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by gwright 6y ago
It is a big mistake to think this is about Trump. Trump is a symptom of the dissatisfaction with the status quo not the source. Just go back and look at the reporting about how his message resonated and lead to his election. Your comment i
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by gwright 6y ago
But in this case it was clearly a slam against anyone who didn't vote a particular way. It wasn't just some sloppy use of language to mean "many".
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> Plotting armed violence to overturn a legitimate election result isn't. Not condoning any sort of violence or the riots from Wednesday but I think it is worth observing that the problem isn't that there are people who are try
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> Half the US population don’t wear masks as a political statement This is just wrong and a sloppy way to insult "half the US population". This sort of attitude contributes to the tribalism that is creating so much division.
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This seems tremendously unjust to me. You're suggesting that an arsonist, for example, should be treated differently if they burned a building down based on their political ideology? How do you think the victims of these crimes are goi
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by gwright 6y ago
> No, they were threatening and intimidating lawmakers that were in session to try to manipulate the election. This is an enormous difference. Sure, it is a difference -- as in not identical. But what do you conclude from that difference
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> Besides, protestors and rioters in 2020 were prosecuted. And it's moronic or ignorant to say they weren't. That some people were prosecuted doesn't negate the overall acceptance by the left of the violent activity as leg
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by gwright 6y ago
So you are saying that the difference is such that one group should not be prosecuted and the other group should? What criteria are you using to differentiate? Storming government buildings other than the Capital is OK? How about we just pr
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The difference is that we could have prevented the wildfire by putting out the small fires in the first place instead of viewing them as legitimate activities. Can we ditch the "treason" talk? It is just technically inaccurate. I
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I agree 100%. Of course that is what lots of people have said previously about similar incidents coming from the left but calls for prosecution and stronger police tactics were dismissed in favor of the less-than-peaceful actions because &
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That is just too cryptic to respond to specifically, but I certainly don't claim that my comments explain everything that is going on.
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If we are at the point that we have to have "evidence" (in the legal sense) that fraud has occurred in order to resolve the outcome of an election, then the water is under the bridge. Voting process and procedures should all be de
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by gwright 6y ago
I purposely used the word "perceive". I think people, even with their real names on the account, view themselves as more "anonymous" online.
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I would add 3. The anonymity of online identity. People behave very differently when they perceive they are anonymous. Perhaps this is a version of mob psychology/dynamics where the anonymity of the collective causes people to act in w
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by gwright 6y ago
Seems silly to worry about quarterly stats several hours into an outage. The most obvious explanation is quarterly stats aren't generated in real-time -- which isn't "shady" to me.
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by gwright 6y ago
You mean like "fraudulent misrepresentation"?
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by gwright 6y ago
Or purchasing business continuity insurance.
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by gwright 6y ago
You are right that I don't know the motivations of Ken Paxton, but aren't there 18 other states joining in the lawsuit? In any case you can't dismiss a lawsuit "because no one has presented any evidence". That is
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by gwright 6y ago
> As such simply saying the legislature was bypassed on it’s own is not considered a sufficient legal argument. Well, the interesting point of law here is that the Constitution specifically delegates the authority to the legislature. S
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I don't think that case is an example of the legislature being bypassed. That is an example of the legislature taking an unconstitutional action. The question in the Texas lawsuit doesn't challenge the actions of the legislature,
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by gwright 6y ago
What do you mean? Housing appraisals are done all the time based on finding comparable homes.
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Setting aside standing and even setting aside any effect on this election, does it not matter for future elections that it be clear that the legislature can't be bypassed in these matters?
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by gwright 6y ago
Standing might certainly a reason why Texas can't sue Pennsylvania in this case, but you've neatly avoided addressing the underlying argument that they are making that the election rules were not changed by the legislature in thes
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> The government has more power to push out convincing misinformation in vast quantities than anyone else. Really? You don't think that the mass media is at least in the same league?
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> now the question is to what extend and would it have changed the outcome That actually isn't the question in my mind. If there is fraud it should be investigated and prosecuted regardless of whether it would change the result o
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by gwright 6y ago
I would find it much more interesting if you were to engage on the legal argument being made rather than this sort of perfunctory dismissal. Are you stating that as long as public officials are "daring to improve their democracy"
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by gwright 6y ago
True, but I don't think that lodging is "something that never goes on the market". In this example, the mortgage or rental payments for an equivalent property would be pretty straightforward to determine.
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by gwright 6y ago
Q: On what continent is the EU's largest park? A: South America https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guiana_Amazonian_Park
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by gwright 6y ago
That is just another way of saying that good talent is scarce.
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by gwright 6y ago
The "last-mile" problem has been around for a long time and doesn't seem to be going away, although wireless solutions (including Starlink) is one way to bypass that problem.

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