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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
I am having (severe) issues with the term "moderate" being applied to Trump, even if it's technically true.
Then again, most of the headlines about him is about his anti-illegal migration stance so for all I know - he is "not crazy" on other issues.
I do know that he's got support from the conservative Filipino American sector. Not surprising really because Filipinos (due to the Philippines being in the middle of the ocean) are more likely to have to use the legal migration route. They tend to see illegal migrants as competition (who cheated) to get to the USA.
Plants are aliens, and fungi are nanomachines.Trump as Tomu pointed out, basically fits the ideological matrix that the old Southern Democrats filled:
Xenophobic assholes, but very supporting of welfare and the like for those who belong to the "Mainstream" (i.e. White). The Southern Democrat block never vanished, it just willingly voted lockstep with the Republican Elites in a generalized "Fuck you" alliance.
All we're seeing is Trump driving a wedge between the "Southern Democrat" bloc and the "Republican/K Street Elite" blocs of the Republican Party.
edited 21st Aug '15 1:42:07 AM by PotatoesRock
Researchers declare that Google
could be manipulating your opinion and controlling the upcoming election!
A Google spokeswoman said that the company's algorithm is designed to provide "relevant answers," and rigging them to favor one view over another "would undermine the people's trust in our results and company." Epstein said Google's response was "meaningless." "How does providing 'relevant answers' to election-related questions rule out the possibility of favoring one candidate over another in search rankings? Epstein wrote in his op-ed. "Google's statement seems far short of a blanket denial that it ever puts its finger on the scales."
The research suggested that swinging an election was "well within Google's control," considering that President Obama won the 2012 election by just 3.9% and the 2016 polling is similarly too close to call. Though Epstein falls short of saying that Google would rig an election, he points to historical precedent suggesting that Google wouldn't be alone if it tried. Epstein pointed to Western Union's attempt to swing the 1876 presidential election towards its favored candidate, Rutherford B. Hayes. The election was the closest in U.S. history, and Western Union used its telegraph network monopoly and exclusive carriage contract with the Associated Press to ensure that only positive stories about Hayes made it on the wire. Hayes ultimately won by a hair.
On average, Google adjusts its algorithm more than once a day. Epstein said it's possible that even if the Alphabet triumvirate of Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt didn't get directly involved in tipping the scales on an election, a rogue employee could tweak the code without the leaders' knowledge. "Google could easily be flipping elections worldwide as you read this," Epstein said.
Tech firms are overwhelmingly liberal in their composition.
But if they were to choose between Hilary and Bernie, I think they'd go with Bernie. After all, the Democrats did soil their reputation with the Silicon Valley after the SOPA and PIPA fiasco due to movie and music industry lobbies clashing directly with the tech sector.
Inter arma enim silent legesCalling it "meaningless" just sounds to me as if he had just thrown a tantrum right then and there and screamed "NUH HUH!"
I imagine bright plastic toys flying about and landing on fluffy plushies as limbs flail them about while a snot, drool and tear-coated scrunched up face grumpily cries out that he is not tired and totally does not need a nap.
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothesHow goes that swing compare to say a newspaper or TV network painting a candidate in a favourable light? Also haven't Google's results been previously shown to reinforce what is already believed by a person?
That's before we get into the methodology involved, how were the results skewed? What kind of searches were being made? How often were the skewed resulted realised to be skewed?
Plus I'd like to know what the changes required to skew results are, They say a tiny tweak but as the code is secret how do they even know that? Isn't it likely that Google has systems in place to prevent individuals rigging search results?
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
Honestly, before even checking his methodology, I would check his diaper, see if that needs a change. Might explain the rage.
Relevant: "If Google was a guy"
Remember when Google was used to justify an invasion?
edited 21st Aug '15 8:19:39 AM by Aszur
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothesOh yeah and sorry to return to an old subject but. Thecockold thing? It is still something that refers mostly to cheating. But in the U.S, it seems to have a different meaning because of its meaning there.
But this is yet another example of the dang u.s appropriating a perfectly well established english word. GG, ya damn yanks. GG.
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes

I mean, if the Republicans were given total control, yeah, but we've had some of the more extreme SC candidates stopped at the door, like Robert Bork.
And hell, even John Roberts found a soul, despite what he was appointed to do.