Official presidential election results thread - Nov. 8, 2016

[AuH20]

Always passing the buck.

 

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https://medium.com/@garycoby/twitter-restricts-trump-eb7e48ccf5ff#.ykk15mkdb

 

[Jamesiv1]

Let me take a moment to make a note of something entirely unrelated. Is it just me, or do any of the rest of you notice at least one completely horrible, ungrammatical, and obvious mistake in every single news article you read? E.g., in the CNBC's that dannno posted:

He insists that rather than helping the economic backdrop, the excess liquidity has created fragile asset bubbles so fragile that may send the U.S. spiraling into a recession worse than what occurred during the financial crisis.

And they are always obvious like this. It's like they're messing with us, trying to bring down the language.

Or just on the verge of bankruptcy and can afford neither competent writers nor any editors/proofreaders whatsoever.

Let's hope it's the latter.

I mean, every single article, man!

I have noticed that as well.

I don't know about every article I read but a damn sure lot of them. Seems it's usually missing a word rather than a grammar or syntax error.

I read not long ago that a lot of mainstream "news" articles are written by software that can aggregate stuff from a few dozen news sites, change the wording around to avoid copyright abuses, and spit out stuff that gets posted automatically to their website. The demand for quick turnaround content is so high and it is very costly to have humans do it. Plus the "We can't get scooped by competition!" factor.

 

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Liberals would be jumping off bridges.

 

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[helmuth_hubener]

I have noticed that as well.

I don't know about every article I read but a damn sure lot of them. Seems it's usually missing a word rather than a grammar or syntax error.

I read not long ago that a lot of mainstream "news" articles are written by software that can aggregate stuff from a few dozen news sites, change the wording around to avoid copyright abuses, and spit out stuff that gets posted automatically to their website. The demand for quick turnaround content is so high and it is very costly to have humans do it. Plus the "We can't get scooped by competition!" factor.

It's almost got to be something like that! AI or Chinese/Indian outsourcing, one or the other.

You're right it's not literally every one, but I'd say it's the solid (maybe even vast) majority. And it started recently -- about a year ago. Before that, well, there are always typos in the world, but news articles contained the kind of typos that educated English-speaking humans might make, and contained far, far fewer of them.

 

[AuH20]

Invite them in and now they want us to die. The circle is complete.

 

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[Superfluous Man]

Sadly, there are Trump supporters who see this alliance as a reason to like him.

 

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[otherone]

I thought "Rachel" was a girl's name?

 

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[P3ter_Griffin]

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.

When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental — men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

Compiled a few Mencken quotes.

Bump. Used this again today. Next book I buy will be authored by Mencken. Gracias Abscess.