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Old 10-18-2024, 03:17 PM   #22441
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It's always fun to #### on him, but its clearly his jacket and it shows when he gets up at the end of the interview. But he does wear a diaper so he probably still reeks anyway.
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https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com...tion-forecast/

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It's always fun to #### on him, but its clearly his jacket and it shows when he gets up at the end of the interview. But he does wear a diaper so he probably still reeks anyway.
His suit jacket goes down to his knees?
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His suit jacket goes down to his knees?
Yeah, he's an extremely fat ####, pretty much SOP for them. Anyway a diaper can be hidden so no doubt he has one, but sorry to say it's just his ####ty fashion sense and not actually that he shat himself enough that he needed a pad to hide the stains.

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Even if Harris wins this (which I still think she might, but it's gonna be razor thin), my faith in humanity is pretty much gone at this point. The fact that this race is still basically a coin toss is beyond embarrassing and incredibly depressing, not just for the U.S., but for Canada and the rest of the world as well.

That roughly 50% of the electorate are perfectly cool with destroying their democracy just blows my mind. Way to spit on the graves of the hundreds of thousands of Americans who fought and died to defeat fascism and keep it at bay. Unreal. What a time to be alive.
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Even if Harris wins this (which I still think she might, but it's gonna be razor thin), my faith in humanity is pretty much gone at this point. The fact that this race is still basically a coin toss is beyond embarrassing and incredibly depressing, not just for the U.S., but for Canada and the rest of the world as well.

That roughly 50% of the electorate are perfectly cool with destroying their democracy just blows my mind. Way to spit on the graves of the hundreds of thousands of Americans who fought and died to defeat fascism and keep it at bay. Unreal. What a time to be alive.
nvm, ozyflame said it much better in post 22456
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It's always fun to #### on him, but its clearly his jacket and it shows when he gets up at the end of the interview. But he does wear a diaper so he probably still reeks anyway.
You're probably right but I bet Vance ####ed that couch after Trump got up.
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I'm sure JD has escalated from couches, he's ####ing one of Trump's used diapers for sure.
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In the event of an electoral college tie, what did they break it on Veep?
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It's based on congressional districts in the house. Trump wins in that event, since there are more red states than blue states.
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Perfectly good economic reason for why vast the majority of Americans should vote for Harris. Simply put, she will cut taxes on the middle class and make the ultra-rich pay more. Trump will do the opposite.

So, if you are American voter, and your main concern is your financial situation, the only sensible thing to do is vote Harris. (That is, unless you're making over 400k/year)

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Perfectly good economic reason for why vast the majority of Americans should vote for Harris. Simply put, she will cut taxes on the middle class and make the ultra-rich pay more. Trump will do the opposite.

So, if you are American voter, and your main concern is your financial situation, the only sensible thing to do is vote Harris. (That is, unless you're making over 400k/year)
Yeah okay but what if im a temporarily embarrassed millionaire?
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Important to remember that you can't quantify the economic value of owning the libs. Almost priceless really.
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Even if Harris wins this (which I still think she might, but it's gonna be razor thin), my faith in humanity is pretty much gone at this point. The fact that this race is still basically a coin toss is beyond embarrassing and incredibly depressing, not just for the U.S., but for Canada and the rest of the world as well.

That roughly 50% of the electorate are perfectly cool with destroying their democracy just blows my mind. Way to spit on the graves of the hundreds of thousands of Americans who fought and died to defeat fascism and keep it at bay. Unreal. What a time to be alive.
And, anti-semitism is fashionable again! Yay! I love how we learn lessons from history.
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Important to remember that you can't quantify the economic value of owning the libs. Almost priceless really.
Kind of leaning toward voting Trump at this point TBH. If it doesn’t matter then why shouldn’t I also taste the sweet nectar of owning the libs?
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That roughly 50% of the electorate are perfectly cool with destroying their democracy just blows my mind. Way to spit on the graves of the hundreds of thousands of Americans who fought and died to defeat fascism and keep it at bay. Unreal. What a time to be alive.
Or, disinformation, misinformation and conspiracies that used to toil on the fringes of society has been algorithmically pushed so hard, so fast, and for so many years now, many people are simply living in an alternate reality dominated by propaganda. We are seeing it growing and normalizing in the US, Canada, Europe, developing countries, and even strengthening its grip on places like Russia and North Korea.

People today are consumed by confirmation bias, cognitive dissonance, and demonstrate horrific inabilities to resist low fidelity information. The Dunning-Kruger effect is on stunning display.

The fact that people are gravitating to extreme ideologies and fascist rhetoric is history repeating itself and people willingly letting their own rights and freedoms slip is abysmal to witness.

Goebbels and Stalin would be impressed with what the world looks like now and how easy it is to dupe the masses.

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Or, disinformation, misinformation and conspiracies that used to toil on the fringes of society has been algorithmically pushed so hard, so fast, and for so many years now, many people are simply living in an alternate reality dominated by propaganda. We are seeing it growing and normalizing in the US, Canada, Europe, developing countries, and even strengthening its grip on places like Russia and North Korea.

People today are consumed by confirmation bias, cognitive dissonance, and demonstrate horrific inabilities to resist low fidelity information. The Dunning-Kruger effect is on stunning display.

The fact that people are gravitating to extreme ideologies and fascist rhetoric is history repeating itself and people willingly letting their own rights and freedoms slip is abysmal to witness.

Goebbels and Stalin would be impressed with what the world looks like now and how easy it is to dupe the masses.
Thank you. I literally lecture on this on a regular basis in my classroom. I think only 20% of my students actually hear me, so we're ####ed.
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I'm confident in Harris winning the election, however I am less confident the Republicans aren't planning some kind of attempt to overturn. They are pumping the betting market in Trump's favor and running all kind of ####ty polling in swing states to give their boy a boost on the predictors.
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I have 2 pro-Trump coworkers who went on a blathering rant today. I'll chirp them from time to time about the orange clown and how they've been duped by a carny scam artist, so I did bait them, but it's an immediate turn to bashing Harris and getting very animated with insults about "liberals".

You can't even have a back and forth, they start repeating nonsense tinged with conspiracy theories. It would be a full time job debunking all of the untrue crap they repeat but they don't want to listen anyways. It was like a comedy skit, I couldn't believe they were serious.

Yeah, I got a real glimpse at how uninformed and dug in these types of people can be and it's quite depressing.
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That's when I jump right into asking if they have heard of the bull#### asymmetry principal. Then send them this link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law.

I don't think I'll change their minds, and I don't have 10x the energy they have. But maybe just maybe, with a name that can peak a little bit of interest, I can get them occasionally wondering if someone is just taking a shortcut by shoveling bull#### at them. To date I have 0 evidence that this has any impact.
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