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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
@Redmess. I’m not talking about biting his head off.
I’m talking about holding his feet to the fire. Politicians respond to public pressure when they’re deciding what’s most important. There needs to be constant pressure to close the camps. It can’t be delayed or become a secondary concern.
Letting people go free doesn’t need that many logistics.
Edited by Galadriel on Oct 6th 2020 at 9:12:10 AM
Meanwhile, Facebook turns just a little more dystopian:
Basically, Facebook is making it so that you now will get alerts from groups you are not even subscribed to. Facebook will also make suggestions for related discussions about your private conversations. All in the name of "engagement" and more profit.
Even worse, the WSJ found that Facebook was totally and completely aware that the algorithms used for groups recommendations were a huge problem. One Facebook internal researcher in 2016 found "extremist," "racist," and "conspiracy-minded" content in more than one-third of German groups she examined. According to the WSJ, her presentation to senior leadership found that "64 percent of all extremist group joins are due to our recommendation tools," including the "groups you should join" and "discover" tools. "Our recommendation systems grow the problem," the presentation said.
The consequences of Facebook's failures to take content seriously just keep piling up, and yet the change to promote groups will create even more fertile ground for the spread of extremism and misinformation. Facebook's services are used by more than 2.7 billion people. How many more of Facebook's "operational mistakes" can the world afford?
This. This is what Biden needs to crack down on. Facebook is becoming a danger to world peace. Forget Tik Tok. Facebook is the one who needs taking down.
Hope shines brightest in the darkest timesSorry if I'm not familiar with the nuance between "biting someone's head off" and "holding their feet to the fire".
It wouldn't take much if we were talking about dozens of people, but thousands is quite another matter. It won't be as easy as "just use some hotels". That's just not feasible when you are talking those numbers. Do you expect hotels to just accept that? Or is the government going to compensate them for it? I imagine congress, any congress, will want to have a debate on what is the best course of action, so one disaster does not inadvertently turn into another.
Probably. From what I understand, those do quite a number on your psyche.
Edited by Redmess on Oct 6th 2020 at 3:22:29 PM
Hope shines brightest in the darkest timesThey literally have nothing that works to scare people of Biden. He's a conservative (small c) old white man. Yes, his VP is a black woman but these guys don't have the same instinctual fear of that as they would if she was running forefront.
Ugh.
Trump's campaign is FOR nothing, only against. Thus they've been floundering from the beginning.
They have not a single policy to help the working man or woman.
Edited by CharlesPhipps on Oct 6th 2020 at 6:24:43 AM
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Biden is up at least 20% among seniors according to new polls. This is better than any Democrat has done in over 20 years. In the final polls before the 2016 election, Trump was up 5% over Clinton in this same demographic.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/06/politics/trump-senior-vote/index.html
Edited by Rationalinsanity on Oct 6th 2020 at 10:30:11 AM
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.Speaking of tech companies, Congress has found that large tech firms hold too much power.
On the one hand, yes, breaking them up because of too many disparate consolidated businesses is one thing. On the other, some of the things they're focusing on are... odd? "Squashing innovation" in this sense seems a bit vague and peculiar, since these companies also do a lot of R&D. And the eternal focus on Amazon's domination of online retail rather than the fact it's that, plus Twitch, plus Amazon Web Services, plus Prime Video, plus whatever else they're working on. I have no idea what they expect to achieve for online sales by trying to break that side in particular up on the consumer end...
Oh, and amusingly given current legal cases, they brought up the Apple marketplace.
(I'm going to crosspost this on the Computer thread)
Oh, an interesting detail about those steroid, those are apparently only used for the most severe cases of covid. Hard to tell if that is because of covid or because it is the president, though.
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Oh, absolutely. I'd rather have it happen on day one too, but that just is not realistic under the circumstances.
Edited by Redmess on Oct 6th 2020 at 3:31:59 PM
Hope shines brightest in the darkest timesThe fact that Biden is doing so well with older voters is really bad for Trump since they are one of his main demographics and one that tends to vote reliably. It's especially notable when you consider how massive a difference it is compared to 2016 where Trump was more popular with elderly voters by about 5%.
Edited by Draghinazzo on Oct 6th 2020 at 10:32:43 AM
Oh definitely. Just because I happen to agree with the writer on the whole "Facebook is dangerous" thing doesn't mean I'm going to treat this as a legit news article.
Generally I don't like linking op-eds to make a point. If I do, I at least make sure to point out it's an op-ed first.
Edited by M84 on Oct 6th 2020 at 9:38:11 PM
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The average citizen can't do much, save make sure to send their mail-in ballot or do whatever they can to vote in person (preferably safely), but the majority of the work has to be done by Democrat election officials to ensure Republican funny business is kept to a minimum.
Edited by Resileafs on Oct 6th 2020 at 9:38:07 AM

@Galadriel: I'm just saying that moving thousands of people safely involves more than a day's worth of logistical planning that Biden won't actually be in a position to do before he's President.