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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
I think someone here has said it before but it bears repeating: Clinton and Trump are so incredibly lucky to be facing off against each other because literally anyone else would be able to walk right over them.
Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?I meant the practical procedure, not the political implications. At any rate, I think the biggest challenge is to convince the public that the voting system needs to be changed (politicians will probably follow anyway if they can gain politically from promising electoral change).The current election cycle, in which more than half of the presidential votes will probably be anti-votes, might be a good example to demonstrate the problems of FPTP to the general public.
Also, there's nothing complex about ranked choice, it's used in several other countries and everyone has probably already used rankings somewhere in their life. It's already in use in some places
in the US anyway.
Let's take the current front-page of the New York Times. Trump stories:
- Trump Dispute With Muslim Family Emerges as Flash Point
- Top Trump Aide Previously Wielded Influence in Ukraine
- Trump Appears Confused on Issue of Russia in Ukraine
- Donald Trump Ducks Tax Disclosure
- How the ‘Stupid Party’ Created Donald Trump
- Clinton Made Me Cry
- Clinton Hunts an Elusive Prey: White Male Voters
- Kaine Recalled for Commitment to African-Americans
Now, who gets the most negative press coverage? In particular, the graph showed in the article was cherry-picked - the study in question actually has this to say:
edited 1st Aug '16 4:37:03 AM by Perian
edited 1st Aug '16 4:50:28 AM by MarqFJA
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.Irrelevant. Trump does not care about the way the press covers him. He enjoys mediatic feuds that allow his name to be written everywhere. He runs on No Such Thing as Bad Publicity.
If the press criticizes him, he will say that traditional medias are biased. If the press mocks him, he will loudly claim that he doesn't care because he is rich and famous. If the press lauds him, he will say that they finally came to their senses regarding his genius.
edited 1st Aug '16 6:31:54 AM by Julep
I'm wondering if Trump will say anything about having his likeness used in a game.
Not just her; it was all those parents whose children had been murdered by people who happened to be immigrants. But of course, Republicans will just scream, "But that's different! They were killed by immigrants!"
"Somehow the hated have to walk a tightrope, while those who hate do not."I do love how the Trump phenomenon is thoroughly smashing the myth of the GOP as the sane, "serious," wonk-party. The discourse about stuff like entitlement reform being a necessary bitter pill is now gone from the mainstream because the Democrats are finally getting that it's bad policy and the Republicans no longer give a shit about policy.
Does this count as an Enemy Civil War?
Seems more like Even Evil Has Standards. Assuming you think Snowden is evil of course.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayIf Wikileaks wanted to keep the facade of being a "neutral" organization they'd have released something about the RNC.
But no, they are politically driven to favor one party over the other, which is glaring because they love to act like "we're totally a neutral party guys!", it isn't a secret that Assange would like to see the US burn to the ground and I think he sees Trump as the right man for that job.
Inter arma enim silent legesIf all companies keep wages down, that torpedoes sales, and heads directly into economic death-spiral country, but realizing that is very difficult for a manager, because "low wages hurt the economy" run directly against their lived experience, and realizing something which is good for you in isolation is bad for the country is difficult and unpleasant
On top of this, it's much easier to lay blame at the feet of those damn, dirty poor people and their laziness than to acknowledge that your business practices might be the reason the economy's in the shitter. The former allows for extensive othering and hatemongering, which have always been popular principles in society.
Why do people keep repeating this? The 2008 primary disproves the notion that "anyone else would walk all over Clinton". In 2008, she won more of the popular vote than our president Barack Obama. Obama only won the nomination due to superdelegates.
Despite the constant efforts to scandalize and discredit her throughout her career, Clinton has always been a political powerhouse.
edited 1st Aug '16 7:50:14 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Because it plays into the "Hillary is a corrupt career politician bought and paid for by special interests, and everyone knows it" narrative. They can tell themselves that the only reason she has any chance at all is because she's up against a racist pathological liar with zero government experience and no filter between his brain and his mouth.
If she was up against a "real" candidate, then she'd be getting crushed in the polls — or so they tell themselves.
edited 1st Aug '16 7:58:25 AM by NativeJovian
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.I honestly think that politics are being tremendously dumbed down now that internet is growing exponentially. No one cares about actual arguments, analyses and programs made by the candidates, we have so much data available that what matters most are short articles (and especially their titles) and tweets, because those get stuck in the head. Trevor Noah actually made a piece about Trump's lack of vocabulary and the way he uses it to give simplistic, easy to remember messages.
As for Hillary, "Wall Street puppet" is much easier to understand than her actual link with billionnaires. "Crooked Hillary" is better than actually going through the leaked emails to see what she actually said in it (hint: little if any about American military operations, a lot of smalltalk, as in anyone's emails).
Trump is successful because he was the first one to understand (I don't know if it was voluntary) that politics worked this way now. Hillary just isn't as good as catchphrases than either Bernie or him, so she looks like "the least charismatic" of the bunch.
If you take the recent DNC, there were at least three significant speeches - Michelle Obama, Barack Obama, Khizr Khan. For the latter two, I assume most people only saw the "best" parts, the quotable parts. Only Michelle's speech kinda avoided it because the way it is built makes it a bit harder to quote it - or at least, when it was done, it included longer parts of the speech, which helped giving the context.
Meanwhile, Trump's speeches can almost be summed up with a bunch of funny faces and monosyllabic words..
edited 1st Aug '16 8:04:28 AM by Julep

So 538 have their latest update to their electoral prediction and while their poll-plus method has Clinton winning (just) their polls-only and election-today predictions have a dead even split in the electoral college.
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