I’d say set it for private for now and we can always undo it
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Agree.
+1 for private mode, and this is the type of thing where it doesn’t even matter than it’s not a majority vote. If 44% of our users feel more comfortable on private, that’s plenty.
Agree with everyone that has said that if we were to get round up, there are a million things that would come before they are looking at random Internet forums. We’ll be long sent to the gulags before then. Honestly think this is all a bit silly, but I honestly don’t care anyways.
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I voted no mostly because I assume if there is a list to be worried about, we are already all on it. Im not going to fight if we go private
I think it’s smart to lock down. I had planned to try to scrub public facing social media posts closer to November, but started the process in earnest last night. Feel like between yesterday and potential fascism, we’re entering’can’t be too careful’ territory.
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These concerns feel overblown, but I don’t have a problem with it.
Bump.
I feel the same way I felt before. I think I’m infinitely more likely to be rounded up for donating to Dems in past cycles than over anything here, but I also think there’s no significant downside to going into private mode so it seems reasonable to me.
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Why?
Because we’ve got about 4 months until the US goes full fascism, in my estimation. Project 2025 is going to turn the US DOJ into the Gestapo. You really want a place where we’ve posted a lot of liberal shit public?
How about we wait until the election results are in before making these changes. Posting liberal shit publicly for a few more weeks is not going to change the gulgag prospects.
Also, if the govt goes full fascist and starts targeting anyone who has posted liberal content, what makes you think that they won’t be able to access the forum content?
They will be able to, but we’re a small forum, no reason to make it easier for people to see our content. Election is in 2 weeks, waiting is fine with me, but then we should seriously consider doing it.
I understand the concern because of the asymmetric risk, but we’re winning.
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The problem isn’t the numbers, it’s the trend. We’re two weeks out and trumps numbers continue to improve everywhere. This is 2016 all over again.
The betting markets, especially poly market have always had an extreme right wing bias. Nate’s model is broken and has been for some time.
Republicans are flooding the polling averages with right wing biased polling to attempt to influence peoples beliefs so they can claim the election was stolen when they lose.
All real world data points to Kamala winning, and actually relatively easily.
In some ways, it’s probably a good thing how paranoid the left is, because we need to make sure we turnout to vote. But when we do, we are going to win easily. Like potentially called before you go to bed on November 5th.
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Yeah, I don’t believe the betting markets at all. Too many far-right online freaks with money to burn.
God, I wish I lived in your head!
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IMO Kamala is a 60/40 favorite, but I don’t have any money down yet so take that for what it’s worth. I think there’s like a 20% chance she wins in a relative landslide.
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