• @NineMileTower
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    Did anyone actually watch the video? She’s upset that neither side represent what she deems acceptable.

    She’s young and doesn’t understand that government doesn’t get fixed in a day. Where we are is the result of influence from corporate stooges since Reagan. It’s come to a boiling point and I understand her frustration. A vote for Harris is a vote for steering the ship towards what she deems is acceptable, but that ship sails slower than a lot people can understand.

    • @[email protected]
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      Are you significantly older than Chappell Roan? Because I’m imagining you’re the one who doesn’t understand something.

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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      She’s young and doesn’t understand that government doesn’t get fixed in a day.

      I’m old and I’m still waiting for the government to be fixed.

      • @Cryophilia
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        We keep breaking it by voting for Republicans every now and then.

        • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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          If Democrats ran every branch of the government at every level I still doubt it would get fixed.

          • @Cryophilia
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            California is doing pretty damn good. Not perfect, but head and shoulders above the rest of the country.

              • @Cryophilia
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                You live under a rock or something?

                • archomrade [he/him]
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                  I mean it guess they’re not banning books or switching to school vouchers but I’m pretty sure low income households are doing just as bad if not worse over there

                  Are they, like, tearing down homeless encampments on a monthly basis?

            • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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              Exactly: Even if they ran everything they’d do stupid shit.

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                “Nothing is perfect, therefore everything is equally shit.”

                What a stupid philosophy. Like all “bothsides” bullshit.

                • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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                  That’s not what I’m saying at all but don’t let that stop you from punching left.

                  • @Cryophilia
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                    Is the stupid shit Democrats do significantly less stupid than the stupid shit Republicans do?

                    If you keep getting punched everywhere you go, it’s time for some introspection my friend.

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      She’s been getting a lot of hate for not endorsing Harris and people fail to realize the difference between endorsing and voting. Her entire point is that the government can’t be fixed in a day. Voting for Harris is the obvious choice but her being in office isn’t going to magically solve all our problems.

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        212 hours ago

        Except, by definition, she is endorsing Harris by publicly supporting her candidacy. Endorse doesn’t mean you agree with everything they stand for, but if you are publicly saying who you are voting for, that’s an endorsement.

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          A: this isn’t really an endorsement, more than it is an acknowledgement of how fucked the options are. If you’d like to know the difference, go look at what Swifts endorsement looked like

          B: she wasn’t even going to say who she was voting for, but libs decided to harass her until she did

          example: I use windows for work but i’m sure as fuck not going to recommend it to other people. Saying that i’m forced to use windows for work is not an endorsement. I’d go so far as to say that in this context it’s more of a complaint or indictment than a endorsement.

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            She is telling the world that she thinks Harris is the best choice to vote for in this election. It’s 100% an endorsement. Literally by definition. People seem to be confusing endorsing someone to marrying yourself to all of their views.

            • archomrade [he/him]
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              declare one’s public approval or support of.

              Err, you working from a different dictionary?

              This is why she resisted saying who she was voting for initially, and why she is explicitly saying she is not endorsing

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                What does voting for someone do if not show support for them? In a democracy it’s the ultimate form of support.

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                  Lmao, idk maybe go watch her videos, she is definitely not voicing support and certainly not approval

                  Just so I’m clear: you’re saying that if I had a gun to my head and was forced to choose between getting shot or eating dogshit, and I chose dogshit, that would be considered an endorsement?

      • themeatbridge
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        The problem is she’s trying to bring nuance to a bumper sticker platform.

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      She’s not that young, she’s been doing music for a decade and working service jobs till now. And you can understand something and still feel it is unacceptable.

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        She’s 26. That’s fairly young for a voter. Not really sure what her cv has to do with being considered old.

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            Idk about wisdom but I can attest to a speedy loss in faith of the human population.

      • @NineMileTower
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        You’re so young that you think doing something for a decade is a long time.

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          It’s what you do with your life, not how long you lived it, that matters when it comes to life experience. I’ve lived enough to draw a parallel to the following quote:

          Men like this infantilize women, so women (they believe) will not have the confidence to leave them. They want to keep their wives, if not barefoot and pregnant, at least without the skills and confidence needed to have a career that could support them well. Similarly, at work, they define their secretary’s role as part mother, part wife, so they always will be taken care of. Finally, they are so dependent upon the regard of their male colleagues, bosses, and oftentimes even their subordinates, that they will violate their own sense of ethics rather than face the possibility of not being one of “the boys.”

          • Ursula K Le Guin
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          Doing anything for a decade is a long time. That’s 1/7th of an American’s life span and 1/8th of a developed humans life span.

          • @lemonmelon
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            UN life expectancy at birth in USA: 79.30 years

            UN life expectancy at birth in EU: 81.50 years

            UN life expectancy at birth in Hong Kong (world #1): 85.51 years

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          Doing something for a decade IS a long time, but that isn’t your point. She has plenty experience in singing and being a pop star. She is still young. 26 is young.

          It doesn’t mean you should dismiss their opinion about everything, but don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. She seems to be fixated on perfect and missing the march toward good.

    • @aalvare2
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      I agree with the core of what you’re saying except I disagree that she “doesn’t understand” how slowly politics works. I think her decision to vote for Harris anyway speaks to that kind of understanding, else she’d endorse a third-party candidate/write-in in a poor attempt to speed-run democracy.

    • @Clarity_daffodil
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      Kamala isn’t in the correct direction at all though. The democratic party serves to delay progress in favor of the Republican party. There’s a reason they lie so much and confuse and refuse to address issues progressive voters want to address. It’s not gonna get better unless people stop voting for the same “lesser evil” presented to them and pushed to them in the media.

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        It’s not going to get better under Trump either, and your ballot has more choices than President on it. I’m sure you volunteered for local progressive campaigns, right?

        In the American elections you can definitely vote in.

    • @captainlezbian
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      Yeah I get it. I was young once and I’ve even had to have the bitter realization that even Revolution neither happens in a day nor resolves anything quickly. I ask for the passion of the young to hold hands with the wisdom of us older folks. It’s easy to demand sudden change, and important too, but building bases of power are important.

      Vote for Kamala then hold her feet to the fire. Vote in every primary. Discuss what you think with people around you when it comes up, I know I’m the annoying pro trains girl at work. Build the support and make those maga losers afraid to show their faces.

      And entertainers can do so much. Cobain got people who wouldn’t otherwise thinking of homophobia as uncool for example

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        I know I’m the annoying pro trains girl at work.

        Ugh, train people are the worst. WE GET IT, YOU LIKE TRAINS.

        Edit: I genuinely thought this was a typo and they meant “pro-trans.” But maybe they actually did mean “trains.”

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          I’m not cis passing enough to be openly talking trans issues at work. Nah I talk public transit. Shit like replacing air travel with high speed rail.

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          If it makes it better I’m also annoying about other infrastructure. Dams are excellent