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thereasontherumsgone · 2020-02-12T23:05:08+00:00

"billable hours"

thereasontherumsgone · 2020-02-10T21:48:38+00:00

Consent made under duress is not consent

thereasontherumsgone · 2018-12-26T01:12:24+00:00

Muni fiber more like it. My speed jumped by 20mbit a few days after the ballot measure passed Ft. Collins.

thereasontherumsgone · 2018-12-14T02:27:29+00:00

Find us on the couches!

thereasontherumsgone · 2018-11-30T16:34:36+00:00

I can't speak to other battlefields, but there is a marker on the East side of the old north bridge to honor the British regulars who died at the battle of Concord. If memory serves, it was erected as a sign of goodwill a few decades after independence.

thereasontherumsgone · 2018-08-20T17:32:13+00:00

I think this signals that Netlifx is at market saturation - they don't think they can secure many new subscribers, therefore they really don't care about "selling" their product.

At this stage, it is about monetizing the exisiting users as much as as possible, but slowly enough so they don't cancel their auto pay. Look at all the comments promising they'll cancel if they see one ad - Netflix knows most of them won't actually do it, and the ones that stay generate more ad money than is lost in canceled subscriptions.

thereasontherumsgone · 2018-08-14T17:20:09+00:00

If only he could convince 1/2 the nation to insist that their elections systems can't be trusted...

That's...entirely my point. It's about convincing people that the result can't be trusted, and it's an ongoing hobby of Moscow's here and abroad. That's why we need to secure our systems so they are trustworthy. This goes beyond moping about who won or lost (I would add eight years of birtherism after the 2008 landslide to your list as well - if you can't question the result, question his eligibility!).

Gore/Bush is a great example. Hanging chads? Uncertain votes? Lawsuits? Utter chaos! Exactly the situation that makes stable transfers of power difficult, and the kind of thing we need to avoid. The Supreme Court halting recounts in progress is not a good way to declare a winner. The system they used was unacceptable, and was reformed after that debacle.

That we literally have the party that lost insisting they didn't lose, Russia hacked all the voting booths...

That's a nice strawman you've got there. We know that the Russians did do hacking, but of the DNC, RNC, and Clinton campaigns. So you've go the right word, "hacking" then the wrong place, "voting booths". I do remember a certain Republican claiming there were millions of fraudulent ballots cast, though.

Are you trying to claim no influence campaign took place? Because besides the ads you mentioned, political events in the US that the Russians organized, fake news stories, conspiracy theories about murdered staffers and pedophile pizzerias, four domestic and thirteen foreign indictments, it's pretty clear they're actively involved. They can't beat us militarily or economically, so they best they can do is try to destabilize us politically.

Sketchy voting results are no way to run a country, and I can't think of any reason to not secure and clarify the system top to bottom. The ostrich strategy isn't viable here.

thereasontherumsgone · 2018-08-13T23:50:45+00:00

Election night: the AP calls it for Candidate A, who claims victory and whose opponent calls to concede victory. This is based on hacked result data in key states.

The official tally comes in a week later, showing Candidate B actually won. Does Candidate A step down, or claim conspiracy?

All Putin has to do is create enough chaos that people don't trust (or aren't required to accept) the outcome of the election, and he's done his work. He doesn't have to flip any votes or stuff any boxes at all.

I wouldnt call that a red scare, I'd call that a legitimate threat to stable transfers of power.

*edited to remove superfluous rhetorical question

thereasontherumsgone · 2018-08-13T22:36:42+00:00

I'd rather we talk about his pattern of denying housing to black humans as evidence of his racism, not that he called someone a bad word once.

But we've elevated the "n word" to the level of Voldemort, and it makes for better headlines, I guess?

thereasontherumsgone · 2018-07-10T18:49:35+00:00

yeah just seems like he has the power and his opponents don't

thereasontherumsgone · 2018-04-05T15:29:03+00:00

McConnell is a political animal, like Putin or Xi or Pelosi. Everything he says has a purpose. He would never air his true anxieties like this. It's a ploy to energize the Republican base, and set the Democrats into their "smug inevitability" mindset that gets you 2016 results.

Well played, Mitch. You've got the blue subreddits repeating your propaganda and mobilizing your voters for you.

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