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Cont: 2024 Election Thread part 3

Paul2 said:
I have a cure for your current anxiety: accept that Trump will win the election. Take it as a given. What we fear is always easier to take once it is actually upon us, it's the uncertainty of it that's a major cause of our anxiety. Adopt the posture that he's won, and that anxiety goes away.

Crap, now I'm a ball of anxiety as to what Trump 2.0 will be like.
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"One popular strategy is to enter an emotional spiral. Could that be the right approach? We contacted several researchers who are experts in emotional spirals to ask them, but none of them were in a state to speak with us."

 
Elon says

The cavalry has arrived.

Men are voting in record numbers.

They now realize everything is at stake.
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Why does he assume men will all vote for Trump?
 
Manly alpha males will. The ones that exchange money and ponies for sexual favors.
 
Paul2 said:
Gonna start my 7-hour shift as a poll worker in my small town in California in a few hours. Probably get a slightly Dem-favored mix of Dems & Repubs. Hopefully it goes smoothly.
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Good luck, and be safe!
 
Paul2 said:
Gonna start my 7-hour shift as a poll worker in my small town in California in a few hours. Probably get a slightly Dem-favored mix of Dems & Repubs. Hopefully it goes smoothly.
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Best of luck to you, sir. I'd guess that there won't be any real problems; CA isn't a swing state, after all. Still . . . best of luck.

And thanks for working the poll.
 
It seems that anywhere there is a line of voters outside the polling station it means Trump is winning.

Twitter filling with pictures of lines of voters with Trumpistas saying they are all voting Trump so if he doesn't win it's obviously a fix.
 
Andy_Ross said:
It seems that anywhere there is a line of voters outside the polling station it means Trump is winning.

Twitter filling with pictures of lines of voters with Trumpistas saying they are all voting Trump so if he doesn't win it's obviously a fix.
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Trying to explain to a Trump supporter why what they see where they are doesn't automatically translate into an overall Trump win is a lot like trying to explain to a climate change denier why weather is not the same thing as climate.
 
Andy_Ross said:
It seems that anywhere there is a line of voters outside the polling station it means Trump is winning.

Twitter filling with pictures of lines of voters with Trumpistas saying they are all voting Trump so if he doesn't win it's obviously a fix.
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Yes, this is how we determine who wins an election: by various, incomplete reports of lines and who in a line says they are voting for.

No need to count ballots! Yea!
 
Gulliver Foyle said:
Isn't a big part of the problem with the US education system the fact that (some) parents* have too big of a say in what is taught in schools. Hence why school books have stuff like climate change denialism in them and that it took a federal judge to stop creationism being taught (in 2005!).

*And other politically motivated ignoramuses.
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My opinion is we should ELIMINATE school busses!! ... No kid should have to walk more that 1/2 mile to school ... Unless the parents want their kid in a different school ... Funding decided upon first, a minimum enrolment for a school, ... then by volume of students.

School boards would be run by local parents, and grandparents, elected to the position, by their peers. And the curriculum should cover the basics (I hate the term "the 3 R's" but that) ... With anything is addition to be decided upon by the Board and hence the Parents ...

All my kids were homeschooled so what do I know :)
 
Pundit on Finnish populist newspaper ILTALEHTI reckons violence will breakout:

Violence can hardly be avoided when the United States goes to the polls on Tuesday and the results of the vote will be decided in the courts, says political history professor Markku Ruotsila .
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- Unfortunately, whoever wins, violence will follow, says Ruotsila.
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The presidential election situation is very even. According to Fivethirtyeight, a website that collects opinion polls, the Democrat Kamala Harris would have a narrow lead.
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Ruotsila emphasizes that he believes that street violence will be seen after the elections.

- There are armed people on both sides who will be very angry, says Ruotsila.

A historically close election​

Ruotsila characterizes the election situation as the toughest in the entire modern history of the United States.

- In the decisive states, it will be about tens of thousands of votes. Because of that, the judicial institutions are fighting just as furiously as last time, and probably even more so, about what are the vote counting criteria and which votes are accepted and which are not.

So far, almost 200 voting cases have been taken to different courts.
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Hmmm.
 
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