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My cousin just shared a picture of her twins who were born today. I hope they still have their mothers when everything is said and done.
@Troubelle
I can’t drive either. I mean, I can but not legally 😉
@Overly
1stly, there’s no need to apologize, fam 🙂
2ndly:
Well, that’s ominous…
I haven’t had time to read through all the comments, but does anyone have any advice on a good live news stream to watch? I’ve got CNN live on youtube for now, but it’s unreliable.
@ Jesalin
This site had a good post yesterday on Andrew Anglin of Daily Stormer… he shared a lot of pro-trump messages… few of which were about his “economic anxiety.”
@Overly long name
You can get a regular ol’ ID instead of a licence. That’s what I have.
The Nevada lawsuit has already been thrown out. This was almost certainly done with the sole aim of fueling conspiracy theories.
As for livestreams, maybe check The Guardian? I don’t know if they have video or not. Hopefully they do because the live coverage on their sites is usually really good and thorough.
DAVID PLIS YOU KNOW I AM BRITBONG
@weirwoodtreehugger: communist bonobo
Wow what a pathetic and flimsy attempt for a victory. Thank goodness you were talking about one of many lawsuits Trump is handing out. For a second there I thought you were talking about the Bundies, no worries they’re all still going to trial in Nevada.
Longer David Futrelle:
I enjoin you to exercise your franchise today, Tuesday, November 8, 2016.
Crush the dreams of the wannabe Dreadful Despot, Donald J. Trump!
@Weird Eddie
Everyone knows (except, possibly, the haters themselves) that it’s all about hate, not “economic anxiety”. The hatemongers just try to dress-up their hate in more palatable ways. It’s the same tactic they used in the ‘bathroom debate’, they tried to paint it as a “safety” issue (honest guv, we’re not trans-phobic, we just want to keep the children safe from those freaks) which of course also paints trans-people as child raping predators.
@Overly Long Name, welcome! Feel free to tell us your story if you want to – I’d like to know it, if nothing else. Also, please help yourself to some scented candles and bon bons over to the right in the welcome package!
Oh I’m shooting rabbits with a shotgun now, but by the time the election is called I’ll be knife fighting packs of wolves. And having the game of poker explained to me for the millionth time. Trump would be considered too backwards a president during the Red Dead Redemption era I am sure.
@ Jesalin
No argument there! The sad thing is, they vote relentlessly for the VERY PEOPLE who are fueling the economic anxiety they DO feel. Donald Trumpf would be the LAST person (well, maybe Mitt Romney) they would support (well, maybe Ronald Reagan) if they’re concerned about their (well, maybe every OTHER candidate the Republicans have offered) economic stability.
@Axe
I’ve always been better at Kart-racing games than more realistic ones (though my father did teach me to enjoy DiRT 2). So…this bodes poorly for my driving skills.
@Jesalin
That sounds right.
The Mythology Of Trump’s ‘Working Class’ Support
His voters are better off economically compared with most Americans.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-mythology-of-trumps-working-class-support/
@Jesalin:
Comments on the CBC website follow the same sorts of problems as any mostly unmoderated site that allows comments: the loudest blowhards suck all the oxygen out of the room and everybody else goes away.
There’s a reason why the CBC decided last year to just automatically shut down comments on any news post involving First Nations people:
http://www.cbc.ca/newsblogs/community/editorsblog/2015/11/uncivil-dialogue-commenting-and-stories-about-indigenous-people.html
They’ve also talked about forbidding anonymous commenting, but we have lots of experience here with just how many people are willing to put racist dehumanising crap out under their real name anyway…
I voted!
I’m lucky because I live in San Francisco and only had to walk half a block to vote. There was no line when I arrived at 11:00 a.m., although they said that there was a long line at 7:00 a.m. We voted in the garage of a typically gorgeous SF turn-of-the-twentieth-century house, with a cute dog out front to welcome us.
We had lots of city and state measures to vote on — too many, really. AFAIC, anything more than ten is too damn many.
I hope that the prolonged nightmare that is Trump as presidential candidate is finally over. I hope he has lots more time to spend on the golf course. I hope he keeps his mouth shut and his hands to himself.
May it be so.
“THE EARTH IS FLAT”
“After much discussion and debate. … scientists universally agree that the earth is NOT flat”
“WHAT’RE THEY TRYING TO HIDE???”
Sadly, there was a time when this argument thread could be used to MOCK conspiracy theories… before it was discovered that the Earth IS flat and they really ARE trying to hide something….
(please don’t make me qualify this with a “/s” tag… it’ll take all the fun out of it!!)
Possibly an excellent source of popcorn.gif throughout the evening:
/r/the_meltdown
I won’t stay up for it (I’m not in the USA), but I’m very curious to see who’ll win! Of course I hope it’s Clinton…
Good luck, people 🙂
@George Dorn
My academy’s having a “Presidential Popcorn” thing in the commons room, so….yee.
So you want us to vote?
Also, disappointed we didn’t at least get a pic of a kitten voting. What kind of blog IS this?
http://www.tssu.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/kittens-voting.jpg
Update in coworker political conversation: my lead suggested in private I just need to understand where the colleague is coming from. Fuck that. I don’t need to understand where someone is coming from when they defend descriptions of sexual assault. I think he was just trying to determine if this was going to get the other guy in trouble, which, of course not. This is not the hill I’m willing to die on. It would be career suicide for me to complain about something like that.
But it reminds me, once again, that I’m not part of brogrammer culture. I certainly don’t feel welcome in this field unless I’m ‘good’ and hold my tongue while steakholders put their hands on me as part of a patronizing ‘joke’ to shield me from words so tame I’d hardly bat an eye, as long as I ‘pick [my] battles’ so I’m not the spoilsport who keeps the dudes from being able to tell crass jokes, and as long as I put up with men telling me they have a ‘nice view’ when sitting across from me (which is ‘a compliment’). As long as I do all that, I’m tolerated.