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7 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

And y'all trust this asshole to get you to Mars safely? SMH.

 

6 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

The first negative thing I ever heard of boy wonder Elon was that he was terrible to his employees...so that checks out I guess.

Spacex build process is about making mistakes, blowing up rockets and then adjusting. I imagine that burns thru many employees either with quitting or firing.

if Elon was given multiple attempts at getting out the vote, I believe he would get much better at it. Thankfully I don’t think we will see this again. 

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2 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Spacex build process is about making mistakes, blowing up rockets and then adjusting. I imagine that burns thru many employees either with quitting or firing.

Yeah that wasn't it. And it wasn't SpaceX I was hearing about.

Nor do I see how failing to build rockets really applies to a get out the vote situation.

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4 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

But that doesn’t explain why they don’t realize that most of the stuff they support is just fucking mean and maybe people don’t like it. 

One of my old scoutmaster buddies is a conservative.  He’s an oil and gas engineer and a former marine.   Back in 2017 he told me the thing he likes about Trump is that “…he drives the liberals crazy”. 

I guess for some people it’s not any deeper than that.  I have a team, and if your team is for it, I am against it.   The more we can upset you the better it is.

He sort of taught me not to look for any deeper meaning to it all. 

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Just now, Gatorubet said:

One of my old scoutmaster buddies is a conservative.  He’s an oil and gas engineer and a former marine.   Back in 2017 he told me the thing he likes about Trump is that “…he drives the liberals crazy”. 

I guess for some people it’s not any deeper than that.  I have a team, and if your team is for it, I am against it.   The more we can upset you the better it is.

He sort of taught me not to look for any deeper meaning to it all. 

He has an R next to his name. For about 95% that's pretty much it. 

Fuck, he once said something about taking everyone's guns away and no one cared. He could spend the next two days saying that he is now insanely pro-choice and that he hates Jesus and his base would still vote for him. 

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40 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

Oh, it's been done:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/17/tech/dating-apps-politics-election/index.html

 

 

 

 

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Michael Kaye, the director of brand marketing and communications for OkCupid, said the new direction stems from a change in the way users talk about politics — from conversations centered around Joe Biden versus Donald Trump ahead of 2020 to broader discussions “focused on what’s happening in the world” ahead of this November.

“We really wanted to be mindful and careful with the questions that we were adding to the app and not adding any questions that felt like we were splintering people apart further than they already have,” Kaye told CNN.

While registered US voters are split near evenly between the two parties, according to Pew Research Center, daters on OkCupid tend to lean more liberal. But 44% of users who chose to answer a matching question on their political beliefs chose “other” among the options of “politically liberal,” “politically moderate” and “politically conservative,” according to OkCupid’s data.

The app itself has taken progressive stances on political issues and currently has an “I’m Pro-Choice” badge, which was first introduced in 2021 (OkCupid donated to Planned Parenthood as part of the launch).

“Our thought process with our matching questions … is if we’re talking about it with our friends, if we’re talking about it with our family or coworkers, most likely people are talking about it on their dates,” Kaye said.

Deal breakers

For Ashley Houghton, 29, dating someone who does not have the same political beliefs is “100% a deal breaker,” and when she was talking to potential partners on dating apps, she brought up politics “right off the bat.”

“My opening line is, ‘What do you think about these issues?’” said Houghton, who lives in California and works in communications, who said a match’s responses tells her whether she wants to continue the conversation.

These features build on what young daters were already doing to weed out potential partners, such as including “#BLM” in their dating app profiles in 2020 to indicate their support for the Black Lives Matter movement, noted Lisa Wade, an associate professor of sociology at Tulane University whose research focuses on undergraduate social and sexual life.

Wade added that young daters became more inclined to prioritize shared political values during the pandemic, when vaccines and health mandates became politicized and there were widespread protests in the wake of George Floyd’s death.

“For those students who wanted to be cautious about Covid, for the first time ever, they started asking their potential sexual partners — who they’re mostly meeting on apps — about their level of covid cautiousness … (which) had been aligned with politics,” Wade said. “They did decide that, even when we’re just talking about a hookup … that it mattered to them. Politics mattered to them in a way that it had not before.”

Political polarization in dating represents a microcosm of a larger issue: of people choosing to “isolate ourselves from disagreeable points of views” and being increasingly able to do so, cautioned Casey Klofstad, a professor of political science at University of Miami.

“We are able to tailor our daily lives — whether it’s media consumption, whether it’s the leisure activities that we engage in and … the people that we associate with socially or romantically,” Klofstad said. “The more that we do that, I fear, that deepens the divide that already exists between us.”

CNN reached out to Hinge, Grindr and the right-leaning dating site Christian Mingle but did not receive a response.

In a statement, Bumble shared the results of its own recent survey, which found that 48% of respondents think “it is important for them to talk about key social issues while getting to know someone romantically, including voting or social causes they care about, to gauge compatibility and shared values.”

The other side of the dating app aisle

The Right Stuff, an app created in 2022 for conservative daters, is also hoping to create an environment catering to shared values.

The app, co-founded by John McEntee, a Project 2025 strategist and former Donald Trump aide, features political prompts such as “Favorite liberal lie,” and “January 6 was,” which allows users to fill in the blank. But an executive for the app stressed that the app isn’t “overtly political in nature.”

Raquel Debono, the app’s director of marketing and communications, argues that on The Right Stuff, “politics is almost out of the way.”

“Our essential purpose on the app is to connect conservatives and because they’re politically aligned … the biggest filter is sort of done for you,” Debono said.

The app hasn’t rolled out features specific to the election, though Debono said that the team is considering sending a blast message asking users whether they have registered to vote. It is also using current political events to court young conservatives on social media, particularly TikTok, where it has 3.3 million followers — more than three times as many as Tinder and OkCupid combined. The Right Stuff currently has 70,000 active users, according to the app.

Debono recognizes that political concerns are important to daters, especially ahead of a presidential election.

“Political alignment is increasingly becoming a nonnegotiable factor for many people who are dating,” Debono said. “I think that an election year just sort of highlights that as Americans have sort of made political alignment more central to their identities in general and … just increases the awareness and visibility of sort of the divide in our country.”

“And not that that’s a good thing or a bad thing,” she added, “but it’s the reality we live in.”

 

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Posted
50 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

 

 

This fucking jackass joking about news media catching bullets when people actually died at his rally in July needs to be hammered home.  It's "Oh, I'll survive, but you probably won't" also doesn't consider that some of his supporters could certainly be collateral damage, but he's not going to say that because it's such a cute "joke" otherwise.  Fucking hell.

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Posted
1 hour ago, hobbes2702 said:

The FCC can eat a dick

I’m sure when that gets resolved in 2033 after years of litigation for a 15K fine, Lorne Michaels is gonna be real torn up. 

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1 hour ago, Gap03 said:

Not to undermine the schadenfreude, but isn't that supposed to start at 4pm ET?  I know people show up early for the old man, but I wouldn't expect the crowds to show up at the break of dawn for JD and Don Jr.

The tweet got the state wrong, the images were taken from his recent “rally” in North Carolina.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/don-jr-crashes-sparse-vance-rally-as-trump-rushes-to-nc/

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Posted
23 minutes ago, KaiserSoze said:

In ~25 years of posting on the various iterations of our discussion boards I don't think I've ever posted on any iteration of CR.

Over the last 10 days I've been following this thread pretty much all day/night. Many thanks to all of you for the information you share and the informative discussion (and even the sidetracks)... and holy shit @Js1, well done!

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35 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

small town never-been-anywhere-and-met-anyone-who-thought-differently than me

If we see the blowout we're expecting nationwide, one silver lining for the GOP that I predict is going to be Mexicans who fit this profile.

Think Uvalde (It's what Lufkin would be if it were 80% Latino). I predict Zapata County stays red, maybe one or two other counties flip, and a continued shift to the right in Mexican-majority counties with populations under 500k.

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Posted (edited)

I'm old enough to remember a fella by the name of Jimmy the Greek who floated a similar "genetics- argument as Trump just did.  He was cancelled before cancelling was cool- about 35 years ago I figure.

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4 hours ago, BamaATL said:

It'll be a new world after this, because if you treat women poorly politically you do so at your own peril.  Once any political group realizes that they have power, they don't give it up, and the biggest take away from all this is going to be the realized power of women in politics; not just as a leader or leaders, but as a political group.  Moving forward, when candidates are selected, legislation, etc, the very first question Democrats need to ask is, "are women going to be happy with this?"  

I will tell you who is unequivocally going to struggle with this, Republicans.  

I want this to be correct. Women typically have the compassion of a mother and try to do what is right for most. 

Men are assholes that need balance.

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12 minutes ago, Pancho said:

 

 

All the preemptive capitulations the mainstream media have given this fucker the past ten years and this is the thanks they get. Who could've seen it coming?

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1 minute ago, Red Five said:

"Today Trump said that he would like to see us all shot. Is this kind of confident aggression bad news for the Harris campaign?" 

"Both sides have criticized the media."

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Location of Kamala’s rally & concert in Pittsburgh tomorrow is changing at the last minute. Local news said the location was deemed to be unsafe after secret service viewed the setup and had to be moved.

It was supposed to be at point state park. I was somewhat surprised at the location given the amount of exposure in pretty much every direction especially from mount Washington.

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3 hours ago, Valmy77 said:

Again, how fucking stupid is this guy? Does he really think Trump is going to let him ban any of this stuff?

It's not about doing anything other than getting the votes.

Trump isn't going to do jack shit if he wins, except try to get revenge on people and end up at the top right corner of FAFO when he tries to install himself as dictator.

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Posted
3 hours ago, quigley said:

And they don't want handouts.

What?! 

You must be taking about "local" farmers that pretty much live off their own. 

Company farmers have been pushing for handles my whole life... Big or small, when the weather doesn't cooperate, they look for a handout. When price of inputs spike naturally, they want a handout (via price controls).

When John Deere puts billions into R&D and tried to recoup that cost, they want a handout (via calling Deere monopolistic price gougers).

Corporate (big or small) Farmers are like everyone else: looking out for #1. 

And how many large, independent farms are left? Very few.

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