LovingHippieCat

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[–] LovingHippieCat@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

As long as they understand the ramifications of voting for who they want to and don't try to say they don't hold any responsibility for the outcome of their decision.

I think you dropped something from my comment.

[–] LovingHippieCat@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

I support and respect everyone's right to vote for whoever they want to. As long as they understand the ramifications of voting for who they want to and don't try to say they don't hold any responsibility for the outcome of their decision.

[–] LovingHippieCat@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Dunno if anyone has brought this up but Trump basically never looked at Harris. Even had his face turned her direction and just looked at the moderators. The only time he looked at her was when he was forced to at the start where she went to shake his hand. Dude hates her so much.

[–] LovingHippieCat@lemmy.world 63 points 3 days ago (13 children)

Here's the page. There's moments of specifics, and moments where I wish there was a bit more detail. But overall, now people shouldn't be able to say she doesn't have any policy positions. They still will though.

[–] LovingHippieCat@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The dude is doing a live tour right now, or is about to be, and one of his shows is gonna have Alex Jones as a guest. This is not surprising and if anything, is super expected.

[–] LovingHippieCat@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (3 children)

"Biblocal prophecies," you say? Hmm. What prophecy in the Bible pertains to what's supposed to happen when Jews are in complete control of the Holy Land? It couldn't possibly be that they believe they need to support Israel so that Armageddon happens and they get raptured up into heaven, could it?

Nah. That'd be completely irrational and would show that the people who believe that have no right to be deciding policy for the future of the planet since they're planning on leaving it as soon as possible.

[–] LovingHippieCat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Oh, those people have definitely had a conviction on their records impact them. Although I'm fairly sure the ones that didn't go to prison were misdemeanors, so not felonies. But regardless, I just think it's important context to know more about the 1900 number. Is it still not the best? Yeah. But it's also not as black and white as she sent 1900 people to prison for weed.

[–] LovingHippieCat@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (5 children)

1900 people were convicted, but only 45 of them went to prison. The rest were referred to addiction services and work release programs.

[–] LovingHippieCat@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You literally posted an article about Stein being a spoiler candidate. That's the entire point of the article, that her and the libertarian candidate could cost Harris the election. That's "spoiling" the election.

In order for a third party to win and dethrone the shitty reality of a 2 party system, that third party has to have the infrastructure of members in the house and senate so that if they win, people will work with them, and the party has to have people rally behind them. The problem right now is that there aren't third parties currently in the house or senate, Independents don't count cause there is no Independent party. And there isn't a third party candidate people are trying to rally behind. It's Jill Stein, or Cornell West, or Claudia de la Cruz, or Jasmine Sherman or others. It's never one singular candidate. In order for a third party to win, it has to be 1 candidate. And people who advocate to vote for a third party need to decide on who that 1 candidate should be. Because otherwise you're splitting your vote between multiple candidates, cutting your chances of winning significantly.

If you think a third party should rise, fine. That's understandable, the current parties have significant problems, what with one being nazis and the other not being as left as the populace would want. But unless you pick someone to advocate for and rally behind, your point is moot. You will never win.

[–] LovingHippieCat@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Considering there are polls that have 2000 or more people and those are generally considered more reliable, 635 is pretty small. It might not be small in a gym, but it's smaller than my graduating high school class. So it's less reliable as such.

[–] LovingHippieCat@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week ago (3 children)

TL;DR: A poll in Minnesota of 635 likely voters showed her lead after the DNC went from 10 to 5 percent. And it also has a margin of error of +-4.5 percent. So in other words, this is a tiny ass poll with a margin of error almost the exact same size as the supposed lead being halved. I'm not saying it's not possible, but with such a small poll, I don't know how accurate this.

[–] LovingHippieCat@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

I think it's more that people wanted a trans speaker or for people to speak about it directly. People are more interested in speeches than reading through the platform. Which I think is crazy since it very clearly outlines their intentions to defend us trans folk. But in the days of social media and sound clips, if you don't have a speaker mentioning it directly, it doesn't exist.

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