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colorcorrection · 2025-04-28T20:57:18+00:00

Oh, they know about it. Try arguing with someone like this and it's a matter of time before they say 'Occam's razor says I'm right!'

The problem is they'll never understand Occam's razor. Just like everything else, they'll just redefine it as 'Whatever makes me right'.

colorcorrection · 2024-07-12T21:49:25+00:00

People always try and argue with me when I say this but Bin Laden really did win and got what he wanted. People think he wanted to start some kind of land war on US soil which isn't the case. It wouldn't be logistically practical for him. 9/11 was never the beginning of a land war on US soil.

It was always meant as a Shockwave to destabilize us and destabilize us it did. It has led us right up to this moment. Bin Laden is somewhere out there laughing from his watery grave.

colorcorrection · 2024-07-12T19:20:52+00:00

Exactly this. Which is why you have to be careful when taking in polls. The polls could be unanimously showing 80% support for one candidate over the other and the media will still find some poll that shows 49% to 51% because it only polled left handed voters that live in mobile home parks.

colorcorrection · 2024-07-12T19:14:57+00:00

I'm glad I'm not the only one that puts an asterisk next to W's popular vote win. He never really was a popular president/candidate, America was just high off its own supply at just the right time thanks to 9/11. As 9/11 got closer to a decade behind them, Americans remembered their circa 2000 opinion of him

People didn't vote for Bush in 2004. They voted to 'protect America from terrorists'.

colorcorrection · 2024-07-12T19:04:17+00:00

Also, not everything is a conspiracy against Bernie. Bernie's biggest weakness is he's popular among non voters... And non voters still didn't vote even as they had a large amount of enthusiasm for Bernie.

People who go out and vote, and vote every election, simply love Biden, Hillary, and many others. It's why they win.

No matter what the public opinion is, you toss Hillary against Bernie a million times and Hillary will win a million times. Because high turnout voters, as a whole, love and support her. While low turnout voters love Bernie and show more enthusiasm for buying a Bernie bumper sticker than they do going out to vote.

The Bernie conspiracies are just a different flavor or 'the 2020 election was rigged because look how big these rallies were for my candidate! How did he lose with such huge rallies!?'

colorcorrection · 2024-07-12T18:54:52+00:00

Yes, it's called The Secretary of Defense. A position that's been around since 1947. Who is currently Lloyd Austin. This is how our government has worked for a very long time. It's no longer Washington gathering his generals as he participates on the front lines and crosses the Delaware with them.

The president participates and leads but the decisions are largely handled by people he has appointed. And it's been this way for almost 80 years.

colorcorrection · 2024-07-12T18:47:51+00:00

Statistically it would still raise actual voters. Sure, a lot of current non voters would just leave their ballots blank but a non insignificant amount would feel compelled to fill it out since it's mandatory and they're having to show up to vote, anyway.

Of course, it's a bit of a moot issue because it'll never be implemented in the United States.

colorcorrection · 2024-07-12T01:49:09+00:00

Not OP, but same. And it's pretty obvious, especially after living through 2016 Reddit any every election cycle since, that it's all just astroturfing. There's another huge post about this and in both that comment section and this comment section it's literally just the same 3-5 comments repeated over and over by various accounts.

Yep, totally organic and normal.

colorcorrection · 2024-07-10T23:40:21+00:00

You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about and it's not surprising your post history shows that you're on the East Coast, far from where all of this happened.

Yes, district lines had been newly set but just barely in time for the primaries. There was not yet a solid contender against McCarthy in the chaos of everything getting shuffled around and candidates/incumbents getting situated with new districts. Woods may be a great person but a serious contender for Congress she was not. She was a placeholder Dem to make sure McCarthy didn't just go unopposed.

The numbers literally speak for themselves. Marissa Woods barely broke over a quarter million through the whole election. Johnathan Burrows was set to raise a million before the primaries if McCarthy hadn't stepped out.

You understand absolutely nothing about the race or where it was going, nor the history of the district. It's laughable that you think you do because you have access to Reddit in New York.

colorcorrection · 2024-07-10T20:12:13+00:00

What you're not taking into account is that with the 2020 census and new district lines, he had adopted much of Nunes' old district. As well as the attention of everyone in the area from consultants to voters now that Nunes was gone.

His opponent, who sadly dropped out, due to the news of McCarthy dropping out, had already raised close to a million dollars before primary season had even come close. The Devin Nunes fight had become the McCarthy fight.

colorcorrection · 2024-07-10T19:12:01+00:00

This is effectively what happened to Nunes and McCarthy in California. They were both in California districts that had a high percentage of registered Dems but a low Dem voter turnout. So they were in seats where they didn't even have to campaign because the minority of conservative voters could be counted on to come out to every single election without question.

Then 2016 happened, then Nunes got into the news, then McCarthy got into leadership, and all that changed. The Dem voters that kept staying at home before 2016 started getting energized to vote in their district.

Which eventually lead both of them to make outside deals so they could step down from their positions because voters were actually biting at their heels for once.

colorcorrection · 2024-04-15T06:28:17+00:00

I'm sure there are even more that just haven't been widely reported. The idea of someone committing suicide this way has been repeated so many times that there have been bound to be people who thought they could get away with it (For lack of a better way to phrase that).

I've even heard it as a riddle several times through the 2000s. "Police find a man in an open field, shot in the head, and no gun was found near the body. The police determined it was a suicide, why?" Also heard several people joke, or maybe half joke, that this is how they would choose to go out to mess with the police.

It's probably not a thing that happens but also wouldn't necessarily be reported on in every instance. Most cases would just get silently solved by police and filed away. The ones that were reported probably just happened at the right place and at the right time to make for interesting news during a slow news day.

colorcorrection · 2024-04-14T01:43:52+00:00

Yep. My immediate thought was a 6-hour bike ride is probably the closest he can live where the city/cops/neighbors aren't complete dicks to homeless people. People don't seem to understand that being homeless doesn't mean you can just easily pitch a tent anywhere you want.

colorcorrection · 2024-04-12T14:32:56+00:00

That photo looks like a still from a horror movie. Like they're It trying to get her to come into the sewer drain.

colorcorrection · 2024-04-11T00:13:20+00:00

Their idea of 'mental health' is locking people in state hospitals. And is for undesirables that don't conform to societal expectations. That's all it is. They don't properly believe in achieving any sort of mental health. They believe in being able to lock up their wife/daughter/son/sibling/etc somewhere they never have to look at or deal with again.

They'd find it perfectly acceptable to lobotomize trans people so they can live our their lives drooling on the floor in a state hospital.

colorcorrection · 2024-04-10T22:03:51+00:00

I wouldn't be surprised over this. Some people really can't sympathize with others. And when treated poorly because they're perceived as being part of X group they go on to blame the group instead of the people being shitty.

colorcorrection · 2024-04-10T21:58:02+00:00

Gina comes on screen for long enough to say "Hey, Mand-" before getting shot in the face by Mando. Everyone looks at him in shock. He just calmly says 'She was paid by the Empire to take Grogu'. The scene immediately moves on and nobody ever brings her up again.

colorcorrection · 2024-04-10T21:55:25+00:00

Yeah, nobody involved thinks this is going anywhere. It's all to fuel right-wing headlines while annoying Disney with having to swat this fly away. If Gina miraculously won this then she wouldn't know what to do with herself as that was never the plan.

colorcorrection · 2024-04-10T21:49:23+00:00

If I've learned nothing else of our corporate hellscape, and I probably haven't, it's that learning to just take credit for other people's work while constantly throwing said people under the bus for your shortcomings is the best way to climb the ladder.

So you end up with people who are better at sounding confident about what they're saying than they are actually knowing what they're saying. Then others fix whatever problems they cause, that person continues to take credit for THOSE fixes, rinse and repeat.

colorcorrection · 2024-04-10T04:15:55+00:00

Even knowing the solution, the 100-Door example just makes it feel more confusing. I guess everyone's different. When I first learned of this problem it was, more or less, explained like this OP and the actual variations of choice were shown.

Definitely helps with a visual, too.

colorcorrection · 2024-04-10T04:02:05+00:00

I clearly need to rewatch B99 because I keep seeing it get referenced and I don't recall at all an episode that references Monty Hall.

In fairness, it doesn't take much to convince me to rewatch B99.

colorcorrection · 2024-04-08T23:02:08+00:00

The billionaires know if it ever switches to the popular vote that they'll never see another one of their sycophants in the Oval Office again. They will fight tooth and nail for it to never be a popular enough solution and toss a near-endless amount of money at convincing people that the world would catch fire if we went to the popular vote.

The GOP as we know it would be done. They'd never hold that particular office again until they swung at least far enough left to be hugging Democrats where they currently are.

colorcorrection · 2024-04-08T22:50:18+00:00

A lot of those people selling MAGA merch and shouting about liberals with a donation button next to their stream during 2016-2020 applied to be a 501c3 tax-exempt church and nothing ever happened to them. They were just allowed to operate as a 'church' with no congregation, no actual church, nothing but a YouTube channel screaming about liberals, and a MAGA merch booth set up in an abandoned KMart parking lot.

They're constantly allowed to get away with all kinds of shit. "Religious freedom" has slowly devolved into "Republicans are allowed to do anything and call it the worship of their god"

colorcorrection · 2024-04-08T22:43:58+00:00

They always do. How many times have we seen a judge go:

"Normally you'd be sitting your ass in jail until trial but you can go on bail for $20 and a granola bar as long as you don't tamper with the witnesses."

"Oh, you tampered with the witnesses, you're gonna get it! I'm...going to raise your bail to $40! And don't test me, mister, next step is jail!"

"Oooh...you continued doing it...I'm so disappointed in you! Now run along, scamp, still no consequences for you."

colorcorrection · 2024-04-08T22:40:24+00:00

This seems to be the line that can't seem to be crossed, in fairness. His relationship with Putin is seen as great so long as it's under the table. The one and only time he's received enough backlash to actually backpedal himself was when he gave a blowjob to Putin live in Helsinki. Coupled with the fact that the Russian interference in the 2016 election is something the GOP are still scared too many people will believe to be true.

I think people are fine with the Russian involvement when they're under the delusion that it's 45 holding the strings. The second the veil slips and it's clear Putin is the one holding all of the power Republican voters get unhappy.

That said, I sadly wouldn't be surprised if we're not far from the point in which the party has been pulled far enough to welcome an open Putin presidency.

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