frosty99c

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[–] frosty99c@midwest.social 0 points 8 months ago (3 children)

So some people felt they had no one to vote for.

[–] frosty99c@midwest.social 2 points 8 months ago (5 children)

..with a Cheney*

[–] frosty99c@midwest.social 4 points 9 months ago

Agreed. We seemed somewhat close with Bernie, but we saw how that ended. But he had support, and he could've held more power over the DNC if he had refused to endorse Hilary without MAJOR concessions from the party.

But that could've ended with Trump winning in 2016, and nobody wanted that, so he sold out his values and toed the party line. Didn't seem to work out.

[–] frosty99c@midwest.social 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I think you've hit on major common ground, that all people should be able to see. The extremely wealthy have too much power and they are an extreme minority. Until someone, or a coalition of people stand up for that single issue and are willing to vocally withhold support from mainstream Dems, this problem will never be addressed in the US

[–] frosty99c@midwest.social 11 points 9 months ago

Yes, but if you pledge unconditional support to the lesser of 2 evils, they have no incentive to 'be better' - they can just be slightly less evil than the monster who gets worse every day.

I did vote blue even though I wasn't happy about it and it mainly came down to 'i really haven't done much to express my distaste over the past 8 years, why am I choosing to protest the Dems today?'

But I do think this is a turning point for me. I want to be having these conversations more often, I want to be more involved, and I want to make it known to the people in charge: what can they do to earn my vote. I think starting to define what are the universal ideals we can agree on is a great conversation to have over the next few weeks.

[–] frosty99c@midwest.social 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Just like it's been approved for the past year.

[–] frosty99c@midwest.social 2 points 9 months ago

Hahaha I didn't even think to check that. Wild

[–] frosty99c@midwest.social 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

If a neoliberal party can't win 2 out of 3 elections against a fascist, maybe they should pivot away from neoliberalism.

[–] frosty99c@midwest.social 24 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Right, "did Biden drop out" had a spike as seen in the first picture below. It's hard to tell magnitude. When comparing to another phrase, it's easy to see that the spike wasn't even close to the spike for another election day phrase: 'who is Kamala?'

[–] frosty99c@midwest.social 8 points 9 months ago

Jacob is similar. It is derived from an old Hebrew names and there are a ton of variants (including James and Diego)

[–] frosty99c@midwest.social 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

"Literally don't do it" is a 65 and you have the rest of the grading period to make up or redo any assignment up until the last day. So basically, float through 9 weeks doing nothing, then cram in the easiest assignments after school during the last week to get a passing grade.

[–] frosty99c@midwest.social 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This was a suburban school outside of a major city in the Midwest US.

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