Think I read some study several years back (probably following the Trump-Clinton one) that concluded almost everyone always perceives their “team’s” candidate as having won the debate, and the number of voters swayed by a stellar performance from another candidate is negligible.

Yeah, they’re pretty damn pointless…

From the outside, it actually kinda looks like you’re an entire civil war away from the next election…

Hope you like Cheeto Benito and his policy of also “keep arming Israel” plus embracing literal fascism.

I think we should help him fulfill his dream of going to Mars.

That’s cool and all, but the most law enforcement would be able to get from probably three quarters of printers in existence is something like “this was part of a lot shipped to Staples’ Arizona warehouse in the third quarter of 2016.” Really narrows it down…

North American conservatives don’t really have strong feelings about a lot of things unless someone told them it was part of a “radical leftist woke agenda.” Then, they’ll immediately become very passionate about supporting the opposite position, no matter how fucking stupid it is.

Progressives say vaccines are good? Vaccines bad.

Progressives say pollution is bad? Pollution good.

Progressives say everyone deserves to be treated with dignity and respect? Time to start inspecting genitals.

At this point, the blind contrarianism has become so instinctive, I legitimately believe a not insignificant number of right wingers would start earning Darwin awards if some notable progressives released some common sense PSAs. Like, get Trudeau and Biden to make a thirty second video on the dangers of operating a chainsaw with a blood alcohol content of 0.3% and a conservative would never win an election again…

Seriously. Dumb fuck can’t go more than two sentences without throwing out “woke ______” and doesn’t even answer the questions being asked.

Speaks poorly of the state of education and people’s critical thinking abilities that this schmuck was ever elected an MP, let alone has a significant following as a party leader.

That comparison is way off. Plain text works out to about 677,000 pages per gigabyte and regular printer paper is alot 0.1 mm thick, so 10 GB of data - 6.7 million pages - would make a stack of paper two thirds of a kilometre high.

Even if we’re talking image files of scanned text, you’re in the neighborhood of 15,000 pages per gigabyte which is probably in the neighborhood of an encyclopedia set, making 10 GB roughly equal to ten encyclopedia sets…

Well, y’all have that whole second amendment, don’t you?

Seriously. Back when I was a kid, mild autism was “just a slightly weird kid” and severe autism was “mentally retarded” and lumped in with the kids who had Down’s Syndrome, severe ADHD, FAS, and a host of other mental issues.

the dreaded “death cross,” a historical indicator of a likely downturn for the company

[…] occurs when a company’s 50-day moving average crosses and drops below the 200-day average.

Fuck Tesla and all that, but holy shit is that standard ever a depressing indicator of to just how reliant late stage capitalism is on endless growth that a tiny dip after half a year of stagnation is a reliable indicator of a company’s imminent failure.

Do you believe liberty is a right? It’s one of the first laid out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and yet I don’t think a single signatory nation doesn’t incarcerate people guilty of crime. By your logic, I don’t think there are any true “rights” in existence, because there are circumstance in which any of them can be taken away.

There’s this weird phenomenon where Zionism and antisemitism have a ton of overlap on the far right. White Christian nationalism has end times beliefs that rely on Israel existing as a nation in full control of the entire original “Holy Land,” but such beliefs don’t necessarily require the Jewish people to be thriving or treated as equals.

I guess it’s possible that Israeli intelligence and leadership behind such an operation, if there is any legitimacy to the idea this was a Mossad operation, could’ve decided that the odd hate crime carried out against Jews by mentally ill lone wolves stochastic terrorists would not only be a comparatively small price to pay in the furtherance of their goals, but even serve to galvanise the broader populace in support of Israel. And that outcome is actually what we’re seeing in reality - we see that a large number of moderates and even some progressives have hopped on board the “any criticism of Israel is antisemitism” train.

I’m not saying I believe this theory, but it definitely seems plausible.

So are we just averaging all these “once in a century” financial crises over the entirety of human existence, or what?

More projection, or just plain stupidity?

Enough of those dumb fucks have made loud, confrontational politics such a core part of their personality that they can’t wrap their heads around the existence of people who don’t agree with them and know better than to get dragged into arguments with them.

They all likely have friends, family, and coworkers who silently roll their eyes but don’t engage every time they spout off some idiotic bullshit because it’s just not worth pissing off babies who can’t handle being disagreed with.

Because they never learned the art of politely disagreeing and moving on, they believe silence is consensus. With such an ignorant mindset, it’s really not at all surprising that they think unfavourable polling must be fake. Rather than adjusting their worldview based on changing information, they dismiss any information that doesn’t support their worldview.

You’re not at that stage right up until the first one occurs.

I’m sure that’s welcome news to anyone thinking of dropping a missile on the US

You could read what I linked; guy lists his own credentials and experience in addition to his sources.

Still curious why “they’ve been doing that for a long time” is justification for you to just ignore all the unethical voter disenfranchisement occurring, especially considering the unprecedented scale (of which you be aware if you’d read my link).

Yes, it was totally the fault of random people (especially citizens of another country like me) who didn’t push the Dems to be more progressive that got Trump the win… because all the people who voted the orange shitstain totally would’ve swung left if the left party had been more left. Makes perfect sense.

Why are you excluding the “plain sight rigging?” Beyond gerrymandering, millions of voters were disqualified through ostensibly legal means that likely wouldn’t stand up to legal challenge, but the Democrats were so concerned about taking the high road to pre-empt accusations of “throwing a tantrum” like the right did on January 6 that they just let it all slide.

https://hartmannreport.com/p/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won-c6f