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08-28-2018, 01:52 PM
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Originally Posted by spence
Which doesn’t support your argument.
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"Google is not fair; it favors some candidates, and it opposes others. And so far, it seems to prefer Democrats.
Our crowdsourced analysis of Google search results on Dec. 1 for the names of 16 presidential candidates revealed that Democrats fared better than Republicans when it came to supportive and positive sites within the first page of results. Democrats had, on average, seven favorable search results in those top 10, whereas GOP candidates had only 5.9."
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08-28-2018, 02:08 PM
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Originally Posted by The Dad Fisherman
"Google is not fair; it favors some candidates, and it opposes others. And so far, it seems to prefer Democrats.
Our crowdsourced analysis of Google search results on Dec. 1 for the names of 16 presidential candidates revealed that Democrats fared better than Republicans when it came to supportive and positive sites within the first page of results. Democrats had, on average, seven favorable search results in those top 10, whereas GOP candidates had only 5.9."
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Kind of matches demographics, what should the numbers be to be FAIR
Do you think government should make sure we all have an equal start in politics, but not anyplace else?
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08-28-2018, 02:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Pete F.
Do you think government should make sure we all have an equal start in politics, but not anyplace else?
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Nope, just pointing out that there are biases in Social Media/Internet Searches. People need to be smart enough to realize it, sadly some aren't or just don't want to see it.
Cough, Cough Spence Cough, Cough
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08-28-2018, 03:12 PM
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Originally Posted by The Dad Fisherman
Nope, just pointing out that there are biases in Social Media/Internet Searches. People need to be smart enough to realize it, sadly some aren't or just don't want to see it.
Cough, Cough Spence Cough, Cough
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Did you try it?
Or are you just accepting what someone else says?
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08-28-2018, 04:11 PM
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I am amazed that every one of us doesn't first feel outrage with the extremism and dirty play exhibited from both sides..... A common call to decency and working together is long overdue. There is an awful lot of good in the last writings and quotes from Senator John McCain that both sides should seriously contemplate. One of my favorites:
We are three-hundred-and-twenty-five million opinionated, vociferous individuals. We argue and compete and sometimes even vilify each other in our raucous public debates. But we have always had so much more in common with each other than in disagreement. If only we remember that and give each other the benefit of the presumption that we all love our country we will get through these challenging times. We will come through them stronger than before. We always do.
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08-28-2018, 05:20 PM
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Originally Posted by nightfighter
I am amazed that every one of us doesn't first feel outrage with the extremism and dirty play exhibited from both sides..... A common call to decency and working together is long overdue. There is an awful lot of good in the last writings and quotes from Senator John McCain that both sides should seriously contemplate. One of my favorites:
We are three-hundred-and-twenty-five million opinionated, vociferous individuals. We argue and compete and sometimes even vilify each other in our raucous public debates. But we have always had so much more in common with each other than in disagreement. If only we remember that and give each other the benefit of the presumption that we all love our country we will get through these challenging times. We will come through them stronger than before. We always do.
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What he said, I’m hoping this sh*t show of behavior by all might lead us to change.
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08-28-2018, 06:53 PM
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Originally Posted by nightfighter
I am amazed that every one of us doesn't first feel outrage with the extremism and dirty play exhibited from both sides..... A common call to decency and working together is long overdue. There is an awful lot of good in the last writings and quotes from Senator John McCain that both sides should seriously contemplate. One of my favorites:
We are three-hundred-and-twenty-five million opinionated, vociferous individuals. We argue and compete and sometimes even vilify each other in our raucous public debates. But we have always had so much more in common with each other than in disagreement. If only we remember that and give each other the benefit of the presumption that we all love our country we will get through these challenging times. We will come through them stronger than before. We always do.
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I don't know that we have that much more in common anymore. And from where I sit, that's because the left has gone completely off the deep end, it started with Bush 43 when the Iraq War started going horribly...got worse with McCain, and now with Trump, they have come completely, and I mean completely, unglued. Trump is not helping at all, but he is only POTUS because the left never stops hitting below the belt with people they disagree with. Until they are deceased, apparently. And even then, only if their deaths can be weaponized against Trump.
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08-28-2018, 07:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Jim in CT
I don't know that we have that much more in common anymore. And from where I sit, that's because the left has gone completely off the deep end, it started with Bush 43 when the Iraq War started going horribly...got worse with McCain, and now with Trump, they have come completely, and I mean completely, unglued. Trump is not helping at all, but he is only POTUS because the left never stops hitting below the belt with people they disagree with. Until they are deceased, apparently. And even then, only if their deaths can be weaponized against Trump.
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Exhibit A
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08-29-2018, 08:03 AM
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Originally Posted by nightfighter
I am amazed that every one of us doesn't first feel outrage with the extremism and dirty play exhibited from both sides..... A common call to decency and working together is long overdue. There is an awful lot of good in the last writings and quotes from Senator John McCain that both sides should seriously contemplate. One of my favorites:
We are three-hundred-and-twenty-five million opinionated, vociferous individuals. We argue and compete and sometimes even vilify each other in our raucous public debates. But we have always had so much more in common with each other than in disagreement. If only we remember that and give each other the benefit of the presumption that we all love our country we will get through these challenging times. We will come through them stronger than before. We always do.
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Here, here !
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08-29-2018, 08:28 AM
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Originally Posted by JohnR
Here, here !
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I agree 100% with the here here. I just don't know how we get back to that unity. We had it right after 9/11. Then the war went very bad, and the divide was exacerbated, and it grows wider every day. I see no end in sight, I can't imagine what would bring us back together, it might take another terrorist attack. The conversations here are very illustrative of this, and I'm as guilty of it as anyone else.
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08-28-2018, 03:53 PM
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Originally Posted by The Dad Fisherman
"Google is not fair; it favors some candidates, and it opposes others. And so far, it seems to prefer Democrats.
Our crowdsourced analysis of Google search results on Dec. 1 for the names of 16 presidential candidates revealed that Democrats fared better than Republicans when it came to supportive and positive sites within the first page of results. Democrats had, on average, seven favorable search results in those top 10, whereas GOP candidates had only 5.9."
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Trump's anti-Google tweets show that he doesn't know how the internet works and again getting his info from Fox Trump seemed to be tweeting about Monday's episode of Lou Dobbs' show on Fox Business.
seems your in the same boat
"We're taking a look at it," says WH econ advisor Larry Kudlow, asked if the Administration thinks Google searches should be regulated, following @POTUS complaint today that it's rigged against him.
Shut down anything that doesn't praise the dear leader
Donald J. Trump
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Google search results for “Trump News” shows only the viewing/reporting of Fake News Media. In other words, they have it RIGGED, for me & others, so that almost all stories & news is BAD. Fake CNN is prominent. Republican/Conservative & Fair Media is shut out. Illegal? 96% of....
Donald J. Trump
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....results on “Trump News” are from National Left-Wing Media, very dangerous. Google & others are suppressing voices of Conservatives and hiding information and news that is good. They are controlling what we can & cannot see. This is a very serious situation-will be addressed!
11:02 AM - Aug 28, 2018
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08-29-2018, 05:31 AM
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Originally Posted by wdmso
Trump's anti-Google tweets show that he doesn't know how the internet works and again getting his info from Fox Trump seemed to be tweeting about Monday's episode of Lou Dobbs' show on Fox Business.
seems your in the same boat 
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Oh Boy, you figured me out, I have no clue how Dat there innernets works. 
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