• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Your problem isn’t with stats, polls are still valuable.

    Your problem is political think tanks that pay for biased polling that reflects what they want instead of reality. And billionaire owned media presenting those biases stats with a straight face and hoping no one notices.

    Imagine your back in college and the water bottle you just chugged had vodka in it.

    That’s a bad bottle, but the take away should be “verify it’s water first” and not “never try to drink water again”.

    Meaning you shouldn’t disregard all polls, it’s just responsible to take a real.looknamd not just believe headlines or even articles.

    Voting for the lesser evil is still evil.

    Even if you’ll never vote D in a general, there is literally no downside for voting for the left most candidate in the next Dem primary. Hell, you could even try voting for the left most candidate in the Republican primary instead, I don’t think that would be as effective though.

    After all, it’s the first step in Marxism-Lenism:

    Marxism–Leninism holds that a two-stage communist revolution is needed to replace capitalism. A vanguard party, organized through democratic centralism, would seize power on behalf of the proletariat and establish a one-party communist state. The state would control the means of production, suppress opposition, counter-revolution, and the bourgeoisie, and promote Soviet collectivism, to pave the way for an eventual communist society that would be classless and stateless.[12]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism–Leninism

    Personally I want to exit ramp before all the Stalin stuff, but you can’t argue that it didn’t work for him.

    • Zorque@lemmy.world
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      55 minutes ago

      Yeah, it’s the whole “controlled by the state” thing I’ll never trust about marxism-leninism. You dont get an informed and organized population by subverting them and taking away their mobility.

      Authoritarianism doesn’t lead to freedom.