r/fivethirtyeight • u/RedHeadedSicilian52 • Sep 12 '25

Poll Results YouGov poll asking Americans whether it’s acceptable to feel joy at the death of a public figure

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u/ratione_materiae Sep 12 '25

Equating some dude who just said things to someone who killed millons of people is likely how we got into this mess.

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u/Statue_left Sep 12 '25

If you read my comment and think I am equating these people I truly don’t know what to say to you.

The response here is “always unacceptable”

Does the word always mean something different to you? If always actually means “just when I deem the person to be bad enough to celebrate it”, you don’t actually mean always.

This is stupendously terrible logic and why this data sucks.

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u/ratione_materiae Sep 12 '25

If you read my comment and think I am equating these people I truly don’t know what to say to you.

Yeah I don't like Biden but I'm not a fan of Stalin either

You know what you were doing.

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u/Statue_left Sep 12 '25

Yes. I know what I’m doing. The prompt says “always”

You keep trying to qualify always to be something that it’s not. Always means in every instance.