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[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

That's the point I was making. They never say what rights, and never clarify when asked again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

some yes, granted its missing a comma but yea, they want to dodge giving an actual reason, most of the time its just a rights issue. or sometimes they just say they don't level with her

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

sadly I have to agree with this, I definitely think its a mix of both sexism and racism. For many that was a "quiet part". I also had that experience, being an independent has let me talk to both sides since I was swaying either way and well, that was a reoccurring trait that I saw when asking friends who voted for trump why they did.

For democratic voters it was always "I can't let Trump win because he's an offensive racist prick" and for republican voters if it wasn't abortion first thing, it was generally a no statement, usually it was a "i don't actually like trump, but I can't vote for the other side, she doesn't follow my values" or something similar, but if you actually pushed for said values, no value was ever provided.

This doesn't help the fact that many people are just so sick of mainstreamed politics that they are actively ignoring it. Which means that they just fall into whatever name they have heard in their experiences. unfortunately that is not something that is going to be able to be fixed by either side. Many friends who were unable to give reasons were also part of that category. The "I hate politics, everyone sucks and I am either not voting, or just going to vote what I'm used to voting" Many of them have no clue about half of the stuff that he did in the first place so theres nothing for them to dislike. They just don't watch anything political, so their news sources are twitter, and ads that appear as they surf the web.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I mean, I can see it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Him dropping out wasn't his biggest mistake. Him choosing to drop out months after the primary process was his biggest downfall. He basically fucked the democratic party because he couldn't swallow his ego and drop out when it was clear his popularity among the country was dwindling even in the party itself. Every advisor he had said "hey you likely shouldn't run again" but he stayed, Hell fucking Obama even told him "yo you aren't going to win this". His stubbornness to run for a second term is what killed the chances of a democratic win here.

additional note: I don't blame him though, like I could not imagine working my entire life up to that moment, and then having to say "I wasn't the change I wanted to be I need to let someone else take the reins", it must have been such a blow to his self confidence. The fact that he dropped out at all was a show of strength. I don't think him dropping out at the point he was in changed the outcome overall, the damage in my eyes was done as soon as he decided to continue with the primaries knowing he was losing support

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

keep in mind this opinion also promises that it can't be fixed, as the more blue voters that leave the red leaning states the more power those red leaning states have. Moving to a blue leaning state only removes the blue votes from the red leaning state in favor of increasing the power of an already blue state.

Of course if he somehow manages to find a way to do away with the election process this would be true, but currently the best bet overall is going to be stay in your state, honestly if you can lower solid blue districts in favor of saturating red districts that's the best option but that's a difficult task.

Our system does not operate under popular vote. It runs off the electoral college, its the main reason red states want to gerrymander the district lines to make all black areas be their own district, its less damage if every opponent is in the same district as it allows only one district to be in opposition instead of multiple.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago

their choices make it harder and harder to actually want to support their project. I haven't seen a good PR release from then in ages.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Well that much is obvious, if I understood the situation correctly, he basically brute forced his way into being the primary candidate. They tried to run a different person and he more or less said "fuck you I'll just run anyway" and threatened to run independent/third party which would have split the republican vote and would have meant a loss for the republican party.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I didn't realize Atari owned most of those style games, they basically deadlocked that market to themselves, interesting

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

While I disagree with the bullet point, this is meant for streams that are exclusively that content, the actual guideline is this:

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