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“If Liberals are so f**king smart how come the lose so go***m always?” Will McAvoy The DNC lost the election. Trump won with roughly as many votes as Romney. Eeking out a win when as many people like you as the last loser is not as Trump would say, “tremendous.” On the other hand, Hillary appears to have lost […]
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“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” Probably not Mark Twain. In the face of the most recent election it seems almost ludicrous to talk about anything other than Trump per-se, and I promise I’ll make my way back to him soon. However, something ugly and possibly inevitable (regardless of who was elected) may be looming on the […]
Read moreHow to navigate Mediocracy.net Mediocracy.net is set up more like a hybrid of a wiki and a traditional news source. At the top of the site I have different pages that are all related to what I see as the fundamental components of understanding modern politics, especially within the American context. Each of these pages contains an article that I […]
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One of the surest ways to generate and perpetuate fake news is to make sure that a debate is bound to be a failure from the start. If people aren’t sure of the terms of the debate, it becomes easier to sneak falsehoods and half truths past the viewer. If you’ve ever tried to sit down and map exactly what […]
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