General Politics Discussion (VI) [ARCHIVED] • Page 1119

Polls were pretty good in 2016, and 2018. Shockingly bad take.

“Trump outperformed his national polls by only 1 to 2 percentage points in losing the popular vote to Clinton, making them slightly closer to the mark than they were in 2012. Meanwhile, he beat his polls by only 2 to 3 percentage points in the average swing state. Certainly, there were individual pollsters that had some explaining to do, especially in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, where Trump beat his polls by a larger amount. But the result was not some sort of massive outlier; on the contrary, the polls were pretty much as accurate as they’d been, on average, since 1968.”

 

Having not done much of any research into the "Proud Boys", what views are the advocating? Are there policies they're trying to pass? Who are they trying to influence?

 

Misogyny is a big one.

 

no ethics in capitalism I know but still this is fucked up

 

Proud Boys
basically just reactionary to the fact that marginalized people are getting more of a voice by saying "fuck you but what about white men"

 

Lol definitely not

 

@Wharf Rat !

 

Being black triggers conservatives

 

Portland police get hard to start arresting people.

 

So basically, they’re all about men’s rights and other far right talking points.

 

sigh.

 

One thing I know about Proud Boys is they condemn masturbation, I believe because members should focus their energy on finding a romantic partner to adhere and satisfy their sexual needs.

 

I can never get over that Gavin founded Vice

 

The gop is gonna decide to work with Dems on left of center any day now! I wonder if somewhere deep down Biden thinks Mitch will work with him because he’s white and Obama wasn’t.

#2 is a dumb point tho...admins will send people who they think can hammer out deals with congressmen and senators whether it’s the VP or not, that was one of the things the Obama team talked up about their choice of Biden when they chose him.

 

right wing "journalists" are for sure gonna get someone doxxed and killed, also no one's leading ANTIFA and these people look cool

 

Those people are better than me.

 

I had this feeling watching the news about those people sitting and blocking the driveway at an ICE facility in Rhode Island - I had no idea ICE even had a facility there.

 

Long time lurker and rare poster, but fuck this guy. Fuck the proud boys.