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RenegadeMonster said:
The Today show had a story on how Americans feel about the Trump Administration's proposed regulation on Social Media companies and what they think of the fact checking and and removal of posts that are misleading information and false information.

Not surprisingly peoples opinions are highly partisan like our politics. If you are on the left side of things you are totally against regulation on Social Media and in favor of fact checking posts on social media which could potentially save lives.

If you are on the right side you are for the Trump Administration's regulation on social media and against any type of fact checking by social media. Fact checking violates your first amendment rights and is pure censorship. They also strongly believe there is a liberal bias towards the censorship.

Both Facebook and Twitter say there is no liberal bias. If something is posted that is factually incorrect and not backed by science they will fact check it. It doesn't matter if the post leans right or left.

However, the vast majority of posts that have been fact checked or removed have come from people on the right side of the aisle. Many of the posts have been about COVID-19 or mask wearing.

One person they interviewed from the right side of the aisle said she was shocked when her post was removed by facebook. It angered her and caused missed trust with Facebook and their supposed liberal agenda. She said both left and right view points about current events should be allowed. Facebook should not be allowed to zero in on the rights ideology and censor it. Doing so sets a very dangerous precedent.
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"How dare you threaten my right to believe in and peddle bullshit on privately owned websites for which I signed a terms of agreement!"
 
Guns are a major issue in the 2020 election. Not because of gun control but because of voter intimidation.

In open carry states there are record numbers of people showing up at polls openly carrying a gun. And this is pure voter intimidation.

In some states showing up at the polls with a gun will not be tolerated and will be considered voter intimidation under law. In other states with open carry laws they are walking a fine line between gun rights and voter intimidation.

In Michigan the Governor ordered that people showing up to the polls with guns can't bring them into the polling locations as it's voter intimidation. However, the states supreme court ruled that the governor's order to not allow guns into polling locations can not stand under the states open carry laws. People are once again allowed to carry guns into polling locations.
 
ayayrawn said:
The joke is a reference to the primary that was in June. McGrath, who has never held public office, outraised her primary opponent Charles Booker, a progressive and elected rep of Louisville's 40-1, and still only won her primary by ~7k votes. 99% of her fundraising came from outside of Kentucky, and she was pushed hard by dems like Chuck Schumer. Her platform is that McConnell isn't doing enough to help out Trump.

The point is that KY citizens are going to receive the brunt of public scrutiny when McConnell wins by 10+ points, when liberalism and the democratic party are largely to blame. We have dogshit candidates forced on us, and are scrutinized further when the state rejects them. I'm already getting flak from my IN family as to why I'm not out canvassing or donating to McGrath. Sleeping or setting money on fire would be just as productive.

The effort is much more needed in Georgia, Maine, South Carolina, etc, at the moment, and I just hope one day Kentucky voters can be trusted to make their own decisions for representation instead of being used as a punching bag by rich liberals. One day McConnell will die and democrats will have to find a new scapegoat and tool for fundraising.
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ayayrawn said:
I'm not under the impression that Booker would have won. It would have made for a much needed change of pace, though, to have a decent candidate of value placed against Mitch than the right wing dems that have lost against him for 40 years.

I also find your approach increasingly inplausible in 2020. When both candidates/parties are so far removed from a vast swath of voter ideology (as they are in KY), it becomes nigh impossible to pick the one closest to my own. McConnell is scum, but McGrath rings support for Trump. How are we supposed to look past this? It certainly won't garner the engagement of myself or anyone I know.

This is only going to get worse as the only two party options in the US move further and further right.
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Yes, yes, yes, to all.
This is the same thing all over the south and then the north and west coast shake their heads and tut tut at us poor, idiotic rubes who can't seem to "get it". They inject outside money to fund a crappy politician instead of someone that the people might actually want and choose for themselves. And yes, all of this is becoming increasingly implausible because the candidates are too far removed from a large section of voters in the South. I'm pretty sure when the DNC looks at the south, they just see a 75 y/o Trump supporter instead of the vastly different patchwork of communities that are actually here.
 
RenegadeMonster said:
The Today show had a story on how Americans feel about the Trump Administration's proposed regulation on Social Media companies and what they think of the fact checking and and removal of posts that are misleading information and false information.

Not surprisingly peoples opinions are highly partisan like our politics. If you are on the left side of things you are totally against regulation on Social Media and in favor of fact checking posts on social media which could potentially save lives.

If you are on the right side you are for the Trump Administration's regulation on social media and against any type of fact checking by social media. Fact checking violates your first amendment rights and is pure censorship. They also strongly believe there is a liberal bias towards the censorship.

Both Facebook and Twitter say there is no liberal bias. If something is posted that is factually incorrect and not backed by science they will fact check it. It doesn't matter if the post leans right or left.

However, the vast majority of posts that have been fact checked or removed have come from people on the right side of the aisle. Many of the posts have been about COVID-19 or mask wearing.

One person they interviewed from the right side of the aisle said she was shocked when her post was removed by facebook. It angered her and caused missed trust with Facebook and their supposed liberal agenda. She said both left and right view points about current events should be allowed. Facebook should not be allowed to zero in on the rights ideology and censor it. Doing so sets a very dangerous precedent.
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We've been working the icy slope of technology for some time now. While as a public we should be given the information if it's available, with information comes misinformation, just like everything in life, where there's good there's bad, where there's right, there is wrong, you look at the sky and say it's blue and like clockwork there will be someone there to argue that "fact".

But we've reached the point of where common sense has gone out the window and now our lives are spent explaining things to "certain" people like they're 5 year old's because, usually intentionally, they claim to not understand, or didn't know............

Leave a note for a teen - "Please do the laundry" laundry is done, but sitting in the washer. "Why didn't you dry and fold the laundry?"
Teen - "You didn't say to do that"

This is our administration, if it's not specifically spelled out somewhere, they work the system. Tradition, common sense and decorum don't exist........it's what can I get away with. And regardless of Trump loosing, the president has been set for the next wanna be Trump to push that envelope even further. Trumps an all out idiot and look what's happening.

I'm starting to really worry about the time between Nov 4th and the end of the year more and more.
 
bfly said:
they should've pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and walked both ways uphill home.
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Right? With hard work and determination anyone should be able to succeed at getting back to their vehicle after a Trump rally. The ones that weren’t able to are just lazy and looking for a government handout.
 
ayayrawn said:
If we DO get Joe Biden, we are royally fucked. He's the same kind of milquetoast centrist Hillary was, and he will 100% lose.
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DownIsTheNewUp said:
I honestly think Trump is toast so long as he isn't facing Biden
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BjorgenFjorgen said:
Biden is not going to change. He's not going to be swayable on something like that. Not that it will matter when he loses the general.
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Ginormousthumbs said:
Biden will lose to Trump. We are doomed.
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Jorduck said:
I am genuinely curious because I am worried that putting Biden on stage next to Trump is going to end up being disastrous. I will still vote for Biden if he is the nominee, but I doubt he can win.
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Captainfog said:
Whether it's right or wrong there is now a narrative that Biden has dementia and half of America already believe it and that's without the republican PR machine in full campaigning mode. Biden will lose big against Trump.
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Woob_woob said:
Sadly this is all Biden does have going for him and I'm fairly confident its the reason he's going to lose
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Truly and sincerely, with love to each of you, I hope and pray you all eat these words next week.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
Right? With hard work and determination anyone should be able to succeed at getting back to their vehicle after a Trump rally. The ones that weren’t able to are just lazy and looking for a government handout.
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Honestly, if "you better send us 30 buses to get us out of this jam" isn't the most absurd appeal for spendy, socialized transportation welfare for people who didn't dress appropriately for the weather that I've ever seen...
 
Indymisanthrope said:
Honestly, if "you better send us 30 buses to get us out of this jam" isn't the most absurd appeal for spendy, socialized transportation welfare for people who didn't dress appropriately for the weather that I've ever seen...
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Since the virus is a hoax, couldn't they all have just snuggled together to preserve body heat? 😂
 
AnthonyI said:
My favorite new quote "It's not that Biden is that good, it's that Trump is THAT BAD"
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Yeah, look, I honestly didn't post that to spite anybody or gloat or anything like that. I'm nearly paralyzed with anxiety about how this is going to play out. When I say I hope all these guys were dead wrong, it's because I genuinely HOPE they are.
 
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