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1 minute ago, Fizzzzle said:

That's unsettling

It's unsettling all around.

14 minutes ago, Fizzzzle said:

Dude, Giuliani has not been looking good recently. As in he's seriously ill or something.

8 hours ago, Joe said:

 

Shit, one of you posted this great tweet comparing being an American right-winger nowadays to playing on a slot machine, and I don't know where it is or who tweeted it.

So many pages. This is why I wanted a separate election night thread.  

8 hours ago, JPDunks4 said:

We are gonna need a "Show me your setup" thread now that everyone had to fit this monstrosity into the setup somehow.

I moved so you're just gonna see a TV plopped on the ground next to a PS5. It will be a bad photo.

Though damn, the thing is fucking huge. I'm with @sblfilms in that it looks a lot better sitting next to the TV, but I never had a problem with its look to begin with. There are very few times I thought a console looked bad.  

4 hours ago, Jason said:

 

The Biden team didn't say that. From the article:

"The left wing’s publicly aggressive tactics could lead Biden to just tune them out altogether. “If all you do is escalate, then people eventually think that you’re enemies and not friends and they're like: ‘We don't negotiate with terrorists,’” said JESS MORALES ROCKETTO, a Democratic strategist who supports many of the left wing’s goals."

Just now, Jason said:

 

@SaysWho?

Logic. 

tbh, this seems like an incredibly hard year to do a GOTY with six nominees. Just looking at Metacritic, there's a lot of 90+ games and plenty of notable high 80 games.

Persona 5 Royal - 95

The Last of Us Part II - 93

Hades - 93

Half-Life: Alyx - 93

Ori and the Will of the Wisps - 93

Microsoft Flight Simulator - 91

Demon's Souls Remake - 91

Crusader Kings III - 91

F1 2020 - 91

Spelunky 2 - 91

Animal Crossing: New Horizons - 90

Yakuza: Like A Dragon - 90

Dreams - 89

DOOM Eternal - 88

Tetris Effect: Connected - 87

Final Fantasy VII Remake - 87

13 Sentinels - Aegis Rim - 86

Marveks Spider-Man: Miles Morales - 85

Nioh 2 - 85

Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time - 85

Assassin's Creed Valhalla - 85

Ghost of Tsushima - 83

I mean, I know we're not gonna see sports games in these games of events in the GOTY running, and there's a big difference in my eyes to how people reacted to GoT versus Crash 4 in terms of notability (nothing against the latter), but I feel you could ask 10 people who played all of these games what their Top 6 were and you'd get a lot of different answers.

Astro Bot was a great game and cute as hell. Astro's Playroom is a cool introduction to the Dual Sense and cute as hell. In the first level of the Memory Fields(?), I lost it at 

I FINALLY HOOKED IT UP AND AM ONLY ON SETUP BUT I'M ALREADY HUMPING THE CONTROLLER

45 minutes ago, Signifyin(g)Monkey said:

Is there a consensus as to why, at the height of their power, they abandoned a strategy that won them Congress, a ton of local legislatures and governorships in traditionally Republican strongholds, and ultimately the presidency?

No consensus that I know, but I know at the time it was being implemented for the 06 midterms, Paul Begala and James Carville were not fans of it.  Begala described it as this: "What he has spent it on, apparently, is just hiring a bunch of staff people to wander around Utah and Mississippi and pick their nose."

Carville thought they could have won bigger in 2006 if more money was used in certain swing districts, but the two-fold wins of Democrats in 06 and 08 speak for themselves. It seems like Dean's strategy was getting young people in local offices in each state and grooming them to be rising stars in the party later.

I honestly thought coming back that there was a robust discussion about the article.  

As usual, I second GOH and SBL coming back for the betterment of our crusade against the Galactic Empire.

2 minutes ago, Ghost_MH said:

 

Like everything else in this country, I'd put money on there not being an actual law to stop it from happening or even if there was a law, there's zero penalty associated with it.

1 minute ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

He can call whomever. This might be one of those norms he keeps breaking, and there's probably "no mechanism" for these people to recant their certification but next time the president might be on the horn before certifications calling on his partisans to deny certification

This is what I was thinking: basically something that counts on people to uphold democracy in good faith but can easily be abused.

1 minute ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

Who is gonna stop him?

Just now, Ghost_MH said:

 

Why would that even matter?

I'm not asking for doom porn. I'm asking if it's actually legal.

11 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

 

Just humor him some more what's the worst that can happen

 

Jesus christ 

Can a sitting president legally do this?

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I really thought it might work. Growing up, I often talked about my Islamic faith with my non-Muslim friends, and I like to think that might have helped to inoculate them from the Islamophobic propaganda and conspiracy theories that later become popular. So I assumed I could win over some Trump supporters whose frustrations and grievances had been manipulated by those intent on seeing people like me as invaders intent on replacing them.

 

So in late 2016, I told my speaking agency to book me for events in the states where Trump won. I wanted to talk to the people the media calls “real Americans” from the “heartland,” — which is of course America’s synonym for white people, Trump’s most fervent base. Over the next four years I gave more than a dozen talks to universities, companies and a variety of faith-based communities.

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I reminded them that those who are now considered white, such as Irish Catholics, Eastern European Jews, Greeks and Italians, were once the boogeyman. I warned them that supporting white nationalism and Trump, in particular, would be self destructive, an act of self-immolation, that will neither help their families or America become great again.

 

And I listened. Those in the audience who supported Trump came up to me and assured me they weren’t racist. They often said they’d enjoyed the talk, if not my politics. Still, not one told me they’d wavered in their support for him. Instead, they repeated conspiracy theories and Fox News talking points about “crooked Hillary.” Others made comments like, “You’re a good, moderate Muslim. How come others aren’t like you?”

The emphasis on that last one is mine due to comments @sblfilms made about people telling his dad he's "one of the good ones."

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I was introduced to a donor who I learned was a Trump supporter. As soon as I said “white privilege,” she began shooting me passive aggressive quips about the virtues of meritocracy and hard work. She recommended I read “Hillbilly Elegy” — the best-selling book that has been criticized by those living in Appalachia as glorified poverty porn promoting simplistic stereotypes about a diverse region.

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I’ve even tried and failed to have productive conversations with Muslims who voted for Trump. Some love him for the tax cuts. Others listen only to Fox News, say “both sides” are the same, or believe he hasn’t bombed Muslim countries. (They’re wrong.) Many believe they are the “good immigrants,” as they chase whiteness and run away from Blackness, all the way to the suburbs. 

And finally (though you should read the whole thing):

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I did my part. What was my reward? Listening to Trump’s base chant, “Send her back!” in reference to Representative Ilhan Omar, a black Muslim woman, who came to America as a refugee. I saw the Republican Party transform the McCloskeys into victims, even though the wealthy St. Louis couple illegally brandished firearms against peaceful BLM protesters. Their bellicosity was rewarded with a prime time slot at the Republican National Convention where they warned about “chaos” in the suburbs being invaded by people of color. Their speech would have fit well in ”The Birth of a Nation."

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Don’t waste your time reaching out to Trump voters like I did. Instead, invest your time organizing your community, registering new voters and supporting candidates who reflect progressive values that uplift everyone, not just those who wear MAGA hats, in local and state elections. 

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Just as in 2016, I don’t need Trump supporters to be humiliated to feel great again. I want them to have health insurance, decent paying jobs and security for their family. I do not want them to suffer, but I also refuse to spend any more time trying to understand and help the architects of my oppression.

3 minutes ago, Signifyin(g)Monkey said:

What the hell ever happened to that?  It’s been downhill in terms of success at the local level ever since 2010, and in terms of being competitive in ‘red’ states.

They threw it out after 2008.

4 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

There was a secret door in the SOTC Remake, wtf?

I DID find that lovely Easter Egg to Last Guardian, but I didn't know anything about a door.

Also, DO check out the interactive county comparison in the NPR link:

You can look at each county to see how they shifted from 2016 (top) to 2020 (bottom). Even if the counties voted the same way, how they voted made a difference.

How Biden Won: Ramping Up The Base And Expanding Margins In The Suburbs

WWW.NPR.ORG

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Remarkably few counties shifted in the 2020 election, which saw sky-high turnout. The president's base voted in big numbers in rural areas, but Biden's gains in the suburbs propelled him to victory.

Caveat to this map: ballots are still being counted, especially in New York.

Georgia's on track to finish recount today

13 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

 

Excuse me sweaty dane county is 85% white

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