U.S. Riots of May 2020 over George Floyd and others - ITT: a bunch of faggots butthurt about worthless internet stickers

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Harbinger of Kali Yuga said:
I hate that shit, express your honest opinion, don't be some lameass troll that thinks he is being edgy. Unless snailslime is admitting publicly to being "hella woke," and that's a bad look
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It's two-pronged and admittedly a somewhat clever gambit. Get salty about the direction of the thread, neg-rate posts rather than add to the discussion and when people legitimately complain based on the lack of contribution, simply continue to neg-rate them and accuse them of caring too much about internet points. Can't be wrong if you don't actually try.

I tip my top hat to you, slime.
 
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Freedom Fries said:
There's some indication what he has been doing has worked. Huge whitepills coming from the polling in this article
https://www.revolver.news/2020/07/a...p-crackdown-rioters-vandals-protect-heritage/
https://archive.vn/KtToY
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I like whitepills as much as the next guy, but I don't trust that polling. Here's Rasmussen, who also has a pro-GOP bias but whose methodology I trust more.
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And that approval/disapproval shows up in the election tracking polls too.
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I don't want to ramble off-topic about polls, the 2020 election thread is the proper place to dissect them. The point is, on election day, there is a huge swath of people who vote based on how they are generally feeling. Do they generally think things are going well? Badly? Feel unsafe? Feel optimistic? Etc.

The economy is traditionally the big indicator here--if people are generally optimistic about the economy, they re-elect the incumbent party; if they are pessimistic, they vote against them, no matter whose fault it is. And the US economy is in an incredibly bad spot.

Then you have the one-offs that skew votes, like Lehman Brothers collapsing in 2008 and Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Events like that swing important margins of voters, based on nothing more than a candidate's single reaction (McCain suspending his campaign to sit in meetings and do nothing, Obama flying to NJ to shake hands with Chris Christie). Arguably this might have already happened--in Kanye West's interview talking about his decision to run for President, he cites Trump "hiding" in his bunker as a reason he doesn't back Trump any more.

Independents with no party loyalty are the ones susceptible to sentiment voting. Trump and Biden also have their base who won't switch sides, but they need them to get out and vote. We're going into an election where paranoia about public meeting spaces is at its height, and the reasons to dislike your candidate are also high. Those reasons can turn into excuses not to vote.

Between now and election day, if Trump's base feels demoralized, or BLM comes up with some radical new stunt and Trump doesn't respond well, he could lose their support and lose the thin margins he won with in 2016. He needs them to feel he has their back, even if he can manage it without actually doing anything. Trump needs them to feel he is personally needed, badly, enough to risk Cancel Culture and Corona Virus to go vote.

With all the voting by mail that will be happening, he doesn't have that much time to make people feel secure again.
 
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