SergeantMatt

Battlefield 1 isn't terrible. I'm kind of surprised. 

Yeah, I'd say it's the best Battlefield in a long time, and I was expecting mediocrity at best.

I still don't know who Lena Dunham is and feel really good about that. 

Keep it that way, you'll be happier.

Top Hillary campaign strategist. That was literally his one and only job.

Goddamnit...

 

Hippies have taken root in my area, which i believed was safe from infection due to its high gun-wielding redneck population.

 

One of these monstrosities just opened up in my town, which i believe will act as an egg sack, breeding ground, place of worship, and hive for the soon-to-be vast local hippie population, which will allow for them to start spreading in significant numbers throughout 'Murica in areas east of the West Coast,

Only one solution. Bathe the whole town in nuclear fire.

Holy shit.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/hillary-clinton-aides-loss-blame-231215

Not only is it clear they've learned nothing:

There was little the Clinton operatives could do about the “scandals” they inherited when they signed up to work for the former secretary of state. But Clinton allies are also faulting the campaign for failing to develop a credible message for downscale white voters, arguing she could have won by a larger margin on the economy.

 

And some began pointing fingers at the young campaign manager, Robby Mook, who spearheaded a strategy supported by the senior campaign team that included only limited outreach to those voters — a theory of the case that Bill Clinton had railed against for months, wondering aloud at meetings why the campaign was not making more of an attempt to even ask that population for its votes. It’s not that there was none: Clinton’s post-convention bus tour took her through Youngstown, Ohio, as well as Pittsburgh and Harrisburg, where she tried to eat into Trump’s margins with his base. In Scranton and Harrisburg, the campaign aired a commercial that featured a David Letterman clip of Trump admitting to outsourcing manufacturing of the products and clothes that bore his logo. And at campaign stops in Ohio, Clinton talked about Trump’s reliance on Chinese steel.

 

But in general, Bill Clinton’s viewpoint of fighting for the working class white voters was often dismissed with a hand wave by senior members of the team as a personal vendetta to win back the voters who elected him, from a talented but aging politician who simply refused to accept the new Democratic map. At a meeting ahead of the convention at which aides presented to both Clintons the “Stronger Together” framework for the general election, senior strategist Joel Benenson told the former president bluntly that the voters from West Virginia were never coming back to his party.

Bill fucking Clinton warned them and they didn't listen.

Was just made by some guy on twitter here, numbers are all correct.

Great chart:

Trump did a tiny bit worse than McCain or Romney. Clinton did catastrophically worse than Obama.

No Stein = Trump wins 280-258. No Stein or Johnson, Trump wins 290-248. No Johnson, Trump does even better.

Jill Stein lost Clinton Michigan, Wisconsin, and New Hampshire, but that's not enough to win out with the Gary Johnson flips.

Latest numbers, Clinton would have lost another seven states if not for Gary Johnson voters sapping Trump votes. Liberal dems are still trying to blame it on third parties when third parties helped them.

If it doesn't happen, Democrats are royally fucked until it does. Can't beat a right wing populist with an elite status quo establishment candidate, you need a left wing populist to fight that. The salt from the Dems who backed Clinton in the primary when we tell them "we told you so" is delicious.

Looking at my acquaintances and people I follow, the liberal Clinton wing is freaking the fuck out and crying, the leftist Sanders/Jacobin wing is preparing to push to take over the Democratic Party. Interesting few years ahead of us.

Major takeaways from analyses of the election results: biggest swings towards Trump relative to 2012 election results were people making less than $30k, non college educated whites, and asian americans. Less than 44 years old = Clinton, more equals Trump. Hillary did worse among white women than Kerry in 2004 or Obama in 2008. 9% of registered democrats voted Trump, 7% of registered Republicans voted Clinton. Lowest turnout since 2000.

https://twitter.com/JamesKanag/status/796303144351399936

Polling error correlates strongly with non college educated white population.

https://twitter.com/CarlBeijer/status/796281023101366272

Support for Democrats has fallen 9% among whites and 11% among blacks since 2008.

Hillary = a hybrid of Cersei and Olenna Tyrell, Trump = Euron Greyjoy what with the "Make America/The Iron Islands Great Again, Once We Were Conquerors/We Don't Win Anymore, etc. Bernie is Stannis, long career but hated by the political establishment for not playing the game, has a smallish but fanatically loyal following, wants to let the wildlings through the Wall, worships the Red God. Jeb is Moon Boy.

And already the democratic establishment is trying to blame everybody but themselves. It's not the third parties fault, it's not Bernie's fault, this is squarely on the shoulders of Hillary Clinton and the DNC. They picked a status quo establishment politican to fight a populist in a time of economic turmoil, when has that ever worked?

But they didn't learn from 2000 or 2004, so I don't expect them to learn now.

So DNC, sure was a good idea to back Clinton over Sanders, eh? Clinton is just so much more electable.

Trump's up to 35.5% chance of victory on 538's poll plus, Nevada is leaning his way. If he holds the states leaning towards him, he just has to flip New Hampshire or Colorado and he wins.

Fun stuff from noted hippie idiot Jill Stein's reddit AMA today, Link:

"Nuclear power is dirty, dangerous, expensive, and obsolete. ... And the depleted uranium ammunition used by our military is now sickening people in the Middle East." (Currently at 1,924 downvotes)

"A number of scientific studies have raised red flags about possible health effects of WiFi radiation on young children. ... There is not enough information to know." (Currently at 733 downvotes)

Cabals of oligarchs and shamans running South Korea from behind the scenes? I want to get off 2016's wild ride.

Highest chance scenario for civil unrest: If Hillary loses the popular vote but wins the electoral college.

Major new update and expansion for Stellaris. Adds a shitload of stuff to do in the mid and late game, makes the galaxy a more dangerous place, and has loads of much needed UI improvements.

I'll give them a shot. My experience with them yesterday was that I couldn't find a game.

Been working fine for me, full 64 player matches every time. I like the maps on the UK vs Germany front best, but they're all good.

Still annoyed that they left out RUSSIA AND FRANCE IN A WWI GAME for DLC though.

I've mainly played conquest, as my adventures in TDM were pretty lackluster.

Play Operations, I've literally played nothing but Operations since I first tried it. Best game mode by far.

Once you go multi-monitor, you don't go back.