assassin_aragorn @ assassin_aragorn @lemmy.world

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A lot of the times when you don't know what to say, it's not because you can't find the right words, but the right words simply don't exist. There's nothing that captures your sorrow for the person.

Funny enough, the right thing to say is that you don't know what to say. And just offer yourself to be there for them.

Are you just arguing for the sake of arguing? I'm saying that even a perfect sample will not necessarily lead to an accurate conclusion, and having a perfect sample is incredibly difficult on top of that.

Now factor in a major event occurring, and people's opinions and thoughts being in flux. To properly gauge mood, you need to give people time to process -- hence why immediate polling is not helpful.

You do realize that the person you originally responded to was saying that polls probably aren't helpful right now, not that polls are universally useless?

You unwittingly just told us everything we need to know. You don't want to actually solve problems. You want to eliminate the people who created the problems. And getting rid of the people who enabled the problems doesn't fix the problems.

This is why you don't understand harm reduction and aren't actually doing anything to help address the problems. You don't want to solve the problems. You just want to get one over on those who've screwed us over.

It's an understandable sentiment, by all means, but this is why fictional stories tend to be critical of revenge. You become so lost in punishing someone that you value vengeance over actually addressing what that person did.

The nobles burnt the village and hurt some of the villagers for fun. Instead of rebuilding what they destroyed and helping treat the injured, you just want to kill the nobles. It'll feel good to succeed, but the village will still need rebuilding, and the people who needed healing will be dead.

Someone who cares more about overthrowing the industrialists, at the expense of their fellow proletariat, is no communist. They're just one of Stalin's useful thugs, and the only thing they'll succeed in changing is who's causing the problems -- not solving the problem itself.

TLDR: You don't actually care about leftist ideals, you just want revenge.

Yeah I really couldn't tell if you were being sarcastic on that or not lol

I find that logic just as absurd as you do, and I think people who branded Biden voters as genocide lovers were utter idiots. Do I like how things are going in Gaza? No. But did I still support Biden? Completely. That was the only candidate who would prevent things from getting worse and save some lives vs if Trump is elected instead.

I hope this establishes that I'm in agreement with you on a lot of our mindset. What I'm saying here is that Ensign Crab is not one of those people who says this either. You're projecting Linker onto them. Ensign is critical of Democrats, but they were never as insane as Linker or "oh you must love children dying since you support Biden". They've been very up front that they were going to vote Dem.

There's no need to fight with them. We're on the same team. You're both decent people. Let's celebrate another voter coming to Harris, and move on.

Yeah screw this. Democrats should throw their weight behind this guy. They're our best opportunity of getting this Senate seat away from Republicans. Dems shouldn't be running any candidate against them.

This is exactly what all of us should be thinking. Regardless of what you thought of Biden's earlier prospects, it's clear that Harris is far stronger. We needed to vote Democrat to stop fascism. Having a stronger candidate now is fantastic.

You noted something interesting and concerning earlier -- Harris has at least one vote now that she didn't before, but the reception to that has been icy. People should be happy about this, not pissed. I don't agree with them not voting for Biden, but I'm thrilled they want to vote for Harris and join the coalition.

A lot of these people here remind me of performative leftists, but this time, as moderates. They should be happy that Democrats have another vote. Instead they're annoyed and bringing up grievances. It's performative, because they'd clearly rather get one up over Biden detractors than actually get more votes and see their supposed ideals achieved.

Anyway. I also wanted to say that I appreciate you. You've always been very clear that while you had misgivings with Biden, you were still going to vote for him because the stakes are high. I'm sorry you're getting dragged by idiots, and I hope you don't let it bother you. It's clear to me that you want Democrats to win so fascism doesn't take over, and so that we can actually pass some left wing policies. Thank you for that.

Welcome aboard!

I'm sorry that other people are pissed at you. It's absurd. I'm genuinely happy to see another person joining the team, so thank you for that!

I don't agree with you not voting for Biden beforehand, but that's water under the bridge and irrelevant as far as I'm concerned. It's time to unify under what we have in common instead. I'm glad you're here.

Lay off them. I've interacted with them enough to know they're genuine and not an absurdist. They were always intending to vote for Biden, they just had their criticisms -- and as we see now, those criticisms proved to be quite good for us as a whole.

I could actually see him doing this, and it would just make things even worse for him lmao

Hmm?

You need to look at the actual statistical science. If you find 45% support for something, but there's a 3% margin of error with a 95% conference interval, then there's a 95% chance that the true value is anywhere from 42-48%. And that's with a perfect, simple random sample.

It has its uses, but you have to be aware of its limitations and caveats.

At my old company I worked really closely with a coworker who was Venezuelan and he loathed Maduro. Saw him as a dictator and unrightful president that was creating problems in the country

Republican leadership and their mythical moderates: "Guys we have to stop the personal attacks, they're making us look bad and just help Harris"

They seem to sometimes forget who all is in the party lmao. This is who they are.

I was pleasantly surprised to see him propose this too. I've heard a lot of people online throw around the idea. I'm glad it's getting more mainstream attention too.

Not to mention, this also ensures the court is keeping up with modern society. You won't have 80 year old judges using outdated interpretations

I think that's certainly what Republicans were intending, and I think it's why Thomas appears very insecure.

A bit odd that you mention this talking point, given it's largely repeated only by Republicans

Look if she wins she can Harris on me anytime and anywhere she wants

Have you ever considered the fact that perhaps you are more left than they are?

Interesting concept actually. I haven't thought about that before.

A communist who does not participate in the election of the country's leader is merely performative and cares more about being an "outsider" instead of actually advancing goals.