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Cake day: July 29th, 2023

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  • It’s almost like voter disenfranchisement works.

    It only “works” because the individual voter did not vote.

    Blaming the electorate achieves nothing.

    IMHO, it achieves a lot more than voting 3rd party.

    The electorate didn’t fail the dems, the dems failed the electorate.

    The electorate failed themselves. They listened to Russian propaganda about Kamla killing babies in Palestine. They fell for republicans fantasies of red strongholds so tough that Democrats shouldn’t even bother voting. They fell for the general apathy about their choice sown by foreign assets and transmitted like a fucking online mind virus.

    All I can say is; They may not have voted for trump, but they definitely voted for this.


  • The vast majority of people know for a fact that their vote mathematically does not matter

    If a full third of people stayed home, that’s a systemic problem, not an individual responsibility problem.

    You understand that in a two party system, these two statements are basically incompatible?

    Especially when you consider that we have early voting starting a month before the election, along with mail-in voting being available in nearly every state. If you didn’t vote, it’s because you didn’t want to vote, not because you couldn’t vote. Yes, some degree of civic participation is expected, welcome to being an adult.

    Someone commented just a few days ago that voting blue in OK was pointless. I brought up some stats that if every one of the non-voters in OK had voted in the last election, Kamala could have carried the state with 200k people to spare.







  • There are just as many countries between Iran and Russia as there are between Iran and China…

    Then why would you say China is “right there” as an argument.

    Also, the premise is not that Iran is a puppet state of Russia, but that they are dependent on Russia for security from other nuclear-armed countries. Russia doesn’t want Iran to get nukes because they lose that valuable bargaining chip.

    Let’s sum up your arguments so far.

    You think that Russia can’t maintain control over other nations, and I provided a direct refutation of that.

    You think that China was geographically closer to Iran than Russia was, and that is refuted with Google maps.

    You need to take a look at the players, their motivations and the “board” and then come back with an actual assessment instead of plainly incorrect and unfounded opinions










  • “See, the second amendment specifically says you have a right to bear arms, and that means any kind of gun I want to buy should be legal.”

    “However, there is no amendment saying you have a right to wear armor. So being protected isn’t a constitutional right”.

    “Oh? This supressor I want to put on my gun? That should be allowed by the second amendment. Wait, what do you mean there is no constitutional right to gun accessories?!”

    It usually goes something like that. I’d like to point out here that there isn’t a constitutional right to wear pants or eat bacon either.