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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 145 points 2 days ago (8 children)

What year is it? 2004?

The median WoW player has to be at least 38.

[–] L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works 139 points 2 days ago (4 children)

38 year old adults are generally assumed to be of voting age, registered, and willing to vote. Do you think he'll get better voter turnout from something like Roblox or Fortnite?

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The title says "young voters"

[–] throbbing_banjo@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

Have you ever voted? Like, gone to the voting booth and voted? How about attended a caucus or primary? Because I regularly do, I'm 45, and I'm typically the youngest person in the building.

The US voting base is old as fuck.

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago

People don't realize just how enormous the Baby Boomers were, as a generation.

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[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yeah..

Great idea. But young voters ain't playing WOW

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

They are watching Twitch though. And what game is playing? Doesn't seem to matter.

[–] Naura@startrek.website 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I waited in line at the fountain valley fry’s.

43 here lol

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[–] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 118 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I realized today that Trump also has a Twitch (because it was recommended to me???) that basically just (re)streams his rallies.

Reported that shit for Hateful Conduct.

[–] neoman4426@fedia.io 47 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Even "better", from what I recall he had what was listed as a permanent suspension after the whole "mildly incited a tiny bit of light insurrection (/s)" thing. They unbanned him specifically for this election season.

[–] recentSloth43@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Yeah gotta give him a chance to do a major insurrection obviously, because that sounds like they banned him for failing the first time 🙄

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[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 72 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Man I might be imagining things, but I'm pretty sure he played it back in the 00s. I remember him saying something about 40-man raids and leadership when he was talking to a group of high school seniors about voting.

This was right at the time he was campaigning for his first term in Congress, and I doubt it was recorded anywhere. It still makes me chuckle thinking this guy is running for VP.

[–] bitwaba@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago (2 children)

"Mr. Walz what is your position on student loan forgiveness?"

"Stop DOTs"

"Interesting. What do you think the escalating border issues?"

"Many whelps. Handle it."

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

"How do you propose we handle increasing aggression from Russia?"

"LEEEEROOOOOOOOY JEEEEEEENNNNKIIIIIIINNNSSS"

[–] bob_lemon 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Godric@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

I saw that. For the first time, I saw that Kamala Harris was live in my recommended channels, instead of Donald Trump, who is live every other day.

They've a lot of time and some viewers to make up, but it's a good start.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 98 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Do kids still do WoW? I assumed it'd be all parent aged folks by now

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 63 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Article on Waltz's gaming history..

You know what just occurred to me, Waltz might actually be on the other tail of WoW players if he picked it up in the early 2000's. He might actually be decent at the game.

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[–] Furball@sh.itjust.works 44 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It’s not like they want to pander to 14 year olds, who historically have pretty low turnout

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[–] kaosof@lemmy.world 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world 9 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Cool. What policies are they going to talk about?

[–] Catma@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Making Azeroth Great Again

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Roll back to Burning Crusade.

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[–] SemioticStandard@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Tune in and find out? You could also just go to the Harris website and read them for yourself.

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[–] Theprogressivist@lemmy.world 63 points 2 days ago (5 children)
[–] Zerlyna@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This is one of my top two episodes!!!

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 41 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I thought you were great in it!

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[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 days ago

"How can you kill that which has no life?"

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[–] the_tab_key@lemmy.world 42 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Twist: Tim Walz is Leeroy Jenkins

[–] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Instant vote for him. That is some presidential behavior. I’d love to finally have a progressiveish president that just tries to get shit done.

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[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Ngl, if a politician goes 5/9M on stream, I might just vote for them, 100% chance if they are the raid leader

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