I agree. This is eye opening, not just the support for a felon, but also the huge number of people who do nothing when given multiple opportunities to do something. I don’t want to help people whose idea of action is complaining on the Internet about how they can’t do anything, and sitting at home during primaries and general elections.
“And blameing the public over not voting for somone they don’t want to vote for, seems backwards.”
You are implying that there is no one to vote for. There are more than two candidates, and you can write in anyone you want. And there are many questions on the ballot. No one is blaming anyone for not voting for someone they don’t like. They’re blaming them for voting for nothing, at all, among many important races and initiatives, with the possibility of writing in anyone, then saying “You can’t blame me; there’s not something I want to vote for”.
All these Sanders supporters talking about the establishment as the reason he doesn’t win. Yet none of them voted in the primaries this year. None of them wrote him in for president. Sanders won’t win because instead of going to the polls and actually voting for him, his supporters will post on the Internet about wishing they could go to the polls to vote for him.
Oh, right I forgot that the presidential race was the only thing on the ballot in the generals, and that there weren’t primary elections for every position, including president, in multiple parties.
Except of course that’s not true, and they didn’t participate in any of that, and thus no one cares what they say. If they cared, they would have voted for someone else in the primaries. They didn’t so that means one of two things. They assumed Biden would win and were happy about it. Or they assumed he would win and couldn’t be bothered to do anything about it. So if they don’t like it, who cares what they think? They’re not going to do anything about it, so why appease them?
Instead, they’re going to whine on the Internet about how they were “shut out” of something that was completely open to them, and pretend like it’s the world’s fault, and can safely be ignored.
Yeah, I agree. People think of parties as these static things, but parties are made of people, and the people in the parties change all the time. Republicans freed the slaves and gave women the right to vote. Those aren’t the people in the party today.
The Democratic party is going to take on the former GOP people. It won’t be a huge shift, but it will shift. The people that voted for people like Cheney are going to become Democrats. The people that were in the Democratic party are going to get pushed to the edges. Because no one votes for them. These petulent children complain that the candidates are not perfect, and didn’t “earn it”, and “if they’re not perfect, then I’m just not going to play the game at all”.
It’s a lot of talk, and zero action with these people: all excuses - money influences politicians, we don’t have a choice… Two of the questions on my ballot were initiatives, just straight up votes that would directly change how the government is run here - no politicians, no money trail, you just vote on it and the law changes. It’s utter bullshit pretending this is a waste of time, and it’s everyone else’s fault. They sound like a bunch of little piss babies crying in their milk.
What horseshit. They didn’t write in any candidate, like there was no one in the whole world they could think of that they want as president.
Do you think there’s one ballot in this whole country that has a single question on it - like there was nothing out there worth voting on other than the presidential race?
Saying there’s nothing to vote for is an excuse to be lazy. If you couldn’t find one single thing on your ballot to vote for in this election, then you’re never going to vote, for any reason. Everyone knows it, and therefore no one cares what nonvoters say. So sit here and do what you do best, blow hard on the Internet. You can post your little commets, that no one will read or care about, because at the end of the day they know no matter what they do or say, you won’t go to the polls to stop them.
The funnny thing about elections is that politicians do the things people vote for. Literally no one gives a shit about people who don’t vote. Everyone who sat out and couldn’t even be arsed to vote third party just helped move the country to the right. Everyone who sits at home during primaries let’s the rest of the country have its way.
Democrats don’t implement the things that you want because you don’t vote and therefore you don’t matter. Republicans don’t implement the things you that want because you don’t vote and therefore you don’t matter.
“Waah, waah, there’s only two parties.” More than half the country doesn’t vote. That’s enough to elect a third party candidate. Instead millions of idiots sat at home complaining that they can’t get everything they want today, and moving the needle is too much work.
He is currently at 72 million and in the last election got 74 million. This is the third comment in a row that I’ve had to say this. Where in the world are people getting these ridiculous numbers?
No it didn’t. 74 million votes in 2020, currently at 71 million for 2024. At best he matches previous numbers and that’s unlikely. Are people just making shit up?
No he isn’t. 71 million votes this year. 74 million in 2020. When the tally is done, at absolute best he matches his old performance within a percent or so, and that’s unlikely.
Granted I don’t understand those people, but this difference between now and 2020 is lack of support for Harris, not increased support for Trump. I’ll add people sitting at home to the list of people I don’t want to associate with.
I recently learned that in my car the same light is used to indicate that the parking brake is on and that the brake fluid is low. Nothing bad happened, and it’s getting worked on, but my first thought was that the sensor on the brake must be broken. It’s poor design, seemingly without reason.
I have heard that the reason for this is that trucks in that size range are less regulated by the EPA. Companies didn’t want to put in the research to develop trucks that met emissions standards, so they just make them really heavy for no purpose, evading regulations. Take this with a grain of salt, because I’ve done zero research of my own on it.
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The problem isn’t that states have disproportionate power, and moreover the NPVC is a poor solution. The problem is that all but two states allocate their delegates in a winner-take-all manner, so that a candidate with only 51% of the vote gets all of the delegates.
The NPVC requires huge buy in to work because in nearly half of cases it doesn’t result it a person’s voting power represening their actual vote. Thus, no individual citizen has incentive to support it. If it ever gets enough support to take effect, as soon as a state ends up with its delegates going to a candidate the citizens of that state didn’t vote for, they’ll repeal it and it will end nationally due to the wording of the law.
The solution is for states to allocate delegates proportionally to the votes of its citizens. That’s what voting is all about. If that system were in place, then there would have been no elections with a mismatch between the college and popular vote. Every citizen has individual incentive for that system, more so than the current system or NPVC, and therefore you don’t need the group buy-in wording that the NPVC has. It can be achieved on a state-by-state basis, and it would only need a few states to operate this way to have an impact.
Someone is going to point out that there are details and some states want to be fought over for their small percentage to swing the state, but the fact is that this solves the problem, and overwhelmingly this has fewer barriers and weakenesses than NPVC. If you care about this, contact your state government to change how delgates are allocated.
Not that I’m agreeing in an away about the paranoia about fluoridation, but there is no known safe level of lead. Lead concentration is regulated, but whatever the thresholds are, they aren’t based on “safe” levels, just acceptable levels.
https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/lead-poison-and-children-no-amount-lead-safe
Use infinite monkeys.
I know this post is old, but I recently found an unexpected consequence. I used to install the Netflix program on my computer because it had surround sound support that isn’t available when you access Netflix through a browser. I stupidly installed the program was through the Microsoft Store, which updates programs without asking. Netflix changed the program to just be a front end to Edge, so one day it just wouldn’t open and it took be a fair while to sort out the reason.
Since the only reason I had the program installed was to get surround sound support, and that’s not available in the browser, I uninstalled the no-longer-useful shell of a program, and kept Edge uninstalled. Now I don’t have surround sound, giving one more reason to cancel my Netflix subscription.
Why are they being coy and calling whatever they found “devices” instead of using a meaningful word?
I think the only thing worse than living in Phoenix would be living in a city inside of Phoenix.
Yeah, pressure from voters. Not voting isn’t pressure. Don’t vote, dont care. Half the country doesn’t vote. Financing is bad, but you can’t act like it’s so bad that 150 million votes couldn’t overcome it. And certainly you can’t act like 150 million absolutely nothing has any chance of overcoming it.