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Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
I don't understand how people can confidently draw such equivalencies. Just looking at the frequency of the two types of events.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_racial_violence_in_the_Un...
How many is that? I can't even count. More than 50, less than 100? Versus 10, possibly way less, depending on what kind of comparisons one wants to draw? [1]
Doesn't this point exactly to the significance of what happened on the 6th? Race riots have been happening in the United States for a hundred some years. They are obviously not significant in achieving the goals of the rioters. Meanwhile the storming of seats of power by an ousted leaders' supporters has the potential to change history. The former is a passing event, the latter is a rare event with some potential to change global history.
[1] https://www.livescience.com/political-violence-us-capital.ht...
Comment · 5 years ago
> It doesn't matter whether the containers were "hidden"
Then don't write hidden? Just write 'ballots'. Or write 'ballots that were sealed because the counting stopped, but then re-opened when the counting resumed'.
> You didn't read the other sources I linked, which contain sworn statements from two observers, as well as articles published by several news stations stating that observers (and news) were told to go home because they were done for the night.
Yes. Thats what the video in the tweet said. Thats basically what I wrote when I described what the video said.
> You aren't interested in holding a dicussion, just labelling. Typical anti-intellectualism coming from the political party that won the election.
The source that you cited contradicted your claim of 'hidden ballots'. You are a liar.
Comment · 5 years ago
You can go to /r/conservative right now, and write any crap you want. You're conflating the notion of deplatforming with the notion of a place having a certain political leaning.
I can go comment liberal ideas on Breitbart and immediately be shouted down as a commie CCP bootlicker and be blocked. I guess by your logic that means liberals are getting deplatformed too!
Comment · 5 years ago
Deplatformed conservatives eh? This has got to be one of the oldest conservative tropes.
FoxNews screams conservatives have no voice, while patting themselves on the back for being the most watched cable channel. [1] Rush Limbaugh is the most listened to Radio show in the United States. [2]
Conservatives scream they have no platform on Facebook, yet the top 10 shared links of Facebook are almost exclusively conservative. [3], and you can observe this trend holding over time.
Conservatives have plenty of other platforms to go to. No one is deplatforming conservatives on 4chan, or Parler, or hell, even Reddit.
The 'deplatformed' narrative is a manufactured, and used to drive a persecution complex. Its not real, and used to rile the base.
[1] https://www.foxnews.com/media/fox-news-finishes-2020-as-most...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-late-3
[3] https://twitter.com/FacebooksTop10/status/134648457323691212...
Comment · 5 years ago
> So when confronted with an extremely implausible voter turnout, people say the real turnout is votes/total eligible voters... which is very different than every other time I’ve experienced voter turn out
Not sure how whatever conjured view of voter turnout YOU have is relevant. You can go to https://elections.wi.gov/elections-voting/statistics/turnout grab `Voter Turnout Partisan-NonPartisan Through August 2020.xlsx` and see that turnout percentage is computed as `number of votes cast` / `voting age population`.
Which puts Wisconsin turnout at 72.3% [1]
We were talking about ballot rejection, and you start going off about "shocking" voter turnout statistics because you had no retort to the rejection stuff. Either you have an axe to grind or you are a troll. Or maybe you're a masked free speech crusader. The hero we deserve. But I kind of doubt that.
1: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/11/05/fac...
Comment · 5 years ago
I remember being on MDMA with my girlfriend, her talking to me about us, our relationship, and me thinking how little I care about any of this. We broke up within 6 months. YMMV indeed. Maybe molly is just molly.
Comment · 5 years ago
> How do we have a higher mail in ballot rejection rate in non-pandemic times than we do in pandemic times?
I mean, here's an explanation for a specific case
> According to the nonprofit, nonpartisan organisation Ballotpedia, Georgia rejected 6.42% of mail-in ballots in total in the 2016 general election and 3.10% in total in the 2018 midterm (here). These totals include rejections because of signatures, but also include, for example, ballots received late or past deadlines, problems with return materials or a voter having already voted in person.
> It may be that Trump was referring to the 0.15% of ballots specifically rejected for "missing or non-matching signatures" when saying that ballots rejected in 2020 were "almost zero", but this percentage is consistent with past years. The higher percentage he mentions for past years is likely based off the total rejected ballots (here) which can not be compared with 2020, as this information is not available.
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-georgia-rejecte...
https://sos.ga.gov/index.php/elections/number_of_absentee_ba...
Edit: And just for fun, I pulled data for 2020 and 2018 statewide, November elections from https://elections.sos.ga.gov/Elections/voterabsenteefile.do
I looked at a largeish file (didnt want to deal with the 1gig state wide file), ended up being CHATHAM county. (file name 025).
In 2018, there were 351 rejections for 40683 mail in ballots. In 2020, there were 321 rejections for 110831 mail in ballots.
The interesting thing to me was that in 2018, 286 ballots were rejected for being late, but in 2020, only 191 were rejected for being late.
Which tells me at least some of the higher acceptance rates can be attributed simply to people being more diligent about mailing their ballots in.
Comment · 6 years ago
Skid row in LA? Parts of Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit, Oakland, Philadelphia, etc etc etc?
Comment · 6 years ago
But, one of the reasons for the fires is that due to lack of housing in cities, populations have been pushed more and more into wilderness areas, preventing proper forest management and exposing themselves to greater risks of fires.
Not to mention the second order effects of less density: more driving, more C02, more warming... more fires.
Comment · 6 years ago
I'm reading the tweet more like 'I will authorize the use of deadly force by the military against the looters'. Although I could see several interpretations
But I think the real thing people aren't able to come to grips with is how Trump uses the media in such a style that gives him all plausible deniability, builds outrage AND builds support. All at once.
Breitbart is leaking.
But honestly, care to elaborate? I'm genuinely curious.