• @MrVilliam
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    Maybe the most egregious example of this was something I saw yesterday, which was somebody saying “Tim Walz needs to go vegan”. When pressed about why him and not, say, Donald Trump, they said that people on the left and center were more likely to actually be swayed. It wasn’t worth engaging any further, but I thought it was pretty hilarious that they bothered to try to push the 60-year-old VP candidate to go vegan, but not the 40-year-old VP candidate. Like, you know that you’re not pushing the needle for anybody with that post, right?

    It’s about as useless as making a post saying that JD Vance should hang dry his clothes instead of wasting energy running a clothes dryer.

    • @[email protected]
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      Suggesting it’s easier to convince a Midwestern football coach/car dad to go vegan than an NYC germaphobe is a level of optimism I have never seen

    • Optional
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      71 hour ago

      Look pal, the general said “sow division” amongst whatever socio-political lines we can see, ok? Why Do You Hate Black Vegan Catholics???

      (/s obl.)

  • @2pt_perversion
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    A trolley barrels towards a bunch of construction workers stuck on the tracks.

    • If you pull the first lever it will divert and only kill one person.
    • If you don’t pull the first lever it will kill 100 people, including that one person from before - he’s standing before the track change.
    • But, and now this is key, there is a second lever to the right of the first that says “Display lever only, does nothing.” It does nothing.


    What do you do?

    • @[email protected]
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      I said throw shit onto the track to try and stop the trolley once.

      The philosophy majors did not like me pointing out it was ridiculous to imagine the problem existing in a void with an absolute limit on possible courses of action.

      They liked it even less when I reminded them that the problem was invented to make fun of them by a philosopher who was arguing that both courses of action were ridiculous conclusions to reach given the broader context of a trolley crash not existing in a vacuum.

      Thought experiments in the void is how we got the declaration that feathers and lead weights were affected by different rates of gravity.

  • HubertManne
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    look i have had the choice for with or without lube for half a century now. Thing is saying I don’t want to get sodomized at all just results in the default of without lube. I hate it with lube but I really, really hate it without.

  • FuglyDuck
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    264 hours ago

    Sorry, guys. I’m voting for the only candidate that can end global warming.

    • Optional
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      21 hour ago

      Giant Meteor / Butt Stuff ‘24!

      This time we’ll get it in the end!

    • NegativeNull
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      62 hours ago

      Do you have a newsletter I can sign up for?

    • @esc27
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      deleted by creator

  • @almar_quigley
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    396 hours ago

    Where are all the Russian plants, oops I mean true progressives, at to tell us we’re just not leftist or progressive enough and Jill is totally definitely only ever trying to improve things for the country, ignoring her meeting with Putin and aides, and also Kamala is literally no different than Trump! Universalmonk, verdantbanana….i need you to straighten OP out! /s

    • SatansMaggotyCumFartOP
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      Jill is too mainstream, I’ve voting for Rachele Fruit of the Socialist Workers Party!

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        Vermin Supreme for Every Elected Position 2024. The one true choice.

        • SatansMaggotyCumFartOP
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          106 hours ago

          A mandatory tooth brushing law is the most un-American bullshit I can think of.

          • Plum
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            85 hours ago

            Not the hero we deserved, but the hero we needed. Nothing less than a knight, shining…

      • Mossy Feathers (They/Them)
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        I was gonna try and write a comment 1upping you because I didn’t think Rachele Fruit was a real person, but then I decided to look her up just to double-check. Nope! She’s actually a real person.

    • @elliot_crane
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      You can’t call any of them by name, unlike Beetlejuice. You have to post something positive, even mildly so, about the Harris/Walz campaign. Then all the little rats come scurrying over to tell you how you’re a genocide stan and any real American should be voting for Cornoliverill Stein de la Fruit, and it’s definitely not because daddy Putin said so.

    • @[email protected]
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      I broke the script the other day when they said they were ok with a trump second term. That they weren’t afraid of trump. I highlighted the conservative judicial appointments impact the working class and minority groups and they simply couldn’t address it.

  • @rockSlayer
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    Discouraging 3rd party voting hurts democrats more than anyone. Studies show that 3rd party presidential candidates largely bring out people that would not have voted otherwise and largely benefit the democratic party down-ballot.

    Don’t tell your apolitical friend about how they shouldn’t vote for Cornel. Don’t tell your friend about how voting for a 3rd party is pointless. Don’t tell your friend to vote for your person. Tell them to vote.

    Edit: here’s my receipt.

    Independent voters supported Democratic candidates over Republican candidates, 49% to 47%, according to the exit poll by Edison Research for CNN, ABC, NBC, and CBS. According to the AP VoteCast survey for The Wall Street Journal and Fox News, independents supported Democrats over Republicans, 42% to 38% … While independents nationally voted for Democratic candidates by just 2 points, they supported Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly over Republican challenger Blake Masters by 16 points, Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock over Republican Herschel Walker by 11 points (in the Nov. 8 election), and, for senator from Pennsylvania, John Fetterman over Republican Mehmet Oz by a whopping 20 points. ( My note on Fetterman, this was before the stroke)

    • @[email protected]
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      And from a casual perspective, telling people their vote is pointless is (a) a way to show them you’re an asshole, (b) mostly pointless, and © quite possibly true regardless of how they vote.

    • Omega
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      I like it. Tell them to vote, then encourage them to vote for Harris (especially if you’re in a swing state).

      • @rockSlayer
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        You can try that, but they should be separate conversations. Have one conversation about how voting generally is good. Then have another conversation about candidates. Trying to roll it all in one will still discourage those types of voters for the partisan appearance.

  • @distantsounds
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    Gotta excuse supporting genocide in good faith. After all it is an election year

    • @[email protected]
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      In case you’re not aware, there are 350 million Americans that depend on government policy making in order for it to all function properly. Is Trump your guy for the job?

      • @distantsounds
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        In case you aren’t aware, Biden, not trump is currently responsible for supplying the weapons being used for the genocide going on right now. Are you cool with whitewashing genocide? Or is gaslighting your thing?

          • @distantsounds
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            -103 hours ago

            If people didn’t speak up, you might of had to…

            • SatansMaggotyCumFartOP
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              113 hours ago

              Yeah and if my grandma had wheels she’d be a wheeled prostitute.

            • @Psychodelic
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              You of to do what you of to do…

              Personally, I try not to shame anyone for voting a specific way, though I certainly still judge them for it. I’m just trying to be more curious now, rather than disrespectful

  • @sumguyonline
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    Nothing gets better permanently under Democrats. Nothing gets better under Republicans. You sir or ma’am, are a moron, and a traitor to the Republic. You’ve chosen the side of traitors. You’re either a shill, or a willing idiot. Your kind have a new world to face. One without your comfortable lies instead of inconvenient truths. Now your kind along with everyone else your kind has doomed, has to face harsh realities. Enjoy the apocalypse. Should be a show.