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Pie seems to be flailing:
Also, POST#540- "TUF specifically mentions both the tv show and the movie."Wth are you even talking about? How is this even related?
Two sentences later:
Does your PM mention things from both Karate Kid and Cobra Kai or just one of them?
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Which Johnny are you?
POST #138
"I think that's interesting because my character is definitely a more 'shades of grey' character and TUF invested a lot of text in spelling out that complexity."
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--> @oromagiAnother false accusation. The first thing I typed in this game was that I am both Karate Kid/Cobra Kai- which you have just agreed makes me both, which you have failed to note I've been saying all along.If you’re Johnny Lawrence you physically can’t be. He’s an antagonist in one and protagonist in the other. Which one is in your PM?
Again, read the first sentence I wrote in this game. Also, POST#540- "TUF specifically mentions both the tv show and the movie."
. I thought you were tryin to play both sides of the game by claiming a tv show and a movie.
So you edited my movie and tv show claim to just tv show? That doesn't make any sense. If you really thought I was trying to play both sides you would highlight the fact that I was the only one claiming both (at that time). But you did the opposite, you edited the film claim out to make 3 neat TV claims- as in 3 scum.
So that's another falsehood- that's obviously not what you were thinking. Want to try again?
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What if god directly contacted you and proved they were god but told you that the only way you can stay in touch and experience your privileges (which may include getting into the heaven) is if you never talked about the god to others and kept it a secret, perhaps even masquerading as an atheist or at least agnostic?Would you lie to everyone you knew?
This pretty much describes my sex life.
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Correct he is the antagonist in Karate Kid but not in Cobra Kai (he’s the protagonist in that one). Oro has yet to clarify which Johnny is featured in his PM.
Another false accusation. The first thing I typed in this game was that I am both Karate Kid/Cobra Kai- which you have just agreed makes me both, which you have failed to note I've been saying all along.
Why do you keep making shit up about me? Why won't you answer the question that started this?
Why did you edit out my claim to be both FIlm and TV? What were you thinking? What advantage did you hope to gain?
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I don't remember How The Grinch Stole Christmas.I don't think the Grinch is a protagonist.I also am not sure I buy that claim.I mistyped earlier.
I've only seen the TV show.
The grinch is a villain who has a change of heart- a la Christmas Carol. He is the protagonist in the literary sense because he makes all the key decisions and suffers the consequences (which is that his heart triples in size). A
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Added 01.30.21 09:27PMbut that's not inverted. Inverse reality would be scum=protagonists, no?So you’re scum right? Or did you change your theory already?
Readers will note that Pie still hasn't answered the direct question that made him freak out and start accusing me.
Why did Pie change me from Film+TV to TV only when making a case for Film vs TV?
Why did Pie freak out instead of simply acknowledging the error?
What does Pie think of his Film vs. TV theory now that The Grinch is on the table.
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--> @oromagiyeah a lot of these characters are flexible and changing. I feel like the best way to summarize the theme split is:"Bad" people who actually had a point are town, & "good" people who actually had some screwed morals are scum.
How does hyenas fit into either?
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I've been advocating this notion.
For example, TWD wiki calls Neagan an anti-hero
He served as the primary antagonist of the second half of Season 6, and the whole of Season 7 and Season 8, but has also been present as a recurring antagonist, bordering on anti-hero, since Season 9.
Magneto
Erik Lensherr / Magneto, appears as a protagonist in the future (2023), but in the past (1973), he is the anti-hero turned central antagonist.
Johnny Lawrence
Johnny Lawrence is a recurring character of The Karate Kid series. He initially serves as the central antagonist of the 1984 film The Karate Kid, but later appears as the main anti-heroic protagonist of the YouTube Red TV Series Cobra Kai.
gollum
He is a supporting antagonist in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, before enlarging his role as an anti-hero in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, and as the secondary antagonist of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
- The hyenas are never mentioned as anti-heros.
- The wicked witch in not an anti-hero in Baum/Movie but the archetypal anti-hero in Wicked book & musical
In Game of Thrones, Tyrion and Jaime are anti-heroes.
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--> @Lunatic @oromagiI asked you first and I have the moral high ground- removing evidence that corresponds to town is a scum move for sho.My first post of the game was POST#47Having both a movie and a tv show is scummy. I already explained that it was scummy to have both their when a person claimed a tv show and a movie prior. I’m willing to lynch you because of my theory and have said as much. No other character has a prominent TV show and a movie.
That's changing the subject again and that's not what you believed one hour ago when you edited out my Karate Kid claim in post#518.
IF you thought that Film+TV was scummy then you would have said so and preserved my Film+TV claim.
Instead, you claimed that TV only was scummy and modified my claim to TV only only to change your mind now (apparently as some kind of defense)
So, you still need to explain what you were thinking when you modified my claim.
The character claim was locked in here. Coal has figured out and has already said so.TUF specifically mentions both the tv show and the movie. What advantage did you hope the gain by editing that corroboration out?So you are Johnny Lawrence. Interesting to see that he was the central antagonist in Karate Kid but an anti-heroic PROTAGONIST in Cobra Kai. So which is it?
Apparently you haven't read any of my posts because I have already discussed the dual shades of grade nature of my character and noted that TUF invested some energy in writing my character's defense.
So, we have you
- VTL'ing me without reading any of my posts,
- modifying my claims to make me appear less town
- Dodging my simple, direct question like Pee Wee Reese
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--> @oromagiDon't change the subject. You came up with a theory of tv show vs film, then edited out my made-early-and-oft-repeated film claim....apparently to increase suspicion on me.I would like to know your thought process when you modified my claim in order to fit your theory.I’ll tell you my thought process when you claim your character and tell me whether the stuff in your justification mentions stuff from Karate Kid or Cobra Kai. Cause it seems to me you were trying to play both sides after Warren claimed a TV show and Drafter claimed movie
I asked you first and I have the moral high ground- removing evidence that corresponds to town is a scum move for sho.
My first post of the game was POST#47
My show is Karate Kid/Cobra KaiHaPpy hoLidaYs, david BoWieVTL Supadudz
The character claim was locked in here. Coal has figured out and has already said so.
TUF specifically mentions both the tv show and the movie. What advantage did you hope the gain by editing that corroboration out?
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I was just looking for the post where draft claimed movie. (see #533) can give me post#?
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Cobra Kai or Karate Kid would make sense as a Mafia Ninja role
Don't change the subject. You came up with a theory of tv show vs film, then edited out my made-early-and-oft-repeated film claim....apparently to increase suspicion on me.
I would like to know your thought process when you modified my claim in order to fit your theory.
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TOWN
oromagi (karate kid)
supadudz Neagen MILLER
greyparrot Smeagol HIDER
whiteflame Lt. Thaddeus Harris BOMB
ilikepie5 Magneto
warren42 (GoT)
speedrace Shenzi & Banzai & Ed VANILLA & VANILLA & VANILLA
elminster Wicked Witch of the West
coal (film)
mrkringle (Xmas film)
drafterman
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does that make you the only to make no claim of any kind?
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TOWN
oromagi (karate kid)
supadudz Neagen MILLER
greyparrot Smeagol HIDER
whiteflame Lt. Thaddeus Harris BOMB
ilikepie5 Magneto
warren42 (GoT)
speedrace Shenzi & Banzai & Ed VANILLA & VANILLA & VANILLA
elminster Wicked Witch of the West
coal (film)
mrkringle (Xmas film)
ilikepie5 Magneto
drafterman
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Low key the theme may just be Characters in Movies vs Characters in TV Shows with each character basically being an asshole and their actions justified to fit the inverse reality stuff.Supa - Negan - Miller - TV Show (The Walking Dead)***Oro - ____ - ____ - TV Show (Cobra Kai)Warren - ____ - ____ - TV Show (Game of Thrones)Pie - Magneto - ____ - Movie (X-Men)WF - Lt. Harris - Cop - Movie (Police Academy)Drafter - ____ - ____ - Movie (???)GP - Omegol - Hider - Movie (Lord of the Rings)Speed - Hyenas - Vanilla - Movie (Lion King)Elm - Wicked Witch - ____ - Movie (Wizard of Oz)Chris - ____ - ____ - Movie (Holidays)Polar - ____ - ____ - Movie (???)***There’s plans to make a Walking Dead movieI’m willing to lynch anyone in between Chris, Polar, Oro, and Warren. Supa to a lower extent.
I note you removed my Karate Kid claim in spite of consistently claiming Karate Kid from early on. Why did you do that?
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-> @oromagiAre you going to continue to pursue the futile speed lynch, or are you willing to do something productive like pressure Chris?
In fact, I have not VTL'd speed this game and made the case against lynching him 6 hours ago
which rec'd no feedback but Sup and Chris have echoed my remarks.
My vote has been on Pie since early in the game although I am not feeling stubborn about that choice.
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If Elm had said Wicked Witch of the West from the novel or the musical Wicked I would call her a quite shades-of-grey character but the Wicked Witch of the West from the LF Baum books or the classic movie is an unequivocal as well as literal black hat. Seems a bit out of pocket with the rest of theme we've seen.
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I don't know WF's MO but the claim of town harm seems at least as legitimately possible as a SCUM coverup. I can think of a hundred likely scenarios- he says "Silence of the Lambs" and we go "oh, Hannibal Lecter....oh, WF's a doctor....oh, look he's dead" he says "Bad Lieutenent" we go "oh, he's a cop...oh, look he's dead" etc.I know people are saying no more claims but I wouldn't mind locking in more universes generally if it doesn't give the role away because that might take away some options from scum in upcoming rounds.
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I don't know WF's MO but the claim of town harm seems at least as legitimately possible as a SCUM coverup. I can think of a hundred likely scenarios- he says "Silence of the Lambs" and we go "oh, Hannibal Lecter....oh, WF's a doctor....oh, look he's dead" he says "Bad Lieutenent" we go "oh, he's a cop...oh, look he's dead" etc.
I know people are saying no more claims but I wouldn't mind locking in more universes generally if it doesn't give the role away because that might take away some options from scum in upcoming rounds.
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oromagi (karate kid)
supadudz Neagen MILLER
greyparrot Smeagol HIDER
elminster
ilikepie5 Magneto
whiteflame
speedrace Shenzi & Banzai & Ed VANILLA & VANILLA & VANILLA
criticalmiss
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I dont like the Hyenas claim but I'm also thinking that Speed is just about the best scum player I've seen. It does not seem in character for him to lock himself into some super sus claim on the seventh post of the game unless he's town.
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oromagi (karate kid)
supadudz Neagen MILLER
greyparrot Smeagol HIDER
elminster
ilikepie5 Magneto
whiteflame
speedrace Shenzi & Banzai & Ed VANILLA & VANILLA & VANILLA
mistercrhis
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I’m probably dead tonight anyway, though for the record, some universes actually include a role in the title. Oro gave a good example of that, and Elm seems to just be writing that off as a joke and claiming that my defensiveness means there’s only one main antagonist in my world. Great that so many of the rest of you got universes that don’t out your role. I wasn’t so lucky.
Is it The Godfather?
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I already said that my universe WILL OUT MY CHARACTER AND ROLE. What part of that was unclear?
Is it Paul Blart: Mall Cop?
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@MisterChris
--> @coal1. Who are you on DDO?I don't have a DDO account anymore. I got on DDO in 2019 (Far after the site apocalypse) and got referred to here fairly quickly. I've been here ever since.
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Would anybody attribute significance to the fact that Supa misspelled his character's name while claiming? My experience is that it doesn't really indicate much.
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Player - [Character] / [Role] (link to post)
- oromagi
- elminster
- mistercrhis
- supadudz - Neagan / Miller (https://www.debateart.com/forum/topics/5592/post-links/241170)
- greyparrot - Smeagol / Hider (https://www.debateart.com/forum/topics/5592/post-links/241213)
- drafterman - ("I'm from a movie. If I say the movie it'll be obvious who I am. But I am a "villain") / ? (https://www.debateart.com/forum/topics/5592/post-links/241242)
- coal
- speedrace
- whiteflame - ("My character is from Game of Thrones") / ? (https://www.debateart.com/forum/topics/5592-inverse-reality-day-phase-1?page=2)
- warren42
- ilikepie5 - Magneto / ? (https://www.debateart.com/forum/topics/5592/post-links/241345)
Let me know if I've missed anything. I don't think I did, but I'm kind of tired and I've been working all day.Before I do anything, I have a couple of questions:@elminster - Who are you on DDO? Have I played live mafia with you? Who are you?@all - wasn't pie the one who VTL'd the confirmed townie as town in a life mafia game recently? I feel like that was him.I also have a couple of observations:We are not lynching an un-counterclaimed miller DP1; now, tomorrow or ever.Grayparrot is likely town.Supa is town.I would like everyone's thoughts on elminster. I am particurlarly interested in what whiteflame, drafter, speed and warren think of elminster.
I feel so dissed
also, I claimed my show was Karate Kid/Cobra Kai
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Well, it sounds like we've made some headway on figuring out the theme and the potential split. While I won't reveal what it is, I am at least familiar with the show my character is from, even if I'm not familiar with the character. Seems to fit into the theme that's been discussed.
Most folks saw an obvious theme split once they saw Supa + GP post, but not you:
I can't say I'm aware of that, but I'll take you at your word. Not at all familiar with the theme.
You know the show but not the character so you are a TV show and probably a long running one with lots of character changes, I suppose.
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--> @draftermanI think Town are antagonists that are actually good, or at least had a point.Therefore scum would be protagonists that were actually bad or wrong.Nope, I don't fit thisIt's literally just bad v good lol
I think that's interesting because my character is definitely a more 'shades of grey' character and TUF invested a lot of text in spelling out that complexity.
gollum is def shades of grey
Magneto is def shades of grey
I think of Neagen (let's note Sup misspelled his character's name when claiming) as pretty much all black but I haven't seen last few seasons
If Warren claims Cersei, then that leans towards all black but Tyrion, Jaime, even Daenyrys are more shades of grey
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--> @oromagiI didn't get any perv vibes, or maybe it's because I don't know the show. But apparently my character kidnapped Sasha and Derrell. Did he do something to them because all he said is he made them do tasks. Id
(i dont know the show but apparently this Darth Vader guy kidnapped a princess or something?)
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It’s obvious that people have antagonists as their characters. I do as well, but then Luna justifies their actions in a perverted way. That’s the theme
but that's not inverted. Inverse reality would be scum=protagonists, no?
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I use lol for everything lol
s'okay- I use worthless doggerel for everything lol
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If you know the thematic split then who’s scum lol. I know what the fuckin theme is lol
lol is pie's scum tell
lynch that bastard
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-> @SpeedraceVTL PieHow do you not know the theme :|I don’t know the thematic split. I’m theorizing what it could be lol. Ofc I know what the theme is
I knew it as soon as soon as I saw Supa's post. So did everybody else except Pie, apparently.
Therefore, Pie is scum
VTL ILikePie5
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@Vader
--> @DanielleThere is an inherent leftist bias with sites such as Twitter. I despise Twitter, not because of their blatant lying, but the Twitter community itself is so shit.
The Left has more influence on Twitter than the Right but that bias is not "inherent." After all, Trump's entire political career was built upon the keystone of Twitter.
No, the fact is that the set of [people who are convinced to buy something because they saw it on Twitter] trends overwhelmingly female and strongly minority. Twitter makes more money from the Left than from the RIght. If the Right wants Twitter to do a better job of reflecting their values, then they have to buy their bullets and bear sprays from advertisers on Twitter rather than simply using it to coordinate the assassination of vice presidents, which profits Twitter not at all.
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@Dr.Franklin
--> @Daniellethis is a calculated attack on conservatives, there is no other way to put itOn Election Day in 2018, the “Go Vote” reminder Google displayed on its homepage gave one political party between 800,000 and 4.6 million more votes than itgave the other party. Those numbers might seem impossible, but I published myanalysis in January 2019 (https://is.gd/WCdslm) (Epstein, 2019a), and it is quiteconservative. Google’s data analysts presumably performed the same calculationsI did before the company decided to post its prompt. In other words, Google’s “GoVote” prompt was not a public service; it was a vote manipulation.3. In the weeks leading up to the 2018 election, bias in Google’s search results mayhave shifted upwards of 78.2 million votes to the candidates of one political party(spread across hundreds of local and regional races). This number is based on datacaptured by my 2018 monitoring system, which preserved more than 47,000election-related searches on Google, Bing, and Yahoo, along with the nearly400,000 web pages to which the search results linked. Strong political bias towardone party was evident, once again, in Google searches (Epstein & Williams, 2019).4. My recent research demonstrates that Google’s “autocomplete” search suggestionscan turn a 50/50 split among undecided voters into a 90/10 split without people'sawareness (http://bit.ly/2EcYnYI) (Epstein, Mohr, & Martinez, 2018). A growingbody of evidence suggests that Google is manipulating people’s thinking andbehavior from the very first character people type into the search box.5. Google has likely been determining the outcomes of upwards of 25 percent of thenational elections worldwide since at least 2015. This is because many races arevery close and because Google’s persuasive technologies are very powerfulfrom the link
Fact-Checking Trump’s Claim That Google ‘Manipulated’ Millions of Votes for Clinton
This lacks evidence.
Mr. Trump lost the popular vote by almost 2.9 million in the 2016 election and has long attributed this loss to baseless claims of voter fraud. Now Mr. Trump suggests that he would have lost the popular vote by a much smaller margin, or even won it, were it not for Google’s machinations.
He appears to be referring to a disputed estimate given by Robert Epstein, a psychologist and former editor in chief at Psychology Today who says he supported and voted for Hillary Clinton.
In a 2017 white paper, Mr. Epstein examined how Google Search might have influenced undecided voters in the 2016 election by providing more positive results for one candidate than the other. He estimated that the search results may have swayed “at least 2.6 million votes to Clinton.” When he testified to Congress this summer, Mr. Epstein added that the estimate was a “rock bottom minimum” and that up to 10.4 million votes could have been shifted to Mrs. Clinton.
In an interview, Mr. Epstein took issue with Mr. Trump’s characterization of his work.
“I’ve never said Google manipulated the 2016 elections,” he said. “The range of numbers he listed in the tweet is also incorrect.”
Panagiotis Metaxas, a computer science professor at Wellesley College, emphasized that the white paper showed a possibility — “what such an influence could have been if Google was manipulating its electoral search results” — not a conclusive fact.
“I and other researchers who have been auditing search results for years know that this did not happen,” Mr. Metaxas said. “I think that, in his congressional hearing, Dr. Epstein is misrepresenting the situation.”
He noted that Google does “sanitize” its search results, prioritizing more trusted sources while devaluing low-quality information sources.
Here’s a more detailed explanation of how Google Search works.)
The white paper also came with huge caveats. First, it was not peer-reviewed or rigorously evaluated by other researchers.
It was based on the daily online searches of just 95 participants, 21 of whom were self-described undecided voters — a small sample size to extrapolate to millions of voters, experts said. (Mr. Epstein says that the statistical significance of his findings was high.)
Their election-related search results were then given to another group of people who evaluated whether the results were biased toward Mr. Trump or Mrs. Clinton, and concluded that most favored Mrs. Clinton. Searches conducted on other websites like Yahoo and Bing did not display the same bias, according to the paper.
Then, Mr. Epstein applied his previous research demonstrating that biased search results could shift voting preferences by 20 percent or more to reach his baseline estimate of 2.6 million people affected.
But it takes “a leap of faith” to connect Mr. Epstein’s experimental results to actual election outcomes, said Nicholas Diakopoulos, an assistant professor in communication studies at Northwestern University.
(Mr. Diakopoulos’s own research does show that Google Search results favor Democrats.)
“There’s a substantial shift in context, and a difference in asking someone in an experiment about likely voting behavior and how they might actually act during an election,” Mr. Diakopoulos said.
A more meticulous scientific analysis measuring the impact of Google Search on election outcomes could, for example, take into account voter history or other sources of election information.
Given the difficulties in disaggregating the impact of Google and the paper’s lack of methodological detail, Mr. Diakopoulos said, “I am skeptical of the validity of the estimates.”
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My show is Karate Kid/Cobra Kai
HaPpy hoLidaYs, david BoWie
VTL Supadudz
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@Vader
-> @oromagiI agree, I believe short buys are ultimately flawed, but companies like Robinhood should not be limiting access to buy these stocks. Now the stock has decreased because big billionaires are going to sell. The free market should be free, not restricted. Restricted markets are communism
Restricted markets are not communism in any sense but its nice to be on the same side of an issue for once.
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@Dr.Franklin
I have followed this story with interest. I'm fine with redditors banding together to fuck the hedges although it seems very likely to crash in the short term. I hope none of these little guys have invested the rent money because most of them are going to be holding on to losing lottery tickets. The e-traders colluding to prevent new buys is just straight out billionaire crime. They seem to hear the howls of outrage and I guess most will allow free trade again tomorrow but they have been unmasked as tools of the street and deserve to lose every single customer they ever had.
The best bet tomorrow is the least tainted e-trader out there.
Increasingly, Wall St. has drifted from the center of capital investment and price setting to Gordon-Gecko-greed-is-gooders maximizing profit from US losses- pirates deciding who wins and who loses.
After the Crash of '29, Roosevelt installed his political enemy Joe Kennedy as the first SEC- the last patriotic insider who knew Wall St's tricks and how to compel honest trading. I know BIden just appointed Allison Herren Lee as acting commissioner but her portfolio does not suggest the kind of powerhouse reformer we need after four years of complete non-regulation. Honestly, I'd seriously consider putting someone like Carl Ichan in the job in spite of Trump affiliations with strict orders for transparent reform.
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@Wagyu
I don't think cheating is the correct verb because at least with the examples you give, the athletes have abided by all the conditions set out for them by the regulating authorities (and those conditions are fairly rigorous- you have to have full surgery and chem and live with that for 2 years).
Before drawing any conclusion from a few anecdotes, I'd like to see data across the sports world. How many trans men were less successful in women's athletics?
I'm not a big fan of most blood sport but I fail to see the moral difference between a man breaking a woman's skull in boxing or football and a man breaking a man's skull or a woman breaking a woman's skull. Isn't the problem that we are willing to enjoy and profit from sports with a high degree of risk for permanent disability (football, for example)? Are we really going to blame the athletes for the blood sport? Do we blame the gladiator for his cruelty or the state that profited by that cruelty?
I doubt there are enough trans athletes to make a league but I'd endorse the idea of more mix gendered sports. I note that now that MLB has incorporated negro league statisitics, there are 3 women with records in the major leagues. I doubt that women could generally outmatch men in soccer or baseball but that tells me we are probably overvaluing pure strength over dexterity, flexibility, intelligence, and endurance in our popular sports venues. Maybe we need sports that reflect a wider range of human athleticism than just the same old brutish stuff.
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Do you not think it's odd that every celebrity who is known to have contracted covid and has that story published before being hospitalized, survives? Even the very old ones like Trump? It doesn't make mathematical sense.
Not at all. Celebrity is a wide open generalization but let's use a list of living celebrities followed on an English language rating service. E-score follows about 11000 people as "celebrities"
Now that population is much liklier to enjoy better healthcare than the average American who are reporting COVID infections at about 77 per 1000 so let's estimate that fewer than 847 celebrities have knowingly contracted COVID. Of these, we can estimate that fewer than 14 celebrities that everybody would recognize have died of COVID.
Of these, you want the celebrities who
- learned they had COVID before hospitalization.
- COVID tends to come on fast and hard. The majority of people who get hospitalized for COVID learn they contracted the disease after admission, not before.
- Less than a third of Americans have gotten even one COVID test but some unknown percent of celebrities are more likely to get tested more often- politicians, athletes. Still, the set of people whose job requires regular testing tends to preclude the set of people who are likely to die from COVID. 80% of people who die from COVID are over 65 and have at least one pre-existing condition but that population very rarely has jobs important enough to warrant regular testing.
- Of these, you want people who announced their illness publicly. Some celebrity illness is going to impact many other jobs- politicians, actors, athletes and so they are likely to make some report but I imagine that most celebrities who don't need to make an announcement would prefer to wait until the illness has passed to announce.
You've got enough overlapping and even exclusionary conditions to make it fairly unlikely that even 1 person meets your reqirements in that set of 11,000.
Still, what about Luke Letlow? He won his election for the House of Representatives but then he tested positive on Dec 18th and announced his illness but didn't check into the hospital until the next day. Then he died on the 29th.
I am guessing you are overestimating the odds of some celebrity meeting all your conditions.
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@fauxlaw
--> @DanielleThe Trump you hate does not exist. He is your strawman.None of these highlighted presidents did anything that Roosevelt didn’t, but Trump did, as I said. I’ve cited the evidence. Cry me a river.
Since the topic is government corruption and you are desperately deflecting to foreign policy achievements, I think we can infer your concession regarding corruption. Trump was born to the soupiest of swamps- NY real estate & the mob. Nobody who knows what it means that Trump built in concrete in the 1980s or what it takes to build casinos in Atlantic City would have expected Trump to be any less than the most corrupt POTUS in US history.
Honestly, I can't think of a more spectacularly corrupt person in American history. I mean, people like Al Capone had a certain code. If Capone had been caught ripping off children's charities, stealing from charities to buy massive self-portraits, diverting disaster relief funds to friends and family- he never would have survived the damage to his reputation. At least Capone went down for tax fraud, which I am not confident will be Trump's fate.
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