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brucejoel99
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« on: March 19, 2021, 08:39:06 PM »

Instead, it was Biden who squeaked out the victory with <1% wins in three critical states. Oops, totally wrong and should be ashamed of myself.

You shouldn't be ashamed of yourself for getting a call wrong. You should instead be ashamed of yourself for the fact that your self-chosen role on this forum is to roast the polling industry and Atlas liberals for their miscalibrated psephology, but then get hyperdefensive when given a taste of your own medicine and get called out on an incorrect prediction.

I am a defensive person in general, but if you interpret me to be hyperdefensive when I point out how wrong I was in some aspects of the post, then it's not worth arguing over.  Especially considering in this post I was shotgunning an election two years away, I am more than willing to call out my own predictions that turned out to be false. I will and do have opinions about why certain things are wrong though, and defensively go after those who are launching smears and character attacks for thinking differently. I will not cave or apologize to that mob mentality, especially when there are many, many posters who are far more aggressive and militant in their approach than I am (they just happen to all be of a certain ideology). Also, my 'role' here isn't meant to be a role and isn't set in stone. If others would like to join me in calling out groupthink that would be welcome Smiley

Except neither of those are at all what IBNU/Liberal Hack was doing with their initial reply, so by the logic of your own standard which you just set out here, your "defensively go[ing] after" their reply wasn't necessary, yet you chose to do so anyway & in an evidently "hyperdefensive" manner. So, y'know, maybe forgive us for thinking that you were quick to "get hyperdefensive when given a taste of your own medicine" when that's seemingly exactly what you did here in this thread.
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brucejoel99
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Posts: 19,938
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« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2021, 01:43:30 PM »

Exemplary of a genre of political forecasting that's aged incredibly poorly. Treating trump as immume to all laws of politics and rather as an inevitable force of history.

Congrats on finding this thread. I'm sure it was worth your time. As I said at the time, I genuinely don't care nor do I find it embarrassing or anything. I thought Trump would win at the time and I had reason to.

But you do care... You're writing like three paragraph responses to every bit of critique.

Don't point out the inconsistencies, just focus on the entertainment value thereof instead.
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