That wasn't anywhere in my original posts though…
I'm trying to understand which part of what I originally said that made you think I was saying the opposite of what I was meaning, cause I'm not okay with giving THAT impression. Lol!
Which line exactly? Because my entire rant was about to get better candidates WITHOUT giving votes to fascists… Because giving them unchecked votes pisses me TF off…
You seem to think I'm someone I'm not…
I didn't protest during the GE, or abstain from voting, I vote for Dems, and I always vote for them in the GE… For YEARS I've been consistently saying that not voting for the Dems in the general election is going to get us exactly what we got…
You missed the part where I was talking about the primaries and said that not voting or voting third party in the general was the reason we're here… Primaries are for protesting with blank ballots, general elections are for voting for the least bad candidate, it's not hard…
To be clear:
Everyone that didn't vote for Biden/Harris in the 2020 general election is responsible for us having MAGA now. They protested the candidates incorrectly by stating home during the primaries, and THAT'S why we never get better candidates, and again in the general, giving us MAGA.
No, doing that in the GENERAL is what allowed that to happen, because MAGA votes were left unchecked, but not doing it in the PRIMARY is why the Dems keep putting up terrible candidates. This is why I explicitly stated primaries, because not voting against fascism in a general is dangerous…
>or vote for a candidate that doesn't have a fighting chance is allowing votes for the worst candidate to go unchecked, but this isn't typically a big problem outside the general election, and when it is, vote for the best opposing candidate and leave the rest blank.It's the only way to force change
Like it or not, the parties don't think you care if you don't cast a ballot and this is evident in how they talk, so that's what the action of not voting gets interpreted as: disinterest…
If you cast an empty ballot it says you cared a hell of a lot and hated the candidates.
Now, yes, any non-vote>
I wouldn't even go that far but I think there's a much higher standard for knowing when you put it on your body, and even then, it's the progression of his response that's the most disturbing: He didn't immediately say he was gonna get rid of it, but I woulda been sick to my stomach if it was me…
It's ALMOST like people can have internalized bigotry against their own minority, or against their spouse's minority…
What an absolute nimrod…
Just a reminder that casting a nearly blank ballot says you're an engaged voter that doesn't like the candidates, while not voting says that you are not an engaged voter and that you don't care about politics right now…
If you want better candidates, you gotta show up and vote, it's that simple…
You HAVE to cast a ballot for your voice to be heard, even if you don't pick ANY candidates…Y'all think not voting tells them you're mad, but it doesn't, and THAT'S why they keep getting away with shitty candidates…And THEN y'all also refused to vote in the general election and that's why we're here
Empty primary ballots say you're pissed, not voting in primary or general says you don't care. Staying home's why we're here…
How many people are going to die because leftists weren't happy with the candidates and refused to vote when it mattered because"I'm not going to vote for anyone,so why go?"
I love that they treated UIs like a set piece, something that needed attention to detail and told a part of the story, not just something that should be functional and blend into the background… I especially loved when different chars/factions got their own UI that tells you a bit more about them. 😁
So what I'm hearing is, if I'm 50/50 for going to the hospital, I'll have better odds if I ask ChatGPT Health what I should do, and then do the opposite…
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Got it!
Ehhhh, probably not…
Nowadays they tend to make people register as sex offenders for public nudity, sometimes even when it's as simple as drunkenly peeing in an alley… Best not roll those dice…
TBH, I'm surprised, he seems to have been quite restrained in his lying if he's barely cracking one every 25 seconds…
Ah, i'd say it's liberal and conservative that are the mix/spectrum, & R and D specifically exclude anyone not in the respective cult, putting everyone else in I, which is why I'm a 2A leftist, not a D. The system is built to enforce group think and binary choices, not critical thinking and nuance.😮💨
Agreed, though I would suggest that a good chunk of people, (like me) want it to go back to how it was under Biden on the way to getting where it should be, strictly about keeping out criminals. I just don't think it's realistic to believe we can get it there in a single step, unfortunately… 🤬
I want everyone to be able to move freely, but we don't currently have a framework to do that without causing crime to skyrocket.
That said, border security shouldn't be more than just making sure you aren't wanted here or in the other country…
Eliminating borders can only be positive when you have a way to ensure people don't use them to evade accountability, and currently our police, terrible as they often are, are the only thing providing any criminal accountability, as rare as it can be…
I mean, there's definitely organized crime moving back and forth across the border, so yes. We have some of the largest human trafficking rings operating here, and they cross borders all the time because the lack of law enforcement cooperation makes it easier to get away with terrible crimes…
I get it, there's a lot of dumbfuckery going around and it's absolutely exhausting. I have to work really hard sometimes to make sure I'm not assuming the worst of everything. 🥺
That depends on how you define independents. Out of R, D, I: Where are they? In I…
I read the whole thread, multiple times, specifically to see how it could be interrupted your way, and I just don't see a way to reasonably read it that way, and I think everyone else is reading it the same way I am…
I think you're inferring something that isn't implied…
Buff's post implied that centrists are independents, but it does not imply that ALL independents are centrists, let alone that centrists and independents are identical, both of which I would agree would obviously be absurd.
It's not about going back to the beginning, it's about the fact that the guy you were replying to was referring to a specific subset of the independents in the OP you were referencing, so the two posts aren't referring to the same group of people, and you're acting like they are…
That's not actually what you replied to though, and that's why you're being dragged. Either you replied to the wrong post, or you're assigning a meaning from the OP that wasn't even implied in what you replied to, which only mentioned centrists and apoliticals:
Almost 250 years after we broke with George III, the question must now be faced: Are we a monarchy or a nation of laws? [Cartoon by Bill Bramhall]
Except Jews can be Anti-Semitic just like any other marginalized group can have learned bigotry against their own group. Plenty of homophobic gays, racist PoC, and anti-semitic Jews in the world. It's what happens when people try to distance themselves from their minority in order to escape bigotry…
Don’t turn on the State of the Union on Tuesday. Make it the lowest rated in history.
