[Large] percentage of leftists confused by ignorance and propaganda.
You nailed it. There are so many, leftists and otherwise. I don’t blame those who are since we’re drowning in a veritable flood of bad info by bad actors, but i hope and believe it can get better. but with all the fud out there it’s not going to be easy.
I hope you get what you need from your efforts, same as i, and together we all come out of this garbage reality with our lives and loves intact.
Your point about he media narrative, while not false, is not particularly relevant.
Ok. Have a good one
If you don’t think answering “basic math” is rude then i guess we’ll have to disagree.
It’s not a notion to be challenged, it’s a mathematical inevitability.
That’s a brash claim, not really supported by your video.
Actually nevermind that. It really doesn’t matter, since fptp is what we’re got, and ranked choice is not.
focusing on this bit is ignoring my basic premise, my assertion of the media’s deliberate pushing of the two-party narrative. It’s only a “mathematical inevitability” with a lot of help from those who own the media and directly benefit from omitting all but the two candidates they favor
I love ranked choice too! But that’s going to be a long long fight. I’m just talking about the system we have now, and the media’s obvious interests in keeping their party candidates foremost in voter’s minds
If youre gonna start out with things like “basic understanding” you must understand that people aren’t going to read the rest, right?
I’m challenging that notion, and putting forth the idea that notion itself fostered by the media, who benefit by limiting our free democracy as much as they can.
Capice? Let’s talk without attitude, and with the understanding that neither of us knows more than the other.
I’m just sitting here thinking how everyone acknowledges the necessity of a third choice, and in their next breath decry anyone who even mentions they might not be willing to hold their noses this time and vote for the two establishment parties.
It’s so obvious that articles like this want us to continue as we always have, never even mentioning that there is another way. One could surmise it’s the media’s own subconcious bias, but i think I’m more cases the media really prefers we think of elections this way. The past 20 years of massive media conglomeration allowed by both parties shows they stand to benefit regardless of who wins, as long as it’s one of the two. So that’s all they ever mention. I’m a time where it’s never been more clear we needto move away from the two parties dragging us to the right.
I can hear the replies now, and sure; it’s true that if you vote for a different party it won’t win them the presidency. It’s a pie in the sky ideal no one sane thinks could happen.
But how complicit is the media in this truth? How much of the supposedly free democracy is lost by the media’s deliberate omission of other options? We know the power of media to elevate politicians up to public consciousness. We all watched media make Trump the nominee in 2016.
The establishment parties know the power of media and use it constantly to advertise. This article is no different. It is a farce. After keeping Trump in the public eye constantly, the media, crowning their own presidential candidate, then demands we not vote for him, but for their choice. All while keeping mum on the fact either choice won’t hurt them much. All silent on the fact there are other candidates on the ballot. In a time of more core dissatisfaction than ever. Regardless of our politics, it’s obvious what theirs are and they receive concrete benefits by artificially narrowing our free system down to two bad options for us, and only wins for them.
How many of us know by heart the old adage “voting third party is throwing your vote away”? Where did we learn this? How can we hold that true while also believing our democracy is free and true?
Comedians often speak truths. Often when others don’t. I disagree with colberts take here but dismissing a point cuz of where is comes from is wrong.
eg carlin, Hicks
You would have to start a long conversation about the overton window, and what left vs right even means to both you and i before tackling this question, friend.
Damn i need to read more x quotes
He’s buying farmland. Billionares are preparing to profit from the coming climate apocalypse by buying land and water. Marc Benioff isnt the only one. Hawaii is a great idea, niiiice and defensible. the future is gonna be fucking exciting folks, i cannot begin to tell you how terrified i am that we wont kill these fucking punks in time to save ourselves
genius!
But can machine learning teach nerds not to ruin jokes? ;)
I literally heard these exact words once: “we gave them equality and it wasn’t enough”. Yup.
My response was ‘they were equals before, we didn’t give them anything.’ and all i got in response was a strong signal that the conversation was over
He looks tough but marbled. Stew meat at Best
I do recall something in his captains log about raping a girl they kidnapped, but i didn’t read anything about time-travelling hitler. I didn’t read the whole diary though.
This story had better be true Mister!
They’ll be class traitors though, just like now. those’re the ones i am gonna be the saddest about
I wonder when people will just lose it and start culling these guys
I know you were being rhetorical but to expand on that anyway, for many very good reasons not until enough people realize it’s the only way anything will get better for us, and a short bit after we realize they won’t hesitate to do the same.
Would you mind explaining what party of my comment made your get angry?
Did you extrapolate what i said, (i do this with people i suspect) to mean i do this to everyone?
Was it when i mentioned people’s egos? did i come off as arrogant?
Im interested now that everyone’s all cooled down in what got everyone all pissed off, cuz again believe it or not that wasn’t the comment’s intent
What do you say?
If my wife got to honk at every driver she got mad at from the passenger seat i would lose a lot more fights