This dude can’t do anything right anymore. I’m thinking Elon help at this point is basically a dog whistle for well adjusted people to stay away.

Somehow when you add Trump’s skin and Elon’s skin together, it actually gets thinner, it’s wild.

Thank you!!! And when was the NAACP formed. During segregation, where that word takes all it’s American context.

Ah yes, South Africa, bastion of non racist glory! No one uses the word colored in a non racist context in North America. Brian Kilmeade is from New York.

The first word out of this dudes mouth to describe a group of black women being addressed by another black was by referring to them as colored. That’s called showing your ass, he just showed us his slimy little racist ass.

Hell he might throw a Niki in there! This whole situation has taken me from being low key terrified to can’t wait for what next.

Nothing says the shining light of democracy for the downtrodden like speaking for bankers at 250k a pop!

I don’t want to hear a single thing from either of these nightmares. The party would do well to divest entirely.

Bold of you to assume this person has friends!

Ooooh thank you, every time someone tags me another angel loses their faith in the electoral system!

Yeah I referenced two articles talking about it in multiple ways.

You acting like it’s a new thing that’s never been discussed was what I was referring too. It’s absolutely a thing! That’s a bit of goal post moving on your part to go from “wow I’ve never heard of this before!” To “I don’t think that’s status statically true.”

https://lemmy.world/comment/11132168

Like correct me if I’m wrong, this is you right? Are you also going senile?

You see it referenced all the time as a bit of democratic dogma. There was even a meme about it that hit the top of all/active like a few days ago on Lemmy. I like how this article from April puts it:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/2024-turnout-apathy-biden-trump.html

It’s not necessarily true, let me be clear, but it’s an active assumption. Higher turnout benefits Democrats. A reduction in turnout due to voter apathy will directly effect the Democrats more than the Republicans. The current propoganda campaign are targeting Democratic voters apathy rather than trying to switch a “swing voter.”

This election will probably be at least as high as 2016, and like I think you are referencing, every election since 2016 had basically had record turnout over the last.

Imo this election comes down to the number of voters who are motivated by abortion and worries about the supreme Court, which is middle aged to older people, high percentage women, reliable voters.

He’s an interesting one that talks about the enthusiasm vs apathy of voters but doesn’t specifically turnout, which is against my interpretation. I struggle to understand the relevance of it in this context:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/07/02/biden-trump-poll-post-debate/74263315007/

Enthusiasm in this case would be turn out, actually getting butts out of seats to vote.

The existential threat that Trump poses no longer seems enough to motivate people to vote specfically against him. Correct me if I’m wrong, but the reduction in turn out by people who are not energized by Biden and aren’t afraid of Trump has been a thing this whole time, it’s not new.

Like literally the campaigns are targeting people to tell them not to vote at all, right? The fact that Biden is visibly spiralling gives those campaigns a lot of very effective ammunition imo.

Then again you got that x-ray shill vision.

You are totally ignorant to how odd and out of place your comments seem to people reading them. You came in with a strange non sequitur that wasn’t really relevant to the discussion at all, then got all weird when people engaged you on it, like your version of whatever was going on here didn’t happen.

You are the odd one out here! It was fun to read tho.

The guy who was elected has shown us he’s a dedicated election denier tho! It was never going to be someone more trustworthy in that shit show of a caucus.

If you live by the sword you die by the sword.

I know you are but what am I. Hit em with those 90’s era middle school snaps!

Remember what happened to Madison Cauthorn when he went against his party?

Gaetz is a bombastic, cavalier party asshole. I bet he constantly fucks stories like these into his friends ears. Every one of them is going to now come out until the silo that houses his support is split and it’s contents are spoiled.

Everyday, memento mori, remember thou art mortal.

I worked with Kronos, had their top tier biometrics in a 1,000+ employee company.

1. The data is only as good as the person loading the data.

2. Some people don’t have good fingerprints.

It was bad enough that of you had a person with a bad fingerprint, Kronos would just take ANY input. It would even tell you if a persons fingerprint wasn’t good enough. It happened fucking constantly.

So either it’s so good you can’t escape it, it is so bad you can’t use it to identify anyone uniquely. It’s literally either a threat or an inconvenience.

Damn, that’s a deep cut type of joke, I love it!

If by minority you mean white men, agree! If by minority you mean co-opted by oligarchic and capitalistic control masquerading as everyones favorite social issue, agree!

But the ability to discuss and compromise amongst elected officials was the actual Hallmark of our system. Compromise, it got us this far then totally stopped around Nixon when bi-partisanship started up get goosed by the rich.

So yeah, we’re oligarchic at this point, but that’s the end game of any system that lets money control the system. They don’t actually care about religion or LGBT people, those are the levers that you pull for us lab rats.

Problem is humans fall into the trap of tyranny of the majority. A simple majority does not lead to mutualistic leadership, it leads to revenge based point keeping for when your group is finally back on power.

The American system is kinda designed around trying to prevent this by requiring compromise or else you have gridlock.