This, plus there are many server-side WYSIWYG markdown editors that make it transparent to the end user that they are even using Markdown. This is really the future IMO, you get the best of both worlds. Hopefully they'll add some extensions though to Markdown. I hope the community will create even more as well.
I'm not trying to start a flame war here. Please don't decline into partisan bickering.
What I took away from reading the texas lawsuit is that what you had happen was states were making changes to their election practices due to covid without actually changing the laws. Think how divisive things like voter ID laws are and it's not hard to imagine no election rule changes are going to get passed in a hurry.
Specific examples are pennsylvania allowing absentee ballot 3 days after the election even though by law any ballots arriving by mail after election day are void.
Poll watchers who monitor votes being counted were not given meaningful access to monitor even though by law they must be given access.
Due to the huge number of absentee ballots election counters did not verify ballot signatures as required.
The reason all these lawsuits failed is because there is no real injunctive relief you can seek. And no court is going to nullify an election.
None of these things are evidence of voter fraud but the fact that election officials were allowed to deviate from the legal requirements dictated by law is something I find controversial and is something we should be allowed to talk about.
A) >>>Specific examples are pennsylvania allowing absentee ballot 3 days after the election even though by law any ballots arriving by mail after election day are void.<<<<
That is incorrect. PA Supreme Court ruled that there is no specific law against that ...Pennsylvania Republicans had sought to block the counting of late-arriving ballots, which the state's Supreme Court had approved last month..... [1]
B) >>>poll watchers who monitor votes being counted were not given meaningful access to monitor even though by law they must be given access.<<<
That is also incorrect. The dispute was about how far away they should be. Both Democratic and Republican observers were at the same distance which was at least 6 feet because of COVID. One of the Judges allowed for the distance to be narrowed for everybody
C) >>>Due to the huge number of absentee ballots election counters did not verify ballot signatures as required.<<<
That is also incorrect. Where state law mandated it, this was done.
D) >>>The reason all these lawsuits failed is because there is no real injunctive relief you can seek. <<<<
This is incorrect. The lawsuits failed because
a) the lawyers actually stated in court that they were not alleging fraud but were 'concerned'
b) the lawyers said in court that there were some irregularities but not enough to change the outcome
"a completed mail-in ballot must be received in the office of the county board of elections no later than eight o'clock P.M. on the day of the primary or election."
That’s a reasonable analysis. It’s very different from Trump’s claims on social media - he says that these facts are evidence of voter fraud, that any honest court would nullify the election, and that he still hopes to find a way to overturn the election result. If the discussion were just about improving the system for future elections I’d be all in favor of allowing it.
There are quite a few pro-Trump users here and a lot of users that dislike politics. The former seem to only come out to defend him and the latter downvote all political discussions. At least in my experience.
What’s incredible is that people presented themselves as “witnesses” and stated, under oath, stories that they just read on some random blog and not events they witnessed personally.
You would have thought the lawyers who prepped them would have stopped them from wasting the courts' time.
This is part of the reason that in some countries it is illegal report anything significant about an active investigation. You don't want to pollute the witness pool - even if what is reported is 100% categorically true, the fact that someone might know something they otherwise wouldn't have known is bad for an accurate and just investigation.
If it is so obvious, why are all the legal challenges, even the ones involving Trump-appointed judges, failing? Why can't the challengers come up with a scrap of evidence?
What county has a score for Biden at "781%"? I'd love to read more about that. Was there a lawsuit filed where I can read about this claim in some official form?
Donald Trump himself wasn't a politically viable candidate until people took his transparently bad faith, virulently racist birther lies in good faith. Have we learned nothing?
Are you trying to make the point that YouTube is a special interest site and not a platform? Or are you trying to make the point that YouTube should have its cake and eat it too by being protected as a platform, and at the same time play the role of a curator and publisher?
>are you trying to make the point that YouTube should have its cake and eat it too by being protected as a platform, and at the same time play the role of a curator and publisher?
I could waste everyone's time and explain why that's flat wrong. Instead, I'll refer you here[0] which will explain, in detail, why you're wrong about Section 230.
I'm likely banned from HN now from all the downvotes I received for the perfectly legit response, yet some people appear to not like facts so much that they just downvote to censor (which HN does).
Right... if this election was fraudulent, then might as well cancel the 2016 elections as well. They also had 4 years to help improve election security, which conservatives waited until after they lost to cry fraud.
If you don't like it, you can upload your videos to one of the other 1000's of platforms or sign up for a shared web host and utilize P2P video sharing.
Yep. You can make your own video uploader. Then build your own hosting provider. Which would use a payment processor that you also built. Which handles transactions from a bank that you created yourself as well.
Because if you step out of line on Accepted Thought And Speech, you get cancelled.
technically you would also need to build your own payment network. and build your own electrical grid where you put the electricity you generated on your own. of course you would need to invent your own transistor to be able to build your own integrated circuits to be able to build your own computer.
I have nothing to upload because I'm not a content creator. I think that it's wrong for YouTube to be silencing people this way and I hope there's some way to influence YouTube without abandoning it - because the vast majority of people won't.
They are a private company, but I ask you why have they lost all their election fraud court cases? Why didn't they do something about it for 4 years and wait until after the election to cry fraud?
YouTube is a private company. They are allowed to remove whatever they want. I think they realize election denial videos are the most dangerous right now because they don't want Republicans trying to start a full-blown civil war come Jan 20.
Yes, yes it has. The UI is still quite good, and doesn't seem to have the downsides that many Electron apps have, except for the amount of memory used by it (still much less than Slack or Skype)
