The alternate reality is the one where "dem aligned mass media _did_ completely bury" -- because it's all I heard about for months, and months, and months, and months, and months, and months, and months, and months, and months, and months, and months, and months, and months, and months.

You mean *after* the election, right? At which point it mattered f_all, other than the sheer entertainment value.

Good luck banning certain kinds of math.

Math that is executed on hardware that can be regulated.

You're the one dramatizing here

I'm using hyperbole to showcase a point. Most of the alarmists here on HN genuinely believe that democracy is ending and Trump is the next Hitler. I'm not dramatizing, that's what they actually believe.