Held this from last night so it could go in the news roundup
https://theconservativeopposition.blogspot.com/2020/01/proof-that-anti-trump-polls-lie.html
Proof That Anti Trump Polls Lie
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So we decided to do a poll of our own. How? A site called Opinion Stage. We asked a total of 10 questions that we felt were the most important we have seen polls on. But we wanted a true cross section of Americans. We weren’t likely to get that just posting on a page called The Conservative Opposition.
And so we broke a rule: we spammed.
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POLL RESULTS OF 10 QUESTIONS
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Maybe it’s just me, but those don’t look like the numbers that the media feeds us. And as we’ve researched this, 8k people is actually more than a great many of the polls we see on television show us. And we went out of our way to make sure we targeted as diverse a section of Americans as we could, fro Rap music fans to Conservative Catholics. This is a representation in line with REAL American voices.
So what can we gather from this experiment? One thing we all already knew; fake news is alive and well and permeates the media. The media is, as we all know, left leaning in most cases. Think back to 2016. Until literally days before the election, the polls all told us that Hillary held a comfortable double digit lead. Why? Because they knew she didn’t! So they tried to bury us with a sense of futility. They wanted Americans to assume their votes didn’t matter..... so they wouldn’t vote!
I fight tooth and nail with a girlfriend over this. I don’t believe anyone should be forced to participate in an abortion or euthenasa. Just because someone goes into a field to save lives, that shouldn’t mean that they can be forced to take them. (Side note: never understood how veterinarians could do that. Would truly think that some vets would style themselves as ‘no kill’ vets)
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/01/euthanasia-canada-government-pressures-hospice-to-kill/
Pressuring a Hospice to Kill
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And it’s not as if the small hospice, with a mere ten beds, has the power to materially impede access to euthanasia in British Columbia, a province of nearly 5 million people. Indeed, since euthanasia was legalized in 2016, only three Delta patients have asked to be killed — and they were able to obtain their desired end by simply returning home or transferring to a hospital directly next door to the hospice. So, what gives?
So what can we gather from this experiment? One thing we all already knew; fake news is alive and well and permeates the media. The media is, as we all know, left leaning in most cases. Think back to 2016. Until literally days before the election, the polls all told us that Hillary held a comfortable double digit lead. Why? Because they knew she didn’t! So they tried to bury us with a sense of futility. They wanted Americans to assume their votes didn’t matter..... so they wouldn’t vote!
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There’s actually a name for that. Psycho-Social Manipulation Via Pseudo-Demographics.
The objective is to instill a sense of futility as pointed out, but also to trigger the herd instinct and make those susceptible to want to be part of the predicted winning herd.