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- Concerted attempts by press and others to create a filter bubbles
- An electorate that's unwilling to look outside their preferred bubbles
Those problems don't go away with a new president. What's the solution? How do we prevent the next election cycle from being worse?
Shouldn't we wait for the states to go through , in some cases, mandatory recounts and certification of the results and then the actual electoral college vote after any legal appeals?
I didn’t vote (both candidates were too conservative for me) but I’m deeply suspicious of the results and would like as much verification as possible.
What is really keeping me up at night is the existential problem the US faces for the next 50 years: the ever increasingly large divide that is the polarizing of the electorate. We have to come together as Americans or someone will divide and conquer us.
IMO the saddest part of it all is that many people seem to be choosing paths of division. I have different family members who are firmly inside bubbles on both sides of the political spectrum. And all of them are way too comfortable in parroting the divisive language they hear on their favorite network news channels. The terms right/left, red/blue, republican/democrat, conservative/liberal are commonly used with insu…
When he was sworn in as a senator - after his wife and daughter died in a car accident after he won the seat. He said: “If in six months or so there’s a conflict between my being a good father and being a good senator, which I hope will not occur, we can always get another senator but they can’t get another father,”
As a father, I understand the feeling. It also shows me he is a fighter, he has always been. We need someone like him to unite us and move us forward.
To me what this election (as well as the 2016 election) illustrates, is what a poor set of choices we have had. In no sane world should it have been difficult for the Democrats to defeat Donald Trump in 2016. He had no history in political office, and he lost the popular vote to just about the worst candidate the Democrats could have put up. Had the Democrats put up anyone who was less divisive than Hillary Clinton t…
Favorite fact about the 2020 election: Biden not only got more Black votes than Obama, he got a higher percentage of the Democratic Black vote (highest in history, in fact). IOW, Biden is significantly more popular among Blacks than Obama was in 2008 (or 2012). Amazing!
- Dems already hated them because they were "complying" with the right/far right. Not enough removal, deplatforming etc.
- Reps also hated them because of all the removal and deplatforming, "free speech" problems etc. Then HN replies with the "They are a private company so they can do whatever they want" > which leads the conundrum when Google banning accounts and the whole site gets upset about it. [0]
Just the week before the election Vice had an article, "Facebook Has Always Been Right-Wing Media" [1]. It was aptly removed from here but shows the upcoming struggle which I think as I said above will be much worse for social media sites
Interesting times for sure.
0, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24965432
1, https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7vvwq/facebook-has-always-b...