Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency

Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by PaulDavisThe1st on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @02:00PM (#42067467)

This teaching thing is a terrible comparison. As a teacher you have a captive audience with a (somewhat) agreed upon goal: the student(s) are going to learn something.

This is absolutely not the model for candidate<->electorate relationships in any way. If anything, the elector(ate) wants the candidate to simply tell them things that confirm what they think they already know.

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Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by aydyn on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @02:56PM (#42068378)

Are you serious? The entire nation was fully captivated this election cycle.

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Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by PaulDavisThe1st on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @03:36PM (#42068951)

Captivated is not captive, and even if it is etymologically adjacent, most of the electorate did not expect to have to learn about stuff like econometrics ...

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Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by aydyn on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @04:36PM (#42069811)

Then I meant captivated AND captive. Why are you being pedantic?

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Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by PaulDavisThe1st on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @06:15PM (#42071047)

How was anybody captive? I didn't see a single campaign ad or watch a single rally, except for a couple of brief excerpts that I chose to.

You're missing the critical point: it's not about captive, it's just that this helps with the critical point, which is an expectation of learning taking place, rather than worldviews/prejudices confirmed.

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Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by aydyn on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @07:51PM (#42071976)

I see, I missed that nuance in your point.

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