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[–] [email protected] 90 points 3 months ago (23 children)

What a time to be alive. As it seems now, I was entirely wrong, as was 'conventional' political wisdom. May I continue to be wrong. It's a welcome failure, as far as I'm concerned.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (10 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (4 children)

That conventional political wisdom is getting less applicable with every year since the hell-date of 2016?

[–] jwiggler 7 points 3 months ago

Yeah, unprecedented event after unprecedented event. Still you could've been vindicated if anything mildly unfortunate had happened before the DNC. Like if Harris picked a different VP, if Vance was actually in any way adept, etc. And hey, knock on wood, but you could still be right in the end -- we probably shouldn't count our chickens before they hatch.

Good on you though for being a good sport about your previous comments. I was on the "drop out" side (not that Biden would drop out, but I thought pretty much anyone else would have a better chance), but at the end of the day I kinda think we're all talking out of our asses to a certain degree, because political science isn't actually a science at all.

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