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I love how no one here is talking about the "coincidental" timing that this is happening on Super Tuesday. Carry on, nothing to see here.
by albatros1313 3y ago
I love how no one here is talking about the "coincidental" timing that this is happening on Super Tuesday. Carry on, nothing to see here.
- binaryblitz 3y agoIf this was 2016, I'd think there could be a possibility. Given that the candidates for the election are almost 100% a foregone conclusion at this point, what purpose would it serve?
- rantee 3y agoFueling clickbait conspiracy theories is one probable outcome that comes to mind. For example, even a winning candidate may claim that a "woke" employee sabotaged the site in an effort to subvert the will of the people to have free and open discourse, they won despite the media deck stacked against them, etc.
- cjohnson318 3y agoWe've seen continuous layoffs for the past year or so, and the stability of everything is wonky now. Yesterday I had trouble with LinkedIn, last week it was Coinbase, a month or so ago Gmail was hanging. I don't think it's because of Super Tuesday.
- albatros1313 3y ago[flagged]
- nathanaldensr 3y agoI have yet to see one plausible reason for why this would affect primary voting in any way. Voting is done at the local level on local hardware; we don't vote on Facebook.
- albatros1313 3y ago[flagged]
- dawnofdusk 3y agoMessenger is also down. For some people this is an important means of communication (many young people I know in the US). People may either be in a panic or otherwise cannot coordinate sufficiently the plans they may have had to get to the polls. That being said this year's primaries have got to be historically uncontested that it could not matter less.
- angst_ridden 3y agoIt’s not direct disruption. Grassroots organizers use FB and messenger and Insta for “get out the vote” communications. People use these services to goad their friends to go and vote. People use FB as a search engine to identify their polling place.
- Waterluvian 3y agoSame reason we're also not talking about the ten million non-coincidences that didn't seem to happen today. It's a kind of survivorship bias that coincidences seem like they mean something. Or you could imagine it as this: your animal brain has evolved to notice patterns. Seeing coincidences like this is akin to seeing faces in the stars. The challenge of evolved being is to override those impulses when they're not logically sound.
- albatros1313 3y ago[flagged]
- getlawgdon 3y agoSure. But if millions of evolved brains are "seeing the same pattern", they will behave as such, and so the meaning of that otherwise random noise in fact becomes something material.
- Waterluvian 3y agoAnd that’s why conspiracy nuts exist.
- getlawgdon 3y agoIt's also, you know, a foundation of behavioral economics. But either one, whatever.