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US Presidential Election Was Most 'Talked About' Topic In 2016, Says Facebook (phys.org)
What may come as no surprise to Facebook users, the social media company announced in a blog post that the U.S. presidential election was the most "talked about" topic on Facebook in 2016. Phys.Org highlights the other most-discussed topics in its report: The bitterly contested election in which Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton was ranked as the leading issue, followed by Brazil's political developments which included the impeachment of president Dilma Rousseff, Facebook said in a blog post. On the lighter side at number three was the runaway success of Pokemon Go, the location-based augmented reality game for smartphone users.
Other subject matters shared among Facebook's 1.79 billion users were more sober, with the fourth leading topic the "Black Lives Matter" movement, followed by the election in the Philippines of Rodrigo Duterte. Number six on the list was the Olympic games, followed by Brexit, the Super Bowl and the deaths of rock star David Bowie and boxing icon Muhammad Ali. Facebook said it measured leading topics by how frequently an issue was mentioned in posts made between January 1 and November 27.
We had an election? Why wasn't there any news about it?
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
I spent months blocking all the stupid posts people were putting up and sharing. Both sides were ridiculous.
Nobody I know liked either candidate. I, and probably 1 other friend, went for Gary Johnson. Yeah, I went GJ.
All my other friends bitched about the 2 choices, yet voted for one of the evils anyway.
Let's talk about it some more!
Or like ever? Perhaps this story is as true as the Black Friday/Cyber Monday story that forgot about single's day
I brought a corpse to a party, ripped her pussy open, shoved my head inside and yelled, "Look, everybody! A DEAD person's giving BIRTH to me"!
And, before one of you fuckers mods me down just ask yourself which of you has never done that.
Pop music. Talk about. Pop music.
Pop - pop - pop music.
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It's not like it's a single one day event. The whole thing is dragged out for over a year with the primaries and everything.
TRUMP! Was Most 'Talked About' Topic In 2016, Says Facebook
FTFY
I wrote in other: 'new election'
You could have done something similiar to voice your displeasure.
Even if the write-in didn't win (just like any other candidate wouldn't have) you could have better shown your displeasure with the options presented to you. If enough people voted the same 'other' to be statistically significant it could raise some eyebrows and convinces others to do the same next election.
when it is revealed the elections were hacked and a new on is taking place!
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
It may have been the most talked about, but somehow we still ended up with the worst option, by far.
2020 Presidential Election desperately needs:
* Allow everyone to vote in BOTH primaries
* Ranked preference / instant-runoff voting in primaries and in the November general election
* Eliminate Electoral College via constitutional amendment or NPVIC
* Possibly also eliminate President/VP "ticket" and let #2 vote-getter become VP (may require constitutional amendment to override the 25th amendment -- especially to remove the president's ability to nominate a new VP; that should be done by popular vote)
Thank goodness Trump put you whiny sissy liberal city cunts in your place. Christmas came early:
- Trump president
- Republican senate
- Republican house
- Republican supreme court
- Nancy "Cryptkeeper" Pelosi and Harry "Droopy" Reid minority "leaders"
- DNC exposed as corrupt
- Democrat party a shambles
- Clinton in constant danger of prosecution
- Podesta in constant danger of somebody proving what "pizza" he's talking about
I'm asking Santa for popcorn this year. Buckle up Snowflakes, you're in for as bumpy ride.
Of course it was the most talked about.
Our rigged political system had us choosing between a war criminal and a demagogue -- why wouldn't people talk about that?
"It may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS." -- CBS broadcasting CEO Leslie Moonves explaining why CBS gave far more 'news' coverage to Donald Trump compared to other candidates in the 2016 primary elections.
Holy fuck the world got a lot warmer under Obama during the past 8 years!!
The Leftist chumps took his rhetorical bait in 2008 and 2012 as always, but he did nothing!
Nobody talks about elections more than my elections get talked about. Your election is trash.
Trump's in violation of the Emolument clause, he receives money from foreign investors. He said he'd fix it within two weeks, HE HASN'T, instead he's on one of his twitter rants, trying to draw attention away.
Why does it matter?
Because the Electoral College vote is not a formality, and they cannot vote him in when he violates the constitution, ethics lawyers on both sides have remind him of this. He says he won't take the $400k salary, but will accept Rubles, Rupees, Yen, Yuan??? No.
So they are supposed to vote in a man against the wishes of the American people, who is an agent of foreign governments.
He's in violation of anti-corruption clauses too:
His company had contracts with the Federal Government. Anti corruption clauses void those leases. Federal employees cannot benefit from Federal Contracts, directly or indirectly. e.g. The Old Post Office in Washington is like that. He leases it from the government, invested $40m, and loses the lease if he becomes a federal employee. It doesn't matter if he puts it into a blind trust, he cannot benefit directly or indirectly from that lease. The lease is void.
You may think he'll lose $40 million and anyway he's a billionaire he won't mind. But it wasn't his $40 million. He scammed investors for $200 million on that project, the actual investment is a fraction of that size, the rest is taken as money into Trump co. to cover losses elsewhere.
Is analyzing 90.7% of the year enough to establish most talked about in 2016 facts? What if a more iconic person dies tomorrow? There's still 23 days to talk about that.
That FEC election disclosure form, already has a 1 year prison sentence for making false claims. He claims to have 'overdisclosed' but actually he didn't reveal his own finances at all. He revealed a selected set of company finances that can be verified are fictional.
That form alone has a 1 year prison sentence and $50k fine.
But I really think people in the press missed the big picture here. His debt is far bigger than he claims $900 - $2 billion. His income is a tiny fraction of the amount claimed, the largest income I could find was $19 million from buildings he doesn't manage, offset by losses in other business. So where's the money trail from funding this?
I looked at his mortgages to see if he was increasing his borrowing... and he is, but everything is already maxed out there. Even his house, he's selling the land around the house to developers to raise money and he owes $7.5 million on it (it cost $7.2m).
It doesn't seem to be Putin donating cash, or similar direct money flow, rather it looks like a simple Ponzi scheme. If you read the Indian co-investors statements (in Indian), they're investing in his US properties too. Yet this investment isn't covered at Trump's end, loans to Trump co, against properties in Trumps name appear to be the full value of the property. i.e. he's duping investors, they pay the property, hne borrows against their property, then using the money for himself to fund his other businesses.
And he's a truely terrible businessman. One the few disclosed businesses he has the returns are abysmal, less than 2%. The Scottish one makes a loss. He claims hundreds of millions in investment, yet the earth bank he built cost $5000 (he sent the bill to his neighbours).
This would be the first Ponzi President.
I also reject the title "President Elect" since fewer people voted for him he's not elected. It's "We the people", not "We the gerrymandered districts". /Rant
Allow everyone to vote in BOTH primaries
In most states non-party voters could vote in any primary.
You know what happened in states where Democrats could vote for the Republican primary candidate? Many of them came in and voted for Trump. Because they thought, who could possibly lose against Trump?
Then they went back to the Democrat primary and voted for the one person that could...
Ranked preference / instant-runoff voting in primaries and in the November general election
Why would the results have been any different? If you add up all the Stein/Johnson votes it's not enough to have the whole election results turn out differently, even IF all such voters listed Hillary second - many would not have.
Eliminate Electoral College
And have all candidates spend the whole time in Texas and California, ignoring the rest of the country? No thanks.
You have no idea what a wildfire you are trying to ignite, to have the entire rest of the nation feel utterly ignored.
Possibly also eliminate President/VP "ticket" and let #2 vote-getter become VP
You remember the VP from the movie Dave? Yeah.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
18 months to run an election that should take 6 weeks.
Time spent discussing the issues : 0%
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
yet still they failed to ensure she was elected.
I believe this is implied, probably in any election year.