As near as I can tell, the value that Trump has added to the right-wing in the USA was add a bunch of judges and pass a tax cut. I don't believe he's successfully done anything else.
Also substantial deregulation via agency rulemaking
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As near as I can tell, the value that Trump has added to the right-wing in the USA was add a bunch of judges and pass a tax cut. I don't believe he's successfully done anything else.
Also substantial deregulation via agency rulemaking
Also fuck over the immigration system and immigrants generally.
Like suburbs (and beyond) and individual car ownership are correlated with less empathy, antisocial behavior, and being more conservative as well...
hmmmm
I'd better go join 8chan or whatever!
/sigh I phrased this very clumsily
I was trying to make a point that conservatives flee interacting with other people not like themselves so 538s point doesn’t strike me as particularly instructive about polling misses. Likewise, those that are in regular contact with people different than themselves (which is more likely to occur in high-population areas and mass transit) are more liberal. There are exceptions!
I was not making the point that people that are in rural areas are all antisocial Trumpers, nor was I making the point that people who are socially isolated are all rural Trumpers
As near as I can tell, the value that Trump has added to the right-wing in the USA was add a bunch of judges and pass a tax cut. I don't believe he's successfully done anything else.
Also substantial deregulation via agency rulemaking
Not really, because they couldn't read the Administrative Procedures Act. Virtually all of Obama's EPA regulations are still standing, just not being enforced due to drafting new regulations acting as a kind of injunction. As an example.
Like suburbs (and beyond) and individual car ownership are correlated with less empathy, antisocial behavior, and being more conservative as well...
hmmmm
I'd better go join 8chan or whatever!
/sigh I phrased this very clumsily
I was trying to make a point that conservatives flee interacting with other people not like themselves so 538s point doesn’t strike me as particularly instructive about polling misses. Likewise, those that are in regular contact with people different than themselves (which is more likely to occur in high-population areas and mass transit) are more liberal. There are exceptions!
I was not making the point that people that are in rural areas are all antisocial Trumpers, nor was I making the point that people who are socially isolated are all rural Trumpers
The whole 'if your neighborhood has sidewalks you are probably a Democrat' thing only really works because sidewalks are generally associated with population density, and that is also correlated to voting Democrat.
Thank god my four year relationship with my now-ex is finally over. It has been terrible. Abusive from start to finish. Now it’s time to pick up the pieces of my life and move on. First step: I’m gonna block my ex on all social media. Hopefully my ex will just fade into the background and eventually even out of my distant memory.
The isolation thing is wierd, but I kinda get it. By what metric are they using though? Still, in my experience yes, alot of the die hard Trump supporters are very socially isolated, or at least live in a very small social cocoon that's hard to see out of. Even my Mother, who is a goddamn dirty leftwing hippy spends too much time alone and ends up watching the poison that is Fox News, and repeating some of their lies. I think isolation combined with the complete saturation that right wing media has just created a really toxic environment of false narratives and this feedback loop, where lies turn into truths and down turns into up. It's a strange world.
People with zero social ties are generally people that are struggling with something. Mental or physical illness usually.
Suburbia is crazy isolating all by itself. I used to live in an apartment complex surrounded by those stupid housing developments where most of the streets are cul-de-sacs. It was quiet and safe and crushingly lonely.
Now I live in a pre-war neighborhood within walking distance of a downtown designed for foot traffic. My social circle has actually contracted because of the pandemic, and I still feel a lot less isolated than I did before I moved.
How many right wingers even post to Parlar, and how many of those are eligible voters in Georgia?
Supposedly it has 10m users.
Which, some back of the envelope math: 27% (crazification factor) of Trump's vote total is ~20m people.
I worked for a site that had something like that many "users."
Somewhere around 0.05% of them were active in a 30 day window, and we went out of business.
Yeah, this is basically the surge of folks after the election. I can't see it being all that active come March. For one, circular firing squads dampen enthusiasm, and this is the 'its all your fault' stage of election grief. For two, it's hard to own the libs when there are intentionally no libs. For three, most people don't go on Facebook for the political screeds, they go to see pictures of friends and family, organize/ invite people to events, and make memes. The whole point of it is the least favourite aspect of social media among normal folks. Self segregating yourself out of society is hard, and it's not like there is even anything interesting or birthright to keep people doing it like the Amish.
People with zero social ties are generally people that are struggling with something. Mental or physical illness usually.
Suburbia is crazy isolating all by itself. I used to live in an apartment complex surrounded by those stupid housing developments where most of the streets are cul-de-sacs. It was quiet and safe and crushingly lonely.
Now I live in a pre-war neighborhood within walking distance of a downtown designed for foot traffic. My social circle has actually contracted because of the pandemic, and I still feel a lot less isolated than I did before I moved.
I agree. Being able to walk around and see other people does wonders for not feeling as isolated. Both of these things tend to be anathama to modern suburban development. It's tragic.
Like suburbs (and beyond) and individual car ownership are correlated with less empathy, antisocial behavior, and being more conservative as well...
hmmmm
I'd better go join 8chan or whatever!
/sigh I phrased this very clumsily
I was trying to make a point that conservatives flee interacting with other people not like themselves so 538s point doesn’t strike me as particularly instructive about polling misses. Likewise, those that are in regular contact with people different than themselves (which is more likely to occur in high-population areas and mass transit) are more liberal. There are exceptions!
I was not making the point that people that are in rural areas are all antisocial Trumpers, nor was I making the point that people who are socially isolated are all rural Trumpers
Speaking as someone who grew up in farm country, rural people can and do have social lives. Likewise, urban people can be socially isolated. There might be some correlation with population density, but it's not going to be high. And even if it were totally a function of local population density, you have to understand and control for that factor.
To make up some numbers, let's say that rural people are split 50/50 socially isolated/connected. Maybe the isolated people vote 80% Trump, and the connected people vote 60% Trump. If the connected people are more likely to answer polls, pollsters might think that rural people vote 65% Trump, and factor that number into their weightings. Then they're going to be surprised when rural people instead go 70% Trump on election day. To arrive at the correct number, pollsters would have to know that there's selection bias against the more Trumpy socially isolated people, and correct for that. You see a similar issue with education among white people, where white people with advanced degrees are more likely to be Dem than white high school dropouts, all else equal.
That's not to say that 538 is right, just that the theory could make sense.
NEW: Only hours before the state is set to certify its election results, a bunch of Republicans have filed a lawsuit in the Minnesota Supreme Court to block it.
The last 4 years have been exhausting and I have this bookmarked so I can refer back to it instantly in the future. Never forget this godawful shitshow of an administration.
They literally color coded the scandals for easier organization.
JFC.
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The last 4 years have been exhausting and I have this bookmarked so I can refer back to it instantly in the future. Never forget this godawful shitshow of an administration.
They literally color coded the scandals for easier organization.
JFC.
They only started at 2011. His conduct goes back much further than that.
NEW: GSA has informed president-elect Joe Biden the administration is ready to begin the formal transition process, according to a letter from administrator Emily Murphy sent Monday afternoon and obtained by CNN.
Jeff Zeleny is a Washington Correspondent for CNN.
IT'S FINALLY FUCKING OVER.
Personally, I'll feel comfortable typing this on Jan 20th, 2021 and not a moment before.
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NEW: GSA has informed president-elect Joe Biden the administration is ready to begin the formal transition process, according to a letter from administrator Emily Murphy sent Monday afternoon and obtained by CNN.
Jeff Zeleny is a Washington Correspondent for CNN.
IT'S FINALLY FUCKING OVER.
Personally, I'll feel comfortable typing this on Jan 20th, 2021 and not a moment before.
"DO NOT VOTE IN THE GEORGIA RUNOFFS, THE DEEP STATE WILL BE COLLECTING EVERYONE'S INFO. THIS IS A CHARADE, MEANT TO IDENTIFY PEOPLE WHO DON'T VOTE DEMOCRAT," another user wrote. "STAY HOME. OSSOFF AND WARNOCK ARE A SMALL PRICE TO PAY."
The most aggressive call to boycott or cast protest ballots in the two runoff races has, so far, come from a dormant pro-Trump super PAC with ties to Stone, which unveiled a new initiative to retaliate against the Republican Party’s supposed turncoats by handing Democrats control of the U.S. Senate.
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Also substantial deregulation via agency rulemaking
https://www.sos.state.mn.us/about-the-office/news-room/state-canvassing-board-certifies-results-of-2020-general-election/
Also fuck over the immigration system and immigrants generally.
I’ve been pondering the potential effectiveness of joining parler and convincing my “fellow right wingers” to boycott the senate runoff
Probably higher effectiveness than phone banking
The real bizarritude is going to be the second week of December when they're probably going to try to halt California's certification.
/sigh I phrased this very clumsily
I was trying to make a point that conservatives flee interacting with other people not like themselves so 538s point doesn’t strike me as particularly instructive about polling misses. Likewise, those that are in regular contact with people different than themselves (which is more likely to occur in high-population areas and mass transit) are more liberal. There are exceptions!
I was not making the point that people that are in rural areas are all antisocial Trumpers, nor was I making the point that people who are socially isolated are all rural Trumpers
Not really, because they couldn't read the Administrative Procedures Act. Virtually all of Obama's EPA regulations are still standing, just not being enforced due to drafting new regulations acting as a kind of injunction. As an example.
Supposedly it has 10m users.
Which, some back of the envelope math: 27% (crazification factor) of Trump's vote total is ~20m people.
The whole 'if your neighborhood has sidewalks you are probably a Democrat' thing only really works because sidewalks are generally associated with population density, and that is also correlated to voting Democrat.
I worked for a site that had something like that many "users."
Somewhere around 0.05% of them were active in a 30 day window, and we went out of business.
Thank god my four year relationship with my now-ex is finally over. It has been terrible. Abusive from start to finish. Now it’s time to pick up the pieces of my life and move on. First step: I’m gonna block my ex on all social media. Hopefully my ex will just fade into the background and eventually even out of my distant memory.
Fucking exes.
Suburbia is crazy isolating all by itself. I used to live in an apartment complex surrounded by those stupid housing developments where most of the streets are cul-de-sacs. It was quiet and safe and crushingly lonely.
Now I live in a pre-war neighborhood within walking distance of a downtown designed for foot traffic. My social circle has actually contracted because of the pandemic, and I still feel a lot less isolated than I did before I moved.
Yeah, this is basically the surge of folks after the election. I can't see it being all that active come March. For one, circular firing squads dampen enthusiasm, and this is the 'its all your fault' stage of election grief. For two, it's hard to own the libs when there are intentionally no libs. For three, most people don't go on Facebook for the political screeds, they go to see pictures of friends and family, organize/ invite people to events, and make memes. The whole point of it is the least favourite aspect of social media among normal folks. Self segregating yourself out of society is hard, and it's not like there is even anything interesting or birthright to keep people doing it like the Amish.
I agree. Being able to walk around and see other people does wonders for not feeling as isolated. Both of these things tend to be anathama to modern suburban development. It's tragic.
I'm pretty sure former pornstar houston who achieved notoriety for doing 500 guys in 24 hours would conclude that the rat can't handle anymore.
At least one of those is named '); drop table 'users';
I'm not a frequent user.
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Speaking as someone who grew up in farm country, rural people can and do have social lives. Likewise, urban people can be socially isolated. There might be some correlation with population density, but it's not going to be high. And even if it were totally a function of local population density, you have to understand and control for that factor.
To make up some numbers, let's say that rural people are split 50/50 socially isolated/connected. Maybe the isolated people vote 80% Trump, and the connected people vote 60% Trump. If the connected people are more likely to answer polls, pollsters might think that rural people vote 65% Trump, and factor that number into their weightings. Then they're going to be surprised when rural people instead go 70% Trump on election day. To arrive at the correct number, pollsters would have to know that there's selection bias against the more Trumpy socially isolated people, and correct for that. You see a similar issue with education among white people, where white people with advanced degrees are more likely to be Dem than white high school dropouts, all else equal.
That's not to say that 538 is right, just that the theory could make sense.
Rev Warnock is running for Senate in Georgia. (You should help him if you can!)
This ad has him going after his opponent just flinging shit and contains an adorable puppy.
That’s the first ad of his I’ve seen (I hadn’t gone looking so no surprise there) and I love him now.
They literally color coded the scandals for easier organization.
JFC.
They only started at 2011. His conduct goes back much further than that.
It's like this real time example of the maxim that conservatism cannot fail, it can only be failed.
Set aside any policy beefs you might have with him, but there is basically no more perfect candidate you could grow in a lab than Warnock
Personally, I'll feel comfortable typing this on Jan 20th, 2021 and not a moment before.
Have to get past noon too.
I know he’s claiming he didn’t lose but just make it clear to him how much he’s hated and how badly everyone wants him to leave
Considering the Michigan UP is now part of Canada, he already has.
Like everything over the past 4 years, what's genuine and what's a poe is now impossible to determine.
[2020 Election] Went Down to Georgia
not so serious:
[2020 Election] THE RIDE NEVER ENDS