travmatt

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by travmatt 10y ago
>A healthy democracy relies on an informed citizenry, so this phenomenon is truly a threat to democracy itself. The concept has been weaponized already: Russia and the Menace of Unreality: How Vladimir Putin is revolutionizing informatio
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by travmatt 10y ago
When playing identity politics, agreeing with a blatant lie is expected when you need to affirm the narrative of your tribe. If you don't, you're a heretic and not a true believer.
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by travmatt 10y ago
Business journalism typically comes with less partisanship when it comes to reporting politics. But my partisan, naive assumption would be that they cover subjects like TPP, the DAPL, and social security privatization from a very biased poi
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by travmatt 10y ago
Can't wait to see - the voting rights act is effectively dead, I wonder how effective Pence will be in pushing conversion therapy on the LGBT community.
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by travmatt 10y ago
>If even a single one does, that's decades of scot-free voter impersonation that can be done. It also assumes fraudulent voter registration hasn't already happened (!!) which is also unverifiable (particularly since states lega
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by travmatt 10y ago
So now you're shifting the conversation to voter registration fraud, not voting fraud. So it seems you're agreeing with me that the voter id laws are again a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. Fortunately, voter regist
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by travmatt 10y ago
Do you feel an onus to actually propose a mechanism by which these fraudulent voters can predict the future? I can't tell if you're trying to drag your argument into the absurd or if that actually seems logical to you.
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by travmatt 10y ago
Disagree. Voter fraud would be noticed when a person goes to the polls and finds out that they have already voted.
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by travmatt 10y ago
I'm going to again avoid your analogies, again because I find them misleading in crucial ways. If your talking about voter fraud via impersonation, I find you have even less of an argument then you did when I assumed you were referring
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The democrats who opposed civil rights hated big government, hated government deficits, and advocated de-regulation of industry. If one were trying to categorize them according to today's ideologies, they'd be republican. They wer
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>It's intellectually dishonest to claim something isn't happening while, in the same breath, fighting against any reasonable way to verify it. To be honest I'm not sure what you're arguing. As a quick rundown, people
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I always find this method of argumentation intellectually dishonest, probably intentionally so. You try and shift the burden of proof onto your opponent and ask them to prove a negative, and in the absence of this intentionally impossible p
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by travmatt 10y ago
Honestly, I can't see how your response is anything but preaching a false equivalency. >My point in both of my comments is both parties/any party operates in its self interest. The GOP do what they need to do and the Democrats
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by travmatt 10y ago
>@ones_and_zeros is right, it's hyper partisan Again, calling something partisan is the intellectually lazy way of trying to dodge an argument. It imparts no new information, and tries to establish a false equivalency between two pa
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by travmatt 10y ago
Each state handles voter registration differently, although most ask for some proof of citizenship at some point. Also: """ Election fraud happens. But ID laws are not aimed at the fraud you’ll actually hear about. Most curre
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by travmatt 10y ago
""" “You didn’t hear about fraud in North Carolina until blacks started voting in large numbers,” said Barber, who has also led a series of large protests against the law. “Then all of a sudden, there’s a problem with how peo
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by travmatt 10y ago
>As far as I know, no one is checking outside of states with voter ID laws "A comprehensive investigation of voter impersonation finds 31 credible incidents out of one billion ballots cast"[0] Seems like a pretty comprehensive
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by travmatt 10y ago
I can't tell if you're alleging something or simply raising some spectre of bad behavior as proof of some type of equivalency. If you are alleging something, your theory runs into some problems: 1. The DNC doesn't run the ele
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by travmatt 10y ago
Is it factually accurate? Is it giving a full picture of voter suppression, or do you believe that Democrats engage in the practice and this fact is being omitted? IMO complaining about partisanship is just dodging a conversation on the mer
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by travmatt 10y ago
These tracks work like a charm for me. Im the type to be easily distracted by actual music, so the kind of ambient soundscapes this provides are much closer to a pleasant white noise or rainfall. It's also trained my brain in a way to
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by travmatt 10y ago
Their tracks are also available as podcasts. I've downloaded several and shuffle between them.
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Calling musicforprogramming music in the sense that you're probably imaging isn't quite accurate. It's much more of a soundscape.
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by travmatt 10y ago
I seem to remember liberals / progressives raising hell about the appointment of Tom Wheeler, criticizing his past as a lobbyist and insinuating he would sell out their values to the corporations he worked for. I wonder what those crit
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by travmatt 10y ago
My favorite Trump-isms: 1) suggesting that America needs to threaten to default on its debts - I can imagine the recession that would ensue. 2) his idea that we need to give more unstable nations nuclear weapons and tell them to 'have
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by travmatt 10y ago
Funnily enough, I learned about Arthur Andersen in the context of why it is not enforced. Subsequent firms have committed far worse offenses.
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You can also angle the parking spots. My town has parking spots that aren't parallel to the street, instead roughly 45 degrees.
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Awesome compilation of facts. It's getting to the point that the only people who am ant see a Russia-Trump connection do so willingly.
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Also, a republican led incident response firm attributed the hacks to Russia.
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You seem to keep straw-manning my argument - again I never proposed that voters aren't entitled to the information contained in the emails. The notion that you seem to be arguing against is Putin is a skilled propagandist who subtly al
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by travmatt 10y ago
No, I said if people rebel against unqualified people taking consequential positions by electing trump that is cognitively dissonant. And it is, because objectively Trump is the least qualified person to ever be nominated by a major party.

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