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Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
Resident Orkonomist, Advisor to Da Kommitte, and Hobbyist Teef Collector
Ask me 'bout Permanent WAAAAAGH!
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Cake day: July 31st, 2020
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I know of one IRL person who when I obliquely referred to HB in a convo they knew what I was talking about, but that’s it and I like it that way.
There is no official color designation for the parties; and they used to commonly be “reversed” although it varied from media outlet to outlet.
Here's a blue Reagan button from the 1980 election.
The colors “switching” is almost entirely a media fabrication. Different television networks trying out different colours and configurations, copying each other, chasing viewer numbers, etc. and the 2000 election is where it gets kind of standardized as what we have today.
“My firm belief is that the turning point in red/blue states was the national map (that) USA Today ran the day after the election in 2000, in which — for whatever reason — red was Republican and blue was Democratic-”
Keating Holland, CNN’s director of polling and election analysis from 1993 to 2014.
Beanis lived, Beanis died, Beanis lives again!
Serious answer, Beanis is a dumb bit from c/Badposting that’s been around a while. It’s just anything bean related. Due to site fuckery the :beanis :
emoji was broken, hence the funeral. Our resident emoji wizard WhyEssEff used Juche Necromancy to bring it back, so all is ordered under the heavens once again.