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Also it is a video. Asking literate people to go watch a video is disrespectful of their time.



It is a video of a guest on the view saying the words that i typed. It was "citing a source."


The View is just a chit-chat show anyway, so a source that proves that somebody said something on it doesn’t prove anything compelling.

Anyway, my computer can’t play YouTube (ad blocking issues).

The underlying thing that is annoying people, I think, is that this is (as far as I can tell based on what you’ve written) a factual mathematical issue. That sort of thing is easily conveyed via text and equations. Why would anybody want to watch a video of somebody explaining math?


> The View is just a chit-chat show anyway, so a source that proves that somebody said something on it doesn’t prove anything compelling.

This is a fallacy. I repeated numbers, that person was also repeating numbers, however, they're on a national news program and no one has given any reason that the numbers stated were wrong. It does not matter who says something, you have to weigh it on the merits of the statements.

It isn't a "factual mathematical issue" it's a sociological issue, and it's bearing out in this comment thread - burying one's head in the sand because "Los Angeles is bigger and has more people" or "land doesn't vote" or "so what, it wasn't a majority" is missing the forest for the trees. Something about the platform did not work for our neighbors. A platform that worked in 2008, 2012, (2016 if you reckon the pundits are correct), and 2020 - it ceased working in 2024; and merely "doing the same thing" going forward won't work.

I think the unspoken part is this: "If the left just pushes on as it has been, the midterms and 2028 aren't going to be '1.5%' margins"

People often assume i am part of the opposition party.




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