I agree, and it’s also what the majority of lemmings advocate for. It’s an unpopular opinion here.

No Josie, I think you’ve got 💯 the right of it and that your downvoters are all idiots. I’ve caught multiple bans here, there and elsewhere specifically making the exact points you are right now. So most importantly I want you to know you aren’t alone, and you’ve got friends here that both agree with you, and have also suffered the slings and arrows the, frankly reactionary, Lemmy userbase.

It’s a fucked system and your vote is the only thing you have. Withholding it for some kind of policy position is literally the only thing that has been demonstrated to be effective at moving political actors over the previous 20 years of politics. You are making the right choice.

I want him to think he can rail like it’s 1986 again and just “see where it takes him”

I think we should give Trump unlimited cocaine before the debate.

It’s interesting the way this all gets framed. That effectively,limitless political boundary is cheerleaded. There is a subtext here that only those who can court billions with a B should or ever will be viable on a national stage.

Well that’s your prerogative. You can’t move politicians if you just hand off your leverage.

No worries. I just read it. They have a better grasp of things than you do, and most definitely better than the downvoters.

I’m on team @RangerJosie@sffa.community

give me the cliffnotes

To be clear, it’s not the job of voters to be cheerleading sycophants for “team”.

Lemmy doesn’t really have a strong grasp of the importance of not supporting politicians or parties blindly. It’s important to be critical of them, their policies, their approach, everything.

We didn’t give ourselves a shot in this election carrying water blindly. In fact, those who were (the downvoters to op’s comment) were enabling and empowering Trump. In-fact Lemmy moderation even went as far as enacting bans to support this narrow and now demonstrated to be wrong approach to electoralism. What gave us a shot this cycle was a small cohort making a difficult but obvious point that we need to hold our candidates accountable, and if they aren’t acceptable, to reject them.

So I haven’t looked at the policies, but it’s awful late. It sounds like OP thinks they are vague. This was a real problem that we learned under Obama is that we can’t trust them to follow through with things in spirit; we need it in ink, or ideally in blood. Harris is clearly campaigning to the right and looking for Republicans rather than the left to carry her through. This has been shown to be a repeatedly terrible electoral strategy since 2012.

Yeah they are just not good. Same as star wars. I would maybe except the first Iron Man, Logan, and the original trilogy (before Lucas remade them with CGI).

The story telling is lazy, the characters undifferentiated, and there are no real consequences to anything. It’s just obvious money grabbing because media consumers have no taste or ability to distinguish good art from bad. T

Secretly doing a illegitimate amount of lifting I that headline.

Ikr? It really seems like the dismissiveness is coming from people either not experienced with it, or just politically angry at its existence.

I mean I’ve been doing this for 20 years and have led teams from 2-3 in size to 40. I’ve been the lead on systems that have had to undergo legal review at a state level, where the output literally determines policy for almost every home in a state. So you can be as dismissive or enthusiastic as you like. I could truly actually give a shit about ley opinion cus I’m out here doing this, building it, and I see it every day.

For any one with ears to listen, dismiss this current round at your at your own peril.

Yeah I skimmed a bit. I’m on like 4 hours of in flight sleep after like 24 hours of air ports and flying. If you really want me to address the points of the paper, I can, but I can also tell it doesn’t diminish my primary point: dismiss at your own peril.

This is why polling sucks, or rather, that scientific polling can’t account for what it can’t account for. Unlikely voters, have never voted previously, where why Trump did so much better than his polling showed in 2016 and 2020.

Don’t sleep on him.

We can finally get back to leftist infighting

Of all of the candidates, he is one.

idk why but I’m reminded of this

Finding out your cat has an OF