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@TeWaio said in US Election Thread 2016:
God no! This thread is the best piece of the internet, ever.
Gotta pull you up there - it isn't even the best part of this site.
Or have you forgotten The Sapphic Adventures of @Mokey and Her Large Breasted Hong Kong Sex Slave?
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@Frank said in US Election Thread 2016:
Want a friendly bet? If Trump wins you change your Avatar(the G) and the sentence below each one of your posts to what I want for 6 months. And I do it if Clinton wins.
Change to Trump? I can buy that. before the last switch of site my Avatar was an animated GIF of Hitler.
Actual Hitler. Mid Nuremberg speech.
Its only basic laziness that has stopped me putting him back on. So Trump would be a pretty solid switch out
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Long story short. Facebook Adsense plays per click. Bunch of teens in Macedonia twigged best way to get clicks is to set up fake news sites & post fake Trump news - ie news Trump supporters will like. And click. And share.
"For example, the most successful post BuzzFeed News found from a Macedonian site is based on a story from a fake news website. The headline on the story from ConservativeState.com was “Hillary Clinton In 2013: ‘I Would Like To See People Like Donald Trump Run For Office; They’re Honest And Can’t Be Bought.’” The post is a week old and has racked up an astounding 480,000 shares, reactions, and comments on Facebook. (To put that into perspective, the New York Times’ exclusive story that revealed Donald Trump declared a $916 million loss on his 1995 income tax returns generated a little more than 175,000 Facebook interactions in a month.)"
Four of the five most successful posts from the Macedonian sites BuzzFeed News identified are false. They include the false claim that the pope endorsed Trump, and the false claim that Mike Pence said Michelle Obama is the “most vulgar first lady we’ve ever had.” Those four posts together generated more than 1 million shares, reactions, and comments on Facebook. That resulted in huge traffic and significant ad revenue for the owners of these sites, with many people being misinformed along the way.
On the one hand that a 17 year old Macedonian has seen a business option this good & gone for it is cool, on the other hand it 100% relies on people being so partisan they lean way over into stupid.
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@Kirwan said in US Election Thread 2016:
@Frank said in US Election Thread 2016:
@gollum
Okay I'll have Clinton for 6 months if she wins and you have Trump.Can you both not? Sick to death of the sight of them both.
Yeah what we need is a Trump Zealot and a Clinton Zealot going on about the election for another 6 months....
Although those 2 posters making a bet about this election is a nice summation of the stupidity of it all...
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in US Election Thread 2016:
@Kirwan said in US Election Thread 2016:
@Frank said in US Election Thread 2016:
@gollum
Okay I'll have Clinton for 6 months if she wins and you have Trump.Can you both not? Sick to death of the sight of them both.
Yeah what we need is a Trump Zealot and a Clinton Zealot going on about the election for another 6 months....
Although those 2 posters making a bet about this election is a nice summation of the stupidity of it all...
Two sides of the same coin
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The pictures have to be shockers.
Trump's should be one with his shirt off (perhaps pasted on that picture of Putin on the horse)and Clinton's can be one of those older ones where she was all mousey hair and glasses (or maybe a picture of Chelsea).
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538 has Clinton getting an uptick leading into voting day, now forecast as 69% vs 31% polls only,
Nate also tweeted that FL has now gone slightly blue, however its still too close to say a Clinton probable win.
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@canefan Yes, I've read record numbers of hispanics in early voting in FL, NV which bodes well for HRC if that continues tomorrow.
Apparently they've seen an early vote increase of 75% for hispanics in FL of which 30% had not voted before so they seem v motivated to ensure their voice is heard.
I'm listening to the 538 pre-election podcast atm - Enten talked about the possibility of pollsters misrepresenting the latino vote because they're difficult to get hold of (mostly young, on cell phones) and many latino dont speak english and hang up when an english speaking person calls. -
@canefan said in US Election Thread 2016:
@phoenetia I read that there was massive mobilisation of the Hispanic vote vs Trump, and they have lots in Florida
Double edged sword apparently. There is a large Cuban vote there which is traditionally Rep.
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