They didn’t sleep inside, they camped out in the fields. They were all super chill about everything, and if there was ever a problem with any of them, I never heard about it.

My grandparents lived on the trail. They would bring the hikers in and cook them dinner and let them take showers. It was a different time back then, but I remember sharing Sunday dinner with a lot of strangers.

Well, just feed it to the cat.

It didn’t tank this morning. It’s been going downhill for exactly a month.

Like the Pizza Hut turned Bank turned Chinese Food Restaurant turned Fed Ex Pack and Ship

My sister got me a llama wool beanie a few years ago, and I will sweat at near zero. That shit is WARM.

nice

Fuck yeah! I can’t wait for their reunion tour, just as soon as Charlie gets back from Australia.

Me? That’s usually my job, but Jill Stein can jump off a bridge, so I won’t be giving any hot takes in this thread.

I love Mr. Elliot and I appreciate the message, but that felt phoned in. Like they gave him the script on a zoom call and used the first take.

Counter argument: Reddit is predominately American. These upvote sites use low cost foreign slave labor to generate their output. Buying upvotes is outsourcing jobs. Keep Reddit American. Don’t buy upvotes!

He wasn’t “former” until after he murdered his girlfriend. They fired him because of that. I’m sure he was a perfectly stable and honorable cop and we sure won’t find any skeletons in his station reports.

You can go to their website and sign up to be a part of the class action suit. They’ll verify your purchase, then. I can’t remember exactly what they asked for, but I had to go into my email to find it.

Okay, I hope this discussion has left you with at least some thoughts of your own regarding how you speak about voting.

The same thoughts I came in with, that education is needed now more than ever.

In today’s climate where our civil rights are being eroded, it matters what people say and how they say it.

Which makes me wonder how you can be so smarmy with every sentence that you type. Your people skills leave much to be desired.

. No one wants to parrot old disenfranchisement dog whistles from ya know, the times when they denied black people the right to vote because they lacked an education.

Ahh, we’re back to twisting my words. I’ll repeat them, so we can ensure that the context lives on: “I’m not saying that we should take away the right to vote from the uneducated. I’m saying we should put more focus into education.”

You know, for posterity, since your brand of journalism leans into the yellow end of the spectrum.

And saying “basic education should be a requirement to vote,” is LITERALLY a dog whistle from then.

It certainly is. Good thing I didn’t say it. I said that we should make sure that we are educating people along with their rights. Giving people rights and hoping they know what to do with them is how we ended up with Trump in office.

That’s like saying gay people should wear a pink triangle and then acting confused when I take issue with that specific verbiage and idea.

Oh, let me see which logical fallacy this falls into. I’m thinking either Red Herring or Equivocation.

Please consider how propaganda affects all of us and we all may pick up problematic speech from time to time because we live in a dystopia.

You seem to be the one drawing false equivocation and shielding yourself behind an unrelated argument because you know that you have no ground to stand on. But, please, tell me how I’m anti-LGBTQ+, again. I’m sure the second time you say it, it will come true.

People who engage in problematic rhetoric also deserve a basic education in things like civil rights and hate speech right? Otherwise it’s dangerous.

Well, at least you seem to have a grasp on the lesson I am trying to teach you.

Lol, such a random stray out of no where. Also ableism agaiiiiin why

Is this red herring, again? I can’t be sure, but I think you either don’t understand what I said, or you don’t understand ableism. Either way, that ain’t me, chief.

I really miss ~2016 Late Stage Capitalism on Reddit and I was hoping Lemmy would have some of those same people. I miss them.

No one is stopping you from making a triumphant return to the cesspool you crawled out of. You can ride a donkey in while they fan you with palm fronds.

So, there now. I’ve responded to every insipid argument you’ve made, and nothing you’ve said can be taken out of context. You are not the person you seem to think you are. You manipulate and twist words to serve your own ends, and people like you are the reason we have a lot of the issues we do. I’m gonna go ahead and block you now, so feel free to have the last word, I won’t try to stop you.

This is fascism.

Anything can be fascism when taken completely out of meaning. Maybe if you completed the quote you’d have a little bit of context for the argument. I’m done with this discussion, it seems you are more than willing to twist my words to give artistic license to what you want me to say than to actually read what I wrote. Take it easy, stranger. Hope you are able to make thoughts and prayers work out for a better world, because that seems to be all you are capable of.

A gun is not what we are talking about. We are talking about the right to vote.

We are talking about rights. I was using gun rights as an example, because like guns, if you don’t know how to vote, you’ll end up hurting yourself or others. Education is key. Everyone has the right to vote, but the ability to cast that vote should come with a caveat. You should know how to vote, and how your vote works. Ignoring the system and willfully playing dumb means that I don’t want your vote to count alongside mine. I’m not saying that people should be educated to vote like me, but that there is a baseline level of education that should be a requirement to vote. And before you get your undies twisted, I’m not saying that we should take away the right to vote from the uneducated. I’m saying we should put more focus into education.

The majority of Americans don’t or can’t vote

As you told me I was off topic with guns, I’ll say you are off topic here. We aren’t talking about non-voters. We are talking about voting 3rd party.

As far as misinformation- that’s a huge topic and would require we regulate advertising and media.

No, it doesn’t. That’s the lazy answer. That’s the defeatist answer. It requires, say it with me, education. We have such a shit education system in this country that if we had to teach children how to breathe, the infant mortality rate would be at pre-industrial levels. We keep funelling money into special interests, corporate control, and foriegn wars that we have left several generations behind when it comes to education. If we focused on ensuring the education of our children, a lot of our issues would be solved within 50 years. It is the single greatest failing of this once-great country. “Why educate, when we can tell them how to act and outsource critical thinking?”

That is what I’m saying. I’m not trying to take away anyone’s rights. I’m not trying to tell anyone what to do. I’m saying that if we invested in our youth the way we invest in war, we’d be waving to cancer in the rear view mirror of our generational ship bound for Alpha Centauri. Instead I have a bunch of rich cunts with more money than god spending my life measuring their dicks.

Totally fine to discuss but it doesn’t supersedes the literal civil right to vote. Or to run for office.

By that logic, the right to own a gun supersedes the need to be educated on how they work. “Here’s a loaded 9mm, Timmy. I’m sure you can figure the rest out.”

I do not agree with the messaging or the idea that people should be forced into thinking and voting like me.

And I’m not saying that anyone should be forced to vote any one way. Vote however you want, but being educated on how it works is just as important as the act itself. If every voter were educated on the system and understood how it worked, then we wouldn’t have third party candidates. Actually, strike that, we would have them. We wouldn’t have this first past the post bullshit we do now, and third party candidates would have a chance at being elected if they represent the will of the majority.

Untl we have that, though, people should understand that voting doesn’t work how they want it to, it works how it works. If you want to feed your family by fishing with cheetos, go for it, but don’t tell everyone else that if we all fish with cheetos suddenly fish will take the bait. The nature of the beast is that we vote in a two party system, and we will until we change it at a fundamental level. The fact that we have people saying that third party voting is a viable option tells me that there is a lot of misinformation and a strong lack of education in our voting populace.

Oh, like a poop knife.

Scraaaaaaaaaaape. Ahhhhh.

Roughly half of the States in the US have a higher population than the entirety of New Zealand. That is a much larger population to deal with, and the politics don’t apply the same way. It isn’t linear, it’s logarithmic. The more people there are, the more exponentially difficult it is to manage. The Urban area of my city has about half of the Population of New Zealand, and my city has third party representation on the local level. Please, keep your condescension to yourself.