In my state at least if a third party receives at least 5% of the vote they'll get significantly more funding in the next election cycle. Pretty sure that's true across the US.
You mean that thing that hasn't happened since Ross Perot in Texas 30 years ago?
Surely his Reform Party is still around after having their funding boosted, right? Nope, they dissolved in '97 after doing even worse at the polls in '96 than in '92.
Yet voting 3rd party sends a signal that many are upset instead of apathetically staying at home. Silent consent is the very thing you accuse Democrats of in a sister thread.
The complaint is about duplicity, not an acceptance or exoneration of those who openly agitate for it.
An ‘ally’ who goes along to get along, but has a radically different value set is not an ally. “9 people sit a a table with a Nazi and say nothing - how many Nazis are at the table?” We decry the Russians who don’t speak out against Putin, but shuffle uncomfortably when the DNC’s top candidate is pursuing a path that enables atrocities?
It's a bullshit complaint for many reasons, but one of them is that they already stated that they won't participate in an easy activity to help mitigate genocide.
Joe Biden is "only" Genocide abroad, and probably less of it.
Therefore, a vote for Joe Biden is a Vote against genocide.
No, it doesn't matter that he's an active participant in the apparatus that's creating the genocide, because if he's in office there's less genocide. Which is the important part, and pretending otherwise is sophistry. By abstaining from voting, you are increasing the likelihood of more genocide, if you discourage others from voting, you are an active participant in the overall social apparatus that is probabilistically increasing the ammount of genocide.
The utility calculation is dead simple: more votes for Biden in key states makes more genocide less likely, and discouraging people from voting for Biden makes more genocide more likely. Therefore, discouraging people from voting for Biden is a pro-genocide strategy and voting for Biden in battleground states is an anti-genocide strategy. I live in a solid blue state, so I reserve the right to vote third party, but I will also encourage other people to vote for Biden.
You should vote for Biden unless you live in a solid blue state, and even then it's not a bad idea.
Offering a sandwich with more and less peanut butter when I am allergic to peanuts still means I will be sick. I'm hungry and I want a sandwich with no peanut butter. There are third party candidates providing sandwiches with no peanut butter. I am sorry demand decreases for the sandwich with less peanut butter, but I am unable to stomach peanuts.
Alright, but it's not really about you, is it? There's untold many hungry people, some of which are allergic to peanuts, and the only crate left has nothing but.
There are several people needed to open the crate. Maybe it can be opened without you, maybe it can't maybe it's stuck regardless. But even if you don't want peanuts, it's incredibly selfish of you to not only refuse to help feed the people who can be fed but also pretend to be of upstanding moral character when you do so. So take an antacid and show up at the ballot.
He's a paperclip. One wrong word, he's bent out of shape. His rule has been barely keeping this system together! Just the barest tug, and where are we? Disorder, chaos. He can't keep a grip anymore.
No, what we need now is one with a firm, guiding hand that also knows how to be a friend. A leader we can be proud of. Someone who asks you "How's your day been, buddy?"
Eh, I can see the Proletariat deciding to direct the vast amounts of land destroyed for golf being used for public housing or returned to nature, rather than being a wasteful hobby for the elite
I don't really care for cats, but if you could talk to them you could make a fuck load of money. So I'll stay up all night making perfect pizzas, then go inform all the cat ladies why their cats hate them during the day.
I would choose the estrogen if I could but I'm still gauging family and friends to see if it's safe to come out
I wish there was a trans god who could magically change the bodies of trans people including me to their chosen gender identity so it was like they where born that gender
I have long given up on the thought if getting everyone to accept me. I grew up in texas. I am not trans, but I have chosen to start presenting more feminine.
This will be a very fun christmas when I visit because I have gotten to the point of no longer valuing any of that negativity. It turns out when you are an adult you can just say “that’s a shit opinion you shouldn’t share” and move on!
It’s especially effective if you don’t even let it affect your tone. Being cheerful and being myself seems to infuriate my mother in a way that makes her show her ass, so I’ll just let her do that.
You transition, they risk their lives with their hubris and hate. At 18 or ready to move out you just leave them.
This is partially joking, but if they really want to be that obtuse and hate filled then do you really owe them anything? Do what you want, if it's not what they want you to do then blame it on a thing (not person or group) they don't like and they will redirect hate to that instead of you. You can even blame 5G if you want.
You deserve to be yourself and they deserve what they give.
just because i deleted my post doesn’t mean im just cool with the hateful dialogue going on.
i stand by this one to a greater degree as it’s more thought out, more transparent, and posted with direct intent to call out bigotry (rather than with the intent of entertainment as the last one was).
Yup it's shame eternity hasn't been got update for loooooong time
Honestly eternity has best features compared to other lemmy apps & the most customizable lemmy app out there
I hope the dev will update the app soon
Its by far my favourite too (bcs of the just extract customisations I want - same with Infinity). Voyager might get close on visuals, but I prefer the ease/speed of use Eternity offers me.
However I never experienced crashes at all (not even with the early versions & Im using it since day 1/first apk built).
My only (and persistent) bug is related to various or possibly all sorting (posts, comments, inbox, etc), which works fine, but eg notifications in inbox don't take me to the exact post (or nowhere at all).
But I fund an ez fix - just backup your settings (in-app functionality), reset some or all settings in the app (via the app), and then restore settings (it restores everything, no additional fiddling). The whole manoeuvre takes less than a minute. Im my case resetting only sorting (not all settings) works most times.
Bro where do you live? In prison? Who is forcing you to wake up and go outside? Start depression maxing. Move to a one room apartment alone and never leave again.
All my life I wanted blue ( We're all sexy here ) but recently my libido has gone through the floor. It's like I still like I still like cute people but my brain doesn't know what to do with them, so I pet them like I do my cat.
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