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> Your assertion that fake news can't matter is absurd. I didn't say it can't matter. I said I don't believe it is the reason for an electoral landslide. Do yo
by rdtsc 10y ago
> Your assertion that fake news can't matter is absurd.
I didn't say it can't matter. I said I don't believe it is the reason for an electoral landslide. Do you?
> It is dishonest to pretend that the dems are claiming fake news is the only reason they lost.
So we agree there. It is a matter of degree. It seems you think it has a stronger degree and I think it didn't. Hopefully we'll see some impartial well done studies about it. So far I just have an opinion and it's ok disagree with it.
> People have a tendency to ignore problems and hope they go away until they are too big to ignore. This is such a case.
That's a good explanation. I like it, I can agree with that.
> You are just attacking the character of people with a valid concern,
But isn't "attacking the character of people" the theme here. The idea that people who haven't picked a candidate I liked are idiots / racists / homophobic? I've heard that quite often in mass media and I find it too dismissive and simple. I didn't say you said that but I've heard it enough time to form an opinion.
> Your post has no value.
Sorry. I didn't mean to waste your time. It was my opinion. Yes it probably has no value.
- maxerickson 10y agoThere was not an electoral landslide. 2 or 3 states could flip the election, 6 states had very close races. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-election/swing-state-margins/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-electi... A landslide is like Ike got. 60% of the popular vote, 457 electoral college votes, 41 states. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1956 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_ele...
- gozur88 10y agoThis. The election was decisive enough that recounts aren't going to change the result, but it wasn't decisive enough to indicate one of those tectonic political shifts that occur occasionally.