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...and the 80s lasted until, like, 93
Wednesday, 25-Sep-19 05:45:30 UTC from web -
hot take: officially, the decade ends this year, but culturally, the 90s ended in 2001 or 2002 and the 2000s ended in 2008, so like, who REALLY decides when the decade ends?
Wednesday, 25-Sep-19 05:44:35 UTC from web -
At least I finally get to live my dream of being able to parody a Presidential impeachment nine months after the fact because that’s how long animation takes. I’m joining The Simpsons in that feat.
Wednesday, 25-Sep-19 01:52:02 UTC from web -
Every twenty years, like clockwork, stg
Wednesday, 25-Sep-19 00:18:27 UTC from web -
The President is getting impeached and I am MAD about it
Tuesday, 24-Sep-19 22:17:00 UTC from web -
Maybe I will build a recording booth inside an old trailer, and go on the road hunting narrating gigs via Denny's wifi, then working deep in the Hundred Acre Woods on solar panels.
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@scribus I often think about saving up to buy a house in Colorado and just building a small office space in the backyard so I can have an actual professional base of operations but also I don’t have to pay rent on professional space
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@mrmattimation I have similar thoughts, except it's a compound in Nevada or New Mexico.
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i sincerely apologize to anyone who had to talk to me when I was 15, this is just terrible
Tuesday, 24-Sep-19 01:06:49 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Yes it is. I am left thinking about http://rainbowdash.net/url/875214
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goodness me
Tuesday, 24-Sep-19 01:04:16 UTC from web -
Also tbh if you somehow got “Trump is an illegitimate president and Clinton should never have conceded” from a purely numbers-based analysis of what polling looks like right now and how, Actually, they weren’t even wrong last time, then you probably have the total brain development of a baby anyway.
Monday, 23-Sep-19 23:44:55 UTC from web-
@drinkingpony you insisted I said both of those things when I said neither, please learn to read above a kindergarten level
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@mrmattimation Alright, I will bite. I insisted you said what things ?
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@mrmattimation Hold on a minute. Do you believe that I said that you must think that HRC should have never conceded. But where I actually said that HRC did not have her concession speech ready when Trump won because all the polls told her that her win was pretty much a done deal and actual voting would actually just be a formality at that point.
Because if that is the sore spot then I find it extremely hilarious that you think I need to learn how to read.Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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Oh my. I guess we DID agree on something. Ahwell. Show is over. I do not feel like I have to say to someone who thinks that the 2016 polls were right next to a big hotchpotch of other stuff (*) because it would not register at all. In fact I do not think I could say anything to someone suffering so severely from ( my best guess ) TDS and have, in any way, a worthwile conversation. To make matters worse, the [reply] button is not even used, making it more like a war of passive agressive post it notes by someone who has two mom's ( Believe me, I know ) which is infuriating by itself.
(*) : Just look at the phletora of topics discarded and left unanswered, not to mention that I am kinda forced to assume some things I do not want to assume. Such as is this person in favour of HRC never having written a consession speech ?
TL;DR : Show is over, I will not be playing the politics game anymore, at least for a while, most certainly not with a certain personMonday, 23-Sep-19 18:04:09 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@drinkingpony my goodness you're a baby
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@mrmattimation When you are having a conversation in the open like this, calling your perceived opponent a name or derogatory like that is probably going to end up great for the total tally for those at home keeping score.
Not that I care all that much about being called anything but surely even you have to admit that it does not look good. Heck, any highschooler that has even heard of a debate team knows this. Not that I would know, according to you it would take at least 10 years before I probably even get close to a highschool.Jonathan Chouinard likes this. -
@drinkingpony you're even being a huge baby about me calling you a big baby, man up you big baby
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Trump, I will say, is better than any other Republican before him at energizing his base, but to focus only on his base - which is his public gameplan - would be a fatal mistake, and it’s, again, the same mistake Clinton made. It’s really weird how many Clinton-esque mistakes Trump is making right now.
Monday, 23-Sep-19 17:23:23 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Never interrupt your enemy while they're making a mistake.
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@scribus I think he’s technically my boss, I DID get paid from ads his campaign ran on my YouTube channel a few years back
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@mrmattimation Believe me, one's boss and one's enemy can easily be the same.
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And the 2016 polls weren’t “wrong” either, as I just explained. All results fell within the margin of error except MAYBE Iowa. Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, the results were not as expected by the general public but if you paid attention to the actual polls you could have easily expected the outcome we got. Trump isn’t some magic fifth-dimensional wizard who defies all political science and the suggest otherwise would be making the exact same mistake Clinton made in 2016.
Monday, 23-Sep-19 17:05:31 UTC from web -
(And in the 2017 off-year elections)
Monday, 23-Sep-19 17:02:00 UTC from web -
For what this is worth to somebody who only accepts numbers that confirm his biases, polling was pretty much dead-on in 2018.
Monday, 23-Sep-19 17:01:22 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Wait, so we agree on something ?
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Don’t explain statistics to a Potato Knishesing moron, everyone, he’ll just ignore it.
Monday, 23-Sep-19 16:59:27 UTC from web -
really i just want Trump gone so that I don't feel tempted to ruin Swole Foods by doing a Trump show that everyone hates because it says mean things about the meme president.
Monday, 23-Sep-19 04:25:06 UTC from web -
i also don't wear very thick glasses anymore, those are sitting in a drawer somewhere, i wear very thick contact lenses
Monday, 23-Sep-19 04:21:18 UTC from web -
And, of course, candidates matter. So once the Democrats have found themselves a nominee, it's possible - likely, even - that all of this data will become completely irrelevant before next November.
Monday, 23-Sep-19 04:13:15 UTC from web -
There are so many other things I could go into on the subject because I'm a kiwiing nerd who wears very thick glasses and looks at numbers all day but like, whatever
Monday, 23-Sep-19 04:08:14 UTC from web -
tl;dr facts don't care about your feelings libtards
Monday, 23-Sep-19 04:02:36 UTC from web -
Unsurprisingly, the map I just posted, which was calculated based on the 538 PVI and the 538 Congressional Generic Ballot, also correlates with Trump's net approval in each of those states. In a vacuum these things mean absolutely nothing, but adding them to a pile and analysing and cross-referencing them tells you a lot. http://rainbowdash.net/url/875209
Monday, 23-Sep-19 04:01:42 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Yes and there are still 10 people running for democratic presidential candidate, and last time I checked the Republicans are going to run with the current president. Meaning there is one flavour of red and various flavours of blue. Of course one side is going to be a lot more outspoken about thier choice. Same thing happened in, lets see, 2012, 2004, 1996, 1984, for some reason in 1980 that was not a 2nd term runnin prez, 1972, and 1956.
As for those two maps, Well we already know the bias of "270 to win"Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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That probably doesn't happen today. Elections today are very partisan and correlated and boring and if a Presidential candidate wins in a given state then other people from his party on the same ballot also win statewide - that hasn't quite begun to happen with individual congressional districts though, Clinton won a great deal of congressional districts that ultimately voted for Republican congressmen (though most of those people lost their re-election bids in 2018).
Monday, 23-Sep-19 03:57:08 UTC from web -
In the case of 2008, Obama actually underperformed the incredibly lofty 9 point advantage the generic ballot gave the party, but the party as a whole did incredibly well and won districts and states that Obama himself could not win due to ballot splitting.
Monday, 23-Sep-19 03:54:42 UTC from web -
Pretty much no causation and only correlation, but errors in the generic ballot tend to result in higher swings towards Democrats, rather than the opposite. That's just a trend I've noticed that doesn't actually point to anything greater, except maybe that Democrats respond to congressional polls less often than Republicans do since they usually only care about the Presidential Elections.
Monday, 23-Sep-19 03:51:26 UTC from web -
...you can, pretty reliably, predict which states would go what direction supposing the election happened today. http://rainbowdash.net/url/875208
Monday, 23-Sep-19 03:48:39 UTC from web -
If we wanna talk poll accuracy, I find that FiveThirtyEight's generic congressional ballot works pretty damn well on a national scale. 4 of the last 5 Presidential elections had their national popular votes fall within two points of the final generic ballot margin - including 2016. Now, if we apply that to state calculated partisanship, using either the Cook PVI (more friendly to Democrats, as they only take the 2012 and 2016 Presidential elections - two very neutral but still otherwise slightly Democratic leaning years - into account), or the 538 PVI (more friendly to Republicans, as it also accounts for more local elections between 2012 and 2016, including the Republican wave year of 2014) as our baseline... http://rainbowdash.net/url/875207
Monday, 23-Sep-19 03:45:30 UTC from web -
But that's not even the point I was making. As a more conservative Democrat, Biden is objectively more likely to win over Republican-leaning voters than somebody like Elizabeth Warren.
Monday, 23-Sep-19 03:38:54 UTC from web -
What people don't get about polls, and what they especially seemed to not get after Trump was elected, is that capturing 51% in a poll is just that - a 51% chance that you win. Clinton's lead in key states was always narrow and the fact that she underperformed some of them (and the fact that she overperformed a lot of others, like in Texas, Georgia, and Arizona, which were a lot closer than most pollsters predicted they would be) doesn't make the poll "wrong". It just means the less-likely thing happened, and as it turns out, unlikely things happen pretty frequently. Statistics!
That's why you don't want to have a two-point lead in a statewide poll, as Clinton did in several, and as Trump currently has in some SUPER red states. You want to have a ten-point lead, as Biden does in several - and even that doesn't create a guaranteed win, it just creates a more likely win.Monday, 23-Sep-19 03:38:24 UTC from web-
@scribus When I vote the booth has no curtain but the free standing booth is orientated in such a way that no one can look. It's literally 3 walls with an integrated table and foldable for easy storage and deployment. Also the amount of people in the voting room is limited to the amount of booths (usually two or three max) and there are voting helpers to ensure there is no cheating.
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@scribus Of course there is supposed to be. How else do you think something like this can happen ? http://rainbowdash.net/url/875213 ( picture says it all, really )
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@drinkingpony Oh lordy! XD
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I’m torn between “I really don’t think Biden should be President” and “But Biden probably has a lot of Republican support, and therefore could siphon enough votes that would otherwise be Trump votes in the swing states”
Sunday, 22-Sep-19 00:29:49 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation the "non sequitur"-level seems high I am not sure whether to call it a day or to point out that I have NO idea how actual vote totals (from when? 2016? from whom? MSM ?) can be used to establish anything on the level as big as a whole state.
But hey, if you are willing to still believe that so called 'professionals' are better at predicting at what whole states will probably end up voting when there is also Matt Groening, I am not gonna stop you.
As for that Trump did worse than Romney and McCain in some area's. Yeah I am willing to believe that, there are things like home states, there are things like actively or passively pandering to special/specific intrest groups.
Lets not forget the Bernie Bro's ( name ? ) which voted for trump in 2016.
Oh, or the people from the Rust Belt who vowed to vote democrat in the local elections but Trump for 2020 http://rainbowdash.net/url/875206
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@drinkingpony According to exit polls from 2016, more than three quarters of Bernie Sanders primary voters voted for Clinton in the general (the remaining 25% is split three ways: people who voted Trump, people who voted for a third party candidate, or people who didn't vote at all). Official vote tabulations, as certified by each state's government (Republicans had already controlled quite a few of these on Election Day 2016 - this is no longer true for most of them as of January 2019), showed that while Trump did much better than Romney and McCain in states like Ohio and Iowa, he also did worse than them in states like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan... all of which were won by him and not Clinton. He didn't get normally Democratic votes in those states. The Democrat just got less than is normal. These are two different situations, and although they eventually lead to the same outcome, it's important to make the distinction because it reveals a lot about the climate of 2016.
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@mrmattimation You still believe in polls ? More importantly you think 8.3 % of Bernie Bro's did not vote ? Yeah I call bull on that. Unless if you want to proclaim that you can expect 30% margin of error out of every and all polls coming out of "the establishment" on a good day ( not even gonna touch the bad days )
But hey, I will just leave you with this http://rainbowdash.net/url/875210
and this
http://rainbowdash.net/url/875211
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Against pretty much anyone besides Trump, it'd be very easy to see a scenario in which Biden loses the popular vote but wins the electoral vote, if he closed margins in safe blue states while also barely winning ordinarily red states.
Sunday, 22-Sep-19 17:11:00 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Wait, you mean like the 1976 election between Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford ? You KNOW why Texas was blue, right ?
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