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gulliver

(13,601 posts)
2. This is a chance for Dem leaders to shine or not
Thu Oct 30, 2025, 12:30 PM
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Statistics aren't going to do anything but backfire. It amazes me. Somehow we think that saying that data points to whites being the majority recipients of food stamps is a good argument. Somehow we think that saying the majority of food stamps go to red states is a good argument.

SMH, we really need to get some people out there who understand both statistics and rhetoric. A naive, tendentious use of statistics is bad rhetoric. It's a one-two punch of asking to lose the argument.

We're already facing video examples of our lunch getting eaten by Republicans. Our leadership has to be prepared with better video examples. And calling the Republican examples "AI generated" is just another example of someone trying to make an argument for our side and not having the basic ability to make a good argument.

I look, and I still don't see us getting in the game. We need to center our best players, not the ones who touch all the nice feely points with us, but the ones who win arguments.

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Can't stand writing like this. Grins Thursday #1
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