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  • Cards Against Humanity Pays You to Give a Shit

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  • If you didn't vote in the midterm, you still can claim it. They just don't give you as much.

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    Biden says he and Kamala Harris are 'singing from the same song sheet' — as she tries distancing herself

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  • Yes, yes. That wasn't the question, though.

    Where did you find this story? Do you usually read Fox News, and this headline jumped out at you and you had to spread the word? Did someone email it to you? Do you have a Google News alert set up, to send you stories involving Kamala Harris, so you can post them if they're bad, and further your mission of anticolonialism? Did you see it on Facebook when one of your Republican relatives posted it? How did you happen to come across this Fox News story?

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    Biden says he and Kamala Harris are 'singing from the same song sheet' — as she tries distancing herself

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  • We're doing Fox News, now? Huh.

    Anticolonialist, how'd you run across this story? Just reading up on Fox News like all the anticolonialists like to do, and you decided to share this story when you ran across it? Or some other way?

  • The first wave of voter registration deadlines is approaching in 15 states: Check yours

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  • Good point. I edited the post.

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    The first wave of voter registration deadlines is approaching in 15 states: Check yours

    www.usatoday.com /story/news/politics/elections/2024/09/30/voter-registration-deadlines/75353172007/
  • Pleasant Politics @slrpnk.net
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    The first wave of voter registration deadlines is approaching in 15 states: Check yours

    www.usatoday.com /story/news/politics/elections/2024/09/30/voter-registration-deadlines/75353172007/
  • Pleasant Politics @slrpnk.net
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    No, Biden didn’t take FEMA relief money to use on migrants — but Trump did

    www.washingtonpost.com /politics/2024/10/04/no-biden-didnt-take-fema-relief-money-use-migrants-trump-did/
  • Pleasant Politics @slrpnk.net
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    Ted Cruz faces GOP rebellion in Texas as Republicans back opponent

    www.newsweek.com /colin-allred-republican-support-texas-senate-ted-cruz-1963982
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    Mutual Aid Efforts in North Carolina, Calendar of Anarchist Events Coming Up Across the US

    itsgoingdown.org /this-is-america-201/
  • Pleasant Politics @slrpnk.net
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    I’m from Springfield. What Trump did to us should be a warning.

    www.washingtonpost.com /opinions/2024/09/29/springfield-immigration-haiti-germany/
  • Pleasant Politics @slrpnk.net
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    Democrats suspect Netanyahu attempting to tilt Trump-Harris race

    thehill.com /homenews/senate/4914933-netanyahu-gaza-hezbollah-interference/
  • Pleasant Politics @slrpnk.net
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    JD Vance is the handpicked leader of the antidemocracy movement in America

    www.theguardian.com /commentisfree/2024/oct/03/jd-vance-anti-democracy-movement-leader
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    JD Vance tried to mansplain his way into the good graces of women. It didn’t work.

    www.msnbc.com /opinion/msnbc-opinion/jd-vance-vice-presidential-debate-fail-rcna173598
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    Trump Is Now Threatening to Deport Legal Immigrants

    newrepublic.com /post/186693/donald-trump-threatening-deport-legal-immigrants
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    US East Coast port employers file NRLB complaint against union as strike looms

    www.reuters.com /legal/us-maritime-alliance-files-unfair-labor-practice-charge-with-nlrb-2024-09-26/
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    Far-right group using sports to 'build militia', experts warn

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/c5ydnqdq38wo
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    “They stole an election”: Former Florida senator found guilty in “ghost candidates” scandal

    www.motherjones.com /politics/2024/09/frank-artiles-ghost-candidates-scandal-trial-verdict-florida-power-light/
  • Pleasant Politics @slrpnk.net
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    Project 2025 says the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ‘should be broken up and downsized’

    www.poynter.org /fact-checking/2024/project-2025-get-rid-noaa-national-weather-service/
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    Justice Department sues Alabama, claiming it purged voters too close to the election

    www.npr.org /2024/09/27/nx-s1-5131578/alabama-noncitizen-voter-purge-lawsuit

  • Who downvotes the MediaBiasFactCheck bot?

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  • Reasonable. I wasn't trying to jump down your throat about it. I was a little annoyed at the comments which are positing some sort of fantasy scenario where the bot is useful, but where people hate it for irrational reasons. But yours was a reasonable question, definitely, in particular because for at least one account, it looks like what you described is exactly what's happening.

  • Who downvotes the MediaBiasFactCheck bot?

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  • Big if true.

  • Who downvotes the MediaBiasFactCheck bot?

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  • They have not. I just did some analysis of it, and there is one person whose account has downvoted almost every comment that the bot has left. They have around a thousand other votes, so it's unlikely to be a single-issue votebot account, but they also have no posts or comments, which is suspect. It seems plausible that there's something mechanical going on which might be concerning. On the other hand, it's only one person. There is one other person who has given so many downvotes to the bot that it's suspicious, also.

    Aside from those two accounts, it all looks like real downvotes. There are accounts which have given hundreds of downvotes to the bot, but they're all recognizable as highly active real accounts, so it makes sense that they would give mass downvotes to the bot.

    People just don't like the bot. Have you considered listening to the pretty extensive explanations they've given in this comments section as to why?

  • Who downvotes the MediaBiasFactCheck bot?

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  • I'm saying that the bot is incorrect. Look up any pro-Palestinian or -Arab source on it, and you'll find a pretty bald-faced statement that it is factually suspect, because its viewpoint is anti-Israel. Look up the New York Times, which regularly reports factually untrue things, including one which caused a major journalistic scandal near the beginning of the war in Gaza, and check its factual rating.

    Every report of bias is from somebody's point of view. That part I have no issue with. Pretending that a source is or isn't factual depending on whether it matches your particular bias is something different entirely.

  • Who downvotes the MediaBiasFactCheck bot?

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  • Can you give an example of someone who ever posted something disingenuous that MediaBiasFactCheck got in the way of?

  • Who downvotes the MediaBiasFactCheck bot?

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  • It also has links to ground.news baked into it, despite that site being pretty useless from what I can tell. I get strong sponsorship vibes

    It all just suddenly clicked into place for me.

    I think there's a strong possibility that you're right. It would explain all the tortured explanations for why the bot is necessary, coupled with the absolute determination to keep it regardless of how much negative feedback it's getting. Looking at it as a little ad included in every comments section makes the whole thing make sense in a way that, taken at face value, it doesn't.

  • Pleasant Politics @slrpnk.net
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    Biden’s clean energy law revived this red corner of Georgia. Voters there are backing Trump anyway.

    www.cnn.com /2024/09/27/politics/dalton-georgia-trump-voters-biden-climate-law/index.html
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    North Carolina removes 747,000 from voter rolls, citing ineligibility

    thehill.com /homenews/campaign/4901476-north-carolina-purges-747k-voters/

  • Who downvotes the MediaBiasFactCheck bot?

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  • Most people don't want the bot to be there, because they don't agree with its opinion about what is "biased." It claims factually solid sources are non-factual if they don't agree with the author's biases, and it overlooks significant editing of the truth in sources that agree with the author's biases.

    In addition, one level up the meta, opposition to the bot has become a fashionable way to rebel against the moderation, which is always a crowd pleaser. The fact that the politics moderators keep condescendingly explaining that they're just looking out for the best interests of the community, and the bot is obviously a good thing and the majority of the community that doesn't want it is getting their pretty little heads confused about things, instigates a lot of people to smash the downvote button reflexively whenever they see its posts.

  • Leak at First CO2 Injection Site in US Exposes Dangerous Folly of Carbon Capture

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  • It never even occurred to me that carbon capture might be storing a giant tank of gaseous carbon dioxide. I assumed that it meant chemically reacting the carbon into some kind of solid material which was then discarded as waste, because trying to store huge chambers full of gaseous CO2 at a scale that can impact climate change is clinically insane.

  • Pleasant Politics: Politics without the jerks

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  • It's in the sidebar:

    Post political news, or your own opinions or discussion. Anything goes. No personal attacks, no bigotry, no spam. Those will get a manual temporary ban.

  • Pleasant Politics: Politics without the jerks

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  • I completely agree with you on that. "Pleasant" might have been a misleading way for me to frame the community. As far as the bot is concerned, you're free to be as unfriendly to fascists as you want.

    As a matter of fact, part of what I think is wrong with the current moderation model is the emphasis on "civility." I think you should be allowed to be unfriendly.

    I'll give an example: I spent some time talking with existing moderators as I was tweaking and testing the bot, and we got in a discussion about two specific users. One of them, the bot was banning, and the other it wasn't. The moderator I was talking with pointed it out and said that my bot was getting it backwards, because the one user was fine, and the other user was getting in arguments and drawing a lot of user reports. I looked at what was going on, and pointed out that the first user was posting some disingenuous claims that were drawing tons of hate and disagreement from almost the entire rest of the community, that would start big arguments that didn't go anywhere. The second user was being rude sometimes, but it was a small issue from the point of view of the rest of the community, and usually I think the people they were being rude to were in the wrong anyway.

    The current moderation model leaves the first user alone, even if they want to post their disingenuous stuff ten times a day, and dings the second user because they are "uncivil." I think that's backwards. Of course if someone's being hostile to everyone, that's a problem, but I think a lot of bad behavior that makes politics communities bad doesn't fit the existing categories for moderation very well, and relying on volunteer moderators who are short on time to make snap judgements about individual users and comments is not a good approach to applying the rules even as they are.

    So come in and be impolite to the fascists. Go nuts. You don't have to be pleasant in that sense. In fact, I think you'll probably have more freedom to do that here than in other communities.

  • U.S. Approves $500 Million for Bahrain Oil Project, Despite Opposition | The financing faced criticism that it doesn’t mesh with U.S. commitments on climate change.

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  • Not that the line starting to go down would represent positive progress on climate change. It would mean only less new damage with every passing year, a smaller progress in worsening the catastrophe that's already well in motion. But the fact that the line isn't even going down illustrates the catastrophic absurdity of claiming that we're making tangible progress with existing policies.

    The home we all live is on fire, and we're still lighting new blazes, while congratulating ourselves that we're meeting our targets.