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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
It's not that people didn't know the admins have the power; it's that people didn't believe they'd use the power. Your local police or military could just barge into your house and kill you at any time. They hav
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Yep. It's not so much that Reddit management did something hugely awful in this, or are likely to repeat it. It's that it's opened the door to the suspicion of repeat behavior. Let a million conspiracy theories bloom! Reall
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Did you even read my comment? Like, the bit where I stated repeatedly that there is no right to speak somewhere online ? What I am pointing out is that the let's strategy in this election was suppression and abuse, and it resulted in
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Rather than desperately thrashing around to find some excuse why your loss didn't happen, why not instead work on improving your message to Rust Belt voters? Trust me, it'll bring you a lot more success next time.
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Why Trump Really Won Wisconsin and Pennsylvania(buzzfeed.com)
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
> The users in question abusing spez have zero right to their speech on the platform. Oh God, this tired distraction again? We know they have no "right to free speech" on a private platform. We know. Everybody knows. Reddit i
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
More or less than effectively zero, you mean? I'll go with equal.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
> The whole point is that we have a very realistic possibility that Trump's unexpected win was due to manipulation of electronic polling machines. Possibly by Russia. No, we really don't. For this rather wild speculation to hav
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Good point, and I'm not being sarcastic: we shouldn't have mail-in voting either, for exactly those same reasons.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
> First, no, you are not that old, because there's no point in the history of our republic where that's been the case. Please don't gaslight. The Democrats were saying it literally weeks ago, when Trump was being vague abo
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Who needs facts when we've got vague insinuations?
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
I'm so old, I remember when suggesting that the election could be rigged was considered treason. I wonder what happened between now and three weeks ago to make that change. Well, no, I guess it isn't really that puzzling. Someone
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Boycotting, ostracizing and shaming them didn't work the last fifty times, but it's bound to work this time!
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
You are imagining Russian hackers who have a better idea of county-by-county voting patterns in rural Wisconsin than expert American pollsters and statisticians who have been doing this for decades. This theory is not even remotely credible
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Not really. In a counterfactual world where the winner of the national popular vote became President, the candidates would have campaigned differently. So it's impossible to say what the alternate result would have been.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
So one sentence blandly asserting that voter suppression is happening in the middle of an essay on an unrelated topic? Okay.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Of course, the winner of the popular vote is meaningless anyway, because that's not how the election works.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
> Given the amount of hacking that has gone on during the election, to influence the election, it is worth investigating at some level for a sanity check Vaguely gesturing at "the amount of hacking" is kinda suspiciously nonspe
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
[citation needed]
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Yeah, it's weird how it's a national scandal that people have to present ID to vote, but not to drive a car, rent an apartment, open a bank account, buy cold medicine, get federal assistance, enter a courthouse...
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Weird. I distinctly recall that a few weeks ago refusing to accept the results of an election was treason. Lots of people saying that, including here on HN. What changed, I wonder?
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
I don't think your understanding of American politics is very accurate. For example: > Iirc they've fought Medicare tooth and nail, even though it's modeled on a republican program. First, you're thinking of Obamacare
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
When you can buy and sell a legal action like that it strikes me as a super bad idea. Wouldn't there be some legal equivalent of the patent trolls who today purchase outdated patents and then go around filing nuisance suits based on th
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
I think the point was that the real thing is just as much (or as little) of a fraud as the fake is.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Please don't make racist remarks on HN.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
If you're saying that people shouldn't be discriminated against for their gender and they also shouldn't be discriminated against for their political views, then hey! We're in 100% agreement.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Maybe it's a super dumb idea to drag outside political issues into the workplace at all. Not everywhere has to be a battlefield.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
If you were a Trump voter who worked for GrubHub, would you feel comfortable strolling up to that CEO and casually mentioning who you voted for? Or would you consider yourself just a little bit chilled?
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Even if the idea is completely unrelated to the company? And even then, we weren't talking about CEOs. We were talking about people like the low-level employees at GrubHub told that they should keep real quiet about their unapproved op
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
>You can and should be judged on the basis of the ideas and opinions that you promote. Not in the context of your employment, you shouldn't. Really, where does this attitude come from that one's employer should get a veto over

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