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Post by Angie on Nov 10, 2016 20:47:08 GMT -5
HOW ABOUT IMPACT IN ALL CAPS? THEN EVERYONE WILL LISTEN TO ME, RIGHT? RIGHT?!?
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Post by Angie on Nov 10, 2016 20:45:41 GMT -5
Pfft. That's his least scary face.
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Post by Angie on Nov 10, 2016 20:40:18 GMT -5
In a similar vein, I'm seeing a lot of "I'm packing up and moving to Canada/Ireland/Some Other Utopian Country!!11!" With at least two people I've seen making actual, solid plans to move.
Because I guess freaking out is easier than trying to fix what's wrong.
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Post by Angie on Nov 10, 2016 20:33:40 GMT -5
What's the official court policy on pasties?
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Thanks!
Nov 10, 2016 15:14:02 GMT -5
Post by Angie on Nov 10, 2016 15:14:02 GMT -5
Curses! Foiled again!
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Post by Angie on Nov 10, 2016 14:53:30 GMT -5
Both good points. There's been a LOT of conspiracy theorizing this election.
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Post by Angie on Nov 10, 2016 14:14:08 GMT -5
Or some of the yahoos who said Hillary had a 99% chance of winning. Nate Silver had a dust-up with one of them because they took issue with him giving Trump even a 30% chance. Also, I can't verify it but it's an interesting thought (this is a friend-of-a-friend-said-so thing, so take it as such): Alt-right, white supremacy groups, and the like may have been actively skewing the polls. This friend of a friend said that there was an organized effort to claim they were voting for Hillary, in order to make Dems think she had a lock and therefore not come out to vote. Again, totally unverifiable, but if true it would be an interesting study in the fallibility of polls and predictions.
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Post by Angie on Nov 10, 2016 13:59:49 GMT -5
I agree, Cass - with one extra worry: that the more theocratic-leaning congressmen are going to think they have a mandate from the masses to start dismantling the separation of church and state. There have already been small steps made that way (think "religious freedom" laws which take away the discrimination protections for certain classes - i.e. LGBTQ people). With a sympathetic Supreme Court and a president whose thoughts on the subject are...unpredictable, at best, they could undo some pretty important building blocks for a wall we're actually *supposed* to have.
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Post by Angie on Nov 10, 2016 13:47:53 GMT -5
I guess there are a handful of states, with about 165 electors between them, in which the electors are allowed to vote for someone else if they don't like who their state picked. But yeah - my first thought, too, was why in the hell anyone would think Hillary would be the one those electors would flip to. Maybe a small handful of them, but enough to hand her the win?
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Post by Angie on Nov 10, 2016 4:32:50 GMT -5
Been seeing a lot of comments about how the Electoral College could, in theory, go rogue and still give Hillary the presidency. I can be a pie-in-the-sky liberal, but even I see this as a pretty desperate clutching at a vanishingly tiny bundle of straws.
And they've started a White House petition about it.
I'd love to be wrong, but I don't see anything coming of this - and there are other, vitally important issues to work on right now. Like having a real, grown-up conversation about WHY so many people voted for Trump and WHY his candidacy brought so many people's baser instincts out to play.
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Post by Angie on Nov 10, 2016 1:17:16 GMT -5
And most importantly, long-winded rants in Courier font?
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Post by Angie on Nov 9, 2016 23:38:37 GMT -5
Awww...get a load of NG, getting all indignant and stuff.
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Post by Angie on Nov 9, 2016 23:16:13 GMT -5
You spelled "rabid tribble" wrong, Haggis.
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Post by Angie on Nov 9, 2016 23:02:12 GMT -5
Protesting him isn't going to solve the underlying problem, which is the reasoning most people had for voting for him. But I get that that's a much more difficult and nuanced conversation than, "Grab the torches and pitchforks!!"
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Post by Angie on Nov 9, 2016 22:57:41 GMT -5
you freaking moderators are all alike. Right?!? The paint hasn't even dried around here, and there they go, stomping their jackboots around...
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