Re: Lacking definitions (+1)
demonlapin a day ago
I mean, Biden might steal the election, but I doubt he's that competent. Maybe Harris can pull it off, but she's probably too smart to do that now. Wait a few years, run in 2024 on an anti-Trump landslide. It's not even remotely in her interest to trade being the junior senator from California for the shitshow that being a VP is, especially if you're going to be Biden's VP. I'm still surprised that Trump was able to talk Pence into the job; governor of Indiana isn't a job you get by collecting bottle caps.
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Re: Lacking definitions
Anonymous Coward 5 hours ago
What I find interesting is that if Biden does win and subsequently has to step down for health reasons our president would become someone that both the Democrats and the Republicans explicitly rejected. (Harris losing the Dem primary; Repubs because, well, Harris is a (D)). I'm hard pressed to say if that would be a good or bad outcome on the balance...
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Re: Lacking definitions (+1)
Mr. Dollar Ton 14 hours ago
if Biden steals the election
How does this happen? How does the opposition party, which is out of office steal elections, which are organized by the incumbents?
The world you're imagining is some weird sort of fantastic anti-dystopia.
Write a book, you might become quite a success.
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guruevi 7 hours ago
Not sure if you noticed, but Democrats are trying to stop the judicial nomination which would result in a hung court.
They are promoting unchecked mail-in voting and ballot harvesting
They have already hired lawyers across the nation to stop any negative result.
They have already indicated Biden will not concede 'under any circumstance'.
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Re: Lacking definitions (+1)
Mr. Dollar Ton 5 hours ago
Not sure if you noticed, but Democrats are trying to stop the judicial nomination
The republicans did it last time around violating a long-standing precedent of no delays, so this is either most definitely legal, not stealing election, etc. or the Trump party did it first, so it should be okay.
Methinks you're having your pants in a twist about nothing.
They are promoting unchecked mail-in voting
WTF is "unchecked mail-in voting"? Aren't there the authorities, who'll be in charge of counting the votes, that is, literallychecking them?
Methinks you're having your pants in a twist about nothing or spreading disinformation on purpose.
and ballot harvesting
Apparently the so called "ballot harvesting" is a legal practice in roughly half the country, and has been so since there were ballots.
Methinks you're having your pants in a twist about nothing, spreading disinformation on purpose or stupidly regurgitating propaganda.
They have already hired lawyers across the nation to stop any negative result.
Which is "stealing" how? I thought access to the justice system is commonplace and legal in the US, has something changed recently? Methinks you're having your pants in a twist about nothing, spreading disinformation on purpose or stupidly regurgitating propaganda and generally being un-US-citizen-like.
They have already indicated Biden will not concede 'under any circumstance'.
What does it matter if Biden concedes or not? In the end, the results are declared by the Electoral College, which will assemble some time after the election once all ballots are counted and the election is decided. No way to "steal" the election by not conceding.
Which is "stealing" how? I thought access to the justice system is commonplace and legal in the US, has something changed recently? Methinks you're having your pants in a twist about nothing, spreading disinformation on purpose or stupidly regurgitating propaganda and generally being un-US-citizen-like, dispensing fake news like a, to quote a fellow slashdotter, "primrose Russian hacker", whatever that is.
Cut down on the bad drugs, go out in the mountains more often, exercise and eat healthy, you seem to need it.
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Re: Lacking definitions (+1)
AmiMoJo a day ago
After last time they are probably worried about being regulated or even shut down. If your platform becomes a threat to democracy and part of an armed coup it tends not to do your stock price much good.
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trump can use the EAS system & maybe force the (+1)
Joe_Dragon a day ago
trump can use the EAS system & maybe force the fcc to have an on line EAS.
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Turn off the popularity contest. (+3, Insightful)
Fly Swatter a day ago
And by that I mean likes and dislikes. Also hide friending and unfriending from public view. Let everyone have their say on their own face page.
What's that? It breaks your revenue model? Oh well.
Do the same to twitter, but I guess that shuts down twitter - what a loss.
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Re: Turn off the popularity contest. (+1)
shanen a day ago
Mod parent up? Or maybe not, because you forgot the magic word "engagement". However it does remind me of that joke genre that is still failing to catch on...
"All your base are belong to us." -- Zero Wing
"All your attentions is belong to us." -- Google
"All your engagement are belong to us." -- Facebook
"All your shoppings is belong to us." -- Amazon
"All your sexy toys is belong to us." -- Apple
"All your sex toy are belong to us." -- Pornhub
"All your computer are belong to us." -- Microsoft
"All your... Uh, what was the question again?" -- IBM
It's supposed to be a joke genre about the special foci of various corporate cancers. Obviously I better not give up my day job to write more jokes. Oh, wait...
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Facebook doesn't want to fix the problem (+3, Insightful)
RobinH a day ago
The thing is Facebook profits from the problem, so they have no interest in fixing the root cause. I watched the new documentary called "The Social Dilemma" on Netflix, and while there's nothing too surprising in it that someone on Slashdot wouldn't already know, it did make me think about the economics around false information. When Facebook or Youtube shows someone the conspiracy theory rabbit-hole, such as anti-vaxxer, pizza-gate, QAnon content, etc., it's a very clear signal that these users are very easily influenced by any information regardless of credibility. Many political organizations, including foreign ones, and even some advertisers pay top dollar to access these users because they're the easiest to influence. A lot of the content that are then pushed on these users are also fake, but Facebook and Google make lots of money from it. So they claim they're doing things to stop it, but they only want to appear to be doing something. Actually stopping it is counter to their financial interest. It's no different than a casino telling us they should be trusted to reduce the number of slot machines.
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Re: Facebook doesn't want to fix the problem (+1)
Malays2 bowman a few seconds ago
"some advertisers pay top dollar to access these users because they're the easiest to influence"
Not surprising in the least because Facebook is the biggest honeypot of them all when it comes to the Lowest Common Denominator. Who wouldn't want a big mindless army to do their bidding?
Even better for them, we live in a society that is structured to steer people into being one of the LCD. Yeah, kids are bombarded with mixed messages ("Be smart....no no be stupid" "Be a good person... no be an asshole ladder climber! blah blah blah) but in the end, the structure is intended to make people stupid, greedy, and selfish- everyone for themselves.
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Restrict internet communications in case of unrest (+1)
halaloszt0 a day ago
Where did we see this pattern? China? Belarus
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