tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6264881409789872629.post4701189347063211884..comments2024-03-26T08:44:02.732-04:00Comments on Data Driven Gamer: Game 312: President ElectAhabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04131989140638867919noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6264881409789872629.post-26987920183456546772022-05-03T22:15:35.170-04:002022-05-03T22:15:35.170-04:00"It's like being told "even if you c..."It's like being told "even if you could prove you were fired unfairly you'd still lose the lawsuit" and only quoting the words "you were fired unfairly.""<br /><br />In this case, specifically a lot of it was "The DNC didn't like Sanders but bent over backwards to accommodate him because they knew they were liable to be accused of bias" begin reported as "The DNC didn't like Sanders ... The knew they were liable to be accused of bias".<br /><br />And the color associations with the parties were pretty much random, changing from year to year and even network to network. It just happened that the configuration was Red=Republicans in 2000, when the damn election went on for an extra couple of months and the color scheme calcified in the public consciousness.Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09703211229982182936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6264881409789872629.post-32474055945814751852022-05-02T10:36:55.907-04:002022-05-02T10:36:55.907-04:00Everyone with an inkling of American politics know...Everyone with an inkling of American politics knows what "red state" means, and I doubt all those placards and hats were red for solidarity with Marxists. The electoral color scheme <i>is</i> universally accepted, regardless of international conventions.<br /><br />Your first link is broken, and your second link goes goes to a fringe source that reports hoaxes as news, like <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220501095843/https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/biden-admin-to-fund-crack-pipe-distribution-to-advance-racial-equity/" rel="nofollow">Biden To Fund Crack Pipe Distribution</a>.<br /><br /><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110112232740/http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2011/01/sen-sanders-sends-out-fundraising-email-citing-arizona-tragedy.html" rel="nofollow">Sanders' statement</a> brought up Palin's cross-hairs map as <i>indicative</i> of the political climate in which Giffords and others were targeted, not the cause of it. Reading it should make that clear. And I don't know of any smoking gun court admission to the effect you claim, but I do remember when social media posts quoted "the DNC and Wasserman Schultz held a palpable bias in favor Clinton" from federal court and held that as smoking gun proof, unaware that this was a dismissal motion, and that standard court procedure for such is to assume all allegations are true. It's like being told "even if you could prove you were fired unfairly you'd still lose the lawsuit" and only quoting the words "you were fired unfairly."Ahabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04131989140638867919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6264881409789872629.post-3939013115727232722022-05-02T01:39:25.661-04:002022-05-02T01:39:25.661-04:00"This is exactly the opposite of the universa..."This is exactly the opposite of the universally accepted color scheme today, but it wasn't standard in 1981."<br /><br />It's not "universally accepted". In the 2000s, the media handed the Republicans red as a "fuck you". Red was always the color of labor, of revolution, of the side of Marxists.<br /><br />I can't believe in this day and age people still believe in Bernie Sanders as anything other than a Judas goat for the DNC. He was cheated twice and both times endorsed the person who ripped off his voters. One of the highlights of my political life was watching the video where Jimmy Dore, a huge Sanders fan, realized that he'd been had. <br /><br /><a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/content.washingtonexaminer.biz/web-producers/052915%20Man_and_Woman_0.jpg<br />" rel="nofollow">Let's have a look at Bernie's writing and attitudes towards women at the time of this election.</a> He wouldn't have gotten the Democratic nomination anyway, as at the time he was part of the socialist Liberty Union Party, and <a href="https://freebeacon.com/politics/bernie-sanders-asked-leave-hippie-commune/" rel="nofollow">got kicked out of a hippie commune for being too lazy.</a> <br /><br />Remember when Bernie Sanders blamed the shooting of Congresswoman Giffords on a map from Sarah Palin's website? Remember when his wife tried to evict a disabled group of home residents after purchasing it for her college? Remember when the DNC, led by Wasserman Schultz, admitted in court they rigged primaries against Sanders?Bodhidharmanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6264881409789872629.post-64406496399116239962022-04-27T20:16:54.073-04:002022-04-27T20:16:54.073-04:00D here! My Bernie impression is unmatched. D here! My Bernie impression is unmatched. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6264881409789872629.post-62170633667532763762022-04-13T16:16:45.080-04:002022-04-13T16:16:45.080-04:00First : Thanks for covering it. We can even expand...First : Thanks for covering it. We can even expand our full coverage of SSI on 1983, I am ready to take a bullet for the team by reviewed Queen of Hearts :).<br /><br />Second : Outstanding article. Hilarious, a breeze to read despite the dry topic. I really loved "US Post-war Electoral History, Abridged. Great characterization of John Wayne, I had to check whether Bombs-Away LeMay may have been his vice-president.<br /><br />I did not know the game had been so accurate and had a following for so long. Really a fascinating "game".Narwhal, the Wargaming Scribehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05808952600298482923noreply@blogger.com