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the same reason fantasy football can be more fun than watching the games? according to the forecasters the election is already over, who's model is best is the
by basch 10y ago
the same reason fantasy football can be more fun than watching the games?
according to the forecasters the election is already over, who's model is best is the only interesting undecided component left.
right now we have an election between a Blowhard Reality Star and a Crony Crook, where most of the population would prefer neither.
so combining the realities of the choice already made (barring an insane scandal) with an election between a douche and turd sandwich, statistical models are about the only semi-honest thing we can turn to.
do you really think this election is about "the issues" and not who is better at pandering? both of their campaigns are designed to tell people what they want to hear, and figure out the rest later.
- lintiness 10y agoyou made me happy. people need to turn this shit off. i keep seeing a commercial from somebody acutely interested in hillary getting elected: it pretends trump makes fun of kids with spinal cancer. that pretty much sums up the discourse right now, and it's not good for anybody or anything -- certainly not the direction of the nation.
- basch 10y agoit's all a distraction to give the illusion of offering participation. people can go home and feel "i contributed" having fulfilled their civic duty. everyone paying any amount of attention knows its a rigged game ten ways to sunday. democracy in general is a feedback loop between the press and politicians with the voting population as pawns/fodder. journalists and politicians have one shared concern: staying relevant and needed.