• melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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    24 hours ago

    Polls are bullshit guesses at the best of times. Let’s let things roll and we’ll worry about all the tiger beat style popularity news down the road, if it even means anything. In the meantime, quit trying to create news (get clicks?) out of nothing. This comment is statistically significant 50% of the time.

    • patatas@sh.itjust.works
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      8 hours ago

      You know who cares about polls?

      Politicians who want to know how far they can push things and still get reelected.

      Which means that for regular folks, polls are useful because we know how far we can push our elected representatives, and/or what strategies we might want to use.

      • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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        48 minutes ago

        What’s the difference between regular folk and normal folk? I’m just speaking for myself. I carry no “we” around with me.

  • heysoundude@eviltoast.org
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    1 day ago

    Politicians doing politician things, being politicians. I’m very much looking forward to when the machines come for them; I hope I’m alive to witness the carnage.