Same. I’m so glad we somehow had cable on these things, because my class watched it happen live, right after wheeling this cart in to watch a history documentary. Lots of other teachers turned it off because tons of kids in my school had parents working in those buildings, but my teacher knew it was an important thing for us to see.
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Huh, so now it’s the verge, but less unique and creative. Not to disparage anyone doing redesigns, it’s a valiant effort.
Well I respect the sentiment, and honestly wish you the best of luck. I personally think you're making a mistake that could be quite costly, but like I said above, it's your right.
That's 100% right, voting for who you want to is not pretending, but thinking it will do something that it won't, absolutely is.
I'm sorry if I came across as bullying, that wasn't my intention. You totally have the fundamental right to vote for whoever you want, it doesn't matter what I think at all. I just feel strongly that people should have the most information possible about how our system works, because casting a vote for your preferred candidate, doesn't mean that candidate necessarily benefits from your vote.
I really don't. You said:
almost half of the country doesn’t want Harris to win. And if more of them vote for their candidate than those who vote for Harris, then she loses
And based on how our system works, that's simply not necessarily true. In this case it might be, but it also might not be. Here are a some examples:
If some of the people who don't want Harris to win, but also don't want Trump to win vote for Stein or RFK, then those votes are likely to help Harris, but depending on where those votes are cast, they might also help Trump. If Harris loses Pennsylvania, even if she wins the national popular vote, she still might lose the election. If Harris wins all or most of the swing states, but Trump gets more popular votes, Harris still wins.
See, "we are able to vote for whoever we want to win" is 100% true in theory, but depending on where you live, it's a sad fact that your vote for the president counts less than someone else's vote depending on where they live.
We have one vote per person, but each vote does not carry the same weight. Wanting our two party system to change is healthy, casting your vote by pretending it will do something it wont, is not.
That’s how democracy works in some countries, but not in the United States. We are currently stuck with the Electoral College, where the person who gets the most votes doesn’t necessarily win (see Hillary Clinton). So I’m not sure what you’re saying. I wish we lived in your world, but we don’t.
Wait, what? Is there a Russia connection that I missed? This is a pretty straightforward protest about a critical life or death humanitarian issue. When we’re taking about tens of thousands of innocent people being indiscriminately killed for no reason, the people impacted are of course allowed to express themselves however they see fit.
I’m personally going to vote for Harris, and I think everybody else should too, but it’s pretty dangerous to throw around the foreign influence card without any evidence, especially when we’re talking about a foreign power that feeds on exactly the kind of unsubstantiated rumor you’re throwing around.
Pedigreed…what the fuck is this, the Middle Ages?
Ideally, yeah, but think about the logistics of pulling something like that off. And would it be a full primary redo? Like fresh ballots sent out to all dems? Or do you mean a mini primary just with the existing delegates? Because we already voted in the Democratic primary election…
I’m just really trying to be pragmatic about this, I can’t imagine a scenario where we pull this off and come out stronger. I would love to be wrong.
Ugh. I agree that Kamala sucks, but I think it’d be a mistake to try to go with anyone else at this point. She has a pulse, a functional brain, lots of political experience, a long life ahead of her, and yeah, she’s made some terrible decisions and gaffs in her career, just like Joe Biden.
I don’t like that she was a cop, but Joe Biden chaired the Senate Judiciary committee for like 100 years, and got us Clarence Thomas, so…nobody has the moral high ground here.
We just need to win, and frankly I think if we try to go with someone new and untested, we’ll lose. We’ve been in a “lesser of two evils” situation for some time now.
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Fuck. This is clearly a stunt meant to appease people with a tiny discount on a single bill. They’ve pulled this before, and it’ll do nothing to lower our bills.
I’m a single guy with a TV and a computer, and when I moved to California less than a decade ago my energy bill averaged around $70 a month. Now it averages around $150 a month. Same behavior, twice the price. That’s unacceptable.
Reminder that at least one utility company in CA is a convicted felon for causing the deaths of multiple people in wildfires. They’re bad companies operating in bad faith.