Right, the election is the Primary. In this case it was 2020 when I voted for Burnie. Biden won (and then handed over to Harris). That’s who was chosen, and I’m okay with that.

You’re right about how they view their “tribe”. I think it’s interesting how tribalism unfolds though. At times you have ostracization (RINO, sects, gatekeeping). But sometimes it’s staunch defense. You could see this in real time after January 6th when people couldn’t decide if the insurrectionists were ANTIFA or patriots. It’s just interesting when it goes one way or the other. Hell, in 2016 Trump went from the crazy guy in the room to the core of the party.

It would be vanilla vs literal shit. Everyone would complain about how boring vanilla is. The news would talk about how the literal shit doesn’t smell as bad as you’d think and complain that the vanilla ice cream isn’t even nutritious.

Shit would win with 48% of the vote.

TAKE THE FUCKING VANILLA!

Have you tried less whining?

I’ve never read the book. But it’s wild how devout Christians never see Christian radicalism as the problem. Literally anything can be radicalized.

It’s a sad state of affairs when a politician that cares about her country isn’t enough to get people to vote against a literal fascist who fantasizes about being a dictator.

I’m actually worried about what my kids will be taught.

I use Connect on Android. I’m not sure if tagging is a function of the app or of Lemmy. I’ve only really used it a few times. It shows up on the three dots under a person’s comment or on their profile, “add user note”.

Thanks, I’ve updated the tag to “Russia Sympathizer”.

I definitely have you marked as maybe pro-Russia because you’re openly mocking criticism and helping the pro/neutral-Russia narrative. I don’t think it’s intentional, but I’m not ruling it out either.

I can’t access the link you posted. So I’ll take your word for it. But I can’t see how many votes it has or what their reasoning is.

Thanks. I definitely thought “total” meant total.

I haven’t seen that response unless someone has credible connections to Russia, like Trump or Stein.

Also, her complaints are 100% valid.

Ironically you’re the one dismissing criticism of people supporting Russian interests in a completely unrelated post.

I can’t wait for Democrats to accuse one of their own of being a Russian asset.

Why would they?

The threat of splitting the vote is a good reason to run, if you feel like your position isn’t being taken seriously enough AND that it’s important enough that everything else is worth losing.

The problem is that the majority of the Democrats are on board with green initiatives. The only holdup on the $10T program before was Manchin. She has now pivoted RCV, or more specifically destroying the duopoly because they are the enemy for “reasons”.

Also, she’s said that she wouldn’t pull out even if the Dems gave her what she wanted. So it doesn’t really work as a threat either.

I think it’s confusing because the point of the meme is the guy ignoring one thing for another. It would make sense if this was jumbled around so the press was ignoring Trump’s language and focusing on Biden.

The low cost of living is nice.

Worrying about literally everything that the state government does and knowing that my neighbors, at best, care more about political alignment with their neighbors than they care about the wellbeing of the people or their freedom is not nice.

If you live in a blue state, have you thought about moving to a red state? If enough people do, they’ll turn blue. (Seriously, California could easily flip the federal government by taking over a few red states. Please come to Arkansas and help us save it.)

I’ve thought about if bands started to boycott red states. I live in a red state, and any band that might boycott would also have more liberal fans. So they would really be hurting those that already agree with them.

But also, fuck our government and the 2/3 of people that agree with those crazy fucks.

According to a random poll I just looked up, 29% of Americans “somewhat care” if their politicians support genocide. Maybe we should pressure them to care more and join the 19% that care a lot.

Boycott America until people take it seriously and stop funding them.

How many people do you think will be apathetic (both ways)? How many of the people who are already tuned into his edgy humor will care?