Like I can’t even think of the great positive accomplishment that would be tarnished by the end of his presidency. As a comparison, Ruth Bader Ginsburg actually did some important and positive things before her selfishness destroyed her legacy. What was Biden’s greatest hit? Maybe being slightly less anti-gay than the conservative wing of the Democratic party during Obama’s term? Nothing during his presidency seems to rise to the level of a historic accomplishment. His legislative career was mostly bad.

It’s not like this is the story of a great man who through no fault of his own ends up with a tarnished reputation. He was never all that good and his tarnished reputation is a direct result of his own choices and actions.

Guy Fawkes was a visionary.

There’s a key distinction between the number of Biden voters who voted for Harris and the relative vote totals. Some of Harris’s voters didn’t (or couldn’t) vote for Biden. First time voters or Trump-Harris voters wouldn’t be Biden voters, so the number of her Biden voters would be lower than her total number of votes.

They link to a source that shows if Kamala had been more conservative in these areas, she would’ve had more support:

Immigration Fossil fuels Ukraine (withdrawing support)

What the fuck does this have to do with anything? Is this just a desperate grasp for some result to boost centrism in general?

Maybe MOST importantly is that the issues the polled on, in order of importance to voters, shows Gaza ranks LAST in importance.

For the “Biden to Harris” voters. Of course it’s low importance to them (3%). That’s a key difference between those who stayed and those who didn’t. Which validates the whole point that it wouldn’t lose many votes. Few Harris voters cared about it, but the companion poll shows that those who didn’t vote for her did care.

Even the source they linked is wrong: “New Poll Shows Gaza Was #1 Issue For Biden 2020 Voters Who Did Not Vote For Harris”

Then the actual data disproves this. Neither for Biden voters who switched or Biden voters who backed Harris, it was not the top.

There’s literally that exact question. Which is the one being referenced in the articles with specific percentages where Gaza was at the top.

“Which one of the following issues was MOST important in deciding your [vote for presidential candidate/decision to not to vote for president]?”

Also, the poll is exclusive to swing states.

Ok? So? The other states literally don’t matter.

That was for the “Biden voters in swing states” poll, so a much smaller population than most polls. Most nationwide political polls of the general public were in the 1,000-1,500 range for a 2-3 point margin of error. Polls with larger sizes were likely to also get useful crosstabs.

MOE for this poll was +/-4.9%, which is high, but not “this is meaningless trash, what even is statistics?!?”, especially when the headline numbers are just general sentiment rather than a head to head. In the worst case if “Gaza” was 24 and “the economy” was 29, it’s not a very large difference in the finding.

I believe there are only two articles, which are presumably just sourcing from an IMEU press release for their poll.

From the other article covering the poll, Biden-Harris respondents were also asked how a change in policy would have affected their enthusiasm. 5% said it would make them less enthusiastic, 35% said more.

The 19M could add up if there were 13M voters who either voted for the first time or voted for Trump in the last election. Say if Harris’s total was 56M Biden voters, 8M first time voters, and 5M Trump 2020 voters.

That still seems like a stretch, but it’s not outside the realm of possibility. Someone would need to do some work to show that though, not just say it and be expected to be trusted.

You don’t understand how sample sizes or margins of error are calculated. That’s why you’re being downvoted.

They exist though, so you can gnash your teeth and blame it all on those damn irrational voters or accept reality and try to capture them.

I really don’t see how Cory’s view of enshittification doesn’t also encompass the powerful corporation embracing, extending, and extinguishing their own protocol to close any escape hatch. Especially when the key module is so monolithic and expensive.

They’ll make a proprietary update to their relay that conveniently makes it better and faster for their users while making it harder and more expensive for the alternative to keep up. They’ll add a special feature, but only build it out for their implementation and not figure out how to backport it to the public spec. Little by little Bluesky and the spec will drift. All while the alternative keeps burning money trying for something that, while Bluesky is still in the growth mode, provides no benefit. Eventually they give up or just can no longer be a real alternative, then the VC investors start asking for more and more and more. Corporate money isn’t just going to roll over and say “you got us, I guess our investments were just charity”.

Keep not getting how politics works, I guess.

There were some. Shooting fireworks and de-arresting their comrades. But yeah, most of the violence was in one direction.

Why’d you bypass the largest protest in the country’s history? Black Lives Matter was just four years ago and included people actually fighting with cops, not just walking along prescribed routes holding signs. We’re a lot closer to a break than we ever were in 2003.

Corporations avoiding adverse impact is just being incredibly bland and apolitical. This is a personal choice, not a business one.

Or since he’d still be a narcissistic asshole and would want to experience the happiness and adulation personally, that would be over $2M to each and every resident of Kauai. He wouldn’t need security on an island where he made everyone millionaires.

LOL. You may not be able to make me get off my couch, but you have the personal capability to make it not just be one Luigi. Be the change you want to see in the world before you whine about how no one else is willing to do anything.

He should fear a lot more than “being canceled”.