The Political Thread 2021

the majority of men voted for trump in 2020.

But men are a minority in the states. And Biden won the college educated vote by 13 points:

Also, looks like 64% of white people with degrees voted for trump. 50% of college educated men voted for biden/trump.

And also, education level only really made a difference with white voters :woman_shrugging:

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Isn’t there a version where this chick was sleeping around with three wiseguys and she told her cuck husband that she got pregnant by God and that she was actually still a virgin?

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Im talking about white men specifically but good job strawmanning.

I wanted a turn too damn it :joy:

Here’s some random factual shit.
I live in a county that 85% are trump supporters.
Ready for the kicker?

80% of the county lives below the national poverty level.

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It’s covered in The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt IIRC.

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Links to your claims would help.

This is the type of map I am talking about where the more blue areas tend to be higher COL areas which in turn are higher paying jobs.

And yes, I am deducing if you are making a lot of money and live/work in those areas, that you are smart/educated/intelligent/whatever-you-wanna-call-it.

I’m not comfortable comparing child porn to the president tweeting, but I’m sure all you’d really need are a few keywords and you could find it easily. There was a comedian on a podcast I was listening to a couple months ago and she started an organization to get child pron off Twitter and I remember her saying that of 10 CP related accounts she alerted them to, after about a month, 6 of them were still active. Twitter cares more about taking down Alex Jones than they do child porn. Let THAT sink in.

Miria is right though, they do what they do because their userbase demands it, better or worse.

The problem with that is, there IS no real market because of the way big tech has proliferated. Twitter and Facebook are the only real players in the game as far as social media is concerned, and even with conservatives creating their own platforms (and let’s remember when people would get booted from FB or Twitter and folks would say, “Why don’t you create your own platform then?”) big tech companies are squashing those alternatives when the same things they cite as reasons to get rid of them can be found on the left leaning platforms. It’s anti competitive and basically censorious.

King has posted a link already, i’m on mobile right now. What do you make of the fact that the majority of your demographic vote Donald Trump even the educated ones.

Yea dude that’s pretty fucked up.
Indefensible.

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Wasn’t Facebook created after Myspace? I can see the competitive landscape as an issue, but these companies found a way to monetize you (the data that is). It’s all about money at the end of the day. Remember when Coke was about to pull a crapton of money out of ad revenue because of the way FB was doing a few things?

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Ok, but why? White men make up roughly 33% of the population, so college educated white men is like, 15-18% of the vote? Why does that matter so much?

Also, it was in there, biden and trump split the white male vote.

I don’t understand what you’re trying to say here… They split the vote. Are you trying to say that white men’s votes are more valuable and logically sound than other votes?

I was on this shit called, fuck. What the fuck was it called?

It’s like Facebook for professionals.

LinkedIn! That’s what the fuck it was!

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Those are exit polls.

If there is one thing I’ve learned since 2016 it’s that polls don’t mean jack shit.

I also mention that having college degree isn’t what I am referring to. I’m referring to people who have high paying jobs in a high cost of living area regardless of being college educated or not.

As I menitoned, “educated” probably was not the right word on my part on my initial post.

I personally know plenty of people who never even went to college but are making 300k+ a year in businesses they started. On the flip side I know tons of people who went to college then ended up becoming fire fighters, cops, personal trainers, etc, that don’t even use their degree. So yeah, wrong choice of wording on my part.

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It considerably shrunk, and if we don’t consider just males then a slim majority of white people with college degrees voted for Biden this time. Together with the loss of the suburbs are some of the most important changes in these elections.

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It is. But you have to consider that these social media companies (hell, corporations in general) operate a lot like the government. If they think something is a big deal and could lead to bad optics, they have the will to change it, if it’s not and it won’t, they’ll probably let it slide.

It was. To me the problem with this is that so much social discourse happens on these sites these days that if you tell someone, “No, you dont’ get be a part of this” you’re almost exiling them from society in a sense. It’s not like someone who gets banned from Facebook really has any other viable option as far as where to go from there.

And it’s absolutely fucking crazy to me that these companies have so much power that they can even silence the president of the United States. I’m not making a judgement call on whether he should or shouldn’t have been banned, just that he now has no way to directly communicate with people as a result. And to me that’s nuts and is way too much power for any corporation/organization to hold imo.

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100%

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it was a 13 point swing. It wasn’t slim

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I’d tread carefully there, we just bore witness to four years of simply being “well connected” paying dividends. At an institutional level, anecdotally, I’ve seen plenty of fantastically inept people in positions they’re objectively unqualified for thanks to connections, and the social cachet that afforded them.

Meritocracy would be great, if it weren’t being scammed by wealthy and well connected unqualified people in the US. Demonstrable evidence of ability, rather than who you know.

Winner Takes All by Anand Giridharadas and Dream Hoarders by Richard Reeves are both worth reading.

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Connections are what allowed George W Bush to become president, which is basically the real life proof that any idiot be whatever they want :rofl:

BTW love that you’re posting the Johnathan Haidt stuff, he’s really good.

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Did they take out the press room at the white house?

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