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Post by maxque on Oct 29, 2020 21:10:13 GMT
It is possible. You're biaised because your politicial soulmates find that getting out of their parents' basements is already an huge effort and can't fathom it. Why do you feel that insults of this nature are appropriate? Do you think his views on torture are appropriate? Debate has been attempted by multiple users at multiple times with "kipper", but it has never given anything. As moderation is unwilling to take the trash out, I may as well use them to vent frustation (as the administration will either do nothing or expose themselves as hypocrites by talking action).
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Post by maxque on Oct 27, 2020 17:51:49 GMT
More tired hyperbole and overreaction. Given that he wasn't obliged to vote for the resolution it appears to be a rather overblown reaction. He can't expect others to agree with him automatically, though. I'm generally not keen on jobs being threatened in consequence but currently a sociology professor in Bristol is being similarly threatened because of his anti Zionist views. His job shouldn't be threatened, indeed, unless he used his job to spread his views or did his job badly because of his views.
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Post by maxque on Oct 27, 2020 13:59:09 GMT
Northern Ireland is also quite something with the anti-SF gerrymanderer (and pro SDLP one, which manage to split Derry in two and create two SDLP seats in that area).
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Post by maxque on Oct 27, 2020 13:51:45 GMT
Kevin Price has resigned in a virtual address to Cambridge City Council on Thursday October 22. In his resignation speech, he said he did not agree with a motion’s assertion that trans women are women, and said passing it would “send a chill down the spines of many women”. This guy is a porter at a college at Cambridge University. A bunch of well-off middle-class Cambridge students are now trying to get him fired because they say the feel "unsafe" knowing that he works there: Oh great. A professor in the very most dismal science (sociology), who whole twitter feed is about "those yucky "trans" men are trying to endanger us". Astonishing someone so thick and insecure can teach in Cambridge.
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Post by maxque on Oct 26, 2020 4:28:14 GMT
Trafalgar's numbers are absolutely insane. So... apparently Trump is +3 in North Carolina, +3 in Michigan, +3 in Arizona and +3 in Florida. On the Michigan poll, I pointed out in the Michigan thread that Trafalgar has Trump +21 in MI-3 whilst a GOP partisan poll of the district has Biden +2. I know these are crosstabs, but you couldn't make it up. These are really going to affect polling averages, but I really wonder whether they are actually polling or making things up. They have been dropped from both Nate' models and now Trafalgar CEO is claiming it wasn't their polls, but an hoax done by someone pretending to be them (yet, they were published on the website and Tweeter, until being mysteriously deleted this afternoon).
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Post by maxque on Oct 25, 2020 18:35:42 GMT
Is it possible that turnout in any state could pass 2016 before election day itself? Seems possible. Texas might. Harris County (Dallas) has 8 early voting locations who will have 24 hours voting on Thursday and from Tuesday to Thursday, all early voting stations (in Harris) will be open 7AM to 10PM, instead of closing at the usual 7PM. Other counties also offer expanded hours, as it's usual in the last week before the election.
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Post by maxque on Oct 25, 2020 15:36:36 GMT
Projected NDP 55 Lib 29 Green 3. Pretty emphatic. May change still because postal voting won't be counted for 14 days. It's estimated to be 30% of the vote and polls say it will be heavilly for the NDP. Those ridings have not been called by media yet and won't until postal votes are counted (doesn't mean they might not have called other races by mistake due to postal votes). Abbotsford-Mission (Liberal by 188 votes) Chilliwack-Kent (NDP by 195 votes over disendorsed Liberal) Coquitlam-Burke Mountain (NDP by 2267 votes) Fraser-Nicola (Liberal by 385 votes) Langley East (NDP by 793 votes) Richmond South Centre (NDP by 124 votes) Richmond-Stevenson (NDP by 596 votes) Vancouver-Langara (Liberal by 647 votes) Vernon-Monashee (Liberal by 180 votes)
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Post by maxque on Oct 22, 2020 21:51:16 GMT
My favourite example of this kind of thing is the late Cardinal Sin. A great, brave and brilliant man, who loved the fact his name was so iconically ironic. Lies. He was a killer, who caused thousands of people to die from AIDS.
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Post by maxque on Oct 21, 2020 15:03:57 GMT
Quack sciencee is quack science, even it if was written in a declaration written by a few scientists upset they can't have 6 servings dinners in a restaurant anymore. Of course, the ideas of the tunnel vision medical establishment are working so well.....when we have to resort to herd immunity, no doubt they and you will claim to have agreed with it all along I will not, and I will sternly oppose the mass sickness and death of retail workers to allow the crust of society pleasant social outings. Herd immunity is a fancy word for "let's get low-wage workers sick so we can do shopping and enjoy operas".
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Post by maxque on Oct 21, 2020 14:14:59 GMT
But how exactly is this shielding meant to work long-term ? The elderly are to be confined to their homes for a year to avoid students missing out on Freshers Week and spending a few weeks without physical lectures ? Long term without a vaccine or even with a partial one there will be more deaths. Old people die. Herd immunity will reduce this possibility which is why that should be the aim as the Great Barrington Declaration set out. There will, however, be more deaths of the very old with previously existing conditions. That's inevitable and in terms of a utilitarian perspective perfectly acceptable Quack sciencee is quack science, even it if was written in a declaration written by a few scientists upset they can't have 6 servings dinners in a restaurant anymore.
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Post by maxque on Oct 19, 2020 17:31:06 GMT
A fringe of academics, rather, pushing a failed concept of herd immunity. Same universities had experts of phrenology in the past too. Oxford, Harvard, and Stanford are not fringe institutions. These aren't boring leftish cultural studies pseuds from the University of California Santa Claus, some former poly, and the LSE. No, but every institution, no matter its fame, has fringe academics, thanks to academic freedom.
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Post by maxque on Oct 19, 2020 16:49:55 GMT
Tell me, out of interest, which medical school you qualified from, in what speciality, and when. Because I’ve got a large number of family members ranging from nurses to a Professor of Respiratory Medicine (who served in both Afghanistan and Iraq) and they are unanimous that they have never encountered anything like Covid, so if they’re telling me I should fear Covid you’ll understand that I take them seriously and, unless you’ve worked on a Covid unit for six months, I treat you’re generalisation that people have got to get over the fear of Covid death with the contempt it deserves. Whilst I clearly wish Ms Quereshi a speedy recovery the fact she apparently had a pre-existing condition, and has now developed pneumonia, will, I suspect, be cause for concern amongst her medical team. Look up the Great Barrington Declaration and you'll find out what medics from genuine elite institutions think. A fringe of academics, rather, pushing a failed concept of herd immunity. Same universities had experts of phrenology in the past too.
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Post by maxque on Oct 19, 2020 15:00:12 GMT
Apparently, there's an exit poll showing Luis Arce (MAS) at 52% and Carlos Mesa at 35%. That would mean that the people of Bolivia have democratically completely condemned the infamous military coup by the right and reinstated a left-wing leader. Finally some good news !
Edit: it's 52/31%. The MAS also takes a majority in both chambers. Jeannine Anez officially said Arce was elected.
You mean a coup against an authoritarian thug who, after a referendum decided against letting him stay in power, went and did it anyway, then rigged said election and used violence against peaceful protestors? Patriotic army officers in the Bolivian military did the right thing. Acre has also done the right thing announcing a government of national unity, let's hope he sticks to it. There has been studies by American academics which showed that the OAS claims of fraud were due to a extremely bad methodology for analysis rather than any fraud.
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Post by maxque on Oct 16, 2020 13:31:26 GMT
Looks like the transfers broke the following way: Green transfers increased the SNP lead marginally Labour and Lib Dem transfers essentially split evenly, with a very fractional increase for SNP Not really. Green: SNP+43, Con +5 Lab: SNP+32, Con+18 LD: SNP+159, Con+161
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Post by maxque on Oct 16, 2020 1:46:20 GMT
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Post by maxque on Oct 9, 2020 12:34:40 GMT
Automatic systems don’t have to be perfect to be of value. But you have to remember that lots of people actively don’t want to be on the register. Private tenants leaving debts behind is one of the standard ones. Self-employed people not wanting to risk being called for jury service is another. Criminals probably don’t want to be traceable. You don’t have to be an eligible voter to get an NI card. And so on. But we could certainly do better than we do now. A few months before I turned 18 in Quebec, I got a letter in the mail saying I would be automatically registered unless I return the card asking them not to do so. And every year, the first question on Canadian tax report forms is about authorizing them or not to transmit your registration to Elections Canada.
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Post by maxque on Oct 7, 2020 21:58:46 GMT
It does though. It started out as a protest of 1000 people which, after the police used violence, turned into a riot. They then attacked government buildings and freed Almazbek Atambayev from prison. He's the popular former President. You want to believe that the ordinary people of any country are capable of spontaneously rising up like this all by themselves. You carry on believing that it it makes you happy but it's a delusion. There is always some power behind this type of thing. It is possible. You're biaised because your politicial soulmates find that getting out of their parents' basements is already an huge effort and can't fathom it.
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Post by maxque on Oct 5, 2020 20:55:50 GMT
Get on with your life in a cemetary plot, rather. People die of the flu, people die of cancer, people get run over by buses. You can't let your life be dominated by all the various things that might possibly kill you. Use common sense and get on with your life Indeed. Wearing masks, social distancing, not going out for no reason. You're the one that refuse common sense because not being egoistical is too much of an effort for you.
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Post by maxque on Oct 5, 2020 20:38:24 GMT
I’m not sure ‘I’m fine, coronavirus ain’t that bad’ is a great message going into the final month. Purely from an electoral perspective, Trump has terrible approval/matchup with Biden on coronavirus so I’m not really sur the logic of further downplaying it (which is a big part of why he’s so far behind in the 1st place). It also seems odd that Trump hasn’t tried to play getting covid for some sympathy. Probably wouldn’t have got him far, but he needs to try something different to turn things around. "Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life." is great advice. Use common sense and get on with your life Get on with your life in a cemetary plot, rather.
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Post by maxque on Oct 5, 2020 17:49:21 GMT
So say the guy working for a fraudulent news outlet.
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