Nate Silver Says Bloomberg is Slipping in Polls After Debates: He’s in ‘A Lot of Trouble’

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[j.havenfarm]

I see his ads on almost all YouTube videos. With his stupid mug and tiny persona, and growing general sense among even low information voters that he’s not going anywhere, I sense seriously diminishing returns on the ad blitz

[nicollo]

without that consulship, no one would ever have heard of Crassus. But because of it, every student of Roman history has heard of him. His defeat at Carrhae actually made him even more famous.

Generally, in order to promote one's political career, one wants to become famous before dying in battle, as Crassus did at Carrhae.

Crassus gained his consulship after the Third Servile War, aka, Sparticus' rebellion, which Crassus used/ bought into as praetor to elevate himself towards his consulship.

[Zhang Fei]

[Generally, in order to promote one’s political career, one wants to become famous before dying in battle, as Crassus did at Carrhae. ]

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Consul was as high as you could get in the Roman republic, so there’s that. Given that they were elected once a year, consuls were a dime a dozen. Without Carrhae, Crassus would have been a footnote - a consul, but not a noteworthy figure, who put down one of a number of slave rebellions. But Carrhae made him immortal, even as it took both his and his son’s lives, along with most of the army* they led. Life can be funny in that way. If Varus hadn’t gotten his legions annihilated by Hermann, how well-known would he be?

* What’s curious is how his survival, or success, would have affected Caesar’s fate. Would the power struggle that followed Crassus’s death have broken out at all?

[nicollo]

Well, if you want Bloomies to go straight to Carrhae, that’s fine with me, but I was pointing out that Crassus had to buy his way into fame well before that.

[Zhang Fei]

[Well, if you want Bloomies to go straight to Carrhae, that’s fine with me, but I was pointing out that Crassus had to buy his way into fame well before that.]

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He needs to make consul before getting to Carrhae. Let’s hope he never makes consul. Because if there’s a Carrhae, he’s gonna take us with him.

[Zathras]

Guess he wasn’t UP for the task

[one guy in new jersey]

Raises, not begs.

Question begging is a specific act, the doer of which violates the laws of logic.

“Regrettably, Mr. Smith, by saying what you’re saying, you merely beg the question, and prove nothing...”