2020 Field

[thethe]

Hate to break this to you, most people I know who're holocaust deniers are not people who are voting against Trump. Most holocaust disinformation is spread on far right parts of the internet.

Hahahahahaha

[sturg33]

[sturg33]

Hate to break this to you, most people I know who're holocaust deniers are not people who are voting against Trump. Most holocaust disinformation is spread on far right parts of the internet.

makes sense that you hang out with a bunch of holocaust deniers

[zitothebrave]

makes sense that you hang out with a bunch of holocaust deniers

You see sturg, when you have a social life, you often converse with people who don't share same beliefs as you. When you spend time going out to places and conversing with someone who isn't there with you, you sometimes find that people have **** beliefs. When you listen to what people say when you're walking down the streets, you hear ****ed up things.

[zitothebrave]

I have no idea if you're claim is true or not.

My statement about trump definitely made it look like I was referring to just the left being uneducated on the Holocaust, but I didn't mean it like that... both sides seem to be very uneducated on this matter.

It's the fault of the internet. The fact that r/conspiracy has 1.4M members, that /pol/ on 4chan is basically running the QAnon thang. People's ability to use their brains has gone down drastically and it's primarily the fault of social media. In an era where we have access to more information than ever before, people are impossibly poor at using said information. If you spend 5 minutes Googling something someone shares that sounds bogus, you'll typically find it being bogus by tracing it to it's source. The fact is that there's so much disinformation spreading that it's getting harder to find out the informaiton. But if you try you can find it.

[zitothebrave]

‘Most people I know who’re deniers” You personally don’t know one person who denies the Holocaust happened. You sure as hell don’t know a group of them. You may know a lot of uneducated people who couldn’t tell you one thing about WW2, but that’s not the same as a person thats educated in Western History and WW2 and says ‘Nazis were bad and that did all sorts of bad stuff but they didn’t have concentration camps’.

I know 3. And I know more who think the numbers are inflated. Of course I tell them they're wrong and if they need countless sources of information I can share it with them. But usually they don't care. Because shocker, they read a ****ty book or something on the internet.

COnsider this, it's hardly impossible to believe that in Interstellar, that future people believe that the US didn't land on the Moon. That's the power of the disinformation age we live in. People believe things they read on the internet over other clear facts.

Keep in mind popular conspiracy theories that exist.

Jet's Spray Us

Flat Earth

Man never landed on the moon

Jet Fuel Can't Melt Steel

I could go on and on and on about bad conspiracy theories that sound believable to those who don't do the minimal amount of research.

[57Brave]

[thethe]

Nothing to see here

[nsacpi]

A look at how Asian Americans, a growing and diverse group, plan to vote.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...2020-election/

[sturg33]

[nsacpi]

feels like Grassley is trying to tell us something

[The Chosen One]

I mean, McConnell set the precedent.

Scalia passed away in February, Garland was nominated shortly thereafter. Never even made it to the debate floor or hearing stage.

We're less than a month and a half before the election, not 9 months. I'm not sure how any reasonable American can look at this and say the Republicans and McConnell aren't doing the politics as usual.

McConnell said back then the people should decide in an election year, now he says they already decided when the Senate had a majority in 2018 and it's closer to the election by far than when Garland was nominated in a lame duck year.

[nsacpi]

I mean, McConnell set the precedent.

Scalia passed away in February, Garland was nominated shortly thereafter. Never even made it to the debate floor or hearing stage.

We're less than a month and a half before the election, not 9 months. I'm not sure how any reasonable American can look at this and say the Republicans and McConnell aren't doing the politics as usual.

McConnell said back then the people should decide in an election year, now he says they already decided when the Senate had a majority in 2018 and it's closer to the election by far than when Garland was nominated in a lame duck year.

power politics > precedent

let us not be naive

[thethe]

I mean, McConnell set the precedent.

Scalia passed away in February, Garland was nominated shortly thereafter. Never even made it to the debate floor or hearing stage.

We're less than a month and a half before the election, not 9 months. I'm not sure how any reasonable American can look at this and say the Republicans and McConnell aren't doing the politics as usual.

McConnell said back then the people should decide in an election year, now he says they already decided when the Senate had a majority in 2018 and it's closer to the election by far than when Garland was nominated in a lame duck year.

Only that you left out a key part of what he said.

Thats ok though.

Enjoy a 3rd trump judge!!!

[The Chosen One]

Only that you left out a key part of what he said.

Thats ok though.

Enjoy a 3rd trump judge!!!

So his "opposing" political party reasoning is more the reason that it's doing what's best for the country and not politics as usual... right?

Anyone with any sort of brain knew when he blocked Garland it was politics. Garland was considered by many to be a centrist not a leftist. He was the most "electable" judge. Just like when McConnell told Trump, that Kavanaugh, before he was even nominated, would be the one to be the most difficult to get passed in the Senate.

It's amazing how a little word play somehow is justification for McConnell playing by his own set of rules yet again.

[sturg33]

I mean, McConnell set the precedent.

Scalia passed away in February, Garland was nominated shortly thereafter. Never even made it to the debate floor or hearing stage.

We're less than a month and a half before the election, not 9 months. I'm not sure how any reasonable American can look at this and say the Republicans and McConnell aren't doing the politics as usual.

McConnell said back then the people should decide in an election year, now he says they already decided when the Senate had a majority in 2018 and it's closer to the election by far than when Garland was nominated in a lame duck year.

That is not what he said.

But even if true, after Kavanaugh and the threats to kill fillibuster and pack courts, there is no reason for Mitch to play nice.

Its hos job to take it forward and hes doing it.

[thethe]

So his "opposing" political party reasoning is more the reason that it's doing what's best for the country and not politics as usual... right?

Anyone with any sort of brain knew when he blocked Garland it was politics. Garland was considered by many to be a centrist not a leftist. He was the most "electable" judge. Just like when McConnell told Trump, that Kavanaugh, before he was even nominated, would be the one to be the most difficult to get passed in the Senate.

It's amazing how a little word play somehow is justification for McConnell playing by his own set of rules yet again.

Yes...its a perfect justification because it display split amongst the nation.

Democrats are whiny babies that will cut their mothers throats to get what they want. The shenanigans they've pulled since the election have proven this.

There is no reason to hold back this nomination

[nsacpi]

Theresa Greenfield up 3 over Joni Ernst in Iowa

[sturg33]

Back to normalcy, right nsacpi?

[nsacpi]

Back to normalcy, right nsacpi?

not sure what you are referring to