Biden’s numbers among young voters have slid during his presidency from the high margins that helped him beat Trump. Several former supporters explain why.
I’m not trying to persuade you man. I’m telling you to put on your big boy pants and stop acting like a god damned baby. Your comments clearly show how you’re using your feelings instead of your brain. Grow up and help the rest of us prevent a disaster.
You’re clearly trying to intimidate me with insults and fear. “OMG GOD ITS BIDEN OR TRUMP” is a false dichotomy. but go ahead keep ignoring the warnings. keep putting bad candidates on the balllot. keep doing the same goddamn thing that got Trump elected the first time around. it’s okay because… you can happily blame other people who are trying to do something about it.
you do realize that Biden is actively working to provide military support to a genocidial country? you do realize he’s loosing votes with every bullet he sends? but yet, I’m the one whose acting on emotion? fucking hell man, stop it with the “SHUT UP AND DO WHAT WE TELL YOU” already. It’s actually kinda fascist of you. (oops, I’m diluting that term, aren’t I?)
No, this is actually a dichotomy. First Past the Post mathematically trends towards a two candidate system as its stable state. This isn’t some psychological bullshit, it’s math. The way our system works you never vote for the thing you like; you vote against the thing you don’t. Doing anything else is literally handing the election to the side you don’t like. It’s called the Spoiler Effect and it happens basically everywhere in the US where FPtP is used.
The place you vote for who you want is in the primaries (or their equivalent in your state), not elections. If you’re not participating in those, you get no say in who gets run and bitching about it does nothing. Hell, even then you barely get any say since, as far as I’m aware, both the DNC and RNC actually select their candidate based on a vote of some inner circle bigwigs, not the actual results of any of the state-by-state pageant shows.
You guys are refusing to hold a primary! You kick us in the face, lie about caring what we say, and then telling us to fall in line.
I have seen this episode before, blah blah blah trump,
Trump never would have fucking won if y’all hadn’t conspired to only run Clinton, but it is all everyone else’s fault.
I’m sick of being fed the same lies over and over.
No, this is actually a dichotomy. …[snip]… The place you vote for who you want is in the primaries (or their equivalent in your state), not elections.
We’re not in the main election. Right now is the Primary Season. Thanks for the super patronizing lesson in civics, though. super Tuesday isn’t until February at the earliest.
with that out of the way … I can’t help but notice you aren’t actually defending Biden as the best possible candidate to defeat trump.
edit: the DNC rules and bylaws. while you’re partially right, you are voting for delegates, who are nominally bound to vote for the candidate who they said they’d vote for. It’s the electoral college but in mini-form. not that the DNC actually follows them (remember what happened to Bernie?)
Right now? AOC, Bernie and Whitmer have my attention. I’ll settle as we get closer to Super Tuesday, but even Newsom (whose very much right: offense>defense) or Phillips (whose basically a younger version of Biden) would be better candidates than Biden. Fetterman was on the list, too, but he’s too… gung ho for Israel now.
So she managed to take a republican stronghold state (Michigan), defeat their candidate in the goobener race managed to work across the aisle to get stuff done and then got re-elected and flip the state congress to democratic control.
In her second term, she’s proving reasonably progressive, enough that… yeah. I’d happily vote for her. Still looking for the warts. every politician has them, mind… but I’ve only really been looking into her after the weekend.
None of whom are capable of receiving your vote as none of them are even running for the nomination. So how will you vote for any of them?
edit: I see Phillips is actually running, so if your state Democratic party is having a primary for the presidential nominee you could at least vote for him.
You’re clearly trying to intimidate me with insults and fear. “OMG GOD ITS BIDEN OR TRUMP” is a false dichotomy. but go ahead keep ignoring the warnings. keep putting bad candidates on the balllot. keep doing the same goddamn thing that got Trump elected the first time around. it’s okay because… you can happily blame other people who are trying to do something about it.
you do realize that Biden is actively working to provide military support to a genocidial country? you do realize he’s loosing votes with every bullet he sends? but yet, I’m the one whose acting on emotion? fucking hell man, stop it with the “SHUT UP AND DO WHAT WE TELL YOU” already. It’s actually kinda fascist of you. (oops, I’m diluting that term, aren’t I?)
No, this is actually a dichotomy. First Past the Post mathematically trends towards a two candidate system as its stable state. This isn’t some psychological bullshit, it’s math. The way our system works you never vote for the thing you like; you vote against the thing you don’t. Doing anything else is literally handing the election to the side you don’t like. It’s called the Spoiler Effect and it happens basically everywhere in the US where FPtP is used.
The place you vote for who you want is in the primaries (or their equivalent in your state), not elections. If you’re not participating in those, you get no say in who gets run and bitching about it does nothing. Hell, even then you barely get any say since, as far as I’m aware, both the DNC and RNC actually select their candidate based on a vote of some inner circle bigwigs, not the actual results of any of the state-by-state pageant shows.
You guys are refusing to hold a primary! You kick us in the face, lie about caring what we say, and then telling us to fall in line.
I have seen this episode before, blah blah blah trump,
Trump never would have fucking won if y’all hadn’t conspired to only run Clinton, but it is all everyone else’s fault.
I’m sick of being fed the same lies over and over.
We’re not in the main election. Right now is the Primary Season. Thanks for the super patronizing lesson in civics, though. super Tuesday isn’t until February at the earliest.
with that out of the way … I can’t help but notice you aren’t actually defending Biden as the best possible candidate to defeat trump.
edit: the DNC rules and bylaws. while you’re partially right, you are voting for delegates, who are nominally bound to vote for the candidate who they said they’d vote for. It’s the electoral college but in mini-form. not that the DNC actually follows them (remember what happened to Bernie?)
Removed by mod
Do whatever the fuck you want.
So what candidate has your favor at the moment?
Or are you just not going to vote?
Right now? AOC, Bernie and Whitmer have my attention. I’ll settle as we get closer to Super Tuesday, but even Newsom (whose very much right: offense>defense) or Phillips (whose basically a younger version of Biden) would be better candidates than Biden. Fetterman was on the list, too, but he’s too… gung ho for Israel now.
Not familiar with Witmer but I would love to see someone like AOC or Sanders in power.
So she managed to take a republican stronghold state (Michigan), defeat their candidate in the goobener race managed to work across the aisle to get stuff done and then got re-elected and flip the state congress to democratic control.
In her second term, she’s proving reasonably progressive, enough that… yeah. I’d happily vote for her. Still looking for the warts. every politician has them, mind… but I’ve only really been looking into her after the weekend.
None of whom are capable of receiving your vote as none of them are even running for the nomination. So how will you vote for any of them?
edit: I see Phillips is actually running, so if your state Democratic party is having a primary for the presidential nominee you could at least vote for him.
In really childish handwriting. With a black crayon. Just to really trigger whoever is counting it.
(/s, little bit.)
Removed by mod
Ah, a terrorist.
Ok keyboard warrior.
Smash that enter key extra hard in frustration!