Carrolade

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[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 0 points 18 hours ago

Sure. I'm not arguing its impossible. I'm arguing that anyone that thinks "we all know" is being very foolish. The only reasonable assertion is we don't really know. Judging based off of the limited information we have is not "we don't know" though, its armchair theorizing by people that generally don't even have medical training.

[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 21 points 22 hours ago (5 children)

Moreover, older Americans punch above their weight because they’re more likely to be registered to vote and to cast a ballot. Recent polling from The New York Times/Siena College put seniors at about 29% of the electorate, compared with only about 13% for voters under 30.

I knew there was a disparity, but over double is a bit more than I expected.

[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago

Perhaps you should work on your reading comprehension. If you look, I never said "my post count". I said "the comment count on the post". It has nothing to do with me.

[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You're doing the broken record repeating thing again. Though I guess you did switch from "not supporting" to "not voting".

Given your pattern of spinning things, though, I think people should take that with a grain of salt.

[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

Really? Which two did Trump do?

[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For the record, the number of die hard MAGAs is smaller than that, it's just a subset of the gop. Then consider that a lot of MAGAs are duped into just thinking "oh, he jokes a lot, but he's a businessman so he'll do a good job!"

So the number of actual outright fascists is going to be pretty small when we weed out the people that just fall for their promises and lies. We need to distinguish between a fascist and a fool.

[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Popular policies like investing into green energy, capping prescription drug prices, appropriately regulating business, helping students with the price of college, raising taxes on the wealthy and helping first time homebuyers get a house?

[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I know it's your opinion that you don't support Trump, but statistically speaking you most likely do. If we consider how many Cruz supporters there are, vs how many Trump supporters wishing to syphon away dem votes, we find the group of Trump supporters is over 10x larger. Given how people can lie on the internet, it's best to go with the statistics over just trusting in your word.

[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago

Do you think that is some sort of bad thing?

[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah, that's a good point, I didn't think of that.

[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

That's funny when you just keep saying things anyway. Making up more stuff again, eh? lol

[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

That's cute, but the point is that despite Hilary's very broad appeal to the big dollar doners, she was beaten by Obama in 2008 due to his, at the time very novel, online small dollar fundraising campaign. She was again defeated in 2016, despite having far more money given to her campaign than Trump.

https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16 https://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/07/02/campaign.money.schneider/index.html?iref=nextin

So the idea that the big doners actually dictate election results does not match our recent historical realities at all.

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