Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Biden Wins Presidency, Ending Four Tumultuous Years Under Trump

nytimes.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

191–200 of 206 posts

Re: Biden Wins Presidency, Ending Four Tumultuous Years Under Trump

#191

Post by [deleted] »

cozuya wrote: post #154
bdcravens wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably upset Trump supporters (if the election went the other way, it'd likely get flagged by Biden supporters) - HN is a diverse group. The HN guidelines do say politics should be considered off-topic: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon." There's a ton of duplicate (even if separate URLs) submissions.

Lets be realistic, the comment threads on this site almost always lean right.

[deleted]

Re: Biden Wins Presidency, Ending Four Tumultuous Years Under Trump

#192

Post by apta »

cozuya wrote: post #152
hintymad wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And AOC openly calls for hunting down Trump supporters: "Is anyone archiving these Trump sycophants for when they try to downplay or deny their complicity in the future? ". So much for political freedom.

Elections have consequences.

Do they include instilling Nazi policies?

Re: Biden Wins Presidency, Ending Four Tumultuous Years Under Trump

#193

Post by stjohnswarts »

randyrand wrote: post #26

If people agree it was tumultuous why was the race still so close? I really think adding little adjectives like that undermines the respectedness of the NYT

Because the only thing between him and chaos was Democratic House of Representatives. That's pretty tumultuous. Also the world hates us a lot more than when he started.

Re: Biden Wins Presidency, Ending Four Tumultuous Years Under Trump

#194

Post by stjohnswarts »

MrRiddle wrote: post #184
dragonwriter wrote: post #164

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If people agree it was tumultuous why was the race still so close? It wasn't all that close. Of six elections (including this one) since 2000, at least 3 and possibly 4 (votes are still being counted) were closer in popular vote, and 3 were closer in electoral vote (based on what has been called so far, regardless of how the uncalled states go. But it was particularly actively contested, with both high turnout and…

It was incredibly close, so close that we waited for days to figure out who's going to win. Biden has ~50.6%, if that's not close I don't know what is. The fact some previous was closer, doesn't mean this one wasn't close, not sure how we even need to point this out on a site like hackernews.

We waited because of mail in voting. Biden got 50.5% but Trump got 47.7% of the popular vote. That's a pretty big spread. 74.5 million to 70.4 million. So by popular vote it was pretty significant. By electoral votes it's a much wider percentage.

Re: Biden Wins Presidency, Ending Four Tumultuous Years Under Trump

#195

Post by cozuya »

apta wrote: post #192
cozuya wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Elections have consequences.

Do they include instilling Nazi policies?

Like keeping and making publicly available a database of people who publicly supported a political candidate? Is that the Nazi policy you're referring to?

Re: Biden Wins Presidency, Ending Four Tumultuous Years Under Trump

#196

Post by TheAdamAndChe »

cozuya wrote: post #152
hintymad wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And AOC openly calls for hunting down Trump supporters: "Is anyone archiving these Trump sycophants for when they try to downplay or deny their complicity in the future? ". So much for political freedom.

Elections have consequences.

If "consequences" = "documenting and punishing millions of people for expressing different political opinions" then there is something seriously wrong with our political system.

Over 70 million people voted for Trump. If you hand-wave away his popularity and call all of them bigoted, then you are part of the partisan problem in our country.

Re: Biden Wins Presidency, Ending Four Tumultuous Years Under Trump

#197

Post by apta »

cozuya wrote: post #195
apta wrote: post #192

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do they include instilling Nazi policies?

Like keeping and making publicly available a database of people who publicly supported a political candidate? Is that the Nazi policy you're referring to?

Correct. Cancel culture is destructive and toxic. The goal is to set loose the SJW mobs after those individuals. Ironic that they don't see that this very similar to what was done to the Jews in Nazi Germany. They don't see it in the midst of their virtue signaling destructive behavior.

Re: Biden Wins Presidency, Ending Four Tumultuous Years Under Trump

#198

Post by apta »

TheAdamAndChe wrote: post #196
cozuya wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Elections have consequences.

If "consequences" = "documenting and punishing millions of people for expressing different political opinions" then there is something seriously wrong with our political system. Over 70 million people voted for Trump. If you hand-wave away his popularity and call all of them bigoted, then you are part of the partisan problem in our country.

> then there is something seriously wrong with our political system.

There's something seriously wrong with the far left. I've seen several articles and interviews now where the leftists can't believe that someone can hold a different view than theirs and vote for Trump. It's as if only they hold the absolute truth, and everyone else is the manifestation of evil. It's quite ridiculous.

We haven't seen any protests or destruction by the right after Biden won. Had Trump won, we'd seen wide spread chaos and looting and burning. It's not for nothing that many stores in large cities boarded up.

What they're doing by keeping these lists is not that different from the Nazis keeping lists of Jews. Very ironic.

Re: Biden Wins Presidency, Ending Four Tumultuous Years Under Trump

#199

Post by TheAdamAndChe »

apta wrote: post #198
TheAdamAndChe wrote: post #196

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If "consequences" = "documenting and punishing millions of people for expressing different political opinions" then there is something seriously wrong with our political system. Over 70 million people voted for Trump. If you hand-wave away his popularity and call all of them bigoted, then you are part of the partisan problem in our country.

> then there is something seriously wrong with our political system. There's something seriously wrong with the far left. I've seen several articles and interviews now where the leftists can't believe that someone can hold a different view than theirs and vote for Trump. It's as if only they hold the absolute truth, and everyone else is the manifestation of evil. It's quite ridiculous. We haven't seen any protests or…

Both left and right are becoming more partisan and more unable to form any sort of consensus or compromise. I think that's the real issue, when the goal of each side is only to crush their opponent.

Re: Biden Wins Presidency, Ending Four Tumultuous Years Under Trump

#200

Post by cozuya »

apta wrote: post #197
cozuya wrote: post #195

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Like keeping and making publicly available a database of people who publicly supported a political candidate? Is that the Nazi policy you're referring to?

Correct. Cancel culture is destructive and toxic. The goal is to set loose the SJW mobs after those individuals. Ironic that they don't see that this very similar to what was done to the Jews in Nazi Germany. They don't see it in the midst of their virtue signaling destructive behavior.

This is far right talking point nonsense. Get a grip, or bring it to Facebook. This is not the place for this.
Post reply on HN