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Re: Election Results Game Thread
Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2020 8:14 am
by sdoyel
Some have RVs too...
Re: Election Results Game Thread
Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2020 8:23 am
by jfish26
sdoyel wrote: ↑Tue Dec 29, 2020 8:14 am
Some have RVs too...
And, more damagingly, internet access.
Re: Election Results Game Thread
Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2020 8:26 am
by NewtonHawk11
And cable TV.
Re: Election Results Game Thread
Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2020 8:45 am
by ousdahl
yeah, the YouTube algorithms and 4chan echo chambers are even more frightening than just leaving lobster alone with his own thoughts.
Re: Election Results Game Thread
Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2020 9:50 am
by jfish26
ousdahl wrote: ↑Tue Dec 29, 2020 8:45 am
yeah, the YouTube algorithms and 4chan echo chambers are even more frightening than just leaving lobster alone with his own thoughts.
Parler is where it's at now. And it is disgusting.
Re: Election Results Game Thread
Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2020 10:18 am
by twocoach
“A Fool And His Money Are Soon Parted”
Re: Election Results Game Thread
Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2020 10:23 am
by jfish26
If all this was was opportunistic profiteering off rubes, that's sad (but not, in a big sense, catastrophic).
The problem, of course, is that if you take for granted that 0.0__% of "true believers" will do crazy shit that hurts people, the probability of crazy shit that hurts people happening goes to a mathematical certainty if the pool is big enough.
Re: Election Results Game Thread
Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2020 10:57 am
by MICHHAWK
How fun is that I wonder? Scrubbing the interwebz looking for loonies.
Re: Election Results Game Thread
Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2020 11:24 am
by Deleted User 289
MICHHAWK wrote: ↑Tue Dec 29, 2020 10:57 am
How fun is that I wonder? Scrubbing the interwebz looking for loonies.
You're not a dumb person.
Why would you not comprehend that all one has to do is go to ANY social media outlet to find loonies?
I know I don't have to go "looking" for them.
Heck, plenty of them reside on this site.
Re: Election Results Game Thread
Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2020 11:46 am
by jfish26
MICHHAWK wrote: ↑Tue Dec 29, 2020 10:57 am
How fun is that I wonder? Scrubbing the interwebz looking for loonies.
Like, loonies that storm a state capitol building carrying guns? Or plot to kidnap a governor?
Re: Election Results Game Thread
Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2020 11:58 am
by ousdahl
hey, that only happened in, what, 2 of 50 states so far?
I guess that puts the true believers at 4% and counting...
Re: Election Results Game Thread
Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2020 1:12 pm
by Deleted User 89
jfish26 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 29, 2020 8:23 am
sdoyel wrote: ↑Tue Dec 29, 2020 8:14 am
Some have RVs too...
And, more damagingly, internet access.
hey now...i’ve got all these things
Re: Election Results Game Thread
Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2020 10:47 am
by jfish26
Imagine thinking, "it's important that I be the leading shitheel on this."
Re: Election Results Game Thread
Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2020 11:52 am
by sdoyel
jfish26 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 30, 2020 10:47 am
Imagine thinking, "it's important that
I be the leading shitheel on this."
Re: Election Results Game Thread
Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2020 12:01 pm
by jfish26
sdoyel wrote: ↑Wed Dec 30, 2020 11:52 am
jfish26 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 30, 2020 10:47 am
Imagine thinking, "it's important that
I be the leading shitheel on this."
Understanding that "23-year-old with keys to Wal-Mart social accounts" does not equal "Wal-Mart customer base," I think it is very much true that a growing portion of Trump's support (which was already the minority) is sick of this shit and ready to move on.
Re: Election Results Game Thread
Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2020 12:06 pm
by sdoyel
Re: Election Results Game Thread
Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2020 12:17 pm
by jfish26
sdoyel wrote: ↑Wed Dec 30, 2020 12:06 pm
But it's also a completely non-serious attempt by Hawley. It is entirely to gain MAGA cred. Which is weird, because it won't count for anything.
Re: Election Results Game Thread
Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2020 12:23 pm
by jfish26
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/p ... tion-vote/
In 2000, after the Supreme Court hijacked Florida's right to count its own vote, several Democratic members of the House showed up in the Senate, begging for one Democratic senator to do what Hawley is preparing to do next week. The group included Congressman John Lewis. Not a single Democratic senator chose to stand with him on a critical issue of voting rights and election integrity. Poor Al Gore, presiding over the Senate for the last time as vice president, had to rule Lewis out of order because no Democrat would back him up. Now, regarding an election that the president* lost by almost eight million votes, a Republican senator is willing to monkey-wrench the process in a way that no Democratic senator was willing to do in an election that pivoted on 537 votes in a single state.
If you want a vivid illustration of the differences between how Democrats and Republicans do politics at this time in history, that's as good as any.
Re: Election Results Game Thread
Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2020 2:54 pm
by Mjl
Re: Election Results Game Thread
Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2020 3:51 pm
by jfish26
I did not know that. Interesting!