though.
1 ICouldBeGeorgeSoros 2017-11-16
Who is doing the censorship here?
1 themadhat1 2017-11-16
minnesota guy here what scandal? have heard zip.
1 trouve_ma_juive 2017-11-16
He is accused of kissing and groping a woman without her permission. He said it was just a joke.
1 themadhat1 2017-11-16
huh......his wife frannie has been staying at home here in mpls lately, they are usually always together outside of his office. franken was a little bit of a wild man in his snl days. and as a stand up comedian when he was a duo with davis. franken and davis, threw some wild after hours gigs around here when they were in town.
1 omnicidial 2017-11-16
She was in a skit with him where she knew the kiss was going to take place. That's consent.
The photo where he's holding his hands near her breasts without touching and she's got on 4 layers of clothing at least including a flak jacket is equal to raping a kid if you need a way to defend a republican.
1 atavisticbeast 2017-11-16
99% of the time the front page only has one or two news items on it.
if you want news, maybe go to a news oriented sub, or another site?
1 trouve_ma_juive 2017-11-16
But it bills itself as the front page of the internet, I don't think the average person goes to particular subs, they just check for the big stories on the front.
1 atavisticbeast 2017-11-16
i suspect it's the opposite, where the majority of users are sequestered in various communities and echo chambers.
i think regularly checking /r/all isn't as common as you think.
but hey, who the hell knows. i could be totally off base here
1 trouve_ma_juive 2017-11-16
The front page is an echo chamber.
1 Th3_Admiral 2017-11-16
It's currently the number two post on /r/politics and number three on /r/news. What more do you want for a story that is only an hour or two old?
1 trouve_ma_juive 2017-11-16
I want all sexual abuse cases on the front page. I want awareness of the issue.
1 Th3_Admiral 2017-11-16
Give it a few minutes. My front page is probably different than yours because of all the subs I have blocked, but I don't have a single post on the first page that is newer than 2 hours old. Both big posts about Franken are only 1 hour old. It just needs more time to get there. I can almost guarantee you this will be on the front page soon, it just hasn't quite made it that far yet.
1 DeoxyDeoxyDeoxy 2017-11-16
I know you don't want to hear this, but not all sexual incidents are equal. Some are worse than others and are therefore going to get more attention.
Right now with Franken we have a joke in poor taste and one accuser.
Moore, for example, is getting more attention because what he is being accused is worse and he has several accusers.
Check back in a couple weeks. If Franken is accused of worse things by multiple people, he will attract the same attention.
1 trouve_ma_juive 2017-11-16
He was doing it to humiliate her, her case is just as valid as anyone else's. The fact that people think it's just a bad joke in itself seems like a bad joke to me. If Franken had done this to someone you cared about and she had these strong feelings you wouldn't sweep it under the rug. The fact that he is a comedian doesn't excuse his actions and their intent.
1 antifathroway 2017-11-16
It's not sweeping it under the rug to acknowledge that there are degrees to this thing. Are you really saying that taking a humiliating photo of a bad joke wherein Franken pantomimes groping is equivalent to, say, Bill Cosby drugging women and fucking them, or Roy Moore seducing underage girls, or Louis CK exposing himself to his colleagues? They're all valid grievances, they're all inappropriate, but to expect them all to be treated exactly equally is to ignore nuance for the sake of artificially inflating the critique of Franken's behavior.
1 ICouldBeGeorgeSoros 2017-11-16
My guess is they just want an opportunity to whine about the biases of the reddit community.
1 neutronstarneko 2017-11-16
it's number two on /r/all
1 soggylittleshrimp 2017-11-16
It is now #1
So can we drop the "censorship" claims now. Yeesh people!
1 trouve_ma_juive 2017-11-16
/r/all is not the front page of Reddit that most people see,you have to specifically go to all
1 Lorkes34 2017-11-16
The front page is tailored to the subreddits you're subscribed to. It's didn't for everyone.
1 ICouldBeGeorgeSoros 2017-11-16
Reddit is not a place for unbiased news. It never has been, and it never will be. So long as votes affect visibility (i.e. the core mechanic of Reddit), a feedback loop guarantees that only certain opinions make it to the front page. Popular opinions get upvoted and get higher visibility, and, as a result of being more visible, those opinions are seen more and become more popular, thus creating a self-reinforcing loop.
This place is intrinsically designed to be an echo chamber. I don't know why you are even pretending like it's supposed to be something else.
1 omnicidial 2017-11-16
"scandal" kissed someone during a planned skit and took a photo holding his hands near her breasts thru a full military uniform and flak jacket.
1 Silentbtdeadly 2017-11-16
As I scroll past 10 posts about it on here, at it multiple times on r/all since I checked it.. I'll bet it reaches 50-100k upvotes at the least.. your complaint is that it wasn't there quick enough.
What's pathetic is that this sub uses topics like this to create 100+ posts every day that slides actual conspiracy posts out of view.
1 User_Name13 2017-11-16
Removed. Rule 12.