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Has America Crossed the Asshole Threshold?

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Re: Has America Crossed the Asshole Threshold?

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Post by disgruntledphd2 »

jdlshore wrote: post #41
ekelsen wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's clearly written by AI. I find it interesting that some people recognize it immediately and others do not. I don't know what to make of it.

Yep. Very slop-like. I found it grating and had to stop reading, even though I thought the subject was interesting.

I made it through because the content was interesting, but I am definitely not going to read more from this author because the AI-wordsmithing is so grating (I read loads of it at work, don't need to read any more of it).

Re: Has America Crossed the Asshole Threshold?

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Post by zer0zzz »

TacticalCoder wrote: post #4
zer0zzz wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“ Republicans who voted for Donald Trump in 2020 and deny the results of that election. The dividing line is the denial itself: the willingness to hold that an election was stolen in the absence of evidence. That single belief turns out to be a genetic marker. Everything else travels with it.” He doesn’t seem to be talking about conservatives or republicans broadly; seems like he’s focusing on a much smaller minority…

Do you seriously buy the "explanation" that "liberals vote so much more by mail-in" that both Pennsylvania and Georgia flipped even though Trump was largely ahead in both? Two states that, btw, were won by the Republicans in 2024. Which should give some food for thoughts too. I think Trump is both crazy and senile now but I also think he may be the only US president to have ever won the elections three times. Now I d…

Buddy I lived in Georgia during that election. I definitely believe it based on vibes alone.

Re: Has America Crossed the Asshole Threshold?

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Post by zer0zzz »

watwut wrote: post #8
TacticalCoder wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you seriously buy the "explanation" that "liberals vote so much more by mail-in" that both Pennsylvania and Georgia flipped even though Trump was largely ahead in both? Two states that, btw, were won by the Republicans in 2024. Which should give some food for thoughts too. I think Trump is both crazy and senile now but I also think he may be the only US president to have ever won the elections three times. Now I d…

Yes and there is nothing suspect about liberals voting more by mail. Demographically it checks out. Complains about biden auto pen and biden are kind of clearly fake given Trump mental state.

If anything the voters are completely in line with what their respective candidate told them to do.

Re: Has America Crossed the Asshole Threshold?

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Post by zer0zzz »

TacticalCoder wrote: post #4
zer0zzz wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“ Republicans who voted for Donald Trump in 2020 and deny the results of that election. The dividing line is the denial itself: the willingness to hold that an election was stolen in the absence of evidence. That single belief turns out to be a genetic marker. Everything else travels with it.” He doesn’t seem to be talking about conservatives or republicans broadly; seems like he’s focusing on a much smaller minority…

Do you seriously buy the "explanation" that "liberals vote so much more by mail-in" that both Pennsylvania and Georgia flipped even though Trump was largely ahead in both? Two states that, btw, were won by the Republicans in 2024. Which should give some food for thoughts too. I think Trump is both crazy and senile now but I also think he may be the only US president to have ever won the elections three times. Now I d…

It’s also not complicated: the respective voters simply did what trump or Biden told them to do.
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