US Election 2020 - Pt 3

Who do you think WILL win the 2020 US presidential election

  • Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D)

    Votes: 166 44.4%

  • Donald J. Trump (R)

    Votes: 208 55.6%
  • Total voters
    374
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Pegasus said:
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The man is almost as uniformed as you. He is the President of the United States. He should, by now, have some inkling of who the Proud Boys are. Or should he be complimented for his intentional ignorance about his own country?
 
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scudsucker said:
The man is almost as uniformed as you. He is the President of the United States. He should, by now, have some inkling of who the Proud Boys are. Or should he be complimented for his intentional ignorance about his own country?
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I think you will find that uniformity has become the purview of the left in the last decade... :giggle:
 
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scudsucker said:
The man is almost as uniformed as you. He is the President of the United States. He should, by now, have some inkling of who the Proud Boys are. Or should he be complimented for his intentional ignorance about his own country?
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If I was a bit less informed, I could be a journalist.
 
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Liverpool won the league in June and it was the first time we'd won it in 30 years... That *one* win still has me walking on air, so it's really weird for me that the side that's supposed to be winning so much they're tired of all the winning seem to have a simmering rage that manifests itself in lashing out with pejoratives in this thread.
 
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greg0205 said:
Liverpool won the league in June and it was the first time we'd won it in 30 years... That *one* win still has me walking on air, so it's really weird for me that the side that's supposed to be winning so much they're tired of all the winning seem to have a simmering rage that manifests itself in lashing out with pejoratives in this thread.
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Very salty here today.
 
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greg0205 said:
Liverpool won the league in June and it was the first time we'd won it in 30 years... That *one* win still has me walking on air, so it's really weird for me that the side that's supposed to be winning so much they're tired of all the winning seem to have a simmering rage that manifests itself in lashing out with pejoratives in this thread.
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Care to nominate examples?

I stipulate that you will only find examples of responses in kind to posts that exhibit the following sort of tone:
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Difficult hitting the 'e' when you're sitting on your phone and ass-tweeting.
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Study Finds ‘Single Largest Driver’ of Coronavirus Misinformation: Trump

WASHINGTON — Of the flood of misinformation, conspiracy theories and falsehoods seeding the internet on the coronavirus, one common thread stands out: President Trump.

That is the conclusion of researchers at Cornell University who analyzed 38 million articles about the pandemic in English-language media around the world. Mentions of Mr. Trump made up nearly 38 percent of the overall “misinformation conversation,” making the president the largest driver of the “infodemic” — falsehoods involving the pandemic.

The study, to be released Thursday, is the first comprehensive examination of coronavirus misinformation in traditional and online media.

“The biggest surprise was that the president of the United States was the single largest driver of misinformation around Covid,” said Sarah Evanega, the director of the Cornell Alliance for Science and the study’s lead author. “That’s concerning in that there are real-world dire health implications.”

The study identified 11 topics of misinformation, including various conspiracy theories, like one that emerged in January suggesting the pandemic was manufactured by Democrats to coincide with Mr. Trump’s impeachment trial, and another that purported to trace the initial outbreak in Wuhan, China, to people who ate bat soup.

But by far the most prevalent topic of misinformation was “miracle cures,” including Mr. Trump’s promotion of anti-malarial drugs and disinfectants as potential treatments for Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. That accounted for more misinformation than the other 10 topics combined, the researchers reported.

They found that of the more than 38 million articles published from Jan. 1 to May 26, more than 1.1 million — or slightly less than 3 percent — contained misinformation. They sought to identify and categorize falsehoods, and also tracked trends in reporting, including rises in coverage.

For example, on April 24, a day after Mr. Trump floated — and was ridiculed for — the idea that disinfectants and ultraviolet light might treat Covid-19, there were more than 30,000 articles in the “miracle cures” category, up from fewer than 10,000 only days earlier. Mr. Trump drove those increases, the study found.

To those who have been watching Mr. Trump’s statements, the idea that he is responsible for spreading or amplifying misinformation might not come as a huge shock. The president has also been feeding disinformation campaigns around the presidential election and mail-in voting that Russian actors have amplified — and his own government has tried to stop.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/29/...column&req_id=377346627&surface=home-featured
But in interviews, the Cornell researchers said they expected to find more mentions of conspiracy theories, and not so many articles involving Mr. Trump.
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daveza said:
Asking this bimbo for a definitive and declarative statement without ambiguity or deflection. :ROFL: :ROFL:
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Pretty sure she's smarter than half the crowd here (especially those skewing more left). Or are you being both chauvinist and anti blonde?
 
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