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by hga 10y ago
Heh, you've got a point, but simple brand recognition, or even making me aware of a product could be sufficient (I don't exactly buy into The Hidden Persuaders thesis, read about half of it back in the '70s and ... wasn&#x2
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by hga 10y ago
Again, I cite Hillary labeling me and mine as "irredeemable"; absolutely nothing has made me more "angry"† than that in all the Presidential elections since I came of political age in time for the 1972 Nixon vs. McGove
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by hga 10y ago
It's so embedded in our Constitutional order, the great compromise that made it possible in the first place, the 2 Senators per state, and the 2 extra Electoral College votes each state gets, that it's not really "a huge comp
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by hga 10y ago
The electoral college margin doesn't mean a whole lot. Except, for, you know, who administratively runs the country for the next 4 years, has the bully pulpit and therefore potentially great influence over the Congress, etc. etc. etc
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by hga 10y ago
Good item, including most especially citing the single person who turned this part of Snopes into a sad joke, and linked it to her clear expressions of Left/Democratic political biases. This really hasn't been a good year for Esta
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by hga 10y ago
This is the result of years of trying to meddle in with "identity" politics that the GOP are good at. Maybe they were once good at it, but I just don't see that as of, say, 2008 and on. See, for example, my one line descri
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by hga 10y ago
Quibble: since this is done by Electoral College adjusted voting, it wasn't "almost dead even" by that accounting, as of right now the AP called Arizona for Trump, making it 290-228. Michigan leans him, New Hampshire leans H
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by hga 10y ago
How do we get people to start trusting each other again? When I get approvingly labeled "irredeemable", the answer is, that will never happen. The best outcome is that we'll live and let live, although Ian Fleming's
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by hga 10y ago
Sorry if I wasn't sufficiently clear: The claim that Hillary was fired with extreme prejudice from the WIC is political. My claim that citing Snopes claim to the contrary---it being a political issue---does not make it a mistruth to me
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by hga 10y ago
This answers zimpenfish below as well: whatever you believe, to the Alt Right, Snopes is dead to us for all things political. And what isn't political nowadays? Although the demarcation is pretty clear, falls along the line of a parti
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by hga 10y ago
Quibble to your posting which I otherwise largely agree with, Shrekeli is under Federal indictment, and every one is cheering that, and it's too early for Holmes to receive the same treatment, although the fraud she was running should
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by hga 10y ago
It was noted by ... University of Tennessee Law School professor Glenn "Instapundit" Reynolds or one of his co-bloggers that with this election, the last remaining Democratic state house in the South fell to the Republicans. I not
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by hga 10y ago
We can't have the media operate with such bias in this country. Freedom of the press is important, but when the press become political activists we should all yell foul and reign them in. The first thing totalitarian regimes do is tak
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by hga 10y ago
And I'm saying that when you cite Snopes on a political issue to "prove" your claimed fact, you're admitting up front that it's nothing of the sort. That sort of trick just doesn't work any more, which is, of c
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by hga 10y ago
Haven't read in detail your citation, although I'll note claiming a Republican operative said "We have three major voter suppression operations underway" is ludicrous on its face, "suppression" is not a word yo
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by hga 10y ago
Echoing my point at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12930056 when you cite a totally biased when it comes to politics site like Snopes, our response is a simple "We Don't Care." But, tell me, why did she
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by hga 10y ago
" Never interfere with your enemy when he is making a mistake ", a maxim attributed to Napoleon, works well for what I'll label as the Alt-Right here, defining us as those who's response to being called racist is "W
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by hga 10y ago
Embrace the power of "and", both can be true, except I'd quibble with disposable099 and say many of us, I would not be surprised if most, believed Trump could win. For me, that was through a combination of his refusing to pla
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by hga 10y ago
They threw the European Americas overboard as 'irredeemable deplorable'. Eh, no, half weren't irredeemable fit only for liquidation, half were judged capable of being reeducated. That's important to the extend fewer pe
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by hga 10y ago
A University of Louisiana student wearing a hijab was physically assaulted by two white men, one wearing a Trump hat, who ripped off her hijab and stole her wallet, according to campus security and local police. Now revealed to be a hoax:
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by hga 10y ago
Many were surprised when an actor, Ronald Reagan, was elected as President. Another actor was elected Governor of California, and arguably may have become President had he been born in the US. Urrrmm, did you know that Reagan was the Gove
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by hga 10y ago
No, the idea of being persecuted for what you believe and then in turn, lying in public about it is not a new idea. However, formalizing the concept this way allowed the further step of the preference cascade, and that, while also not exa
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by hga 10y ago
Closing graf: Thiel made his contrarian bet, and he was right. Now he may discover how deeply unpopular it makes him. And we all learned in school that being popular was more important than being right.... (And for the pedants, I mean ri
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by hga 10y ago
Or perhaps not, for as you point out, many, they're mostly the GOPe(stablishment) types, hate him. Hard to negotiate with such people, will no doubt be harder after all the lame duck session stunts they'll pull. I suspect he&#x
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by hga 10y ago
You're very welcome, and thanks to you as well. And, seriously, thinking about it, after today/ right now! I should just steer clear of all things Clinton until the pardons are handed out, or not, and focus on the future. They&#
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by hga 10y ago
On the other hand, under the present system the governor of, say, Florida can tilt the election by reducing/increasing the number of voting places in strategic locations. Really??? That's not handled at the county level? It su
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by hga 10y ago
what were the big errors made by Bill Clinton's administration that made it worse than any other typical 8-year period in recent US history? His murdering a hundred religious dissidents in their home for starters? Their disproportio
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by hga 10y ago
We as a nation must come together. Really? Now, that's your and my fervent desire, but we shouldn't conflate desires with reality, which is that we are watching our nation fragment in real time, and that this election is but one
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by hga 10y ago
Clinton even went so far as to label half of Trump's supporters as "deplorables....racist,sexist,homophobic..". You left out by far the worst part of that, she said we were "not America", that we were "irred
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by hga 10y ago
A very interesting analysis, but you need to add the time dimension to the issue of introspection, the boy who cried wolf example I mentioned (and, of course, in that Aesop the wolf did eventually come...). Did I engage in introspection t

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