I wasn't kidding, it is actually the blog of that market research/polling firm.

It's dressed up a bit to make it seem like it's delivering news, but it's primarily just writing up their own market research and polling data in the form of articles, or more accurately, blog posts.

This poll is a notable outlier... The article is basically just a blog post from the polling outfit itself...

Here's results on 65 different polls for Michigan:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/us/elections/polls-president-michigan.html

The vast majority of polls have Trump leading Michigan, but a lot of those are also within the margin of error and otherwise very close.

What is with Lemmy's insistence on pretending that the debate either didn't hurt Biden, or actually helped him?

It's like a lot of people here actually believe that by pretending nothing is wrong, that means nothing is wrong.

FYI that New York Times link is simply an easy aggregated URL that shows the results for, and then directly links to 65 different polls for Michigan.

This poll is a notable outlier... The article is basically just a blog post from the polling outfit itself...

Here's results on 65 different polls for Michigan:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/us/elections/polls-president-michigan.html

The vast majority of polls have Trump leading Michigan, but a lot of those are also within the margin of error and otherwise very close.

What is with Lemmy's insistence on pretending that the debate either didn't hurt Biden, or actually helped him?

It's like a lot of people here actually believe that by pretending nothing is wrong, that means nothing is wrong.

It's just complete ignorance of the Iranian political system and at some level, a buy-in on the media's relentless anti-Iranian propaganda.

Far be it from me to defend a theocracy, or Mullahs, but...wait, I won't they're horrible.

However, Iran's theocracy is far less insidious than the Gulf Monarchies, so I guess it's better by default?

Oh, and no candidate is allowed to run unless they are signed off on by the Ayatollah, so there's that caveat as well.

You aren't thinking this through and all the wonderful possibilities.

Just imagine if we let private prisons "loan" out low risk prisoners to local businesses.

BAM! Now you get to spread the cost savings of prison labor to the wider economy.

And that's just me spitballing. I got so many good ideas on what we can do with our newly enslaved poors, err... I mean criminally homeless deviants.

Interesting that they allowed these two issues within the same piece of propaganda, considering these are the same class of people who enabled the elite to entirely remove any politics relating to the improvement of material economic conditions for working class people from public debate, or elections, and replace it entirely with the politics of culture war.

This is public record due to their financial reporting obligations as public company, but their password sharing crackdown resulted in not insignificant amounts of new subscribers.

Or at least, there was meaningful growth that occurred in time periods that aligned with those policies going into effect.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/09/business/netflix-password-sharing-results/index.html

I can't believe you would blame the CIA for problems in Kenya.

I'm pretty sure notable CIA alumni even tried to promote Kenyan tourism.

It's kinda like atheists who pray during bad turbulence, might as well give it a shot.

The reason he fell from favor was a coordinated and relentless media attack and smear campaign because he was beholden to Old Labour values, and not New Labour's brand of limp dick neoliberalism.

That may sound overly simplistic and vulgar, but it's accurate, and if anything, less vulgar than the smear campaign that was used to gun down his political career as party leader.

Uh I'm pretty sure they offer trauma counseling to all those contractors.

I mean, sure, it's from a sub-contracted provider, TraumaBots (powered by ChatGPT 3.5), but I've heard only 36% of TraumaBot's patients end up killing themselves.

So... I'd call that a win/win.

He killed the man who had molested him for years not as revenge, but because he HAD STARTED TO MOLEST HIS 6YR OLD NEPHEW.

He should have NEVER gone to prison, much less be deported.