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The US news covers the US elections from a really strange angle. They act as though even as the votes are coming in, and there is nothing more the candidates ca
by phendrenad2 2y ago
The US news covers the US elections from a really strange angle. They act as though even as the votes are coming in, and there is nothing more the candidates can do to change the outcome, that they are still "looking for a path to victory" and they list all of the "paths to victory" that could be possible. As though we're watching them stumble through a dark forest.
- lxgr 2y agoI had the exact same thought here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43473149 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43473149 Really bewildering from an epistemic point of view, even if it's "just a metaphor". (And do people really generally understand it to be just that?)