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• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s really not a good idea to put ALL your Credibility Eggs into the Poll Basket. MAGAs have been gaming the polls for years, the Conservative Propaganda Machine tells them how, and encourages them, and they are becoming more and more unreliable. It’s a very bad idea to rely on one single poll for all your evidence.

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• Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So no response to actual evidence that the voters weren’t behind them, cool.

  You’re not owed interaction on your terms. You’re not entitled to a debate, sea lion.

  I don’t support the 8 Dems who broke ranks

  You are by making excuses for their actions. And I don’t believe for an instant that you don’t support this. You had your one little poll just ready to go for when your wing of the party did what you wanted, just like you spent an entire year supporting them BECAUSE they were selling weapons to netanyahu.

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  • PugJesus@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You’re not owed interaction on your terms. You’re not entitled to a debate, sea lion.

    lmao

    The meaning of Sea Lioning is not “Refutes my points 😭” but “Insists on an engagement by bad faith inquiries”

    Engaging with me, and after I presented evidence, not a question, is as far from proving me a Sea Lion as you can get.

    Sorry that refuting your bullshit hurt your feelings.

    You are by making excuses for their actions.

    Where did I excuse their actions?

    And I don’t believe for an instant that you don’t support this.

    lmao

    You had your one little poll just ready to go for when your wing of the party did what you wanted,

    lmao

    just like you spent an entire year supporting them BECAUSE they were selling weapons to netanyahu.

    Fucking lmao.

    I’ve been calling out Israeli genocide and advocating against all US aid for Israel for longer than Lemmy has existed, but go off, I guess.

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    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The meaning of Sea Lioning is not “Refutes my points 😭” but “Insists on an engagement by bad faith inquiries”

      Yes. Which is what you were doing, and your comments

      Where did I excuse their actions?

      By pretending they had reason to fear continuing the shutdown. You know better.

      I’ve been calling out Israeli genocide and advocating against all US aid for Israel for longer than Lemmy has existed, but go off, I guess.

      And then started advocating for those who enabled netanyahu as soon as you made a lemmy account for some reason.

      If people were blaming the shutdown on democrats, they would have lost. They won. Now their voters are seeing that they’ve been had. Your wing of the party shamelessly betrayed its voters. Well, they didn’t betray you.

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      • PugJesus@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes. Which is what you were doing.

        You think that… citing a source… and saying that you are incorrect… is a question.

        And you think that responding to me in an argument is me attempting to engage an unwilling participant by use of bad faith inquiries.

        … fucking what.

        By pretending they had reason to fear continuing the shutdown. You know better.

        1. I don’t ‘know better’, as public discontent over the shutdown is serious. I fear the backlash from the shutdown. I support the shutdown continuing for the dual reasons of the inhumanity of the GOP proposal and the fact that the backlash from GOP cuts might be worse in the long run not because I believe the shutdown is some massively popular issue at the moment. Some 70% of the electorate didn’t want the Dems to pull the trigger on the shutdown - I’m glad they did anyway! But that’s really fucking different from pretending that there’s mass support for the issue.

        2. At no point was justification offered for the eight Dems who broke ranks; only that the notion that they had the voters ‘behind them’ was ridiculous by the numbers.

        And then started advocating for those who enabled netanyahu as soon as you made a lemmy account for some reason.

        Ah, yes, “Please don’t assist the fascist, he’s literally more pro-Israel than even Biden”, the sin that a Very Real Leftist(tm) like yourself could never forgive. Any number of murdered minorities, after all, including additional murdered Palestinians, is worth your moral high ground of banging the drum against the great monolith of “The DEMS”

        If people were blaming the shutdown on democrats, they would have lost. They won.

        What the fuck?

        Now their voters are seeing that they’ve been had. Your wing of the party shamelessly betrayed its voters. Well, they didn’t betray you.

        Lord.

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