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[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh boy, lemme tell you a story about Tasha Yar...

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[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Except the 2001 American science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg...

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[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 14 points 1 year ago

Empathy is a beautiful thing ❤️😍

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 10 points 1 year ago

Oooh, burn! (but not as bad as the STD 😜)

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The general election isn't for another four months. That is the time to STFU and vote. Although who are we kidding, >90% of people live somewhere where their votes barely matter if at all - maybe, maybe helping Trump voters see that Biden's re-election is "real", but otherwise every city will vote Dem and every rural area will vote Repub and there's like 10 counties that will determine the course of the entire world for the foreseeable future. Btw I'm not worried about either me or you, but I am worried about the independents in those 10 counties.

Our news media is out for blood, like sharks in the water. Right or wrong, or left or whatever, they don't care, they smell PROFIT to be made by ruthlessly making fun of every tiny thing that Biden will do from now on. We ignore this at our peril - I'm not saying that I take evil glee from this horrid fact, merely that this inconvenient truth should be accounted for. We can bow before facts, or we can be crushed by them in turn - but either way, we will have to reconcile with them. The choice is whether we do so before, and use them to turn the situation to our advantage as best we can, or whether we wake up some day later wishing that we had done so previously. Exactly like 2016 with Hillary, or like that other time with RBG, but this time there will be no second chances, bc this at least looks to be our last election. Maybe second to last, possibly with yet another interspersal of another Dem, but there are no guarantees for such - Trump has already declared his intentions to become a dictator, and SCOTUS has already made it legal for him to do so.

And in the midst of all of this, with the stakes higher than they've ever been for our little democracy experiment... Biden, well, "has a cold". Okay then, so hype up on crack, cocaine, or whatever you need to do, just get it done, or move aside and let Gavin Newsom or Pete Buttigieg or AOC or Gretchen Whitmer or whoever take the lead. This is not the time to be playing authoritian games with our literal democracy at stake. BuT hE's OuR lEaDeR? Then LEAD. He's old - it's not his fault, but the Democratic primary choosing him would be our fault.

I agree that they had some kind of strategy in place. It relied on deception. It failed. Now that the cat is out of the bag, and we all saw what has been happening with our very own eyes and heard it with our very own ears, the strategy of telling everyone "he's fine, you don't see it but behind closed doors everything is totally fine, I totally have a girlfriend, you don't know her bc she goes to another school, in fact she's in Canada, but we are totally happy together... t-t-totally, yeah!" - this approach (!?!), is backfiring.

People are tire of being lied to. They won't vote. Trump now has a greater likelihood of winning. That's... no bueno.:-( Maybe we should do something about it? Something other than simply saying "what are you going to do?", before it's too late and nothing is all that can be done, as it gets even later in the game. It might be time to update the strategy, to fit the new set of updated facts. Otherwise, we roll the dice and hope for the best - but now is our last chance to affect change, if we really do want to see Trump not win?

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bit by bit, piece by piece, she will find her coffee, whatever she has to do!

Also, username kinda checks out, a little? 😛

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 2 points 1 year ago

Apparently it has some competition - I found this little gem on the interwebz:

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[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 2 points 1 year ago

Tell that to Hillary Clinton...

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 1 points 1 year ago

While you are at it, you might also wish for people to vote Blue. It's not going to happen though - independents refuse to tow a particular party line, preferring instead for candidates to earn their votes, and they will watch the world burn, or even turn to Trump to help it, rather than give in. This is what true democracy looks like - sometimes people lose, when enough people on the other side vote to win. We can only control ourselves - e.g. if the Dems were to pick a replacement, there may be a better chance, while otherwise we simply sit back and roll the dice to see whatever happens.

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

We don't have democracy anymore.

First, the SCOTUS ruling did away with that last week, but let's ignore that for now...

We have a fascist authoritarian in charge who refuses to even consider stepping down until he dies - certainly he is not going to let the people decide who gets to be the Democratic nominee - vs. someone who will become a dictator for life and do the same, but somehow much, MUCH worse.

I hope that many people vote Blue No Matter Who... yet I fear that many independents won't.

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 1 points 1 year ago

"This battle is NOT going to be decided by facts!" Omg some of best YouTube videos of all time (for someone who has knowledge of the circumstances) :-P

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nobody is going to see Biden and then vote for Trump,

I am not so certain of that. Granted the numbers would be low, but given how the Electoral College works, the entire election may hinge upon precisely that.

We've been down this road before, in both of the previous elections.

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