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Politics... US election edition (2020 almost over, read all about it!)
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Politics... US election edition (2020 almost over, read all about it!)
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The lawsuits Trump filed, as far as I know, concentrated on Georgia (16), Arizona (11), Pennsylvania (20) with additional efforts in Wisconsin (10), New Jersey (14), and Michigan (16). I don't think their goal was just one or two states, I think there goal was to always flip three or more to secure Tump getting over 270 electoral votes. -
Politics... US election edition (2020 almost over, read all about it!)
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Doesn't stop the conspiracy types, though. They claim the Republican observers were tricked into going home and that the count shouldn't have continued (even in the face of the GA law that only says observers are allowed, not required being presented to them), that the election people once the observers left pulled different official tubs than the ones they put under the table for the count, and that people were scanning the same ballots multiple times, you just don't see it on this video. As I mentioned earlier, there are no facts that can defeat a conspiracy theory. They're fact-proof for the believer. -
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Politics... US election edition (2020 almost over, read all about it!)
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Wouldn't Apple and Google vis a vis Parler be the better analogy with Apple and Epic rather than Trump v Twitter? -
Politics... US election edition (2020 almost over, read all about it!)
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Fremdschämen? -
Director Michael Apted (Coal Miner's Daughter, Seven Up, The World is Not Enough, Gorky Park)
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RIP. For those who don't know/remember Marion: Also RIP John Richardson (She, One Million Years BC, Black Sunday, War of the Planets, etc)
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Politics... US election edition (2020 almost over, read all about it!)
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but that's because I'm a mod. -
Politics... US election edition (2020 almost over, read all about it!)
Amentep replied to Gorth's topic in Way Off-Topic
And that's a problem? There's a difference between "They're lying!" "No here's proof" "Okay I guess I was wrong. My bad" and "They're lying" "No here's proof" "YOU'RE IN ON IT TOO!" Can the government lie and cover up? Sure. But the more people who you include in a cover-up the less likely that cover-up will succeed (IIRC, there's a statistical estimate for the minimum number of people needed for the liklihood of exposure of a lie or cover-up being exposed). For the "Stolen Votes" theories to be correct a large, large number of people in both state and federal government have to be in on it (there's 159 counties in GA alone, each running their own elections with significant number of people involved in each county), so its already on shaky ground as a theory. Hence why, without evidence to change my opinion, I classify it as a conspiracy theory. -
Politics... US election edition (2020 almost over, read all about it!)
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I don't know; it seems to me it would have been lost amid the conspiracy theory set, which seems to be the peeps that are really into what happened at the Capitol. Experience has shown that even truth is hard to shake a conspiracy theory. One refrain from lawmakers who were protesting the electors and the Capitol protesters and the Capitol rioters was that they wanted to look at the votes and make sure there was no fraud. Except in Georgia, at least, that was done (actually twice in Georgia, including comparing the machine counts to the printed vote sheets count). They wanted to inspect the voting machines, which was also done - a forensic analysis in Georgia of the Dominion machines showed no signs of tampering or of any process to steal votes. The allegations of dead voters voting in Georgia were investigated (as all fraud claims are) and nothing was found. The guy accused of stealing machines in Georgia was revealed to be a phone technician installing phones. A random sample audit of one of the counties most targeted as a "high election fraud" turned up 2 problematic ballots that weren't believed to be fraud. Instead of accepting this audit as the truth and accepting the validity of the results of the election, this group (+Trump) pivoted to insist that the entire Georgia government is in on the fix. This disregards that its a Republican governed state; they clearly aren't Trump Republicans (despite many of them campaigning with his endorsement or aligning themselves to his agenda). Because with conspiracy theories, its easier to widen the conspiracy than admit facts that go counter to what you know is true. With all of that as background, do you really think Biden (who the extreme conspiracy theories have as a Deep State child eater or something) could actually 'build a narrative about people being misguided and used' that would have reached this group? -
Politics... US election edition (2020 almost over, read all about it!)
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Another person fired, apparently because they were wearing their lanyard on as they went through the Capitol. https://www.npr.org/sections/congress-electoral-college-tally-live-updates/2021/01/07/954518782/law-enforcement-and-social-media-identifying-u-s-capitol-mob-members -
Eh, inXile had made Hunted: The Demon Forge (made with UE3), Mage's Tale and worked on (cancelled) open world game HEIST (which was going to use UE as well) and Obsidian made NWN2, KOTORII, FONV, AP and OW, so neither are just isometric companies.
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Politics... US election edition (2020 almost over, read all about it!)
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Politics... US election edition (2020 almost over, read all about it!)
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That's been gfted1's point regarding the 'magic money' proposals (guaranteed basic income, guaranteed college education, etc.) all along, as far as I know. -
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It supposedly is confirmed elsewhere to BE the Mark of the Outsider from Dishonored. -
As much as Bruce was awesome as Brisco, the show wouldn't be the same without Bowler, IMO. Would have loved a movie while Carry was still with us though.