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Dan Gillmor
Dan Gillmor
@dangillmor@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

Gallup polling organization joins the quislings, announcing it'll stop doing presidential approval surveys, not coincidentally just when Trump's negatives are super-high.

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5733236-gallup-stops-presidential-approval-ratings-polls/

The Hill

Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years

Gallup will no longer track presidential approval ratings after more than eight decades doing so, the public opinion polling agency confirmed to The Hill on Wednesday. The company said starting thi…
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Personne
Personne
@per_sonne@ciberlandia.pt replied  ·  activity timestamp 16 hours ago

@dangillmor

"There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy.

Remember this, Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they’ve already enlisted in the cause.

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

And remember this: the Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.

Remember that. And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empires’s authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege.

Remember this: Try."

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KanaMauna
KanaMauna
@KanaMauna@sauropods.win replied  ·  activity timestamp 21 hours ago

@dangillmor

Gallup has gone deep into weird pseudoscience personality assessments and have been heavily marketing their CliftonStrengths material. I suspect they make more money there.

https://www.gallup.com/cliftonstrengths/en/home.aspx

Gallup.com

CliftonStrengths

Learn how the CliftonStrengths assessment (StrengthsFinder) empowers organizations, managers and millions of people to succeed.
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MakeArmy
MakeArmy
@makearmy@mastodon.makearmy.io replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@dangillmor This is absolutely wild.

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Marge Towers
Marge Towers
@rose@linuxrocks.online replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@dangillmor In fairness to Gallup, I surrendered my lunch money when the alternative was a savage beating.

Sadly, that was just *yesterday*.

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Spocko
Spocko
@spocko@mastodon.online replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@dangillmor

This development fits into the #Trump response pattern:

Covid numbers look bad: "STOP THE TESTING!"

Job numbers look bad: "STOP PUTTING OUT NUMBERS!"

Poll numbers look bad: "STOP THE POLLING!"
Coming next:

Election results look bad: "STOP THE VOTING!"

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