TheDannysaur

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[–] TheDannysaur@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

I mean the polls for Biden were bad and getting worse. Harris was only down a couple points... Biden was down double digits. I hate to say it, but with the 2 point polling error, Biden had 0 path to make it. I don't know a single state that he would have taken off of Trump.

[–] TheDannysaur@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ah yes. Great. We're the election conspiracy theorists now. It's apparently democrats turn to make completely baseless accusations.

This stuff is exhausting. We want to look for every reason except for the one that matters: Democrats lost America. We need to break the party apart and start over.

Every other excuse just delays and distracts. Democrats fucked it. We can be all high and righteous as we want, but we lost 2 of 3 to Donald Trump.

Face the reality. Democrats need to reinvent themselves or they will lose to shit candidates like Trump.

[–] TheDannysaur@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

.... So living further away from the equator is detrimental to your health? I haven't heard of this phenomenon.

[–] TheDannysaur@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

Iowa itself is a lost cause. It's 75% Republican here. We're gerrymandered to high hell, so even if Baccam squeaks through, Iowa state legislature won't look very blue. If it's 60/40 Republican I'd be absolutely shocked.

But contributing one Senator nationally would be pretty neat.

[–] TheDannysaur@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago (2 children)

If Harris gets Iowa the race is over. These races are not truly independent - they are correlated. If Harris picks up Iowa, there's a very good chance that means she's swept every swing state.

[–] TheDannysaur@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Right - I just mean literally any attempt to try and cater to a specific group is gonna be like this.

Both campaigns go after different groups. I just think literally anything that is contained in these are going to sound racist.

In a less charged example, both candidates try and appeal to women. Those could be viewed as sexist.

[–] TheDannysaur@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

To be fair... When the article's opening line is "In outreach to Black Men", it doesn't really matter what you put after. It's going to sound bad.

[–] TheDannysaur@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It can be both things.

There are no definitive data points that should lead anyone to believe that either candidate has a significant advantage.

I'm not sure anyone who is well versed in election projections or polling would say anything other than it's a toss up. As a heavy consumer of said data and reporting, I haven't seen anything to the contrary.

You're not wrong about media incentives, but they're also not wrong that this is a very close race.

[–] TheDannysaur@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (7 children)

.... What?

Is this some weird "victim mentality" thing?

People love to use it because it got popular and grew to mean more than the original definition to the point where it just got generic to encompass a wide range of things. It's the same as cringe.

[–] TheDannysaur@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (9 children)

I thought the same thing. People are obsessed with the word gaslighting.

This seems more like textbook hypocrisy. Person doing thing talks about the harms of others doing that thing.

[–] TheDannysaur@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Depends on the dealership. I went in and asked if I could get additional money off the car for using their financing. They say yes they gave a $1,000 credit.

I then asked how many payments did I need to make for them to get their full incentive for the loan. They said 6 months. I asked if I could pay it off after that, and they said sure, they'd have their kickback from the bank.

And that's what we did. It was a pretty frank conversation with the dealer, they were cool, we were cool.

[–] TheDannysaur@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hell yeah. You'll experience in a way that's unique, so don't let other people tell you what to feel. It's ok to like stuff that everyone else doesn't like, for no reason other than you want to like it.

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