Board 8 > ~~SephG's decennial "Best of" topic: the 2010s!~~

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Everything everything could be so much better if their vocalist wasnt absolutely horrible

I mean he could be more polished live I guess but I wouldn't trade his unique style for anything. I think he fits perfectly over what they do

Is this like a Mars Volta situation? I remember when I first came to the board, all the music guys told me to listen to them, but I literally couldn't get past that obnoxious singing voice.
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Can't talk about obnoxious singing voices without mentioning Coheed and Cambria
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whoa i missed a lot in this topic. here's some scattered thoughts!

• TLOP and KSG are both great and writing that down makes me think that I under-rated Kanye's decade slightly. I'd take his 2010s over his 2000s, I think!
• the lack of mainstream rock bands this decade is admittedly pretty unprecedented but I really don't worry about it. maybe it's just my nerdiness, but when I think about massively influential bands my mind goes first to stuff like the velvet underground and joy division, neither of whom were commercially successful in their time at all really. there are as many inspirational bands like that around now as ever, and I think enough people are hearing them to safeguard the future of rock and roll or whatever.
• everything everything are ridiculously fun and creative and absolutely one of those bands - check them out for sure. since foals decided they'd rather be U2 they've taken up their mantle and sprinted away from every other semi-mainstream british indie band
• not gonna massively argue with Ivy or MBDTF, neither are my picks but both are great and feel representative enough.

Nelson_Mandela posted...

@Giggsalot tell me what albums and songs I'm sleeping on

christ, where to start? I have no idea how to even begin to summarize a decade of music! if you narrow me down on genre or something, maybe I can begin to talk more precisely.

that said, here's a quickly thrown together list of albums I utterly adore. (I made it just long enough to sneak a bona fide indie rock record on there!)

1. nicolas jaar - nymphs
2. a winged victory for the sullen - s/t
3. gris - a l'ame enflamee, a l'ame constellee
4. mark kozelek and jimmy lavalle - perils from the sea
5. matana roberts - coin coin chapter one: gens de couleur libres
6. burial - kindred
7. mutual benefit - love's crushing diamond
8. danny brown - xxx
9. swans - the seer
10. kanye west - my beautiful dark twisted fantasy
11. kendrick lamar - good kid maad city
12. flying lotus - cosmogramma
13. lorde - melodrama
14. rome - der aesthetik der mannschaftsfreiheit
15. lana del rey - norman fucking rockwell
16. earl sweatshirt - some rap songs
17. mount eerie - a crow looked at me
18. the weeknd - trilogy
19. tropical fuck storm - a laughing death in meatspace
20. spectral lore - iii
21. agalloch - marrow of the spirit
22. algiers - algiers
23. young thug - jeffrey
24. vince staples - summertime '06
25. hop along - painted shut

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You know what's wild? When I started conceptualizing this list, my brain was convinced Untrue came out in 2011 and the early part of the decade was owned by Burial. But then I realized how long ago it really was. I can't believe how unproductive he's been for 10 years.

Anyway, Giggs it sounds like I need to listen to more Future. Got any good individual songs of his to whet my appetite?
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Book of Mormon is really fantastic. There's a decent cam of it with the original cast you can find if you want to see it and you live somewhere it will never show, but in person is so good. You miss a lot by only listening to the soundtrack because the bits in between the songs are also hilarious

I love the Hamilton soundtrack and will be seeing it in person when it comes to atlanta in the next few months.

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officially seeing BOM on wednesday!
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SeabassDebeste posted...

officially seeing BOM on wednesday!

Good stuff!
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Nelson_Mandela posted...

You know what's wild? When I started conceptualizing this list, my brain was convinced Untrue came out in 2011 and the early part of the decade was owned by Burial. But then I realized how long ago it really was. I can't believe how unproductive he's been for 10 years.

Anyway, Giggs it sounds like I need to listen to more Future. Got any good individual songs of his to whet my appetite?

I don't think he's been unproductive at all, he's just put out EPs and singles rather than albums. With his Kindred, Rough Sleeper and Rival Dealer EPs, you could easily make the case that he did rule the early part of the decade! He has a decade-spanning compilation coming out next week (Tunes 2011-2019) - if you've neglected his stuff this decade that's essential listening.

And oh man! Future probably isn't someone you'll love unless you can appreciate the trap style, but he's actually super versatile within that and has so much good stuff this decade. Most people would tell you his best projects are DS2 and Monster, but his 2014-15 period was this decade's closest equivalent to Wayne's insane 2006-07 run, and he has great stuff littered throughout his discog.

If I was going to make a starter playlist that summarizes his various styles it might look something like this:

March Madness
Codeine Crazy
Turn on the Lights
Just Like Bruddas
I Serve the Base
Mask Off
Fly Shit Only
Hardly
Coming Out Strong
Benz Friendz

If none of those appeal to you then I think you can safely move on!

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Most Important Website/App of the 2010s*: Google Maps
Runners Up: Tinder, Amazon (Prime), Netflix, Twitter, Uber

When I was originally conceiving this topic, I was trying to think of the things that we'll characterize this decade the most when we're older. The 90s was the dawn of the Internet. The 2000s saw the advent and global takeover of social media. And the 2010s, more than anything else, was transformed by smartphones + streaming technology. There is no singular invention or person who is responsible for this. But, like Jakyl mentioned before, the combination of smartphones and streaming has undoubtedly changed our collective lives more than anything else in the past 10 years. So with that being said, here are the websites and apps that have had the most profound changes on us.

Let's begin with the runners up briefly. Although there are other dating apps out there, the explosion in Tinder popularity has probably had the most tangible effect on the world out of all of these. By that I mean I am willing to bet that hundreds of thousands of people will be born because of this app. What's more, Tinder may have completely shifted the socio-biological paradigm of mankind itself! Ten years ago, asocial people had few options to find mates--and now, you can pretty much have sex at the swipe of a thumb. It's still to be seen how profound of an impact this really has on people who would have probably gone out and found someone otherwise (vs people who consistently strike out on online dating), so it only gets a runner up for now.

For the rest, you respectively have a service that is the pinnacle of instant gratification that companies are still struggling to keep up with; an app that completely transformed the entertainment industry more than anything since iTunes or Napster; an app that is responsible for your 45th president and a number of protests/revolutions; and an app that employs millions of people and turned the service industry pay structure on its head.

But when I think about how fundamentally different my life is from 2009 to now, there is one function that stands above the rest: Google Maps. Before Google Maps found a home on smart phones, the world was a completely different place. You had to interact with people for directions. You could discover new places and things that were "underground" and exclusive. You could get lost.

Google Maps is emblematic of everything good and bad about the 2010s. We have the ultimately convenience at our fingertips that also robs us of our autonomy. We have something that can get us anywhere, but also ruins all of the places/sights/events/sub-cultures that were once out of mainstream and special to those who could find it. It's the height of global inter-connectivity, for better or worse. I will remember the 2000s for when I first got my driver's license and driving around aimlessly with my friends, discovering new things and being free. I will remember the 2010s for those same friends dropping me their location pin and me pressing a button for a car to take me there.

*Besides GameFAQs.com
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Is Google Maps really that much of a leap over GPS devices in cars pre-smartphones? 100% more convenient, sure, but ultimately the same function.
(Also jeez talk about a tech device with a small historical window.)

I give it to Twitter
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Nelson_Mandela posted...

Ten years ago, asocial people had few options to find mates--and now, you can pretty much have sex at the swipe of a thumb

Also dont let the Incels hear you say this
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Jakyl25 posted...

Is Google Maps really that much of a leap over GPS devices in cars pre-smartphones? 100% more convenient, sure, but ultimately the same function.
(Also jeez talk about a tech device with a small historical window.)

I give it to Twitter

I think they are. It could be city-bias on my part, but Google maps is more than just a GPS service. It lets you find random bars, cross into areas you'd otherwise never go to. And most importantly, the satellite work Google has done in the past 10 years has essentially made everything in the US mapped out.
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Honestly I have never used it for anything other than a GPS

Also the street I live on was never mapped by a Google Car lol
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Maybe it's more symbolic to me. I dunno.
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Biggest Event and Person of the Decade sometime today/tomorrow

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Biggest Moment/Event of the 2010s: Donald Trump wins the 2016 presidential election
Runners Up: Brexit vote results, Death of Osama bin Laden, Tohuku earthquake/Fukushima nuclear disaster, Obergefell v. Hodges decision

Every decade has at least one moment that everyone will remember exactly where they were when it happened. Some are tragic events like 9/11 in the 2000s, some are triumphs like the moon landing in the 1960s, while others are moments that just feel like a culture-defining culmination--like the OJ Simpson verdict in the 1990s. The election of President Trump is basically all three of those things wrapped into one.

I can't think of anything else that happened this decade that really comes close to that universal "holy shit" moment when we realized that Trump was going to defeat Hillary. We had months and months of completely insane campaign moments, times when his candidacy felt dead and buried and Hillary was going to make herstory. Everyone in the media told us it was a foregone conclusion. Every Hillary supporter was smugly coming to work that day wearing "my president is a GIRL" shirts, high-fiving each other and thanking the heavens that the GOP voters nominated the most uncouth presidential candidate of all time.

I remember having the news playing at home in the background that night. I was so angry from the primary that I didn't care what happened; and like everyone except for red sox and ulti, I just assumed that Hillary was going to win. All that mattered was holding the senate. I had CNN on because the FoxNews app wasn't streaming to chromecast correctly. And I am glad I did. Because the results came rolling in, and the media started to have a collective meltdown.

Florida and North Carolina went to Trump. Okay, I thought. I guess it'll be closer, but those are really just red states that Obama carried unexpectedly. Then Ohio results came in and Trump was up by like ten points. Holy fuck, if things stay like this... he might actually have a chance. Then Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin were all trending red, and everyone started to realize it was over. We were living through the single greatest political upset in the history of the United States.

I still remember my subway ride to work the next day. I live in a particularly liberal part of Brooklyn, and you would have thought someone nuked the city. Half the people must have called in sick. Those who went in were dead silent, shell-shocked as they hung their heads and moved on with their lives knowing that Donald Trump was the President Elect.

There were countless post mortems following this day, but it can't be understated how momentous that election was. That is not to say President Trump is transforming the nation or that he'll have a policy impact to the scale of FDR or Lincoln. The change isn't in the result itself, but how we perceive politics and how we perceive the media. His election was a stark reminder that the Internet and social media are not indicative of the feelings of the nation. It was a reminder that the media is and has always been more about their own perception than a reflection of reality. And it was a turning point in American discourse and politics--that a man who campaigned on being an outsider draining the swamp is actually what the people wanted. And we're still dealing with those repercussions today.

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What was that "you'll always remember where you were" moment for you?

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Hmm tough to think of an impactful moment of the 2010s where it was out of the blue and not something I was actually planning on watching.

Like the Trump win, of course I did not expect it, but the election night results in general were appointment viewing so of course I was already watching TV

The death of Macho Man Randy Savage is mine, I think

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Jakyl25 posted...

The death of Macho Man Randy Savage is mine, I think

Solid runner up

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I do also remember where I was when I heard the Obergefell decision and got really emotional

The death of Bin Laden is always doubly remembered by wrestling fans because The Rock tweeted about it before it was announced, and because it happened during a WWE PPV so they had John Cena come out and tell the crowd about it in a very awkward way to maintain a PG rating. (Osama Bin Laden has been compromised to a permanent end!)

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Jakyl25 posted...

I do also remember where I was when I heard the Obergefell decision and got really emotional

The death of Bin Laden is always doubly remembered by wrestling fans because The Rock tweeted about it before it was announced, and because it happened during a WWE PPV so they had John Cena come out and tell the crowd about it in a very awkward way to maintain a PG rating. (Osama Bin Laden has been compromised to a permanent end!)

Both of those were wild to be a part of in NY. The Village after Obergefell was a total bacchanalia, and I remember people flocking to the WTC spontaneously to celebrate after Bin Laden was killed (which I found grotesque, but it was still a unique moment).

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Yeah the idea of celebrating a death, even a murderer like him, felt weird to me.

Like I understand feelings of relief and pride in the military but not feelings of PARTY TIME

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Nelson_Mandela posted...

We were living through the single greatest political upset in the history of the United States.

In terms of presidential elections alone, I'd like to hear the argument for Truman > Dewey 1948 not being ahead of 2016. No one paid enough attention to 538 giving Trump a 30% chance of winning, or the public sentiment in general - much like 1948, actually, down to the populist candidate being the one who scored the upset over the stiff and unrelatable establishment figure.

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i didn't think trump's win was THAT surprising tbqh. hillary still won the popular vote. and while, during the campaign, there were a lot of people on "the internet" who hated trump (board 8), there were also a ton who loved him to death (r/the_donald). don't get me wrong, it was definitely an upset and i certainly didn't predict it, but i wasn't like "HOLY FUCK HOW IS THIS EVEN POSSIBLE."

i guess the most surprising thing for me was that the polls were so wrong. it was like a gamefaqs contest match where the x-stats prediction was off by like 60% or something.

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The polls werent that wrong (national polls, at least). They were like Hillary +3 and she got +2, and 538 gave Trump a 30% chance of winning. It came as a shock because many people (including most pundits) thought that it was impossible that America would elect a man so obviously unqualified on every level.

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Trump winning is far and away the biggest event/moment but I'll shoutout Occupy Wall Street, Disney buying Star Wars, the deaths of Harambe, Prince, and Bowie, and the Falcons blowing a 28-3 lead at the half

LordoftheMorons posted...

it was impossible that America would elect a man so obviously unqualified on every level.

yeah the shock from trump is mostly this. a meme is the president. it's not necessarily all about the upset likelihood.

and yeah hard to pick another bigger moment of the decade, globally speaking.

in the world of sports, shoutout to the decision. defined the future of the NBA.

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Seginustemple posted...

Occupy Wall Street

Oh man I actually forgot about this--and my office was "occupied" at one point!

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Person of the 2010s: Mitch McConnell
Runners Up: Vladimir Putin, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Jeff Bezos, Xi Jinping

Much like Time Magazine's award of the same name, the person of the decade is not about who is the "greatest" man or woman of the last ten years. Instead, it's about power, global influence, and importance in shaping how the world looked in the 2010s. And, in an unexpected turn of events, that person happens to be the most important and powerful member of the United States Senate in history. That man is none other than "Cocaine" Mitch McConnell.

For those who may not keep up with current events, let me sum up the past decade for you. Barack Obama was a year into his first term. Promises of hope and change were still persisting, and it seemed like the US was poised for a big shift in policy. The politics guys can probably debate this endlessly, but for that first momentous policy initiative, Obama essentially chose an issue that would (in my opinion) neuter his presidency: health care reform. The Democrats had a supermajority going into 2010 and eventually passed their signature legislation in the form of Obamacare. But the reaction was swift. The "Tea Party" was formed, a grassroots Republican movement began, and the GOP took back Congress in the biggest House swing since 1948. And this is where McConnell comes in.

Although the GOP didn't take the Senate quite yet, the damage was done. McConnell immediately took a hardline approach as minority leader, doing whatever it took to stifle any further ambitions of Obama and the Dems. And when he became majority leader a few years later, this reached a whole new order of magnitude. Anything and everything had to go through him. This included the most Machiavellian move of our lifetime in blocking the appointment of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court, which would have shifted the Court left for the first time in 40 years. All of this in a year that Trump was supposed to lose the election, opening the door for Hillary Clinton to appoint someone more liberal than Garland.

Mitch's gamble paid off in dividends. It got conservatives to hold their noses and vote for Trump, likely swinging the entire election in his favor. It allowed Trump to appoint his own justices and reshape the federal court system in McConnell's image. And now, as it appears that President Trump is going to be impeached, Mitch will make his final act of the decade ensuring a speedy acquittal.

Again, this is not to say that McConnell is a great person for how he wields his power. I am trying to illustrate just how consequential this one man's actions are. He effectively nullified a two-term presidency. He helped ensure the election of another. He fundamentally transformed the court system in the most powerful nation on earth. And, perhaps most importantly, he forever added to the partisan divide in both the legislative bodies themselves and amongst the general populace.

Many of us will look back on the 2010s as a time of political strife and animus more than anything else. Sports became politicized. The best of music, TV, and film reflected this tension. Our connection to mobile devices and apps allowed us all to stay abreast of current events in real time, with a constant bombardment of news at our fingertips. The most important events of the 2010s were shocking and sudden political changes. And the man who made politics top of mind and partisanship so raw and contentious was a previously unknown senator from Kentucky. For better or worse, Mitch McConnell was the most important figure of the 2010s, and I think the upcoming impeachment trial will be a fitting bow on his momentous decade.

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@red_sox_777

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Not sure that Obama warrants an honorable mention on par with the rest of those.
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Jakyl25 posted...

Not sure that Obama warrants an honorable mention on par with the rest of those.

He was president for seven-tenths of the decade and probably means more to the black community than any person since MLK. Can't negate his general cultural impact even if he didn't really accomplish much in terms of policy.

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LordoftheMorons posted...

The polls werent that wrong (national polls, at least). They were like Hillary +3 and she got +2, and 538 gave Trump a 30% chance of winning. It came as a shock because many people (including most pundits) thought that it was impossible that America would elect a man so obviously unqualified on every level.

Yeah, this is true. The polls were pretty close. People were just willfully blind to the fact that Hillary needed +3 to win, not 0 + 1 vote

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Nelson_Mandela posted...

Biggest Moment/Event of the 2010s: Donald Trump wins the 2016 presidential election
Runners Up: Brexit vote results, Death of Osama bin Laden, Tohuku earthquake/Fukushima nuclear disaster, Obergefell v. Hodges decision

Every decade has at least one moment that everyone will remember exactly where they were when it happened. Some are tragic events like 9/11 in the 2000s, some are triumphs like the moon landing in the 1960s, while others are moments that just feel like a culture-defining culmination--like the OJ Simpson verdict in the 1990s. The election of President Trump is basically all three of those things wrapped into one.

I can't think of anything else that happened this decade that really comes close to that universal "holy shit" moment when we realized that Trump was going to defeat Hillary. We had months and months of completely insane campaign moments, times when his candidacy felt dead and buried and Hillary was going to make herstory. Everyone in the media told us it was a foregone conclusion. Every Hillary supporter was smugly coming to work that day wearing "my president is a GIRL" shirts, high-fiving each other and thanking the heavens that the GOP voters nominated the most uncouth presidential candidate of all time.

I remember having the news playing at home in the background that night. I was so angry from the primary that I didn't care what happened; and like everyone except for red sox and ulti, I just assumed that Hillary was going to win. All that mattered was holding the senate. I had CNN on because the FoxNews app wasn't streaming to chromecast correctly. And I am glad I did. Because the results came rolling in, and the media started to have a collective meltdown.

Florida and North Carolina went to Trump. Okay, I thought. I guess it'll be closer, but those are really just red states that Obama carried unexpectedly. Then Ohio results came in and Trump was up by like ten points. Holy fuck, if things stay like this... he might actually have a chance. Then Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin were all trending red, and everyone started to realize it was over. We were living through the single greatest political upset in the history of the United States.

I still remember my subway ride to work the next day. I live in a particularly liberal part of Brooklyn, and you would have thought someone nuked the city. Half the people must have called in sick. Those who went in were dead silent, shell-shocked as they hung their heads and moved on with their lives knowing that Donald Trump was the President Elect.

There were countless post mortems following this day, but it can't be understated how momentous that election was. That is not to say President Trump is transforming the nation or that he'll have a policy impact to the scale of FDR or Lincoln. The change isn't in the result itself, but how we perceive politics and how we perceive the media. His election was a stark reminder that the Internet and social media are not indicative of the feelings of the nation. It was a reminder that the media is and has always been more about their own perception than a reflection of reality. And it was a turning point in American discourse and politics--that a man who campaigned on being an outsider draining the swamp is actually what the people wanted. And we're still dealing with those repercussions today.

I felt so vindicated that night. The polling was showing a very close race of course and the real possibility of Trump winning the Electoral College while losing the popular vote. If there was any kind of polling error on the lines of the Brexit polls, where the actual outcome was +4 for Leave vs. a virtual tie in the polls, Trump was going to win. I thought there were good reasons to believe that the polls would be off, because never had I seen such an oppressive environment where people were being ostracized for supporting a Republican presidential candidate. The Brexit vote was of course the relevant analog again.

On a personal and anecdotal level, a coworker of working class Mexican heritage told me not long before the election that in his opinion, Trump probably knew how much bananas cost, while Hillary definitely did not. He didn't say he was voting for Trump but he was being perceived as being in touch while HRC was out of touch...wow! Of course it was an anecdote but it was consistent with other anecdotes and the polls, which turned out to be much closer than the Brexit polls but still slanted enough to Hillary that it was enough for Trump to win.


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Red sox, in your opinion would you also automatically add a +2 to Trump in any of the state poll averages for 2020? One could argue that the environment is even more in favor of ostracizing Trump supporters now

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Nelson_Mandela posted...

Red sox, in your opinion would you also automatically add a +2 to Trump in any of the state poll averages for 2020? One could argue that the environment is even more in favor of ostracizing Trump supporters now

I'm not sure. That should be the kind of thing that pollsters are working diligently to correct, after it happened in 3 elections in a row (UK 2015 General, Brexit 2016, US 2016). Also, the fact that Trump won his election may give some supporters the emotional cover they need to answer that yes, they are voting for him again.

I think it's very possible that the country is more divided now than in 2016 by state, and CA and NY will produce even huger landslides against Trump than last time, aided by very loose voting procedures that allow a high percentage of people to vote (vote by mail, for instance). So, it's possible that the Democrat may need to win the popular vote by 4 points this time to break even in the EC, whereas in 2016 the mark was +3 and Hillary got +2.

Incidentally, Democrats have run strongly in special elections in deep red states after 2016 - Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, Louisiana, etc. Strong performance by Democrats in red states also increases themargin by which they have to win the national popular vote to win the EC. Because they won't carry those red states, so those strong performances will be for naught, but strong performances there will increase their share of the national popular vote.

If we get this effect going from Democratic gains in both blue states and red states while not seeing such a gain in the swing states we could potentially see a Democrat win the national popular vote by as much as 5 points and still lose. That would really be something and would serve the Democrats right for their view of the country as hopelessly divided into 2 irreconcilable camps only - if they made big gains in both of those 2 camps and still lost.

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That's a wrap, folks. Thanks for reading. It was nice to see the sports bros intermingling with the music guys, the film snobs crossing paths with the politics nerds. Here's a quick summary of everything you need to know about the 2010s:

Sports
Best Professional Sports Team of the 2010s: The Golden State Warriors
Runners Up: New England Patriots, Miami Heat

Best College Sports Team of the 2010s: UConn Huskies Women's Basketball
Runner Up: Alabama Crimson Tide Football

Best Athlete of the 2010s: LeBron James
Runners Up: Serena Williams, Lionel Messi, Usain Bolt, Michael Phelps, Tom Brady

Television
Best TV Show of the of the 2010s (Comedy): BoJack Horseman
Runners Up: Silicon Valley, Community, Eastbound & Down, Parks and Recreation

Best TV Show of the 2010s (Drama): Breaking Bad
Runners Up: Mad Men, Fargo, Game of Thrones

Best TV Episode of the 2010s: Twin Peaks: The Return - "Part 8"
Runners Up: Breaking Bad - "Face Off," Game of Thrones - "Blackwater," True Detective "Who Goes There," Atlanta - "Champagne Papi"

Movies

Best Filmmaker of the 2010s: Denis Villeneuve
Runners-Up: Martin Scorsese, Alfonso Cuarn, Yorgos Lanthimos, Christopher Nolan, Quentin Tarantino

Best Movie of the 2010s: Boyhood
Runners Up: Parasite, The Social Network, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), Whiplash, The Irishman

Music

Best Musical of the 2010s: The Book of Mormon
Runner Up: Hamilton

Best Music Artist/Band of the 2010s: Kanye West
Runners Up: Kendrick Lamar, Drake, Frank Ocean, James Murphy

Best song of the 2010s: "Ivy" - Frank Ocean
Runners Up: "Hotline Bling" - Drake, "Midnight City" - M83, "Get Lucky" - Daft Punk, "Maud Gone" - Car Seat Headrest, "Identikit" - Radiohead

Best Album of the 2010s: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Kanye West
Runners Up: Good Kid, M.A.A.D City by Kendrick Lamar, Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty by Big Boi, Blond by Frank Ocean, Norman f***ing Rockwell by Lana Del Rey

Current Events

Most Important Website/App of the 2010s: Google Maps
Runners Up: Tinder, Amazon (Prime), Netflix, Twitter, Uber

Biggest Moment/Event of the 2010s: Donald Trump wins the 2016 presidential election
Runners Up: Brexit vote results, Death of Osama bin Laden, Tohuku earthquake/Fukushima nuclear disaster, Obergefell v. Hodges decision

Person of the 2010s: Mitch McConnell
Runners Up: Vladimir Putin, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Jeff Bezos, Xi Jinping

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fun topic, even though it mostly lost me later on!

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That's a wrap, folks. Thanks for reading. It was nice to see the sports bros intermingling with the music guys, the film snobs crossing paths with the politics nerds. Here's a quick summary of everything you need to know about the 2010s:

Sports
Best Professional Sports Team of the 2010s: The Golden State Warriors
Runners Up: New England Patriots, Miami Heat

Best College Sports Team of the 2010s: UConn Huskies Women's Basketball
Runner Up: Alabama Crimson Tide Football

Best Athlete of the 2010s: LeBron James
Runners Up: Serena Williams, Lionel Messi, Usain Bolt, Michael Phelps, Tom Brady

Television
Best TV Show of the of the 2010s (Comedy): BoJack Horseman
Runners Up: Silicon Valley, Community, Eastbound & Down, Parks and Recreation, Half in the Bag

Best TV Show of the 2010s (Drama): Breaking Bad
Runners Up: Mad Men, Fargo, Game of Thrones

Best TV Episode of the 2010s: Twin Peaks: The Return - "Part 8"
Runners Up: Breaking Bad - "Face Off," Game of Thrones - "Blackwater," True Detective "Who Goes There," Atlanta - "Champagne Papi"

Movies

Best Filmmaker of the 2010s: Denis Villeneuve
Runners-Up: Martin Scorsese, Alfonso Cuarn, Yorgos Lanthimos, Christopher Nolan, Quentin Tarantino

Best Movie of the 2010s: Boyhood
Runners Up: Parasite, The Social Network, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), Whiplash, The Irishman

Music

Best Musical of the 2010s: The Book of Mormon
Runner Up: Hamilton

Best Music Artist/Band of the 2010s: Kanye West
Runners Up: Kendrick Lamar, Drake, Frank Ocean, James Murphy

Best song of the 2010s: "Ivy" - Frank Ocean
Runners Up: "Hotline Bling" - Drake, "Midnight City" - M83, "Get Lucky" - Daft Punk, "Maud Gone" - Car Seat Headrest, "Identikit" - Radiohead

Best Album of the 2010s: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Kanye West
Runners Up: Good Kid, M.A.A.D City by Kendrick Lamar, Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty by Big Boi, Blond by Frank Ocean, Norman f***ing Rockwell by Lana Del Rey

Current Events

Most Important Website/App of the 2010s: Google Maps
Runners Up: Tinder, Amazon (Prime), Netflix, Twitter, Uber

Biggest Moment/Event of the 2010s: Donald Trump wins the 2016 presidential election
Runners Up: Brexit vote results, Death of Osama bin Laden, Tohuku earthquake/Fukushima nuclear disaster, Obergefell v. Hodges decision

Person of the 2010s: Mitch McConnell
Runners Up: Vladimir Putin, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Jeff Bezos, Xi Jinping

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Any remaining thoughts?

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Word of the decade: "Binge"? "Fake News"? "YOLO"?

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Oxford Dictionaries named selfie word of the year in 2013. While the term existed and was used less commonly before this decade, its use increased astronomically due to the continued explosion of smartphones and especially social media. I wonder if any word increased in use more in the 2010s.

It reflects where we were as a society. Its my pick for word of the decade.

Also, this.

https://youtu.be/qi8cWAW1yo4

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I wish I could deny your pick for person, but its accurate.

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How about the word app?
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I know it's really late to ask this, but why did you pick Champagne Papi to represent Atlanta instead of something like Teddy Perkins or B.A.N?

Mythiot posted...

I know it's really late to ask this, but why did you pick Champagne Papi to represent Atlanta instead of something like Teddy Perkins or B.A.N?

Because champagne papi is probably the most apt satire of "selfie culture" ever

And also it is very deep/existential beyond that

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sephy, thoughts on b.o.b presents: the adventures of bobby ray?

dunno if it deserves to be on a best of list like this but i remember the iconsience people making quite a big deal out of it when it came out.

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Mr Lasastryke posted...

sephy, thoughts on b.o.b presents: the adventures of bobby ray?

dunno if it deserves to be on a best of list like this but i remember the iconsience people making quite a big deal out of it when it came out.

Really? I don't remember anyone on this board or otherwise caring for that album, then or now! It's about as average as a "vaguely talented rapper goes pop" album could possibly be, and since B.O.B. sunk into utter irrelevance not long after there's no legacy there either.

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