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This is bullshit. There is a much smaller number of conservative news websites or tv channels compared to democrats, though the population is roughly 50/50, so of course the few conservative outlets individually attracts more traffic hence appearing more often in top links, but not in aggregate.
Not surprising considering Facebook's demographics in the United States.
Also given the fact that Trump's rallies were attended to in extremely larger numbers compared to that of Biden's, and the new White House videos being downvoted heavily in YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/WhiteHouse/videos *edit: Responding to a comment below, > I very much doubt he even won the election We have to be extremely careful when alleging election fraud. I think that may be perceived to be divisive. It…
If you're genuinely just a conservative I feel for you, you don't have a party on your side that isn't blatantly corrupt. But you can't just blindly bat for them anyway despite what they're doing, that's fucking evil.
This shouldn't be surprising as Trump was recently found in a Gallup poll to be more admired than Obama and Biden. https://news.gallup.com/poll/328193/donald-trump-michelle-ob... > Overall, 18% of Americans name Trump, 15% name Obama, 6% Biden and 3% Fauci. I do find it a tad bit curious that Biden, with a mere 6% approval rate, was certified to have won the election and Trump apparently lost it when he had thrice Bi…
That's a remarkable misinterpretation of the survey. > Eighteen percent of the survey's respondents named Trump as their most admired man, compared to 15 percent who named Obama and 6 percent who named President-elect Joe Biden. Going from "named the most admired by a plurality" to "the most admired" is exactly the same flaw as in first-past-the-post voting.
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You're going to have to explain why you don't think Ben Shapiro is alt-right, he's basically a poster child for them.
What does 'alt' mean when added as a prefix to left or right to you? What % of people on the right would you consider alt-right? What % of people on the left would you consider alt-left?
Not the GP, but the 'alt' prefix to me seems to invoke the similar usage in the term 'alternative' music like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, etc, which were an 'alternative' to pop music from the 80s and 90s. The prefix suggests a change of type and not just a change of degree. They aren't just "more conservative Republicans".
This is why it applies more to the right than the left in today's social discourse, since the spectrum on the left is still more a matter of degree than kind.
In the context of the right, this change of type means abandonment of traditional establishment Republican stances like free trade and foreign interventionism in near totality, and the promotion of previously fringe movements within the right like ethnic nationalism (often under the guise of 'economic nationalism').
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Biden is president because of like 62,000 votes across 4 different states.
And SCOTUS has planned to look at the cases in two days: > The United States Supreme Court will be looking into election fraud lawsuits during its Feb. 19 conference. These lawsuits include two cases filed by the Trump campaign and one case, each filed by Sidney Powell, Lin Wood, and Republican Representative Mike Kelly. https://visiontimes.com/2021/02/17/the-supreme-court-will-lo...
It's time to read up on sociopathic personality traits because clearly something pertinent is being missed here.
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Also given the fact that Trump's rallies were attended to in extremely larger numbers compared to that of Biden's, and the new White House videos being downvoted heavily in YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/WhiteHouse/videos *edit: Responding to a comment below, > I very much doubt he even won the election We have to be extremely careful when alleging election fraud. I think that may be perceived to be divisive. It…
It's always hilarious and absurd to me how people use Trump's rally size -- in 2020, during a pandemic -- as some sort of proxy objective measurement for popularity. I mean, Trump held rallies to the shock and horror of local and national and international government health departments because he's an entertainer and he knew it would be good for business, and in many cases even shamed people for wearing masks so as t…
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The US is proveably 50/50-ish Unless Facebook has a strongly biased audience, it seems likely that their algorithms should represent the population. 68% pro Trump does not.
Facebook's audience does not reflect America's population. It is older and more conservative so I'm actually surprised by it's only 68% of the links. Young people stay away from Facebook by the droves... that is until they get married and start having kids. By then they're older and more conservative.