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68% of the top links on Facebook since September are in support of Donald Trump

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Re: 68% of the top links on Facebook since September are in support of Donald Trump

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Post by gotoeleven »

sibeliuss wrote: post #34
cobraetor wrote: post #21

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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…

When medical professionals gave the green light to the BLM protests last summer they lost every bit of credibility.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/05/health/health-care-open-lette...

As we've seen repeatedly over the last year, the "science" follows whatever is convenient for democrats. Why should anyone listen to it?

Re: 68% of the top links on Facebook since September are in support of Donald Trump

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Post by danans »

xupybd wrote: post #40
p1necone wrote: post #10

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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.

Whatever Ben Shapiro is, alt-right or just right of center, he holds views typical of most conservatives. If that means all the U.S. conservatives meet your definition of alt-right, so be it.

This. None of these are static categories, and even if Shapiro's litany of X-phobic views were previously 'alt-right', they are now part of the mainstream political right (and its manifestation in the Republican party). As a result I think it's genuinely hard to be a non X-phobic conservative these days.

Re: 68% of the top links on Facebook since September are in support of Donald Trump

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Post by akhilcacharya »

MuffinFlavored wrote: post #30
akhilcacharya wrote: post #24

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Indeed, the silent majority of this country voted for Biden.

Biden is president because of like 62,000 votes across 4 different states.

He's actually president because of 81 million votes in every state but especially those in 25 States, DC, and Nebraska's 2nd congressional district.

Re: 68% of the top links on Facebook since September are in support of Donald Trump

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Post by TheIronYuppie »

dragonwriter wrote: post #9
TheIronYuppie wrote: post #7

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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.

> The US is proveably 50/50-ish The “ish” does a lot of work there. > Unless Facebook has a strongly biased audience is If it doesn't, it would be one of the few media sources that didn't. Why wouldn't it?

> The “ish” does a lot of work there.

In what way? The US is proveably 51.3% Democrat, 46.5% Republican. I was reducing significant digits because I don’t know the specific split for people who didn’t vote.

> If it doesn't, it would be one of the few media sources that didn't. Why wouldn't it?

Not sure your source on this one. Even Fox is only 53% Republicans, and MSNBC is only 62% Democratic (https://pos.org/whos-watching-a-look-at-the-demographics-of-...). This blows them away.

Re: 68% of the top links on Facebook since September are in support of Donald Trump

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Post by akhilcacharya »

TheIronYuppie wrote: post #49
MuffinFlavored wrote: post #30

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Biden is president because of like 62,000 votes across 4 different states.

Trump was president because of 107k votes in three states.

Even less than that really, only around 77k votes (MI, PA, WI margins).

Re: 68% of the top links on Facebook since September are in support of Donald Trump

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Post by TheIronYuppie »

Sharlin wrote: post #20
dragonwriter wrote: post #9

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> The US is proveably 50/50-ish The “ish” does a lot of work there. > Unless Facebook has a strongly biased audience is If it doesn't, it would be one of the few media sources that didn't. Why wouldn't it?

Facebook is also not a US-only site. And the international audience almost certainly leans (heavily?) anti-Trump. So there's that.

Good point! That makes this even worse for US representation

Re: 68% of the top links on Facebook since September are in support of Donald Trump

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Post by TheIronYuppie »

luxuryballs wrote: post #59
TheIronYuppie wrote: post #7

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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.

Trump probably got close to 95 million votes, the mainstream media and the activist ballot workers/officials are great at deception and most Americans aren’t dumb enough to have thought Joe Biden would make a good President, especially after how great Trump was doing. It’s pretty obvious what happened in 2020 was more than just a perfect storm, the swamp drained Trump while saying “we can’t allow anyone to audit elec…

Source please

Re: 68% of the top links on Facebook since September are in support of Donald Trump

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Post by blisterpeanuts »

sibeliuss wrote: post #56
luxuryballs wrote: post #48

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Little bit of column A, little bit of column B. More people packed the streets for BLM than either candidate. But does anyone really believe that Joe Biden would have had popular rallies even without a pandemic to hide behind? I very much doubt he even won the election but we’ll probably never know!

> But does anyone really believe that Joe Biden would have had popular rallies even without a pandemic to hide behind There's a two party system in the US. Like every presidential election literally ever, both parties attract a lot of popular attention because.... there's only two parties.

Except for the 1992 presidential election, in which 18.9% of the votes went to 3rd party candidate Ross Perot. He didn't win any Electoral votes, but he did throw the election to Bill Clinton by denying George H.W. Bush an electoral vote majority in certain key states.

Re: 68% of the top links on Facebook since September are in support of Donald Trump

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Post by NoodleIncident »

FFRefresh wrote: post #13
p1necone wrote: post #10

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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?

There isn't a single term used for a political group that you can break down into sub-components and root words to understand what it means. The best you can get will be the origins of the term, but that might no longer be related to how it's used today.

Re: 68% of the top links on Facebook since September are in support of Donald Trump

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Post by sibeliuss »

gotoeleven wrote: post #61
sibeliuss wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

When medical professionals gave the green light to the BLM protests last summer they lost every bit of credibility. https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/05/health/health-care-open-lette... As we've seen repeatedly over the last year, the "science" follows whatever is convenient for democrats. Why should anyone listen to it?

I don't think some random letter signed on some random day by a bunch of random healthcare professionals upset about police brutality is in any way evidence that so-called "science" is a political tool used by democrats in order to advance particular aims.

And I don't think I need to state the obvious, but maybe I do: an open letter signed by 1200 healthcare professionals does not speak for the entire medical profession, in any way whatsoever. Healthcare is one of the largest employers in the US. And it certainly doesn't speak for scientific objectivity.

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