I am a liberal. Still hooked on this site because it’s an example of a real public square. Most days I check in just to see what people are honestly thinking and saying.
Who cares if some of it is offensive or potentially false? If anyone has time, read this so-called “fact-check” of this community and understand that the most grave problem in the United States is the lack of fundamental and classical education in categorical thinking.
The high-ranking search result is here:
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/thedonald-win/
The most galling aspect is the repeated claim of “false” posts.
How does the fact-checker know? Strictly speaking, no claim is actually “false” unless demonstrated as false. If a claim is unlikely, then the community can examine it, post follow-ups, ask for sources, etc, and then anyone is free to believe it or not at their own risk.
This person has unfortunately been educated in such sloppy modes of thinking that the colloquial use of “false” is considered equivalent to its classical counterpart.
I see this as a major and root cause of the collapse of the United States. This is what I express to those around me, but curious if anyone sees a similar root cause or can suggest other ways to spread better thinking.
Kumusta isang pa beses!
Anyone trying to log in to old site can find new site with a quick search:
Currently result #9 on DDGo.
That’s still on the front page for that search engine. Anyone willing or able to suggest hacks or practical actions to pump the status?
(Disclaimer: by all appearances, Jan 20th will see Biden installed. I’m speaking only to that assumption and not discounting other possibilities. It’s a mad*4 world.)
I developed a somewhat contrary opinion over the past several days.
Media is skilled at brainwashing while appearing to have credibility. For many, that credibility is gone. But not enough minds have been opened yet to skepticism. That’s the fear, correct? Biden is installed... big tech suppresses everything.
The negative view is that so-called “right-wing” voices will be quashed, and the “left-wing” brainwashing will go on with such irresistible force that the country and the world is lost.
Maybe. But war is the Achilles heel. Most politically salient facts can be twisted or concealed to prop up the “uniparty.” By contrast, war is a bi-partisan or multi-partisan fact that can be twisted, but never fully concealed.
My honest prediction is that within 6 months to a year, a new conflict will break out that does something completely unexpected. It will turn Donald Trump into an unlikely hero of the left-wing underground.
This sounds crazy now, but i don’t think it is. If you also grew up on punk rock culture, maybe you can tell me why I’m not correct.
Lil Pump, eg, takes real risk, along with many brave artists. Tell me how he won’t bring more revolution than the scolding moms and dads in their decrepit Rolling Stone columns. It’s inevitable.
War will come again. That undeniable fact will cause a culture-wide reassessment of who really is and was “status quo” and who is or was willing to take a risk for positive change. I see this happening no matter how hard the censorship hammer comes down.
Maybe the Georgia Governor and SOS need to be schooled on how racist they look.
Do they think dem colored city folk ain’t clever enuf to git around all the fancy “election safeguards”?
Personally I think Gov/SOS are lazy. But maybe it would light a fire under their arses if someone pointed out how insulting it is to imagine that an army of Ruby Freemans couldn’t possibly fool em.
We’re not just claiming illegal votes happened. Part of the claim is that skilled operators are involved.
Drilling down on the data claims... the forensic trail... the potentially phony addresses... would at least show some respect.
Shouldn’t news organizations be sued Right Now for willfully sowing prejudice in judicial and legislative bodies?
Prior to January 6, all reports of a “president-elect” are provably false in light of ongoing challenges. Any news source claiming to be non-partisan is acting with malice aforethought, clearly discouraging legislatures from holding lawful hearings and clearly discouraging courts from taking up cases for fear of “overturning” something.
Hoping some version of this idea goes into a lawsuit. Some of these “news” agencies need to be dissolved.
A panel of election officials could be fooled by a few simple parlor tricks, imo.
As proof of concept, just remember James Randi’s matchbook levitation reported as fooling a team of PhD lab scientists:
“It can’t be a trick - we measured that matchbox with LASERS!”
Doesn’t need to be corruption.
Predictably, evidence of large scale fraud is too difficult to develop in a time frame that allows courts to overturn an election.
Note the multiple examples of elections actually overturned in court per Heritage Foundation’s database (https://www.heritage.org/voterfraud/search?combine=&state=All&year=&case_type=All&fraud_type=24497&page=0)
These are almost all SINGLE DIGIT vote margins. Therefore, it stands to reason that the evidence of fraud could be developed and heard by a court in time. Understand that this is NOT proof that voter fraud only occurs in small batches. It only shows that courts are the appropriate venue to overturn elections when only small batches of evidence are needed.
By contrast, a large scale fraud indictment, such as this one reported in Politico claiming payoffs to “ring up” votes and buy entire elections (https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/23/former-congressman-indicted-voter-fraud-bribery-charges-379935) tends to be based upon evidence developed over YEARS. These charges (no conviction yet) stem from 2014, 2015, and 2016 election cycles.
IMO the fact that fraud is not being either fully presented or heard by courts is irrelevant. Cases thrown out are irrelevant. Recent, small-scale fraud indictments/convictions are irrelevant in demonstrating that voter fraud is only “small scale.”
Large scale voter fraud in Nov 2020 is obvious from a common sense perspective. But the court system is not a venue that can or will handle it in a timely manner.
State legislatures must be the focus. They have full authority to make a common sense determination as to whether to strike electors.
If any of them point back to the courts as a way to undermine the credibility of fraud claims... that’s an irrelevant deflection. Courts are not built to swiftly reverse elections because of large fraud events. But the Constitution indicates that legislatures are. The buck stops with our state reps.