pivot_root @ pivot_root @lemmy.world

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Not be that guy, but the person you're replying to isn't exactly wrong in saying "every vote counts is wrong" in some cases.

Being pedantically literal, yes, every vote is counted.

The reality of First Past The Post voting and the Electoral College is that the only votes that "count" insofar that they actually affect the outcome of an election are votes for the winning party. Now add on to that the common understanding that both major parties only care about what their corporate donors have to say, and that individual voter participation isn't likely to influence anything other than the party campaign strategy for the next election.

That means that if enough people vote as a collective to flip which party wins, then and only then does their vote count for anything meaningful. People should vote anyways, but it's not hard to see why someone might be just a little bit disenfranchised when their participation in the democratic process seems to result in nothing but wasted time because they live next to a bunch of a conservative hicks.

You are absolutely right about smaller state and local elections, though. Those are where each vote actually has a chance to be meaningful.

A more depressing and less bat shit insane take I heard from a few of them is that "it will hurt but it needs to happen" and "everybody takes advantage of America and Trump will change that".

Where cult stupidity doesn't work, propaganda still does.

The only difference would be his location.

At this point I’m unsure if he just didn’t understand the letters were superimposed

He seems to genuinely think they're part of the tattoo. From another interview:

Trump kept insisting: “No, no: He had ‘MS’ as clear as you can be, not ‘interpreted.’"

No, no. You see, "swamp" was actually an acronym:

Socalists,
Women,
And
Marginalized
Persons

As far as I see, he's done an unprecedentedly tremendous job draining the government SWAMP. /s

Trump kept insisting: “No, no: He had ‘MS’ as clear as you can be, not ‘interpreted.’"

That is astonishingly—but unsurprisingly—stupid.

It's one thing to insist that tattoos of a weed leaf, a smily face with "x" for its eyes, a cross, and a skull are pictographs for "M S 1 3". It's another to be such a dumbass that you think the superimposed text trying to explain that interpretation is the tattoo.

"The 'elites' are driving stock prices down to make Trump look bad. He's being blamed for Democrat fraud" or something along those lines.

If it means collecting more taxes and finding new excuses to send minorities to the El Salvador concentration camp, it will magically find funding before next week.

It certainly is more cultured than them, at least.

I don’t know what they teach in journalism school

It's not what they don't teach. It's that what they do teach is immediately and unobjectionally discarded by the oligarch paying their salary.

If something doesn't benefit the ownership or the ideals promoted by the ownership, it won't be published. If it's in opposition to the ownership or their ability to retain wealth and power, the journalists behind it won't be employed any longer. Outside of publicly-funded or independent journalism, journalistic integrity and unbiased reporting are practically dead.

This is what happens when news and media are consolidated into a few large conglomerates owned by a wealthy few.

I think it would depend on whether Canada's new government is willing to play ball. If they're not willing to kiss Trump's ass and give America the preferential treatment that he's trying to extort from the country, there's going to be more than just a one-off passing comment about it. Probably a woe-is-me "Canada is taking advantage of us" campaign, I reckon.

They railroaded Clinton into being the 2016 candidate and appointed Harris as the 2024 one. The DNC leadership doesn't care what their constituents actually want.

Uncoincidentally, that's why said leadership needs to be replaced.

A) Reporting facts of public opinion is never illegal.

So far. If the crybaby gets what he wants, it will be.

D) YOU CANNOT RUN FOR PRESIDENT AGAIN YOU FUCKING RUBE!

Alas, when has the constitution actually stopped him? His supporters fully support this blantantly corrupt crap, and he's even selling "Trump 2028" merch.

China might not be the worst option if you had to pick any of the BRICS countries. Lots of people, not landlocked, and huge potential for business. Canada absolutely shouldn't trust them for anything involving defense or global politics, but they at least have more stability than we do as a trade partner.

As for trusting BRICS as a whole... fuck no. Least of all, Russia.

either a troll or a shill.

A tankie. To her credit, though, sometimes she makes good points about topics related to communism like class warfare and how exploitative capitalism is. This was not one of those times, unfortunately.

Just a really bad shill take of supporting the authoritarian-"communist" countries that conveniently ignore the communist ideals of no hierarchical power structures and being run by the people.

@Sunshine@lemmy.ca said those countries are authoritarian, and your response is to say "so is this one, and you're racist"?

You're not even denying Sunshine's claim, you're just redirecting to a different topic and attacking the beliefs you prescribed to someone else. Just strawmen and ad hominem attacks. Nice.

A tankie is a hardcore authoritarian communist. They're people who support governments and politics like Russia, China, and North Korea. Nearly everyone who learns of them can't stand them, and they don't have any support outside their own echo chambers or as "useful idiots" to authoritarian governments.

Anyone who says tankies are a bigger threat to the US than the Trump administration is either stupid or using it as a strawman to tactily support Trump.

If you do, better hope it's not loaded.

In a Musk-approved world:

• You're hit by a Tesla in FSD mode, the driver gets sued for not driving.
• You're hit by a fully autonomous Tesla taxi, you get sued for vandalism.
• You're the driver and FSD hit someone, you get sued.
• You're the owner and the car hits someone while you're not in it, you get sued for owning it.
• You're the owner and it catches fire with you inside, you(r estate) gets sued for "not maintaining it".

Is there no law enforcements with weapons in your courts?

American cops don't protect American people. First and foremost, they protect their own. Beyond that, they protect the establishment that gives them their authority.