So you don't even know your point.

LOL. I know what my point is. Why you think I have to restate it to you because you're obsessed with missing it is beyond me. Have you thought about trying to read it again?

You are going to be put into a remedial education program to teach you how to clean toilets along with everyone else like you.

I know.

What's the over/under on tech bros litigating every tiny, pedantic detail in TFA in order to make themselves feel better?

That's as good a punchline as I could have hoped for.

No, you are simply passing the blame from the voters themselves.

Putting aside the literal impossibility of having every US citizen being as discerning a voter as you, why would you even want that kind of homogeneity?

*sigh* more proj... ah fuck it.

Sorry dude, it's not projection when I have actual examples of you going "pff" when I bring up systemic problems in the current US political setup. Troll harder.

You have absolutely no point.

You do understand that if I have no point, you've now spent the last couple hours arguing with someone who has no point, right? How does that even work, anyway?

The internet does nothing but increase the scale of everything in proportion and you have no argument otherwise.

If you say so it must be true!

Yeah, typical, you can't argue so you try to win on a technicality of a typo. You're an animal, keep it up!

No, I was just making a topical joke. Keep your knickers on.

Your entire non-point was that these thought-criminals are gaining influence

Nope. Try reading my comment again.

but in order for them to do that they would have to tilt to proportions of their followers in the population

Ah, I see what the problem is, Ivan. Back to remedial English for you.

If there is a clan in your town and they are coordinating with another several clans several different places, those clans are were still in existence independently.

I'm not arguing otherwise, and that has nothing to do with my original comment.

You are apparently trying to articulate your perception that this allows them to grow more than they could locally by comparing notes and refining strategies or something to that effect.

Well yeah, unless you want to argue that the internet boom has not made global communications far easier and cheaper.

But whatever the advantages are, every other ideology on earth has the same advantages provided by the internet.

Something else we weren't arguing about. My point wasn't about advantages, it was about being able to forge connections that were near-impossible to do only two decades prior.

Why wouldn't the growth be proportional to the populations of the seed groups?

I dunno, this is something else I wasn't arguing about.

Dumbfuck retard.

As long as you keep it up, I'm still looking good here. Thanks!

So are you speaking from your experience as a bigot then?

Actually, I'm speaking from experience being an anime fan in the 70s and 80s. Even when we moved to a medium-sized city and a bigger school, finding people who'd even heard of it, let alone were into it was still like finding a needle in a haystack. I would have loved to be able to connect easily to other people on this topic.

Like people always gathered together. What do you think started these internet groups?

Why do you think the internet groups aren't proportional to real-life groups?

Because bigots are, by and large, a small minority of the population. It's one thing to have a 30-member Klan Klavern in your town. It's another thing entirely when you can co-ordinate with thousands of white supremacists all over the globe.

Sorry, but your comment is extremely stupid.

That's OK. Compared to your reply, I look like fucking Plato.

Mod parent up. Back in the day, if you were particularly bigoted, you tended to keep your mouth shut because even in your little bubble, there were very few like you. And no matter what the average slashdotter likes to believe, most people prefer not to be alone even if it means they can't share their theories on why women are so inferior.

Then along comes the internet. All of a sudden, not only are you not alone, but time and effort has gone into creating safe online spaces for you. Not only can you gab to your hearts content about The Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion, there's thousands of you to do it with!

So we've spent the last two decades knitting together every single little niche group into their own global enclaves, which is great when it brings together fans of an obscure anime, less so when hordes of fascist assholes start using their newfound power.

Lack of self awareness is yet another projection of your own.

Okay. You may want to change your writing style though...

Still can't accept the results, eh?

...because sentences like that belie your claims.

We're not talking about accepting the results, we're talking about the causes of the results. Your claim is that Clinton lost because many people hate her as much you do. You present no evidence for this and then snark at the rest of us for not "accepting" your baseless claims. When someone trots out specifics, you ignore them, whip out the exact same tired insult as in your previous post, and then say with a straight face that I'm the one who's projecting lack of self-awareness onto you.

Also, fuck you for making me pity you. Call your grandkids or something. You need fucking help.

I gave evidence

LOL, not only have you not done that, you've yourself handwaved away any evidence that presents a more complex situation as 'irrelevant'. Voter suppression, the electoral college, a quarter-century of smears, allegations and wasteful investigations, plain old sexism, all non-problems to you.

Self-aware, you are not.

Well, during the election you most certainly were a Clinton fanboi. It doesn't make any difference that your service is to the democratic party, of which you are a true fanboi for sure. You cannot/will not see beyond them.

Got any sauce for that bullshit?

That was and is also self evident.

Guess that's a no, then.

And you still won't accept that she lost the election without any help

We've been over this. It has nothing to do with acceptance, it's just that, like normal people, I don't uncritically swallow sweeping statements without evidence just because you call me a poopyhead.

You* had to be a fanboi to vote for her

LOL, Forgot to take your alzheimer's medicine again, huh?

literary

I don't think that word means what you think it means.

How could I ever have forgotten??

I know, right? I make the occasional nice comment about Democrats and there's this asshole thinks that makes me a Clinton fanboi. Life just ain't fair...

Jackpot! I hit up their feed thinigie in order to get in early before the flood, and this comment has 2 upvotes so far!

As long as I catch the stories early, I think we're looking at some interesting results in the future.