To add to your (sage) advice: the night of the elections, watch Gummo, no chaser.
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Can I cycle across the Canadian border on it?
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Neither do you.
You’re less than mere words on my screen.
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You exist… you just don’t respect yourself.
You won’t because you’re a nice person.
…I will, though. They’re a selfish idiot. An idiot because they don’t have enough sense to look out for their own interests, and selfish because they don’t care about the experience of non-white immigrants, Muslims, refugees, and women who might have their reproduction rights curtailed, both from Trump’s potential policies and the raging hordes who will come out of the woodwork when racism, xenophobia, and bigotry are normalized in American politics.
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It’s another four years until the FINAL goal.
After that there’ll still be Chelsea’s election campaigns to help run.
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You cut that out.
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You say he isn’t someone you’d call stupid, but well… perhaps the word is “oblivious”, or “utterly ignorant”?
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(Actually that wasn’t @nemomen, that was me …)
Here’s the thing, I know that this guy does care about those things. I’ve heard him talk to other students in the center often enough and express concerns over those things. That’s one of the reasons I’m so damned baffled by it. I know people that would make such statements just to get a reaction, but even that’s not the case here. The only thing I can really think is that he’s so caught up in his own little world that he’s just not seeing the consequences of the election of the person for which he’s proposing to vote.
(Or hell, maybe he’s more self-destructive than I think he is. I just wish he, and others like him, weren’t taking the rest of us with them.)
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China wouldn’t like that, they’d just take over and there’d be a net improvement in the lives of 24M people.
Somehow you inadvertently quoted/replied to me when this should be directed at @awfulhorrid.
While I think they can’t be very bright, and given what they’re supporting they do seem selfish, if I were in @awfulhorrid’s shoes I’d be trying to win them over by trying to connect despite their dangerous and foolish ideas, rather than curse them and push them to double down and reinforce those dangerous and foolish ideas.
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Hmm. Let me consider that one a moment …
Yes. Yes, I would! (At least for certain values of both terms. Let’s say he’s not exactly sophisticated, and possibly somewhat limited in his world view. He’s about my age, but in terms of maturity, I’d actually rank him slightly lower than most of the “traditionally” aged students.)
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One word: turnout
If you don’t want this man elected …
… If you are registered to vote then VOTE
… If you are not registered but are eligible to register then REGISTER NOW
… If you’re going to be out of town that day then VOTE ANYWAY
… If you have like minded friends, make sure THEY vote
… Even if you live in a state essentially guaranteed to go blue … VOTE
I mean … I wouldn’t want this guy coaching my kid’s soccer team!
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Let’s see–
First entry for first search was criticizing Manhattan in borough vs borough jeering:
Manhattan, but rather New York City’s equivalent of a flyover state
Second entry for first search was Russia wanting to fly surveillance planes over the US.
Third entry for first search was about a low jet flyover scaring people.
First entry for second search was about Britain.
Second entry for second search was a non-relevant comic.
Third entry for second search was called “How to Heal the Heartland” and about NOT writing states off as flyover states.
Only the first one was slightly relevant in using the concept of the “flyover state” but it wasn’t referring to the states of which you speak.
Maybe some actual op-eds that prove what you’re talking about and not a lazy google search?
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Oh yes, for sure, the Red State rises again!
In other news, Putin was seen making business deals in London again, newspaper headlines read, “Putin on the Ritz”…
(Thanks folks, I’ll be here all election, try the hamster a-l’orange!)
I overheard the Trumpistas at work going on about voter fraud again today.
I guarantee the Trump vote is going to turn out.
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No. That comment was a largely irrelevant aside that I have no real investment in, wasn’t related to my greater point in any significant way, and in scanning the articles from the searches I found what you were asking for after a bit. It’s really not worth my time or yours to sidetrack on it, though, which is why I responded with the search links in the first place.
That would be Gary Johnson, would it not?
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