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Nope, but I can do research on what elections were like back then.
November 05, 2020 at 02:03
All of the things you listed (with the exception of Civil Rights) are problems facing America as a nation, not problems with America as a nation. Alot...
November 05, 2020 at 01:37
What about the sixties was so bad?
November 05, 2020 at 01:16
Well Trump's gonna contest the results in with his 6-3 SCOTUS and hopes they're as eager to dismantle democracy as he is. If enough people think he ac...
November 05, 2020 at 00:01
Pretty much. As a guy who is all about optics, Trump wants to control the narrative and thinks that if he just proclaims victory enough, people would ...
November 04, 2020 at 23:08
I guess one bright spot in all of this is that even if Biden wins the establishment Dems can no longer claim that Trump is some sort of anomaly and th...
November 04, 2020 at 22:03
And... the protests to stop the vote counting in the rust belt has begun. Trump suing to stop the count in PA and declaring victory early.
November 04, 2020 at 20:48
I think NC is still in play and may be more likely than PA (which is looking good for Biden as well), but apparently some people are writing it off. S...
November 04, 2020 at 20:41
Pretty sure all eyes are still on PA at this point, but if Biden wins AZ, GA, or NV then it would end early. WI is called for Biden and MI is looking ...
November 04, 2020 at 20:34
You're right that Biden or Trump winning would just maintain the broken status quo. Disagree with climate change though since that's a global problem ...
November 04, 2020 at 19:25
Not too sure about that. Given the current economic situation and the fact that any sort of huge stimulus is pretty much dead, along with the likeliho...
November 04, 2020 at 18:52
I don't know if I care much anymore to be honest (despite constantly refreshing the results every few moments). I'm sort of prepared for either outcom...
November 04, 2020 at 17:48
Biden is likely gonna win NV, AZ, WI, and MI, which is enough to put him over the top with GA and PA as possible toss ups, though there will likely be...
November 04, 2020 at 17:38
At this point it looks like Biden is winning NV, WI, AZ, and MI which should be enough to put him over 270. These races are close though so we're in l...
November 04, 2020 at 17:30
I know I'm probably touching on some 2016 nerves here, but Bernie probably would've done better where Biden failed. The reason why the election is so ...
November 04, 2020 at 10:13
It's looking like a reverse 2016 right now with Biden narrowly winning the rust belt and possibly Georgia. Expect riots and a court challenge which ma...
November 04, 2020 at 09:48
And we will likely see increased public unrest no matter which way those votes fall. Also soon the SCOTUS will dismantle the ACA in the middle of an o...
November 04, 2020 at 07:43
Given everything that happened in these past 4 years, the last year in particular, then yeah, I think the results are telling even if Biden wins.
November 04, 2020 at 07:04
It shows how much they are willing to put up with to own the other side. Trump literally left his supporters out in the cold but they were still going...
November 04, 2020 at 07:00
Biden is more likely than not to win since he's favored in the rust belt, but it's close which just shows how much the American people are willing to ...
November 04, 2020 at 06:58
Whether or not Biden or Trump wins, the result is gonna be alot closer than people expected and that's a bad sign for the US as a country going forwar...
November 04, 2020 at 06:22
Whether or not Biden or Trump wins it doesn't look like any party is gonna win a trifecta in congress, which means gridlock and no stimulus in the mid...
November 04, 2020 at 06:09
About 30% of them clearly don't apparently. Though ironically enough with the early in person voting and Texas limiting mail ballot drop offs to one l...
November 03, 2020 at 18:37
My eye is more on Texas. The early turnout data has been insane there, surpassing the 2016 numbers already and nearly all being concentrated on the bl...
November 03, 2020 at 18:13
It may be extended for a week or so depending on if Florida wants to screw over the country again on election night...
November 02, 2020 at 19:15
I'm not all that familiar with European politics so I'll take your word on that. Also I don't really disagree on the need to address the social media ...
November 02, 2020 at 19:13
Social media exists in all countries (except North Korea), but we don't see the same kind of polarization in the US as in places like the UK or Canada...
November 02, 2020 at 09:11
He'll probably lose then because though the GOP are willing to put up with alot, they'll not tolerate a loser. Just look at Roy Moore for instance. Sp...
October 31, 2020 at 20:42
Just wait until 2024 when the GOP somehow nominates a candidate who's even worse than Trump. I mean we all thought that Bush was the worst they can of...
October 31, 2020 at 18:34
They honestly think that they can make this into the next Clinton email scandal. Unfortunately given the pandemic, the economic crash, and the social ...
October 29, 2020 at 19:02
Given the many different ways one can define "experience", no. The question is whether the things our ideas are referring to can't be irreducible if t...
October 25, 2020 at 18:42
Why is that? Are you suggesting that everything in the distant past was reducible just because they predated conscious beings like us? I'm not sure I ...
October 25, 2020 at 18:26
A computer program is a set of logical operations as far as our understanding goes. It's easy to see how those operations can be conducted by a medium...
October 25, 2020 at 01:06
Not really cause even if I didn't know how a car works, I can conceive of it being broken down into elements that I don't know about right now. The th...
October 25, 2020 at 00:20
Elementary particles, the fundamental forces of nature, space, time, etc. Anything that we take to be basic in our models is by definition irreducible...
October 24, 2020 at 21:16
Of course Strawson would take issue with you about that, but I'll leave that for you two to work out. I don't think that Strawson is saying that consc...
October 24, 2020 at 20:20
I think you're misrepresenting Strawson's position a number of ways here. For one, Strawson is a self-described monist and a physicalist, just of a pa...
October 24, 2020 at 19:37
Your party hasn't.
October 23, 2020 at 17:51
Yeah, COVID is 55500 times worse.
October 23, 2020 at 17:45
I'll assure you that the GOP will Benghazi the living hell out of this for the next 4 years. Anyways, the COVID death toll is currently sitting at 555...
October 23, 2020 at 17:41
So people should be impeached and kicked out of office if they obstructed justice? Also, since we're on the topic of lying under oath, should any publ...
October 21, 2020 at 17:31
So should presidents who cheat on their wives and lie be impeached and kicked out of office?
October 21, 2020 at 17:26
I never said impeach Giuliani. I was just reminiscing about the time where another public figure had consensual sex with a 25 year old (and yeah, she ...
October 21, 2020 at 17:23
Yeah, I mean it's not like anyone was impeached for that or anything... I can't wait for the GOP to go back to complaining about that kind of stuff th...
October 21, 2020 at 17:19
I think you misspelled "Hell" there.
October 21, 2020 at 17:14
So third party then? If not then the reasoning in your previous post doesn't make any sense to me.
October 19, 2020 at 19:31
Right now, people are too concerned with the pandemic and the economy crashing that they don't give a damn about what Hunter Biden did in another coun...
October 19, 2020 at 18:32
For alot of people, yeah it was. Trump was able to fool undecided voters with his outsider status and make them take a gamble on him. Although Hillary...
October 19, 2020 at 09:46
He's not in the same category as Trump. More in the same category of being an establishment politician like Hillary Clinton, except without the toxic ...
October 18, 2020 at 20:24
No, Trump really is stupid and everything that he's said and done in these past 4 years demonstrates that quite well. In spite of what he keeps saying...
October 18, 2020 at 19:56