People can write in a name. That’s a protest vote, and one that should be fine in a mandatory voting system as seen in literally all the places it is.
A good candidate would be a great idea to help deal with apathy from a difficult to vote in system but making it easier would also be a huge step up.
Both things are needed and I wish could be done in any order. But not voting at all is definitely the goal of one side more than the other.
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Is that supposed to be vocal?
And spreading the story of it is a good starting point for getting it outside of smaller niches. Cause this has been a tool for thousands of years that has pretty ok success rate.
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They want people to be “cheap”.
Hard to have value when there is plenty to go around and you can just take what you want for free.
It actually has historic precedent. Women have been using lack of sex and companionship with men for lots of issues they championed from suffrage to even early prohibition.
It’s not just a counter culture of issues with dating but a protest. I think that makes it a bit different really.
Get ready for all the stages of grief at the same time and I’ll warn you.
Most people get stuck on denial and anger.
Of Obama for sure. Actually passed stuff instead of worked in them and everyone sorta patted them in the back saying “good job, at least you tried” about stuff.
A lot of those bills were basic spending bills that would have had to pass anyways with a title. Resuming loan forgiveness as it is written was nice but was hard to view as a positive and without the right PR completely missed as a positive by many.
Which is his biggest mistake. We didn’t hear about his cabinet. No big speeches and pushing of younger replacements. No bully pulpit. Kamala showed up to break a tie a couple times but they just did it as a formality.
Being the president isn’t supposed to just be a business man managing the books but the face and inspiration of a nation. It’s a social role as well as functional. He failed that job completely. He was the right president for the wrong time. Him not accepting that made him worse.
I’m not very old but Biden certainly wasn’t for me.
He now gave us Trump as a second term so I would lower him further.
He gave us a nudge back into status quo in a world that is raging against it. If you were already comfortable with status quo before no wonder you view it as a miracle but it was not exactly good for a large portion even though they may end up worse after the shakeup.
Trump is and was still the worst. But I think I do represent the electorates desire for change even if I have been having to hold my nose and vote against it for the greater good while the crazies let rip and go for broke on a dream.
It’s wild that there was this like straight talking past the voters from the Democratic party complaining about Harris having to be “perfect” when most of the people with complaints directly stated what the issue they wanted covered was. Like as if there was some mystery of what the undecided voters wanted while ignoring it.
I will also put full blame on the Democratic Party. There is no one else to blame at this point. You can’t gesture at 40+% of the populace and say somewhere in there a few thousand people could maybe have done things better. It’s like jousting a windmill. They won’t hear the complaints.
It was picked who they wanted to vote for them, if it didn’t work they needed a different strategy or a wider voter base maybe?
I swear people also seemingly forget the protest votes in the primary and say “we should have voiced our concerns then” as if that wasn’t exactly that and what made us get “Biden but as a woman of color”. People have been barely choking down Biden policies since 2020. Ugh. But it’s us that’s wrong right Blitzø?
If it’s relative,
But it’s not. It’s not the same thing. You are assuming that’s equal but it’s not. It’s not work trips but his job and place where his home is.
I’m done responding to you but you need to stop assuming you know other people and everything right.
There isn’t other people agreeing with you in here. It’s just you. And it’s gonna make you lonely.
That is one thing.
I think it’s hard for people to know they are wrong.
They know what they know. It just might be wrong.
I don’t want to start at assuming that cause if I did that during an experiment we might miss something that we don’t expect. And people don’t respond well to an already shut door and shouting. We know people regress into their positions harder most of the time too.
I believe you got to give them an out and hope they take it. If they don’t so be it but if you never gave them an open door how can they move on?
An American could fly to Japan on holiday, an Italian could take the train to Germany, a Chinese national could boat to Singapore. Just because you can go somewhere else doesn’t change were you reside.
He could leave. So could lots of others, it’s not exactly a simple thing and not exactly a unique to him thing. You still care about your house when you leave home.
You are now changing the goal on what you said cause you still feel like you don’t want to be wrong but it’s really ok. I won’t judge you for backing off the ledge.
You said he wasn’t in the US, but he is. You imply he doesn’t care but that’s an opinion you can’t prove without being him. Just move on. You owe nothing to this argument and gain nothing for it. I hope you can, cause I already am.
Hope you get a moment to breath.
Apparently not that easy if you are alone in it right?
Maybe consider you are missing something. It’s not wrong to not side with everyone else but it should make you stop and consider it and then you can continue if you want. I’m just trying to give you the moment for reflection.
I agree that middle of the roading is not helpful and can normalize terrible things by act of just making them seem less terrible cause it was right next to better options but that’s not the same as directly advocating for it.
And we already aren’t sure you are comprehending their position with the right tone, I’m not sure more examples will help your case. Or even what you are trying to say as none of us are seeing it with you.
It’s ok to pause and get yourself and your points together. I hope you find what’s worth being committed to and what’s ok to drop and let go of cause right now I think you are confused and could use it.
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What the heck? But he’s not “in” the UK either. He films in the US and lives in the US and performs in the US.
You are changing definitions of things and somehow you have decided fandom is a slur? I get it. I don’t like modern fandoms but like very different culture from people just trying to correct you on basic blunders.
I just don’t actually get your points at all. You could think we were deflecting or apologizing for him. But fandom?
What?
Like what??
That video is him mostly gently middle of the road hand holding about how he thinks it’s a bad decision but he won’t say it to directly cause he is always scared of backlash and thinks his job as comedian is to ruffle no feathers.
I don’t like him very much but… No? You are actually way off here and somehow reading something way more out of this in a way I don’t understand as an outside observer.
Giving a gist is not being right. I just really think you need to take a moment and reconsider your base and set some foundation. And not presuming we see what you see when looking for your proof.
There is somehow always a moving Boogeyman in here.
And yet it’s everyone else that has to grow up.
With early voting and the roar of everything this is too late to make a huge wave difference I think.
What’s up with the grow up comment. I’m just talking about the strategy being ineffective. It’s completely random.
And you are acting like a basic act of signing up for a site let’s you stereotype people without consequence. It takes only you to not only use that identity piece to immediately treat people differently.
And sure. Other people had a conversation. I’m just asking, what you added? Them not being like you doesn’t make your response any different or more necessary.
Ohh ok.