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by JCattheATM 149 days ago
It's not a dark place to try and be objective and take data from multiple sources, and shame on you for trying to paint doing so as something negative.

> There is no sane reason to think the subreddits nor Jubilee videos are actually representative, and certainly no reason to believe they are representative in contradiction to virtually every poll conducted in the past 12 months.

It's not just those sources, it's basically every single source yo ucan fine with people giving an opinion. Every talk show (Fox/News Nation/ONE, etc), all the right aligned papers e.g. NY Post, WSJ, all the podcasters, all the influencers, and yes, whenever supporters are given a chance to speak, they overwhelming are pleased and support what is going on.

At some point, ignoring all that and favoring purely a few polls is wilful ignorance, and I have to question the motive of anyone doing so. At a guess, I'd guess it's someone that voted conservative but doesn't want to be lumped in with 'the bad ones'.

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You are looking at the numerator, putting no effort into understanding the denominator, and claiming you know the ratio between them.

It's just total nonsense.

No, I'm just not ignoring the majority of data points that disagree with the reality a particular reality I hope to wish into existence with the power of belief.
In general you should discount low quality data points, potentially to zero, while prioritizing high quality data points — regardless of which each of them says.
As I said elsewhere, I think you are vastly overestimating the quality of polls as datapoints.

I'm fairly certain bias is playing a huge part in your motivation to do so, whether you are aware of it or not.

Haha that’s okay. Honestly flattering from someone who samples reality from Jubilee videos.
You can't help but misrepresent facts eh...yeah, that figures.