Election 2020+4 Thread: this is a real PR disaster!

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bird food bathtub: Aug 9, 2003; College Slice

Well, only invalidate it if they don't win. If Donnie Goodbrains were to win they'd be championing their efforts to make such an upright, believable, totally legit and strong result.

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# ? Dec 14, 2024 03:49

Hyrax Attack!: Jan 13, 2009; We demand to be taken seriously

Knowing what extreme measures trump took in 2020 including our first non-peaceful transfer of power when he wasn�t facing likely jail time upon leaving office, not looking forward to what tries when a loss does likely mean losing being able to live in luxury the remainder of his days.

# ? Sep 20, 2024 19:32

Coasterphreak: May 29, 2007; I like cookies.

facialimpediment posted:

I want her to do it with Walz, then as she climbs the spice ladder, he just sits there happy with a bottle of ketchup in front of him.

Walz would do the last dab and ask what�s next

# ? Sep 20, 2024 20:14

Farking Bastage: Sep 22, 2007; Who dey think gonna beat dem Bengos!

facialimpediment posted:

This is completely hosed and stupid, but nobody involved is being very clear about what it actually is!

The idea here isn't about counting the votes, but counting the number of ballots issued by workers with the number of ballots in the tabulator. It's incredibly stupid to do because the tabulator counts better than humans do and there's no recourse anyways if the numbers don't match. Which is kinda the point: they're fishing for a reason to throw out an election (they can't) if somehow the numbers don't match.

In my precinct (different state), you check in with a voting application, you get a voter number (#69) and ballot number (#71 because of fuckups). You turn in that application right before you feed the tabulator the ballot. We had like 300 total voters come through at the end of the night. So these chucklefucks want to go HAHA WE ONLY SHOW 299 BALLOTS AND #71 IS MISSING IN THE TABULATOR ELECTION INVALID when that voter could've just waltzed off without us being to check. Precincts constantly mismatch by one or two and the Georgia chucklefucks want to use that as an excuse to invalidate the election because Donnie said so.

The endgame in Georgia, like it always has been, is to prevent black people from voting. Folks there have had a hard-on for "welfare queens" as long as I can remember.

# ? Sep 20, 2024 20:23

Hyrax Attack!: Jan 13, 2009; We demand to be taken seriously

Have wondered what would happen if a Deep South state like Alabama or Mississippi had enough unlikely events happen where the state government was set to become majority Black democrats. Guessing whatever steps they could think of to cling to power including abolishing the legislature/governorship or trying to merge with a neighboring state, anything to prevent the last several decades of records from being closely reviewed.

They had that on a smaller scale in Arizona when new Democrat governor found while they may have laws on the books about large developments needing adequate water sourcing they weren�t being enforced so many projects got canceled.

# ? Sep 20, 2024 20:46

Kaiser Schnitzel: Mar 28, 2006; Schnitzel mit uns

Hyrax Attack! posted:

Have wondered what would happen if a Deep South state like Alabama or Mississippi had enough unlikely events happen where the state government was set to become majority Black democrats. Guessing whatever steps they could think of to cling to power including abolishing the legislature/governorship or trying to merge with a neighboring state, anything to prevent the last several decades of records from being closely reviewed.

They had that on a smaller scale in Arizona when new Democrat governor found while they may have laws on the books about large developments needing adequate water sourcing they weren�t being enforced so many projects got canceled.

I think the reason there is more movement towards election fuckery in Georgia vs. AL or MS is that in Georgia it actually matters. AL/MS don't need to gently caress around with the elections because the elections are pretty much always 'republicans control everything.' While they both have large Black minorities, it's like 25% in Alabama and 35% in MS-they are still very much the minority except in some cities and the Mississippi Delta and Alabama Black Belt where there are a few minority-majority counties.

Kaiser Schnitzel fucked around with this message at 22:18 on Sep 20, 2024

# ? Sep 20, 2024 22:10

Elviscat: Jan 1, 2008; Well don't you know I'm caught in a trap?

Coasterphreak posted:

Walz would do the last dab and ask what’s next

Probably, since Walz is a filthy fuckin' liar, who claims to eat "white guy" tacos, while adding an ENTIRE 1/2 tsp of cayenne to his chili.

# ? Sep 20, 2024 22:51

TheKingslayer: Sep 3, 2008; MY FACE WHEN I STIFF ARM THE POST BUTTON

For fucks sake. They're even playing commercials calling illegal immigrants murderers on Pluto TV. I just want to watch Star Trek you loving fascists.

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Tiny Timbs: Sep 6, 2008

TheKingslayer posted:

For fucks sake. They're even playing commercials calling illegal immigrants murderers on Pluto TV. I just want to watch Star Trek you loving fascists.

Goons always acted like I was making it up when I talked about Pluto playing this garbage and turning me completely off the service.

# ? Sep 21, 2024 13:54

Coasterphreak: May 29, 2007; I like cookies.

Tiny Timbs posted:

Goons always acted like I was making it up when I talked about Pluto playing this garbage and turning me completely off the service.

To be fair, I�ve even gotten this poo poo on YouTube. Along with plenty of trump ads.

# ? Sep 21, 2024 14:24

Ronwayne: Nov 20, 2007; That warm and fuzzy feeling.

You need to layer your anti-ads and anti-trackers on youtube. I've been able to avoid that stuff thankfully. Ghostery+No Script+ublock+canvas blocker+disconnect+privacy badger+grease monkey with some scripts on mozilla seems to have solved the ads garbage.

If that seems like an absurd amount of effort needed to just avoid having ads shoved in front of one's eyeballs, it is, it sucks.

Ronwayne fucked around with this message at 15:13 on Sep 21, 2024

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Qtotonibudinibudet: Nov 7, 2011; Omich poluyobok, skazhi ty narkoman? ya prosto tozhe gde to tam zhivu, mogli by vmeste uyobyvat' narkotiki

the heck are you doin that ublock alone doesn't work

ed: ubo should be sufficient for blocking ads in almost all scenarios, but if you want to block _tracking_ it's a lost cause imo unless you wanna go full time Tor with constant new sessions

that i basically reserve for stuff related to medical conditions

Qtotonibudinibudet fucked around with this message at 15:24 on Sep 21, 2024

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MonkeyFit: May 13, 2009

Ronwayne posted:

If that seems like an absurd amount of effort needed to just avoid having ads shoved in front of one's eyeballs, it is, it sucks.

I just pay for YouTube Premium. Way less effort and I watch enough YouTube to easily make it worth it.

# ? Sep 21, 2024 15:16

RFC2324: Jun 7, 2012; http 418

MonkeyFit posted:

I just pay for YouTube Premium. Way less effort and I watch enough YouTube to easily make it worth it.

Sadly, this has ended up being my solution too.

Fuxking alphabet

# ? Sep 21, 2024 15:27

Ronwayne: Nov 20, 2007; That warm and fuzzy feeling.

Qtotonibudinibudet posted:

the heck are you doin that ublock alone doesn't work

ed: ubo should be sufficient for blocking ads in almost all scenarios, but if you want to block _tracking_ it's a lost cause imo unless you wanna go full time Tor with constant new sessions

that i basically reserve for stuff related to medical conditions

Youtube periodically does something that bypasses ublock until the latter patches it. I don't care if avoiding tracking is impossible so long as I can poison enough data along the way. When I do receive targeted ads its for something completely unrelated to anything I do or am or want, so I'm gonna consider it successful enough even if its theoretically impossible to bat 1.000.

Paying for stuff isn't an option due to being poor and also I am full of spite and refuse to give money for something that was enshitified.

Ronwayne fucked around with this message at 15:31 on Sep 21, 2024

# ? Sep 21, 2024 15:27

CBJSprague24: Dec 5, 2010; Thank you, Johnny Hockey.

https://x.com/BaddCompani/status/1837343688831422767

Qtotonibudinibudet posted:

the heck are you doin that ublock alone doesn't work

ed: ubo should be sufficient for blocking ads in almost all scenarios, but if you want to block _tracking_ it's a lost cause imo unless you wanna go full time Tor with constant new sessions

that i basically reserve for stuff related to medical conditions

I've started to get "Ad blockers violate YouTube's terms of service" on my browser.

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Crab Dad: Dec 28, 2002; behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB

CBJSprague24 posted:

https://x.com/BaddCompani/status/1837343688831422767

I've started to get "Ad blockers violate YouTube's terms of service" on my browser.

That�s a hell of a hale Mary toss.

# ? Sep 21, 2024 16:04

Ronwayne: Nov 20, 2007; That warm and fuzzy feeling.

Crab Dad posted:

That�s a hell of a hale Mary toss.

Its like evil smashmouth lyrics. There's a freeverse rap thing going on. I can see how it would strum chud brainworms like playing a guitar.

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Wingnut Ninja: Jan 11, 2003; Mostly Harmless

I feel like Nixon would have had some banger drunk tweets if Twitter had been around in the 70's.

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Madurai: Jun 26, 2012

CBJSprague24 posted:

https://x.com/BaddCompani/status/1837343688831422767

It's a mystery who would have written that. It's too coherent for Trump, and too middle-of-the-road for any of his handlers.

# ? Sep 21, 2024 18:49

Zamujasa: Oct 27, 2010; Bread Liar

Madurai posted:

It's a mystery who would have written that. It's too coherent for Trump, and too middle-of-the-road for any of his handlers.

... too coherent? :confused:

# ? Sep 21, 2024 18:56

Madurai: Jun 26, 2012

Zamujasa posted:

... too coherent?

There are complete sentences and no misspellings or Spoonerisms.

# ? Sep 21, 2024 19:12

Comrade Blyatlov: Aug 4, 2007; should have picked four fingers

He told someone to write what he said and they did as instructed. It follows his speech pattern exactly and as you point out is too correct to be written by him.

# ? Sep 21, 2024 19:19

Leave: Feb 7, 2012; Taking the term "Koopaling" to a whole new level since 2016.

If you read it like a telegram, it sounds a little better.

"Women worse off than four years ago STOP abortion bad STOP they're eating the dogs they need to STOP no not a STOP they need to STOP"

# ? Sep 21, 2024 19:22

facialimpediment: Feb 11, 2005; as the world turns

Comrade Blyatlov posted:

He told someone to write what he said and they did as instructed. It follows his speech pattern exactly and as you point out is too correct to be written by him.

I've always figured if it makes sense and isn't in all capitals, it's a staffer. If there's some semblance of grammar, it's staff-typed, but dictated directly by Donnie. The poo poo with lots of typos and fuckups is straight from Donnie's fingers.

Also, Kamala accepted a CNN debate for late October. Donnie didn't in his own special way:

https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1837568770451152966?t=jFBQ5IBFYbM9RUzz-VB6lQ&s=19

# ? Sep 21, 2024 19:27

TheKingslayer: Sep 3, 2008; MY FACE WHEN I STIFF ARM THE POST BUTTON

Dude is shook about talking anywhere that might even pretend to be an even playing ground.

# ? Sep 21, 2024 19:37

Quackles: Aug 11, 2018; Pixels of Light.

Ronwayne posted:

You need to layer your anti-ads and anti-trackers on youtube. I've been able to avoid that stuff thankfully. Ghostery+No Script+ublock+canvas blocker+disconnect+privacy badger+grease monkey with some scripts on mozilla seems to have solved the ads garbage.

If that seems like an absurd amount of effort needed to just avoid having ads shoved in front of one's eyeballs, it is, it sucks.

I use Firefox's Enhanced Tracking Protection (but turned off on Youtube so it doesn't interfere with uBlock Origin's workings), uBlock Origin, and also this:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/adblock-for-youtube/

A specialist YT-only ad blocker.

I also only visit Youtube logged out and have cookies from Youtube and Google blocked, as well.

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boop the snoot: Jun 3, 2016

I get my money�s worth out of YouTube premium more than I do any other streaming service I�ve ever paid for.

# ? Sep 21, 2024 20:06

TheKingslayer: Sep 3, 2008; MY FACE WHEN I STIFF ARM THE POST BUTTON

I'll hand it to em, youtube tv is pretty good.

But the last time I did browse regular youtube without ad blocks it was a cesspit.

# ? Sep 21, 2024 20:11

CBJSprague24: Dec 5, 2010; Thank you, Johnny Hockey.

Madurai posted:

It's a mystery who would have written that. It's too coherent for Trump, and too middle-of-the-road for any of his handlers.

It feels like he's trying to capitalize off that speech where he riled up his idiots in the closing with 13 different "we will make America (adjective) again!"

# ? Sep 21, 2024 20:16

MonkeyFit: May 13, 2009

boop the snoot posted:

I get my money’s worth out of YouTube premium more than I do any other streaming service I’ve ever paid for.

Same. I need to cancel my hulu honestly.

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Tiny Timbs: Sep 6, 2008

YouTube Premium is worth paying for. The ad blocker arms race is annoying to keep up with and if you don�t just watch YouTube on your gooning pc you have to use annoying 3rd party apps for other devices

# ? Sep 21, 2024 21:43

CBJSprague24: Dec 5, 2010; Thank you, Johnny Hockey.

Tiny Timbs posted:

YouTube Premium is worth paying for. The ad blocker arms race is annoying to keep up with and if you don’t just watch YouTube on your gooning pc you have to use annoying 3rd party apps for other devices

Are there any decent third-party apps for video streamed to a fire stick from Android?

# ? Sep 21, 2024 22:04

tacopie: Apr 29, 2009

CBJSprague24 posted:

Are there any decent third-party apps for video streamed to a fire stick from Android?

I use SmartTube on my fire stick for YouTube. It blocks ads, you can cast directly from your phone by linking it.

# ? Sep 22, 2024 00:11

CBJSprague24: Dec 5, 2010; Thank you, Johnny Hockey.

https://x.com/SwissWatchGuy/status/1837644013014298690?t=skBAW5PefS9Z7AnuV2ynLw&s=19

The best and brightest.

# ? Sep 22, 2024 00:12

davecrazy: Nov 25, 2004; I'm an insufferable shitposter who does not deserve to root for such a good team. Also, this is what Matt Harvey thinks of me and my garbage posting.