ctkatz @ ctkatz @lemmy.ml

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I'm assuming nothing. but if he did win, a ruling like that would not surprise me at all.

not necessarily. if he dies our democrats governor gets to pick the next senator despite what an unconstitutional law says.

I would and for the most part have used private trackers for either a specific type of thing or a specific kinda obscure or not very popular title. I find that the more not well known a thing is, the more likely it's going to be found and (re)seeded on a private tracker.

I was able to ask for an invite on a public forum, and I was able to use my demonoid (remember demonoid?) stats as proof back when they were semi private.

if you can show that you are a good and consistent uploader someone usually will sling an invite your way.

I'm not really a fan because in a lot of cases it forces you to download stuff you might not want just to establish and maintain an acceptable ratio so eventually you can get the stuff you do want.

if I wanted something obscure and not really interested in the popular thing I'm either wasting bandwidth and/or server space starting out or searching for that thing on a public tracker.

the one private tracker I do use is extremely generous with upload credits for newbies and I was able to take advantage of that plus contribute something right away so I didn't and still don't have any issues but I know that's not the case with some people.

no, but it would stop biden from doing official acts as president such as calling up seal team 6 and having them terminate with extreme prejudice certain key individuals to ensure he stays in office.

and because the evilgelical christian nationalists who worship the ground trump walks on supports israel (but they support israel because it's necessary for the rapture and the return of their god in their death cult, but trump doesn't know or care about that).

thankfully michigan voters did not snub joe biden.

he won 80% of the votes cast. in an uncontested primary biden got more than 610k votes. he beat uncommitted 6 to 1.

despite what people are trying to put out there, the results clearly say biden is on strong footing.

uncommitted barely got more of a percentage of the vote than they normally do. is it "political suicide" because they got more than 100k votes? for every vote uncommitted got, biden got 6. if 100,000 people voted in the primary and we had the same vote distribution, uncommitted would have 13,000 votes.

that's not political suicide. political suicide would be if uncommitted got enough of a threshold to win delegates from the statewide pool. as it ended up last night, they only pulled 2 delegates out of 117 on offer, those 2 coming from one congressional district.

people who are pushing that story are trying to sew democratic chaos and discontent when the democratic party is very much in array.

either that or putting his thumb on scale to get another trump presidency so that he can retire with trump in office.

you only need 4 to hear the case, and I'm pretty sure I know who the 4 are.

they're taking the case, not to reverse the decision but to stall the cases, hopefully past the election where trump would win and moot out these cases.

and in that situation, watch them rule 9-0 after trump is sworn in that the immunity trump says he has doesn't exist.

you continue to assume that all of those uncommitted voters will be not biden voters in november and you assume that all of the haley voters will vote for trump. you are also assuming that everyone who voted in the primary are the total number of people who will be voting in november.

I'm not the one who doesn't understand how voting works here.

fuck him. he should resign from the senate completely.

sincerely, lifetime kentucky resident

I'm not a fan of state sponsored genocide either. but I can only blame progressives for this situation. for the progressive base, if a candidate doesn't hit every. single. one. of their pet issues, they won't vote. and if they do vote but their candidate loses they get all upset and tune out and snipe at what the actual elected democrats are (or are not) doing.

instead of tuning out, they should have been getting involved either running for elected office or running for local party positions themselves. look at the republican party. they didn't all of a sudden go fringe batshit crazy overnight. they built up a bench of insane by running for stuff on the local levels and taking over the party from the inside.

if you want change, y'all are going to have to put in the sweat equity and work for it. just voting is not going to be sufficient anymore. and this is something that I have never seen the progressive base do when they have the numbers to do it. I can definitely tell you that withholding your vote is a 100% guarantee that none of your issues get addressed because the thinking in the party will be, "this bloc of voters are not reliable. putting in the resources and doing what a group of flakey voters wants is a waste of time and money. best to focus on people who are reliable and reliably voting for us already." and if the people who actually vote say our foreign policy is fine, that's what the party is going to do.

is it really?

if that's what you need to do to console yourselves after getting shellacked last night, go ahead.

that's 2 delegates out of 117 on offer.

people who are concerned about how biden is handling gaza were always going to be heard because that's how biden rolls. nothing has changed in this regard. and if those are the only 2 delegates who can uncommitted out of almost 2000 who officially vote for the candidate and set the convention schedule it's virtually nothing.

ignoring what results?

biden beat uncommitted 6 to 1.

uncommitted finished slightly higher than what uncommitted normally runs.

what you have in this thread are people trying to convince themselves that barely getting more of a percentage of the vote that uncommitted normally gets is a huge statement because a lot of people voted for their issue, while totally ignoring the number of people who voted overall and the other reasons why people would vote uncommitted.

sure they will. but a lot won't. you still don't know how many. and you are absolutely fooling yourself if you believe that all of those uncommitted people are going to be not biden voters.

rural areas generally have lower levels of education and are conservative in general.

christian nationalism thrives when there is no critical thinking and long time traditions are enforced.

it's not a surprise. it's also not a coincidence these are the same people who will pull out a map of how counties voted in 2016 or 2020 and try to convince you that the nation is a sea of red.

the democratic primary was uncontested. the republican primary technically speaking is still being contested. there is no reasonable incentive for a democratic primary voter to turn out. the fact that over 800k votes were cast in a one man race says a whole lot about democratic energy.

being obtuse is trying to say that being outvoted 6:1 on a issue that is undefined is a historic event. biden's handling of gaza is one reason to vote uncommitted. but so is being concerned about biden's age. but so is joe biden not being bernie sanders.

and by the way, you have no idea how many people who voted for haley or republican uncommitted (or democratic uncommitted for that matter) will end up voting for biden in november. to assume that every republican primary voter is going to be a guaranteed trump vote and every uncommitted democratic primary voter is a guaranteed not biden voter is stupid.

but here's what we did find out last night. the majority of democratic primary voters last night don't have an issue with the way biden is handling things. compared with other primaries this protest movement vote made no impact. now if you need to tell yourselves 100k voters means something to ease the disappointment, go right ahead. just know the actual results don't back you up.

for every 1 vote uncommitted got, biden got 6.

michigan opened up more opportunities to go vote so more people voted. that was a historic vote the same way trump got the second most votes in a presidential election and still lost by 7 million. uncommitted ended up getting a few more points than they normally get. that's not historic.