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by taxicab 6y ago
They already do. Try going there and posting even moderate opinions. See how long your account will last. "Free speech for me, but not for thee"
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by taxicab 6y ago
Just take a look at the 10 top-performing link posts on Facebook each day. It's almost universally right to far-right leaning content. Whoever is perpetrating this anti-conservative bias must be spectacularly bad at their job. On th
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by taxicab 6y ago
They do censor left leaning people because of their opinions. "Free speech for me, but not for thee"
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by taxicab 6y ago
> they can’t speak their minds at liberal media In Glenn Greenwald's case at least, it turns out that if you actually assemble a team of excellent editors then they will do their job and prevent you from putting out profoundly bad
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by taxicab 6y ago
> a minority of states imposing their will on the majority of the remaining states These are arbitrary ways of cutting up the vote. Right now we have a minority of people imposing their will on the majority of the remaining people. I
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by taxicab 6y ago
Why should a few people in rural states have up to ten times the representation that I do in government just because my job requires me to "cluster in a few cities"? Our leaders govern people not land and any system that enforces
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by taxicab 6y ago
"Does this person deserve to be treated like a human being based off <x immutable property>" isn't really acceptable in civil society and for good reason. Keep that stuff to 4chan, not in my workplace. That's not
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by taxicab 6y ago
"Alternative facts" and the politicization of objective reality are IMO the most dangerous trends of the past four years. There's no way to begin to bridge our fractured political landscape when leaders devolve into conspira
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by taxicab 6y ago
> approximate present does not approximately determine the future Well that's an absolutely absurd and dishonest take on chaos theory. I can tell you that the five year average of all stocks will probably go up by a predictable amou
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by taxicab 6y ago
> I haven't done any stats since college, and that was over a decade ago, so I don't claim to be an expert. That's the whole point. This isn't my field of expertise and it certainly isn't yours. No offense, but
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by taxicab 6y ago
It certainly is a mystery why legally cast mail in votes (which are allowed to arrive after election day per state law in some jurisdictions) would sway to one party. It's almost like one candidate has been telling his supporters to,
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by taxicab 6y ago
It's not possible to downvote immediate replies on HN.
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by taxicab 6y ago
No. This baseless insistance that the most closely watched election in living history has had fraud at a scale never seen in the US that occurred in front of hundreds of bipartisan observers is literally a conspiracy theory. All of the new
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by taxicab 6y ago
This is the third time this conspiracy theory has been submitted here. Knock it off.
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Philadelphia: Evacuations underway after bomb threats near vote counting centre(independent.co.uk)
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by taxicab 6y ago
After years of courting conspiracy theorists, it has gotten so bad that they even managed to elect someone that openly believes in QANON to congress. [1] [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/11/04&#x
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by taxicab 6y ago
Well done! Genuinely got a laugh out of me.
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by taxicab 6y ago
Please keep these conspiracy theories off HN. They don't deserve the pixels they were drawn on.
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by taxicab 6y ago
Take your conspiracy theories elsewhere.
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by taxicab 6y ago
The troves of people that flag any news that offends their ideological beliefs is easily the most enraging thing about how HN deals with politics. The way I see it, you can either have politics on the site or not. You can't have polit
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by taxicab 6y ago
Please knock it off. Conspiracy theory Twitter's new obsession with Benford's law is bad enough, but don't bring it here.
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by taxicab 6y ago
Worth noting that it really isn't special. CA has only 68% of the vote in and TX has only 85%. PA has like 99%, but the reason it feels so slow is because the race is so tight that it hasn't been called yet.
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by taxicab 6y ago
What issues? Searching for "Pa Mail Ballot Database Data Issues" turns up no reporting.
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by taxicab 6y ago
Good! You don't get to have a different set of rules just because your brand of politics is nestled up against conspiracy theories and misinformation. This special treatment has already gone on for too long.
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by taxicab 6y ago
Let's address the elephant in the room since tons of this style of HN posts are appearing all of a sudden: this is probably the most uncertain period of time in most of our lives. No matter who wins the election, it will be close and
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by taxicab 6y ago
Good! Enough is enough and this is the reason we have an independent media. TV networks don't need to be complicit in tearing apart our country and I hope they continue to re-evaluate the role they play as a megaphone for Trump's
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by taxicab 6y ago
Not even experts can agree whether Benford's law is useful in the detection of election fraud [1]. Let's stop broadcasting conspiracy theories about "widespread fraud". Well... fraud in, you know, only the states that i
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by taxicab 6y ago
Don't be obtuse. A mainstream rightwing media figure is out there expressing nostalgia for the good old days of mob violence and when you could just lynch your opponents and calling for a civil war (as well as beheading Fauci). This i
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by taxicab 6y ago
Good! I'm tired of online platforms giving bad actors special treatment because their conspiracy theories and misinformation are so closely nestled with a political ideology. Enough is enough and Twitter has no obligation to be a mout
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by taxicab 6y ago
As was the intention. I am truly disgusted that something as fundamental as the postal service has been taken over for partisan means and to undermine something as core to our country as being able to vote for our leaders. To make matters w

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