• catloaf@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    No convicted felon had ever won a presidency before… but no convicted felon has ever lost a presidency before, either. If you want to study that variable, you have to have the data.

    The comic might be doing that, but the entire point of the comment is to show that it’s illogical. It’s literally titled “The problem with statements like…”

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      7 months ago

      Yeah, both are “This has never happened before, [until?..]”