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by estearum 140 days ago
Well it’s directly relevant to the claim “most Rs voted for T (fact) therefore you can infer most Rs support T_{specific policy}.”

Just simple logic!

No, I am actually not relying on a single poll. Pretty much all polls, even those with a conservative bent, converge on my claim and dispute yours.

This can’t possibly be news to you, otherwise you’d be sharing evidence to the contrary.

Instead you’re just openly declaring your own inability/unwillingness to assess information quality, and being proud of it?

Strange interaction indeed!

I can think of a few motivations one would have to knowingly deceive themselves into believing the immigration enforcement actions are popular, and all of those motivations are bad. Even aside from the basic violation of intellectual honesty.

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> Just simple logic!

It's simple "logic", for sure.

> Instead you’re just openly declaring your own inability/unwillingness to assess information quality, and being proud of it?

That's your interpretation, which is far from reality. I think the big difference here is you put way more value on polls than is warranted. It's not like you've provided a ton of sources, either.

I likely won't be relying to you further, as I don't see the point. Cheers.