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uhsguy  ·  1582 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Please make it stop

For who, voting is not a solution to this problem at least not anytime soon





am_Unition  ·  1582 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Pretending like things wouldn't be at least marginally better under sleepy Joe isn't doing yourself any favors, bro. We can figure things out over the next four years. edit: maybe.

uhsguy  ·  1582 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The man said it himself “Nothing will fundamentally change”. This is not an issue he even pretends to care about. Just saying voting is not somehow magically going to address the stated problem.

am_Unition  ·  1582 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  

I'm familiar with the statement, but there might be other benefits to not having a moronic narcissist psychopath in the white house which should convince you to vote against Trump. We'll solve the stated problem later. Vote.

user-inactivated  ·  1480 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Badged an old comment from a thread I didn't remember seeing. Whoops.

Sentiment remains though.

Hubski votes. (Well, most of us)

am_Unition  ·  1478 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thanks, yo.

I cast my ballot a week ago. Got up at 7 AM (that means this is a BIG deal), was there just after the place opened, and I was both delighted ('cuz covid) and appalled ('cuz peeps should vote) how few people there were. It was a huge room with maybe 50 election workers, my wife, myself, and one other guy :(.

user-inactivated  ·  1476 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Most of my fam went the vote-by-mail (but drop it off at the supervisor) route. Found way more people there than when I early voted at a booth for primaries.

am_Unition  ·  1475 days ago  ·  link  ·  

In Texas, it's illegal for me to vote by mail without declaring a disability. Why? Because voter fuckin' suppression.

user-inactivated  ·  1474 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Theme of the election cycle this round.

Found this bad boi, but no follow up.

am_Unition  ·  1474 days ago  ·  link  ·  

There remained enough ambiguity that I decided to just go and do it in-person. No regerts.

The latest Texas GOP stunt is attempting to throw out 125,000 votes from Houston (read: mostly Democrat votes) because they were cast at drive-thru polling sites. Their argument was, in a nutshell, "we don't like it and didn't agree to it". Pathetic to behold.

b_b  ·  1582 days ago  ·  link  ·  

For the pandemic, yes. I actually think he has a point vis-a-vis corporate waste welfare though. Robert Reich was all about the party line when he was a Clinton cabinet member, then miraculously got religion once he wasn't in a position of power any longer. They all know what to say, but none will ever do anything. Biting the hand and all that. Not as if too big to jail Obama ever was hard on any corporate bosses. As far as I can tell preet bahrara was the only government official who ever even tried to hold anyone accountable any the courts basically told him to stop being such a big meanie.

am_Unition  ·  1582 days ago  ·  link  ·  

So we should elect Joe, take care of covid, and then riot. Agree.

b_b  ·  1582 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Something like that. Maybe just making sensible changes to tax policy could be a starting point??? I was behind Andrew Yang in the primary, but not because of his "freedom dividend" so much as his proposed changes to the entire federal tax structure.

am_Unition  ·  1582 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yang would've been great. Not sure he could've beaten Trump, 'cuz he's "just a kid" to the overwhelming majority of 'Boomers. I loved the "MATH" hat though.

b_b  ·  1582 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Do you think there would be a single Trump commercial that wasn't racial if Yang was his opponent?

am_Unition  ·  1581 days ago  ·  link  ·  

He'd have a field day with "kung flu" et al.

goobster  ·  1579 days ago  ·  link  ·  

At least Yang could claim he was, "Kung Flu Fighting" and had a great song at rallies, to illuminate his actual attempt to fight the spread of the Coronavirus...