by Stassa Edwards on The Muse, shared by Aimée Lutkin to Jezebel
Since the November election of Donald Trump, the question “How did we get here?” has bounced around the internet and through print media. Despite the emerging genre of “this writer predicted Trump,” there is no single answer, no one text or prescient writer, there is no single book that predicted Trump’s election or…
As someone who’s day job is LITERALLY ‘survey designer’ This is NOT a poll, it’s propaganda disguised as opinion taking. And it’s really easy to fudge their results by simply taking the survey and answering the opposite of the clear party lines lmao.
AHAHAHAHAH WHO DESIGNED THIS SURVEY ITS SO EASY TO FUDGE
you can leave answers in the ‘Other’ text form without having to actually click other
That means you can click other AND
AND!!!!!
You can mess with their text mining.
Text mining is a HUGE tool for surveys so if everyone put ‘Donald is a Dingus’ in as many ways as possible:
Donald is a HUGE/GREAT/AMAZING embarassment to our country
Donald is SUPER full of bullshit
etc
it would fudge the hell out of their models and render this somehow more useless than it already is.
GUYS SPREAD THIS AND TAKE THE SURVEY :D
Oh, and there’s apparently no email verification (of course not)
It’s a static link.
What does this mean?
No verification of constituents
No removal of duplicates from the same email/IP/browser/etc
You can take the survey literally as many times as you want, and I suspect that you can use the same (FAKE) email as you want (i used yourname@noreply.com)
Takes you to a site to donate to the great orange when you submit.
“Spencer bashed journalists covering the 2016 presidential election, too. “One wonders if these people are people at all, or instead soulless golem,” Spencer said in a reference to a Jewish fable in a portion of his speech dedicated to criticizing both the media and Jews.He also used a Nazi-era propaganda term meaning “lying press” to describe reporters, citing “the mainstream media – or perhaps we should refer to them in the original German, lugenpresse.”
The first few minutes of this video might have you thinking that this big fella is no match for a simple cardboard box. There is a lot of confused pawing, and it’s hard not to think that maybe the bear would be better off spending his time on something else.
It’s a feeling most queer people face at some point. Even if you’re out and completely comfortable with your sexuality, holding hands with a partner in public can still feel awkward and tense. Sometimes, it’s easier to just let go. That’s what the Australian campaign #HoldTight is about.
every single negative stereotype about women was dreamt up by men who were projecting. fight me about it.
“women can’t drive”
It is so well known that women are better and safer drivers than men that OUR CAR INSURANCE RATES ARE LOWER. Women get into fewer accidents, get fewer DUIs, and receive fewer speeding tickets than men.
“women never shut up”
Several scientific studies have shown that not only do men talk more than women, they also think that women have been talking for much longer than they actually have. Men interrupt and talk over women, dominate conversations, and still think women talk too much.
“women are shallow”
Lol next
“my wife is my ball and chain lmao”
Multiple studies have shown that marriage between men and women: Increases male lifespan, decreases female lifespan Decreases male depression rates, increases female depression rates Decreases male stress levels, increases female stress levels Increases male health and happiness, decreases female health and happiness Increases a man’s chance of getting a raise or promotion, decreases a woman’s chances of getting a raise or promotion
“women are too emotional”
Men love to say this about women after hurting them, in order to shift the blame and dismiss their feelings in one go. In reality, women are taught to hold our tongues and control ourselves quite literally from birth. We’re taught to put men’s needs and wants ahead of our own emotions regardless of the personal cost. Men are taught to do more or less whatever the fuck they want to women. Men take their emotions out on women while women are expected to shove theirs down.
I could go on and on but I don’t really think I need to.
“women are shallow” (just read the book, Dataclysm. by okcupid founder (?) that includes data about sex, gender, race, in finding online romantic partners)
someone: i’m going to be as offensive as possible because i think it’s funny
other people: ok, we can't stop you, but publicly offending large groups of people may lead to personal and professional consequences
them: wait no that's not fair
it is literal violence against disabled people to make necessary medications so expensive that only the rich can afford them. it is insurance companies supporting eugenics. It is in fact a death sentence. It’s not just “good business” It is literally “good euthanasia”
“In that way, you’ve acknowledged that you’re unsure, that you don’t know what to do or say. You’ve acknowledged that you see them. They feel seen. They feel heard and acknowledged, which is huge for someone who’s in crisis.” Wentworth Miller | Q&A at Oxford Union | 2016 | x
This is…actually the most beautiful and helpful advice, honestly.
I’ve watched my attending on this service ask patients on a daily basis, “what do you need?” and it’s beautiful. Especially on an inpatient psych ward they’re getting talked AT rather than TO or WITH a lot of the time, and sometimes what they need is actually something we can give them and it’s just… even if it’s a coloring book it’s something. It’s one tiny light in the dark. You’d be amazed how little light it takes to keep people going sometimes.
I just turned to my housemate and said, “y’know, we’d never know if we were haunted” because we have four cats between us, so every clunk, bump, and crash gets entirely ignored
and now I want a movie about a ghost becoming increasingly desperate to haunt a family but they have cats and so the poor dear goes completely ignored
[closed captions: a letter by Victor Willis of the group, the Village People, to Neil R. Portnow, president of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS), now known as The Recording Academy. The RA holds the annual Grammy Awards]
February 16, 2017
Mr. Neil Portnow
OPEN LETTER
Dear Mr. Portnow:
My name is Victor Willis. I am the original lead singer of the Village People and writer of such iconic hits as, “Y.M.C.A.”, “Macho Man”, “In the Navy”, and “Go West”, along with my co-writer Jacques Morali. I’m also a voting member of the Recording Academy and I’m concerned that you are not being entirely candid about how the Grammy’s Album of the Year is decided. As you are already aware, the Grammys have a special committee to over-ride the voters. This committee was put in place after Lionel Richie’s album, “Can’t Slow Down” won the 1985 Grammys Album of the Year over Bruce Springsteen’s, “Born in the U.S.A.” Certain people (mostly white) were very upset about this and thought Springsteen should have won.
Soon thereafter,the Grammys instituted a special select committee t override the decision of Grammy voters in the event the select committee does not like who the Grammy voter has chosen for your top award.
Therefore, it seems you’re not being entirely candid when you suggest that Album of the Year is decided by Grammy voters, so, if we want more black awardees, join the Academy and vote. The truth of the matter is, Album of the Year as with a few other categories, is manipulated by the Grammys through this select committee and you know it. Simply put, if certain people at the Grammys don’t like who the voters have chosen, a Grammy committee will simple override the voters and subsequently select who they think should win. Like Adele, maybe?
Why won’t you reveal this secret committee to the public an exactly who’s on it? The question is how many African Americans are on that committee? You ought to come clean. And if there really is an issue of race, as some have suggested with respect to Album of the Year, could this select committee be the problem?
