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Biden thankful to far right for not acting like far left

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Senator, Nov 8, 2020.

  1. Fantasma Negro

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    There will be outliers but I hope conservatives continue to have a peaceful reaction. Of course, there will be some moaning as the libs set that precedent 4 years ago.
     
  3. s3ts

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    The aggression I keep seeing between the partisans don't help anyone.

    Even here, people can't help themselves but be confrontational on clearly partisan positions. People questioning each other's civility is just ridiculous to see.

    Can everyone stop letting the media polarize you and turn you into their pawns? Or is media literally everything now?
     
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    Is the media responsible for the first president to not concede and election after media from both sides of the political isle(Fox News and WSJ) have called the election?

    Is that the media's fault? Hillary hated that she lost. Yet she conceded on election night and gave a speech the day after even though she lost by a significanltly slimmer margin than Trump. Why?

    Because she didn't want to cause social unrest because at the end of the day she is an adult. Also it helps that she wasn't motivated by the fact that she might have pending legal battles and debt collection battles that arise after not having protections of the office of the presidency. Not having that dark future ahead of you I guess makes it easier to concede.

    But all Trump is accomplishing now is gining up militia LARPers.
     
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    The media isn’t the one filing frivolous lawsuits claiming the election was stolen.

    This is on the President, not the media and it IS a big deal and worthy of concern.
     
  6. s3ts

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    First off, Trump uses the media too. He is definitely a polarizing figure, but media is the medium in which these partisans become more and more polarized. Nobody has all the answers to all the problems, and claiming that they do on either side sounds extremely ignorant.

    Secondly, I don't come to the protection of Trump, neither do a lot of people. I think it's clear, a lot of republicans have jumped off the bandwagon too.

    Who are you guys fighting? Trump? No, you're fighting the people HERE to push them into a darker corner.

    I've seen this happen across all my actual friends. This isn't even worth exacerbating. Biden won, and it'll be made clear as we move forward.

    When it is all said and done, I'll never remember how Trump left the office. It won't even bother me at all, it won't even stress me out. But to those who are listening to the news about Barr and DOJ, etc., you're objectively stressing out for no reason.
     
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    Right wing thugs like this are fully supported by people like @dachuda86 @basso @Commodore @Senator @Fantasma Negro

    Their silence is deafening.
     
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    I think the disconnect here is you probably have not been inside right wing bubbles to know how prevelant and radical their beliefs are.

    Unfortunately I don't have the luxury of many of my former peers in the Marine Corps dropping the Trump train. They pretty much are all sticking to the notion that Trump is going have the election stolen. This isn't healthy for our country when around 1/4th to 2/5ths of the nation believe the election was fraudulent. That causes social unrest and this country had the largest armed citizenry on the planet with a significanltly disproportionate amount of those guns in the hands of the exact people who hold on to Trump's every word.
     
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    The reason you won't remember it is because people spoke up and resisted these horrible acts of corruption preventing them from happening.
     
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    I lived in Texas since 2003. Aside from working abroad in Europe and S. America for 3 years, I've been here for 14 years.

    I know several in the right-wing bubbles. Yes, I know that Mitch McConnell is backing Trump here, so is Barr, so are right-wing militias, etc.

    Biden is going to be president and I know maybe ONE person out of the dozens of right-wing friends who are delusional enough to think Trump has a chance.

    You're severely severely overblowing this situation.
     
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    Math isn't a partisan position. Reporting the math isn't polarizing. This is false equivalency.
     
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    I know roughly 30 out of 35 Trump supporter peers that regularly post on facebook that are buying into the whole enchilada . So again, I have a feeling you really are out of touch here. Then there are all the ones who don't post routinely on facebook that I have contact with in other means that are still holding on to the election fraud claims.

    The problem is much bigger than you percieve.
     
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    Not enough context here.
     
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    People can think that there was voter fraud. That's just something that will die in the abyss and later come up in another election.

    Yes, true Trump supporters are not backing down, and they keep saying it's not over. I don't know any who are doing anything about it, and if they're vocal, nobody gives a **** or there's at least one left-wing person confronting their posts.
     
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    Plenty of context. You said don't let the media polarize you and I said reporting the math isn't polarizing. "The media" reporting the results of the election, the facts about the election are only polarizing to the nuts who do not, as a matter of practice, accept facts. And we all know who those people are.
     
  16. s3ts

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    Uh, no, that was not enough context, and you're not even providing any details of what "math" you're talking about.

    The election polling sucked. That can be considered math.

    If there's other math you're speaking of, I can come to my own conclusions whether that was done properly or not.
     
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    Sorry that I'm concerned that I think the first president in American history not conceding after all major media outlets call the election is going to cause increased social unrest.

    Don't mind lol int me worrying about the implications of not having a peaceful transition of power, a custom that America is very proud of.
     
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    Polling and counting ballots are different. The math he's referring to is the math of the actual ballots.

    Can you name a time AP has been wrong including their atatistucal models for vote counting and called an election? Please tell me the examples of AP or pretty much any major news outlets making an inaccurate call of a election?


    Don't confuse exit polls/pre election polls with actual ballot counting. I sincerely thought you were more informed than that.
     
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    I think everyone knows he's not mentally wrapped up so tight. Sore losers exist. I don't know what else you want to hear.
     
  20. fchowd0311

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    I'm sorry but when you say stuff like "sore losers exist" when what is happening is unprecedented, it ruins your credibility.

    Sore losers do exist but they don't cause half the country to think the election was stolen and then not concede after pretty much every Liberal, moderate and conservative outlet has called the election.
     

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