General News Thread

[LegalLoliLover]

Justice must never lose, no matter what the means, huh?

"no peace, no justice" /s

[Twelveseal]

So how 'bout them Indonesia Omnibus Job Creation Law riots?

[LegalLoliLover]

Joe Rogan as an idea is dangerous. Antifa as an idea is not. /s
Also, why Taiwan is better than commie China in a nutshell:

[Twelveseal]

So if the polls are to be believed (which is always a bit debatable), Biden is facerolling Trump come November. Which means we may get to see the real fireworks of Trump and his minions refusing to accept the loss.

[asterism42]

assuming they don't try and cheat

[Twelveseal]

That's actually kind of what I mean.
Isn't it sad, Indonesia riots?
That, and of course, the violence I'm expecting regardless of who wins.

[rxrx]

I mean we have discussed this before, but Trump using the election college to win despite losing the popular vote again cannot be count as cheating right?

[Mattias]

And Hilary was definitely going to win too, I mean who could ever believe people would vote for Donald Trump as president?

[Twelveseal]

I mean we have discussed this before, but Trump using the election college to win despite losing the popular vote again cannot be count as cheating right?

Yeah. It's that the polls are now indicating Biden winning both the popular vote and electoral college. That said, Mattias pointed out, the polls aren't always right. And, there are still things that could flip a natural result based solely on the normal proceedings, even if the polls are right. That's why I commented on the reliability of the polls.

[Tobias]

Yo have said it before but people who whine about the polls in 2016 always seem to work very hard to ignore the more recent data point of 2018.

[LegalLoliLover]

There was no Presidential election in 2018, so it's not quite the same. If we're comparing poll results to actual results for Presidential elections alone, than 2018 would just be N/A.

[Tobias]

It really is the same though. Matter of fact while the polls were a standard deviation or so off in 2016, the real problem was people were conflating top line national numbers instead of doing state to state comparisons. The part of 2018 that was most accurate was the state to state comparisons. Those are exactly what will determine the victor in this election as well.

[LegalLoliLover]

And naturally, someone would post the Fate version:

[Twelveseal]

Shhhh. I like Gorgon.

[LegalLoliLover]

Naturally, my response included Ana.

[mAc Chaos]

It really is the same though. Matter of fact while the polls were a standard deviation or so off in 2016, the real problem was people were conflating top line national numbers instead of doing state to state comparisons. The part of 2018 that was most accurate was the state to state comparisons. Those are exactly what will determine the victor in this election as well.

By that logic Obama should have lost 2012.

[Mattias]

Really says something about Romney that people would rather vote entirely Republican except for him. Or maybe Obama was just that cool.

[Tobias]

By that logic Obama should have lost 2012.

How do you figure? The polls, if anything undercounted his final counts.

[rxrx]

Then again, neither Trump or Bidan seems suitable for that seat, so its a tough choice for voters.

[OverMaster]

... I wish they'd set that statue in MY city.