Sure, this is a good point. I was more or less talking about perennial non-voters. But we don't even need to win those, although we should try. We can probably just try to win the people who normally vote but didn't vote in 2016. And if the people who say that Hillary was just a disastrous, unwinnable candidate are right, we can get those people to vote by just not running Hillary.
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Sure, this is a good point. I was more or less talking about perennial non-voters. But we don't even need to win those, although we should try. We can probably just try to win the people who normally vote but didn't vote in 2016. And if the people who say that Hillary was just a disastrous, unwinnable candidate are right, we can get those people to vote by just not running Hillary.
Maybe in the House you'd see the biggest rift. I can see the Senate being more sensible about it though.
Splitting apart before dumping Trump just seems like the more catastrophic option for the viability of right wing politics. I realize both possibilities would hurt them. But if they can get some kind of concensous behind the scenes, THEN impeach Trump, and then have Pence at the helm while cooler heads in the party try to stop the bleeding (as quietly as possible) while Pence acts Presidential I think that might be their best shot?
I'm not saying it would be smooth sailing because it won't. Nor am I saying the party splitting wouldn't happen eventually under this scenario. I just think it might be less likely, and if they would stay together it would fuck the party over for a few years at least
SatelliteOfLove
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I've been thinking that since before the inauguration but look at the slow-motion trainwreck we're in. It took months before hearings, months before concerted verbal backtalk and POTUS-checking legislation. It's like they're acting as if they don't realize it's going to get worse (even if behind the scenes they've turned on him and are waiting for the right time or indictments), or acting like they WANT this to blow up during 2018 campaigns.
Flake shouldn't be an abberation by now.
Anyways, I'm back in one of these "facepalm" moments I've been in and out of this last year so it's not like some new revelation to me or anyone reading this.
Wouldn't say anything yet about how bad this hurricane is.. Harvey is going to be a multi-day event for texas and possibly the entire gulf coast. Harvey will be still around by sometime next week in texas.
AntraxSuicide
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For sure, I didn't mean to imply otherwise.
Yeah, tornadoes just started hitting Harris County few hours ago.
Brawly Likes to Brawl
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Reddit will only change when they feel enough damage is being done to their wallet
Random Human
They were trying to grab your prize. They work for the mercenary. The masked man.
Reddit will probably never do anything because they're worried about Digg-style mass exodus.
I still think a huge win would've been someone buying Twitter and finally dealing with *their* toxic users, but apparently they're so toxic no one wants to buy it? Welp.
I still think a huge win would've been someone buying Twitter and finally dealing with *their* toxic users, but apparently they're so toxic no one wants to buy it? Welp.
ArkhamFantasy
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Need to get rid or those bots too.
ShadowSwordmaster
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Holy shit.
balladofwindfishes
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90% of Reddit is totally fine.
It's pretty much replaced official forums for most games.
It's pretty much replaced official forums for most games.
Bye, bitches.
BlastProcessing
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The hurricane is basically following the worst case scenario. It's already the strongest hurricane to hit the Texas coast since 1961 and it is going to dump rain until Wednesday. It's really, really bad.
Brawly Likes to Brawl
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It's really useful for finding hobbyist communities (I recently started an account to post on r/blogging). But man, the stuff that used to be on there (and some that still is) is dreadful.
Host Samurai
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Yeah its pure garbage. I cant go on it for more than 5 minutes before I get fed up with the UI.
Random Human
They were trying to grab your prize. They work for the mercenary. The masked man.
Whaaat. No way.
balladofwindfishes
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It's basically a perpetual milkshake duck, which can be kind of fun.
"Oh, that's a cute picture of a parrot, I wonder if this user has more pictures... oh no..." has happened on an almost weekly basis for me.
The pardon is actually kind of weird in that Congress can't override it. The president generally isn't the last word on stuff with no way for Congress to overrule it.
The president can't even appoint his own staff without the Senate, but he can erase all (federal) crimes a person commits with a simple note.
whyamihere
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If Reddit went down so would the Drag Race subreddit and that's unacceptable.
Wow, fantastic. I hope this sticks. I'm sure the white supremacists will move to another site. I hope these lawyers follow them.
AntraxSuicide
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Yeah, I'm on a shit ton of progressive subreddits like that. Reddit is at least self-curated. 4chan on the other hand needs to go away badly. That cesspool is a blight on the world.
Stormfront actually did try to move to the Russian web. First they were dropped by GoDaddy, then went darkweb for a bit, then went to a Russian host, but the Russian internet regulatory body shut them down for illegal content.
I guess maybe they moved back to Web.com?
balladofwindfishes
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I need my daily quota of cute bird pictures.
Also 100% of my local news comes from Reddit lol
Poodlestrike
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You're thinking of the Daily Stormer. Stormfront is the OG Neonazi forum, Daily Stormer was a more recent news site.
Stormer went Go-Daddy, Google, Darkweb, .ru, darkweb, and then apparently got kicked out of there somehow and apparently lost their site.
/pol/ post if you're okay
Your tag...
Your. Tag.
omg.
How did that become your tag? Genuinely curious
That hold music... I know it all too well... we have all heard it...
I guess it's one of the better ones? It's like an audible crystal palace of sorts.
shinra-bansho
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Just demoralize and suppress the racist vote. Make it hard to vote in the racist panhandle. Sounds gross, but you wanna win so.
5 forms of ID required in the panhandle
whyamihere
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only EBT cards or obamaphones to get in to vote
This could actually backfire given how many very conservative white people are on some form of public assistance.
My idea was polls that are only open from 9 PM to 2 AM. Knock the average age of voters back by 25 years.
AntraxSuicide
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Ticket stub from a recent musical you attended plus receipt from a local coffee shop for something that's less than 30% coffee.
whyamihere
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you can only vote if you streamed EMOTION on spotify
Suikoguy
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holy fuck
This is great, but their efforts to radicalize 4chan and Reddit have had extremely serious real-world implications. This should have happened much, much sooner.
I streamed it on Apple Music, can I vote?
Aaron Strife
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Small government*
*Except when my state** has been ravaged by God's plan
**This only applies to my state, I will vote against any other state getting disaster relief***
***I am the worst and probably have like 5 gay hooker scandals waiting to break at any moment in spite of being a family values**** candidate
****Also bullshit
aspiegamer
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Houston is bad. Like, really bad. It's a scale that I'm not sure even the most prepared administration with the best-funded FEMA with Captain Planet at the helm could manage it all. People are going to try to hold public officials accountable at some point, but this is way deep into "act of God" territory such that even my highly partisan brain knows that only so much can be done in advance regardless of who might be mayor/governor/president/whatever. The "hurricane damage" stuff is an entirely different matter in terms of both preparation and execution than all the flooding is, though it'll all get lumped together as a story.
Obama.
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