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[-] tastysnacks@programming.dev 143 points 5 months ago

I like Joe. He did infrastructure and the chips act. He's a meat and potatoes guy. But his best attribute will always be not being Donald Trump.

[-] Custodian1623@lemmy.world 111 points 5 months ago

I don't like Joe. I'm still voting for him because he's not Donald Trump

[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 42 points 5 months ago

Fun fact: 10% of Americans will vote for a guy that had his brain eaten by a worm. Just look at five thirty eight

[-] Twinklebreeze@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago

Everyone that made 538 worth reading was laid off. Even Nate Silver is gone, and he took his model with him. We'll see how they do this election, but I'm not paying attention to them this election.

[-] Railing5132@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Votemaster and Zenger at electoralvote.com have a decent site. They take a 'model of models' approach and while their editorials are decidedly liberal, they put math and statistical analysis at the forefront and show their work.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

And even before that they were tragically wrong in 2016. Fuck polls.

[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago

They weren't incorrect, they predicted Trump had a chance to win and he made that chance happen

What they did that was stupid was oversell what an odds advantage meant for Clinton and when caught in their own mistelling of how their own reports work proceeded to make themselves look like that nerd who can't admit that he fucked up and blames it all on other people not understanding what he was "akshualay" saying.

[-] Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

No they weren't. They gave trump a 33% chance of winning and successfully predicted how he could win.

[-] maynarkh@feddit.nl 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Well there is the convicted felon, rapist and wannabe dictatorial psychopath, there is the guy with the dead brainworms in his head, and there is the guy who you can vote for if you would like things to continue as they are.

Oh, you can also choose between reluctant and enthusiastic support of genocide, and breaking up strikes versus shooting at protestors. Clearly the US is the citadel of democracy.

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

His brain wasn't eaten by a tape worm because it was most likely cysticercosis caused by the young form of the parasite that usually calcifies. The adult worms grow in the intestine, don't have teeth, and absorb nutrients passively.

[-] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 5 points 5 months ago

Absolutely, but at a certain point people have got to accept that if the best strategic choice they have is still complicit with genocide, then they need to make that strategic choice (libs: I am saying vote for Biden, get the fuck off my back about it) and then work to build an alternative.

If they aren't working against the system, and they get pissy every time someone mentions the genocide because it might hurt their better strategic choice, then they are doing genocide denial. Maybe they're not saying the genocide isn't happening, they're just saying people shouldn't keep bringing it up when it's inconvenient for them. Denying that people should talk about genocide is a kind of genocide denial. If the better option can't survive without genocide denial then maybe the problem isn't the people talking about genocide but the better strategic option being complicit in genocide.

Maybe the problem is a political system that keeps putting genociders in power.

[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago

He also didn’t cause inflation or invade hamas or start a war in Afghanistan or any of the other things he was blamed for.

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 16 points 5 months ago

Now that you mention it, both of the last two Republican presidents signed off on huge bailouts and then blamed the inflation on their Democrat successor. Nixon would be proud!

[-] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

Yeah that's what gets me about the news always acting like the economy would be better under trump somehow. It's his poor response to the pandemic that caused this whole situation we are in. It's bullshit. The prices started going up during COVID. I remember. People were hoarding toilet paper and we couldn't leave our homes without masks. Suddenly lumber prices skyrocketed from all the home projects people were doing while they were home. Then the price over other stuff started to go up randomly. I remember there were tariffs set on things from China too.

Then Biden took over and things slowly got back to normal but the prices are still high. If we get trump again things will get much worse again.

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