OMG Politics, I'm over it already.

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Jill Stein asked for two million dollars to pay for audits/recounts of the ballots in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. She raised the money in under a day and will probably hit $2.5 million by tomorrow morning.

I think it’s incredibly unlikely that they’ll find anything that will change who won those states. Nate Silver has already pointed out that the notion of discrepancies between paper ballot voting and electronic voting disappear when race and age are controlled for. And if the electronic machines were hacked there’s probably no evidence to find.

But I still chipped in a few bucks because at the very least this is an epic troll. It will make Trump likely to say more horrible shit that might swing electoral college voters to the #Nevertrump side of the force. And audits/recounts of three states are bound to turn up some shit that just makes the GOP look bad, which is especially important in Wisconsin, where the GOP’s black vote suppression efforts were just ruled unconstitutional.
 
jp_nyc said:
Jill Stein asked for two million dollars to pay for audits/recounts of the ballots in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. She raised the money in under a day and will probably hit $2.5 million by tomorrow morning.

I think it’s incredibly unlikely that they’ll find anything that will change who won those states. Nate Silver has already pointed out that the notion of discrepancies between paper ballot voting and electronic voting disappear when race and age are controlled for. And if the electronic machines were hacked there’s probably no evidence to find.

But I still chipped in a few bucks because at the very least this is an epic troll. It will make Trump likely to say more horrible shit that might swing electoral college voters to the #Nevertrump side of the force. And audits/recounts of three states are bound to turn up some shit that just makes the GOP look bad, which is especially important in Wisconsin, where the GOP’s black vote suppression efforts were just ruled unconstitutional.
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The tin foil hat contingent is suggesting that this is a conspiracy planned by Hillary Clinton since before the election, Jill Stein is acting as her surrogate, and it has all been funded by George Soros
 
also, I think its reasonable to think the election may have been tampered with by hackers. the dnc was hacked in an attempt to sway the election before the vote so its not like this is just some new idea they are coming up with now.

if trump lost but had 2 million more votes I think he would be raising all sorts of hell right now.
 
Lerxst said:
The tin foil hat contingent is suggesting that this is a conspiracy planned by Hillary Clinton since before the election, Jill Stein is acting as her surrogate, and it has all been funded by George Soros
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If it’s a George Soros conspiracy they’re neo-nazis. The tin foil conspiracists blame everything on big business, not Jews.
 
PunkKitty said:
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/the...ntalist-rural-america-a-view-from-the-inside/
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That's a great article in that it explains a lot IMO. Put that together with my general belief that religion is ignorance and it spells out a lot of the result.

I read an article about a Muslim woman who voted Trump. She said that her main reasons were that 1. she agreed with Trump's anti-gay marriage position 2. that she was anti-abortion 3. she was with Trump in being skeptical about climate change
 
mongooz said:
what are you suggesting? maybe i'm not getting the intent.
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Soros is the scapegoat of many conspiracy theories because he’s a Jew. When people blame Soros they’re really blaming the mythical Jewsish illuminati from The Secret Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. But they don’t want to be dismissed as anti-semites, so they blame Soros, assuming like-minded people understand. It’s like getting a tattoo of a wulfsangel because it’s less obvious than a swastika.
 
jp_nyc said:
Soros is the scapegoat of many conspiracy theories because he’s a Jew. When people blame Soros they’re really blaming the mythical Jewsish illuminati from The Secret Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. But they don’t want to be dismissed as anti-semites, so they blame Soros, assuming like-minded people understand. It’s like getting a tattoo of a wulfsangel because it’s less obvious than a swastika.
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i would have thought that the ones who would have tatoos of swastikas would be the supporters of the Koch brothers.
 
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