MartianRecon @ MartianRecon @lemmus.org

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That's easy. A stack of the Spawn comics.

Oh shit I missed that entirely haha.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/17/politics/michael-cohen-poll-rigging/index.html

You're correct. They did it back then. They absolutely are still doing it now.

You originally said 'Biden is committing genocide,' man.

Israel is acting unilaterally, there are no US troops on the ground nor US planes in the sky.

Biden is one of the people trying to get the situation under control. Someone else pointing out that trump says 'finish the job' is just adding context.

Who would people choose, the guy who's trying to do something or the one who wants more killing?

What's it from? I'm always looking for new stuff to read!

'That's a problem for the next CEO' -current CEO

I mean yes, the people who are pushing 2025 are literally using threats, violence, and the threat of violence (legal and extra-legal), so you are correct.

This is needlessly nihilistic, man.

There are tons of politicians who are doing the job for the right reasons. Sure, there's assholes, but there are assholes in every single profession on the planet.

Obama was a good president hampered by his will to try and get everyone to work together. I'd say his one weakness was prenegotiating with the republicans and trying to bring them to the table constantly. It was obvious they never would work with him.

He also bungled the Russian election interference by not letting the public know what was going on.

I want politics to be something you look at with a sense of boredom vs a sense of dread again. Biden has been great for making politics 'boring' again, on top of being a very competent leader.

Sure, there's things he has done that I'm not a fan of, but that's every leader.

It's very frustrating, yeah. All the progress this country was making was thwarted by a bunch of butt-hurt southerners and racists.

I'm not mocking polls here. I'm saying that if you have a sizeable population of people that refuse to participate in them, even if you get to a statistically significant number of people, the poll will be off. trump was also found to have been paying for polls that were slanted towards him to be put out there.

So, if a candidate is using bad polls to flood the zone with bad results, and then on top of that you have a statistically significant number of people who refuse to participate in said polling, your data is corrupted, is it not? This is exactly how people can use statistics to lie to people.

What's depressing is if literally any of our institutions acted how they were supposed to, this wouldn't be an issue.

The 4th estate is failing the country because they've been bought by oligarchs.

The judicial apparatus is failing because it's been bought by oligarchs.

The political apparatus is failing because it's been bought by oligarchs.

Man I wish we could put our finger on the reason why everything is coming down around us...

He saw the previews for it.

I know you're joking but unfortunately this is probably the answer.

Yeah like, most people have shit to do. I'm excited to vote for Biden again actually (he did get a lot of good stuff done with an extremely tight congress), and sure there are things he 100% did that I'm not on board with, but that's everything. You're never going to get 100% of what you want, but he's the closest I'll get so lets do it!

It's just very frustrating how they're framing the race this cycle. They completely ignore trumps many disqualifiers while talking about polling that, by all rights, he's paying for bad results again.

Without a doubt. It's very frustrating isn't it?

Precisely.

If you look at the underlying metrics for this election, it shouldn't be anywhere near to being close. Multiple state republican parties are literally bankrupt, the primary demographic of the GOP is dying due to old age, and they are running a convicted felon.

You also have stuff like trump paying for biased polls. Are we really going to think that other people; didn't know about this and are now doing it as well?

It just doesn't make any sense, and of course our corporate owned media flat out refuses to be the 4th wall and be objective in their reporting. It's infuriating.

So the biggest issue on polling is that it's a broken system. It relies on all people to answer when asked, and what we're seeing is people flat out aren't doing it. Think about it. When's the last time you answered an unknown number, and if that number wasn't something you were expecting (like your car repair person telling you your vehicle was ready) did you stay on the line?

This same kind of thing is popping up when we look at polling for the primaries and then see the actual voter data. They haven't been lining up for a while.

Think back to 2022. The media, for months, was saying there was going to be a red wave election. Polling was supporting this as well. And... they had a measly 5 seat majority.

I think people are putting way too much faith in polling the past few cycles, because something fundamentally changed in how people interact with them.

At what point do these actions constitute an act of war?

I mean, it's blatantly obvious what they are doing.