Killer robot posted:

A classic joke among old-school Jewish comedians was "Two gentile businessmen meet in the street. One says to the other, 'How's business?' and the other says, 'It's great, thanks for asking.'" The joke being that a couple of Jewish businessmen would always have something to complain about even if they were doing well.

Medullah posted:

Professor Beetus posted:

If any of this poo poo were true it would own, but I always feel bad in indulging in it because you know, (((reasons)))

cat botherer posted:

My favorite flat earth conspiracy things is that the non-global elites are actually hiding secret hyperborean landmasses outside of the Antarctica ice walls because they get all the land to themselves (?).

happyhippy posted:

Flat Earthers are getting scarce.
The new cool thing is the 'Mud Flood and Giants'.
Apparently there was a world wide mud flood a few centuries ago (not Noah's Flood) and this wiped out intelligent civilizations and giant humans!

Their proof? Some old buildings have cladding upto a certain point, therefore that was the mud level defense.
Or some old buildings have basement windows, therefore that basement floor was a ground level floor in the past.

And giants because some stones look like faces.

Jagged Jim posted:

For some reason these "Boy I sure could use some Global Warming right now, huh liberal? " memes seem to be popping up later and later every year.

Jagged Jim posted:

For some reason these "Boy I sure could use some Global Warming right now, huh liberal? " memes seem to be popping up later and later every year.

DarkHorse posted:

It sucks too because global warming is what's destabilizing the polar vortex and letting all this cold air sweep over lower latitudes

Jagged Jim posted:

For some reason these "Boy I sure could use some Global Warming right now, huh liberal? " memes seem to be popping up later and later every year.

Medullah posted:

Panfilo posted:

Seeing a lot of "in person voting with ID paper ballots absentee voting for military ONLY" rhetoric a lot, and a lot of comparisons how places like Argentina managed to pull it off quickly and efficiently when meanwhile many states in the US take ages to finish.

CuddleCryptid posted:

Part of the issue with the US is that it takes *ages* to process ballots due to the checks and balances that go into soothing the fear of fraud. Every ballot is handled by several different people, split evenly by party, which means even staffing processing centers is a damned nightmare.

Panfilo posted:

Yet conversely conservatives think the excess time spent is allowing more election mischief to happen. Oh and they want all the ballots hand counted as well.

I wonder what their excuse is gonna be if they got their way yet managed to lose by even BIGGER margins?

disposablewords posted:

To scream even harder about how it's proof of Dem perfidy and the evils of the deep state or whatever their buzzword of the day is, like they always do.

Panfilo posted:

Yet conversely conservatives think the excess time spent is allowing more election mischief to happen. Oh and they want all the ballots hand counted as well.

I wonder what their excuse is gonna be if they got their way yet managed to lose by even BIGGER margins?

BiggerBoat posted:

In several states they also don't want the ballots to be counted until the polls close on election day so all the early and mail in votes just sit there.

"Why is this taking so long?! Must be fraud!"

BiggerBoat posted:

In several states they also don't want the ballots to be counted until the polls close on election day so all the early and mail in votes just sit there.

"Why is this taking so long?! Must be fraud!"

Medullah posted:

Don't forget they also want the count to be stopped at a certain time and the results be what they are.

BiggerBoat posted:

In several states they also don't want the ballots to be counted until the polls close on election day so all the early and mail in votes just sit there.

"Why is this taking so long?! Must be fraud!"

99pct of germs posted:

I asked about wait times at polling places extending past the magical cutoff, "not my problem".

Red Oktober posted:

Is this because mail-in leans Dem, and they don't want the message of 'Democrats are winning' to get out and dissuade in-person voters?

99pct of germs posted:

The simple answer is Republican voters are evil as gently caress but also incredibly stupid.

Got into it with a coworker at a previous job on this exact point. When I pressed her on the arbitrary cutoff she just put on her best smug face, scoffed and said they should just simply vote earlier. I asked about wait times at polling places extending past the magical cutoff, "not my problem".

Guavanaut posted:

Also the people who want there to be ID to vote tend to also be the people who are against a standard national ID card.

A national ID that's mandatory, machine readable, costs €5, and everyone gets one at 16? That's tyranny.

Having to have your Starbucks card to vote? That's logical.

Medullah posted:

Yep. Like, in concept I understand the idea of Voter ID, BUT if we were really going to require it, it would need to come with -

- IDs are much easier to get, and have no cost (if you're in a poor rural area without a car, why would you spend $100+ on getting a license?)

- Longer voting times - if they want to make mail in voting illegal, then we need at least a week of early voting AND early counting.

But no, the meme they see that says you need ID to buy milk doesn't go into that kind of detail.

CuddleCryptid posted:

Yes, if you have a small local election then maybe that will swing things. But for anything else it's very common knowledge that it is a complete waste of time.

Magnetic North posted:

When I talked to a right-curious friend who was wondering about voter ID, I explained it by saying that in-person voter fraud is essentially fictional, but the people with the right to vote who end up disenfranchised by instituting voter ID are not.

Red Oktober posted:

Is this because mail-in leans Dem, and they don't want the message of 'Democrats are winning' to get out and dissuade in-person voters?

Brawnfire posted:

Whatever they want is always everyone else's problem. And oh buddy, they'll make sure it's a problem.

BiggerBoat posted:

I don't believe so. I think it has something to do with the perception of "shady easy to forge and harvest" mail in ballots or something, combined with the idea that TUESDAY is votin' DAY! It's creating a problem where there is none. I have a lot of faith in ballot counting as it is and support anything that makes it easier for people to vote.

Yeah, and that's the thing. There is no significant problem until they create one. They're like "don't count the ballots ahead of time" and then wonder why it's taking some states so long to count them all. If voter fraud and ballot harvesting were so easy and a simple way to win elections, believe me, Republicans would do it in a heartbeat and every state would be blood red.

DarkHorse posted:

The irony is a lot of them DO think this, they DO do it to try to balance the scales, and then are utterly befuddled when they get caught

DarkHorse posted:

That shouldn't happen, vote tallies shouldn't be reported until polls close

PhazonLink posted:

psa that goons or other "younger" people should become poll workers so they can have younger blood (anything under 60, 70, maybe 80?) oh and so a chud doesnt get it.