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I can’t understand why someone would just roll over and give up when one candidate is promising a fascist dictatorship

Weird. A bug in the app switched up my replies.

What I intended to say was:

I can understand. If you're a wage earner in this country, your life does not change in any significant way based on who we elect, so why skip a badly needed day's pay to vote? There's just no point.

And when you point this out to other people, all you get in response are excuses.

This makes me think about that quote about insanity.

We've seen 40 years of Republicans getting their way no matter who we elect, so it's exceedingly difficult for me (and I imagine most people working for a wage) to understand why it even matters.

Yeah, but to me, it seems a tad backward to have Democratic leadership at the federal level, and yet, your rights still depend largely on your zip code.

I gotta say, part of me kind of admired the chutzpah, pulling this junk out of his ass against a voting bloc they are going to badly need to win, but you're not wrong. Harris built her career on the lost lives of non-violent drug users she put behind bars.

Ah, my mistake mixing them up. Thank you for the correction.

This article buries the money quote:

“We’re not a monolith,” Thompson said. “However, we are just like every other American in this country who wants a good paying job, that we can provide for our children and participate in their lives and the lives of our partner, that we can get them home safely, afford to go to the grocery store, save a little for retirement and have a vacation.”

Reminds me of the article yesterday calling out women for not having enough babies and blaming individualism and secularism instead of the fact that people can't afford to procreate.

The simple fact is that it's really hard to sell Biden 2.0 when Biden 1.0 failed people so spectacularly for people that are out there working to live. You just can't hand someone a record of failure and expect that they're going to enthusiastically support your candidacy.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it in the UN Charter that an attack on UN forces is an attack on the entire dang alliance?

What fascinates me every time this topic comes up is that, for tens of millions of Americans, social media isn't required because they're living the utterly shitty effects of our current regime's rule.

Can't afford health care or education, could find themselves homeless and bankrupt with one bad injury or illness

Working 60-80 hours a week, and that's just to cover basics

Rampant inflation for food, housing, and utilities with no end in sight

As always, a blank check for war, even if we're not actually fighting it, also a blank check for genocide against children

Cops are still killing at will, and cop cities are becoming a thing

School shootings happening almost every day

You lost the right to abortion and Dems response was to use it for fundraising

Who needs enemies with friends like these Democrats? How is it possible that there were almost no meaningful primaries after all this AND the presidential candidate was a man in obvious cognitive decline? (Granted, that's also true of Trump, but Trump isn't the one at the helm right now.) Objectively, you don't have to lie to voters when they don't care what you do in the first place.

There's plenty of evidence that social media is harmful to kids, teens, and adults. Several are referenced in this article: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/social-media-teens-mental-health

We also know that FB has used its platform to unknowingly run social experiments on users without their knowledge and helped the proliferation of misinformation to the tremendous detriment of our country and our people. With gen AI creating even more false information, it's imperative that governments crack down.

Social Media can and should be regulated just like any other objectionable form of speech.

Totally.

I was very impressed by Democrats' reaction when the Roe repeal was leaked.

They used it to raise money.

That alone is indicative of the fact that they're unsuited to govern.

Well, thank you for your perspective.

Have a nice weekend.

The Democrats here in America would love him.

I honestly think you and I are on pretty close to the same page as far as American politics are concerned

I really think we're not.

But thanks for the discussion.

What's amazing is seeing a president who isn't content to make excuses.

Nothing I say is going to change your mind, and that's okay. Thank you for the discussion.

He also dispelled the myth that one needs 60 votes to pass legislation, and yet, I still have to hear Democratic supporters make that excuse for why they never fulfill their promises.

And Harris will stand by and make excuses when the same things happen under her watch. We know this because that's what Biden and Obama have done.

So what's the point?

I don't know how much failure it'll take before Democratic voters start to realize they should make different choices if they actually want change.

The NY 'News' industry has, in recent years, routinely defended fascism as well.

I'm not sure how a person is realistically supposed to have a family when they're having to work upwards of 80 hours a week just to cover basic living expenses.

Agreed.

But 99% of voters are going to pull the lever for the same people doing absolutely nothing about it in a month here in the US. The whole thing feels pretty hopeless.

When you elect an opposition party that doesn't actually oppose anything, every issue that concerns you is in jeopardy, yes. Further, I wouldn't trust someone who built their career on locking up nonviolent drug users en masse to care much what happens to you or your family.

They certainly don't care about mine. My eighty-year old parents are driving for DoorDash, in a car I lent them, and that's the only thing separating them from homelessness and starvation.