When thinking you are the good guy with a gun goes wrong…

Very possible! 🙂

What you should be voting for is the vote that’s going to help the country head in the best direction among the choices you have. Sometimes that’s not what you want. It’s not what I want. I think Harris is too far right on many issues (though she’s def not worse than Trump on genocide) - but I realize that voting for what I want would be selfish because what I want has no chance of winning, but not quite what I want does have a chance. That chance diminishes if I vote for what I want, while increasing the chance of what I definitely DO NOT want winning.

I get what you are saying. I voted for Nader in 2000, still get shit for it today. No one has the right to tell you who to vote for, or to shame you for voting your conscience. But let’s not pretend there’s any third party siphoning off R votes like there are siphoning off D votes.

Vote your conscience, sure, but don’t try to pretend doing so doesn’t tip the scales of the actual outcome in a particular direction - it does, and you clearly realize it. That doesn’t mean you can’t make the selfish choice, but at least own it.

I was young and dumb and oblivious to that reality, and didn’t even know I was in a battleground state. If I had, I might (or might not) have voted differently.

I’ve read this article when it was posted before and my impression is it does EXACTLY the thing to non-rural voters as it warns the reader about doing to rural voters. I can quote the bits if you are going to force me to read it again, but I don’t see how anyone can fail to see that.

It also doesn’t change the fact that the party who might actually make their lives better is NOT the one they are voting for.

Also - racism (and bigotry generally)

stochastic terrorism

But we gave Palestine a table to sit at in the UN! /s

I wonder if the cops threatened this guy with their weapons while he burned to death like they did that other poor soul.

Look, I agree with you, but you are giving the maga crowd far too much credit. The maga crowd.

Imagine for a second a single person who is going to vote Trump in November forming this thought:

one they are eating pets out of starvation/need, or it’s some kind of cultural miscommunication. Either way it’s a failure on our end to provide or educate.

My favorite was when she clearly (very clearly IMO) seemed about to say “…but this motherfucker…” and restrained herself.

Clearly no government agency is going to do shit about the price gouging, so why would they stop?

Surprised the US didn’t block it somehow.

After the debate ended Tuesday night, Republican Rep. Mike Collins of Georgia posted to X, “You want to know who won? Find out who refuses to do a 2nd debate.”

I know some folks are falling all over themselves to fawn over the various Republicans who have the, um, courage to come out against Trump now, but all I can see is a bunch of self-interested rats leaving the sinking ship.

I figure the “I was never really a supporter” will start from both elected officials and your Republican neighbors and family members about 1 day after the election gets called for Kamala.

And if Kamala somehow loses, it will be “I knew he could do it all along.”

No disagreement from me!

Fair!

That might be fake smile one. This one?

He had only one of three expressions anytime she was talking, and it was fucking creepy all on its own.

• I want to fuck the cameraman (seen in OP)
• I want the cameraman to fear me greatly (such as seen in his famous mugshot)
• Punchable, fake, practiced smile (as seen in some common Trump memes)

Not investigated by the NYPD though. I agree it’s bad that these complaints have been vetted and they still threw them out, but based on the bit you quoted, it’s accurate to say the NYPD didn’t look at them.

So, all those times someone snarkily wrote “We investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong” after some police BS made the news - yeah, you were actually making them sound better than reality. They just skip right to the “found nothing wrong” part.

Until this moment I did not sexualize Kamala Harris. Now I’m a little afraid of what fantasies you have awakened in me.

Great point and apologies for glossing over that. I guess my reply just blurred into my general opinion about people dismissing or being grumpy about “celebrity” endorsements or political statements.

If I had a platform that millions of people listened to (which I don’t), and strongly held beliefs about how the country could be made better for everyone (which I do), why wouldn’t I use my platform to share those beliefs? How could I not?

No one MUST obey what either of them says, just like no one would be compelled to obey me in my hypothetical. But I don’t really have a problem with any person using whatever platform they’ve found themselves with to express their own beliefs and desires. I don’t think people lose the right to free expression just because they are rich and/or famous and/or powerful.

Edit: And if you piss a lot of people off and lose all your advertisers because your opinions are repugnant and awful - well hey, that’s the choice you made.