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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
The same site that trolled Fox News and laughed at the Bush administration wound up championing the means by which those same conservatives ended up back in power?
Wow, it's almost like they're stupid or something!
/b/ in the late 00's and early 10's was a different beast more concerned with general lulz than frmo when Moot brought /pol/ back and reinvited those chumps.
The law in the night
Some of them actually did, but then /pol/ was spamming nearly every board with Trump and Hillary memes, so it was really hard to tell. /b/ is a bit more diverse with its fuckery while /pol/ is actively malicious and they still drank the kool aid /pol/ was feeding those idiots. Like they a good amount of the Trump team actually believed Trump was anti-establishment.
Right now /pol/ is trying to get Ron Paul as the secretary of treasure. Needless to say they really believe they meme'd Trump into the White House and are trying to do the same for Ron Paul. Yeah sure, /pol/sters good luck with thinking you and the alt-right kiddies have any power in Trump's team. Bunch of idiots.
edited 12th Nov '16 9:46:02 PM by AngelusNox
Inter arma enim silent leges
Considering Trump as the alt-right candidate makes sense, really. They both use the same pattern of defusing legitimate criticism by saying that it was for publicity (or lulz), hide serious agendas behind 'harmless' disruption of the usual order, and so on. A lot of the stuff Trump has been saying appeals to white nationalists and radicalized antifeminist young men.
It's been fun.
That's what many of his online supporters are, the alt-right kiddies who have been raised in a culture of misanthropy, casual racism/misogyny and nihilism on 4chan and other cesspits of the internet. When I was younger I thought most of that was just trolling and some of it probably still is, but it's become obvious to me that many of them are actually serious about that shit.
It makes discussions of Trump difficult to have on the internet because of the real possibility that many people will jump on you and barrage you with all their preferred insults instead of having a real conversation.
edited 12th Nov '16 10:01:03 PM by Draghinazzo
Is it possible that absentee ballots will swing both Michigan and Pennsylvania?
I despise hypocrisy, unless of course it is my own.
I highly doubt it, unless the gap is ridiculously small to begin with they'd probably need a difference in the millions for that to work.
edited 12th Nov '16 10:20:45 PM by AlleyOop
Deranged X-Mas Figure
Checking...
Michigan is still in play, for what it's worth. Pennsylvania is highly unlikely.
edited 12th Nov '16 10:26:51 PM by Ramidel
I despise hypocrisy, unless of course it is my own.
Florida is a more likely state to switch than Pennsylvania if you ask me. Not sure about Wisconsin or Michigan.
A real bad hombre
Are they still counting both of them?
Absentee ballots swinging those states blue would be the ridiculous cherry on top of this ridiculous election cycle. If it were to happen, I just might start dancing uncontrollably around my house.
Almost certainly won't happen, but one can dream.
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison
Michigan is so close even Google hasn't called it - within 20,000 votes. It could conceivably go blue, but alone that's not enough.
I despise hypocrisy, unless of course it is my own.
How do the Trump supporters take this if it happens? I'm afraid there'd be even more violence. It would look like Hillary rigged the election or something.
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
How are they taking the fact that she's won the popular vote by what I think is the largest margin ever in one of those cases?
Oh really when?
>she's won the popular vote by what I think is the largest margin ever
Which one? How so?
Untrustworthy
For one of the 'win popular vote, lose electoral college' type situations, he means. And absentee voters are making it look like that's a serious possibility.
"Canada Day is over, and now begins the endless dark of the Canada Night."
Would a big enough swing in the popular vote due to absentee ballots bring about change in the electoral votes? Or is it too late for that?
edited 12th Nov '16 11:04:40 PM by sgamer82
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
It's technically possible. But I'm not sure where these votes are actually going statewise. I doubt it.
Oh really when?
Untrustworthy
My understanding is that the majority are going to states like California, New York and Washington, which are all solidly blue already.
"Canada Day is over, and now begins the endless dark of the Canada Night."
Interesting bit on the coal industry world wide. And basically confirms that most people consider the coal industry a dying one due to economic factors.
I've come up with a political idea.
This election served to awaken me, in terms of wanting to do political things.
California, as I learned from my class at college, is a very large economy. What would happen if we excluded the South, the Rust Belt and Appalachia from our food sales, business and trade? Giving incentives for moving away from them and going to more lucrative markets.
Essentially, its aim is to further cooperation among states that did not vote for Donald Trump, and to show the states that voted for him we can deny them things they desperately need.
Sign on for this After The End Fantasy RP.
So... you want to starve out a large portion of the country to punish the way they voted?
That is some despotism right there. If anything would legitimize armed revolt or a second Civil War, that would be it.
edited 12th Nov '16 11:25:50 PM by RedSavant
It's been fun.
Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
That's not about to teach them to adapt or die, merely generate more resentment towards "the elite" for letting them wilt.
Using excess state revenues to invest in industrial transformation programs in the Rust Belt, Appalachia etc. would be more practical, even if it's not the change they want.
I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
Putting aside the morality of bullying regions into submission, wouldn't that cut into your exports significantly?
And besides, not everyone who lives there is the enemy.
edited 12th Nov '16 11:34:19 PM by KarkatTheDalek
Oh God! Natural light!
You mean they actually cared about real change happening and not just white supremacy and and trolling?