Consept

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  1. Have you given up on there being any evidence for this yet? You were like a kid waiting for santa clause before
  2. Interesting vid on why the electoral voting system is anti-democratic -
  3. I got a ton of pms from him, hes been on here for a while, youd think itd get boring at some point lol hilarious
  4. We have the same in the UK, they have what they call 'party political broadcasts' at set times, usually around 7 or 8pm on normal TV. Each party gets the same amount of time and they cant advertise on TV or radio. I think they maybe allowed billboards but im not sure, i havent seen them recently anyway. I might go as far as to say there is no advertising outside of the assigned ones. Where they do go crazy is the tabloid newspapers (The Sun, The Mirror etc) each one has an obviously biased political stance, Murdoch owned a couple of them in fact. Even these have a massive effect on voters so i cant imagine the effect it has in America. The other thing is the amount of time campaigns last for, in the US i think its a year or something in the UK its basically a month or 2
  5. True, unfortunately. One thing though is that with higher education there seems to be slightly more critical thinking, so i think thats really something to focus on for America. There should be real authentic options, like you can have center left, center right but also progressive left and maybe libertarian or something. An interesting quirk with this election is that Jo Jorgenson who is libertarian, actually got a few votes that probably wouldve gone to Trump in very tight states. If they werent involved Trump wouldve had a much better chance of winning. But also take the money out of it, give each party a set amount that they can use for the election and equal advertising on TV
  6. Politics needs to just be really boring for a while. A lot of the problem is that propaganda is so easy to distribute now online, i think it will take a while for people to really adjust to it and use it in a responsible way. This is a long process but i think Trump dragged things down even further, hopefully some of that can be repaired and theres hope on the horizon with progressives being a big part of the younger vote
  7. Technically its partly because of the election system in this case but this type of thing can be done even with a straight forward voting system. Using populist, scape goating rhetoric you can really make anything happen, look at Brexit for example
  8. This is actually hilarious hes bitching about votes being counted, their not 'finding' votes theyre counting them. Hes also moaning about the media reporting while at the same time his supporters see him as a free speech fighter, this is just comical now, just take the L and go back to your tower
  9. Remember when America wasnt really great but was a bit better than now -
  10. Yeah i think its the most blatant anti-democratic thing ive seen in a 'developed nation'. Even in under developed, corupt countries they would at least make up something better than just 'stop counting'. But Trump is smart in that he sowed the seeds for this, people dont realise how far theyve moved from being democratic and reasonably fair to outright attempting to cheat with facist and dictatorship undertones. Its actually scary because we're seeing how these regimes can actually start. I always used to think 'how could the people ever let facist dictators in?' This is how
  11. Thats actually a good point, but if i know Trump like i think i do he probably wanted to stop counting when he was winning
  12. Heres some relevant numbers from the Guardian, PA and Georgia look possible for Biden, NV looks like it can go either way - State Votes left to count (est.)% Votes left Current margin Current leader Georgia 1% 50,000 +9,525 Trump North Carolina 6% 348,000 +76,701 Trump Pennsylvania 11% 802,000 +90,144 Trump Nevada 24% 386,000 +11,438 Biden Alaska 50% 191,000 +54,610 Trump
  13. Cmon bro, the simplest answers usually the right one. Hes a bad loser and is pulling anything he can out to discredit the result
  14. Its the amount of money involved in running means it blocks out any other candidates from a credible bid unless they have billionaire backers. Thats why Sanders had to go the democrat route when really he should be in a completely different party.
  15. It is an accusation, i cant see any crime hes explicitly talking about, if he had any inclination of a crime he would have said what it was 100%
  16. Well it doesnt make any difference for me cos im not american. Funny how you talk about bringing race into things when it hasnt been mentioned previous and youre literally doing that now. Which sums up the problem, the issue isnt with the black people its with the people not happy about them getting rights, which is why Obamas term became racially charged, it wasnt because he was specifically for black people, because he wasnt, but because certain people werent happy there was a black president. The kind of rhetoric youre talking is exactly why Biden should win, whether you love him or hate him i dont think theres been a more divisive president. What happened during Obamas years was basically peaceful compared to the last 4 years
  17. Just take the upcoming L, nothing worse than a bad loser, ask Deontay Wilder
  18. Is it that much of a surprise? Hes been sowing seeds of distrust in mail in ballots for weeks, Sanders called it exactly that he would do this. Not only is there the speech but numerous tweets alluding to it - "How come every time they count Mail-In ballot dumps they are so devastating in their percentage and power of destruction?" "They are finding Biden votes all over the place — in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan. So bad for our Country!" "Wow! It looks like Michigan has now found the ballots necessary to keep a wonderful young man, John James, out of the U.S. Senate. What a terrible thing is happening!" "We are winning Pennsylvania big, but the PA Secretary of State just announced that there are “Millions of ballots left to be counted.”" No mention of fake ballots or fraud, hes literally pissed that people are allowed to mail in votes
  19. Youre making excuses and justifications, he didnt say anything about fake ballots, he also claimed theyd won which even Ben Shapiro called him out on. So it follows that he literally means that he doesnt want to count any ballots past election day. Youre right it isnt a crime hes saying that because he knows theyre more likely to be Democrats, if it was the case that more Republicans voted by mail in, im pretty sure he wouldnt be against them being counted.
  20. Hes saying that votes shouldnt be counted after election day, so essentially any voters that voted by mail in on the day or a day or 2 before shouldnt be counted.
  21. Been keeping an eye on the bookies (betting websites) in the UK they hve Biden at 1.2 and Trump at 4.5 which means if you put £1 on Biden you get £1.20 back if you put £1 on Trump you get £4.50 back, this is the longest its been for Trump he was on 2.0 this morning. So if thats any indication the bookies are going with Biden. I also heard Nigel Farage, who was beating the drum for Brexit and partly the reason it happened, bet £10k on Trump winning
  22. I think Trumps tone indicates he thinks hes going to lose
  23. I mean he seemed pretty happy about the deal. But yeah im sure theres something you can fire back no matter whats said. I honestly cant see how hes even blue let alone turquoise or yellow. I would urge you to really get a firmer grip on either spiral dynamics or reading and seeing through people