• Disgracefulone@discuss.online
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    What’s really fucked is how close the polls are still after everything.

    I mean I guess the debate can’t hurt trump since his followers immediately discard anything he does wrong/bad as fake news or conspiracy.

    But Jesus man when is enough enough

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      The polls are, of course, measuring the opinions of ONLY the people who still have landline telephones.

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        Addressing the “Landline Only” Polling Myth

        I set out to analyze FiveThirtyEight’s collection of 400+ primary polls from the past year, closely inspecting their results and methodologies. It didn’t take long to realize that poll participants were actually reached a variety of ways. These included calling cell and landline numbers as well as contact via the internet, text, and traditional mail. So as far as the “landline only” controversy was concerned, that myth was quickly debunked.

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        He could have dropped his pants, taken off his diaper and shit on the stage at the debate, and he wouldn’t have a lost a single vote from his base.

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      What’s really fucked is how close the polls are still after everything.

      It’s been said before. These debates are a show for the die-hards, but they’re not really influencing folks on the outside. If you were a Trumpie before the debates, what did he say to turn you off? Its the same Trump Show he’s been running for nine years. If you were a Bidencrat, what has Harris done except restate the Biden agenda without drooling and falling asleep in the middle of the debate?

      The “undecided” voters are either people disgusted by both candidates, in which case the real question is going to be whether they vote third party / turn out at all, or they’re not paying attention to the Politics Show right now and just waiting for Joe Rogan / Oprah Winfrey to tell them who to vote for on election day.

      But Jesus man when is enough enough

      The country is full of fascists. Once you accept that, Trump’s sustained popularity makes more sense.

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        The country is full of fascists

        A revolution will surely make things better, then!

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      Well her voters are telling people to vote for her no matter what too so it goes both ways. If Walz wasn’t her running mate I wouldn’t be voting for her.

    • DJDarren@thelemmy.club
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      A while back, during the election campaign here in the UK, I saw someone talking about how disproportionate reporting by centre/left news outlets on how well the right leaning parties were doing was really good for reminding their audience that a Labour win was not a given and that their vote mattered.

      In the case of the US, I think there’s a good amount of that, as well as large a scoop of cope from the right leaning news orgs. Cherry picking their sources means that outlets can present the polling as close, which flies better in the headlines.

      Or all that is bollocks, and the US really is a gibberish shitshow.

  • nifty@lemmy.world
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    What’s the original line in this scene? Can’t look up the episode because I don’t know it

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      Trumps side piece shared a very old image of a an article about a prototype kickstarter earbud that is an earring the clips on the lobe. As with most kickstarters, it never came to fruition.

      She was actually wearing perfectly normal earrings that normal people identified as being from Tiffany’s.

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          Orange man looked bad Black woman looked smart

          A ton of theories and ways to reason it came out of conservative spaces, because a smart woman fries their understanding of the world which led to attempts to explain it away. One example was Bluetooth earrings so someone could feed her information while her opponent went on wild rants about inflammatory falsehoods.

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                The grind and paywall to a lot of things suck.

                BUT the player base is really cool as long as you avoid the PVP areas.

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                Well… If you play by the rules, the grind is miserable and will take decades to reach lvl 50. If you are willing to break the rules and exploit other players, the grind is much more manageable but it still takes just as long to hit the next lvl. You do have to be careful because the more rules you break, the higher your wanted level goes, and the police aren’t really big on taking players to jail, if you get my meaning.

                The only current “winning” strategy on this server is to be lucky and/or resourceful enough early in the game so that you have enough money to be above the law. If you hit level 10 and don’t already have a few million $ in the bank, you’re in for a long grind.

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                  I hate both the level cap and the fact grinding gets even more painful at higher levels…

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        Why We’re Capitalizing Bajor

        The Times has changed its style on the term’s usage to better reflect a shared cultural identity. Here’s what led to that decision…

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    Didn’t he get vaccinated against COVID-19?
    The earrings obviously acted as an amplifier for 5G signals to the mind control microchips in his bloodstream.

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    I’d love to share this but it has the stupid trend of putting strs in wrds. Drves me nts.

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    The thought of being prepared and actually knowing things seems utterly alien to these people.

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    They probably tried to wire up Trump but it didn’t work because it depends on him listening, understanding, and following what he’s told.

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      We’ll know if they ever put an earpiece on Trump because we’ll see him reach up and turn it off the very second they tell him to say something he doesn’t want to.

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    I thought the conspiracy was that she WASN’T wearing earrings, so she obviously had an earpiece in her ear with someone feeding her the answers because she clearly wasn’t smart enough to come up with them on her own.

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      Laura Loomer’s earrings are actually the fasteners keeping the human face she stole attached to her head.