Hyperreality

Here's an article explaining why the BBC doesn't call Hamas terrorists.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67083432

What are we going to do, shoot them?

Yes.

I really don’t think genocide on home turf will go over well.

See above.

I honestly think he wants to be arrested. It'd do his political campaign wonders to spend a few nights in jail and do a Hitler.

So perhaps it's for the best he's only being fined for now.

Obviously it's disgusting, us plebes would have been in jail a long time ago.

Wet ass pussy.

What happens when something requires maintenance in a month/week/day?

Insert more poop emojis.

Textbook statistics don’t really hold when you have a huge selection bias, as just about any poll does.

Meh. Often quite accurate, if you read the small print and caveats. It's not 1980. Good pollsters don't just do landline surveys, they correct for demographic factors, and are transparent about flaws and limitations.

IME the problem is usually how the media reports on said polling.

Probably inflation.

You don't need to poll everyone to get relatively accurate polling results.

I have a related degree, it is possible with the necessary caveats, margins of error and confidence intervals. Statistics is a wonderful thing.

This being said, I actually read the full 77 page document they linked to, and if I'm not mistaken the 55% comes from a 2021 telephone poll. Obviously phone only polls are likely to be biased, even if you correct for demographic factors like age.

Then again, inflation is a problem.

I have a related degree.

The study was conducted for CNN via web and telephone on the SSRS Opinion Panel, a nationally representative panel of U.S. adults ages 18 or older recruited using probability-based sampling techniques.

BUT...

In a January 2021 poll taken just before Trump left office and days after the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, 55% considered his time as president a failure.

Relevant bit:

Unless otherwise noted, results beginning with the August 3-6, 2017 survey and ending with the April 21-26, 2021 survey are from polls conducted by SSRS via telephone only

TLDR: doubt those polls are representative.

The darkly funny thing about this, is that he's probably saying this because there's an election coming up.

Clearly thinks this'll be a vote winner with their electorate.

The nasty party never really changes does it?

I am firmly convinced people don't realise how good Stargate is, because there's so much of it, that few have the time to watch all of it and realise how good it is.

You can lay siege though. Bomb anything going out or in.