I got a good one yesterday talking to a lib when I described herding in the context of polling (when pollsters drop outliers to conform to what other polls say). Yes he trusts polls in 2022. They're "reputable companies." He really, really wants to believe the Dems will win the midterms.
Anyway I wanna hear your best ones!
That the wealthy exert ANY influence over our politics.
I didn’t say “control”
I didn’t say “run”
I didn’t say “are”
I said they have influence, period. Got called a conspiracy theorist so I said “you really think you have the same say in policy as Jeff Bezos?” And then the person replied with something like “well obviously no but that’s not what influence means.” I’m sorry, but what in the fuck DOES influence mean then?
:blob-no-thoughts: Well in Kotor 2, influence gains with your companions just meant approval points, and because policy makers don't actually like rich people, thus OBVIOUSLY they have no influence on policy :blob-no-thoughts:
this could be plausible actually, there's a depressing amount of people who learned of concepts and history through vidya :sadness: