It’s taken a while for me to get to the point where I’ll write a comment, and think “do I really want to kick this potential hornets nest?” And delete the comment.
I find myself having a much better time hanging out and interacting with the folks in the asklemmy communities versus those in political threads.
Fairly big. Main issue is the house is really old so there’s a good amount of extra stuff that I’m opting to get. I think I got quotes as low as 28k from some companies, so the rivian would be 3 of those haha.
EDIT: removed a block of text that took all too long to type out because I’m not going to spend more time further arguing the interpretation of someone’s comment as if it were religious script.
Quite frankly it hardly matters. You asked for proof of folks politically engaged yet not voting, I shared what I thought constitutes proof. You believe it doesn’t qualify, but other folks reading this can draw their own conclusions.
Thanks for keeping the conversation civil - have a good one!
If you’re a wage earner in this country, your life does not change in any significant way based on who we elect, so why skip a badly needed day’s pay to vote? There’s just no point.
You’ll notice that’s different from
If you’re a wage earner in this country and you think your life does not change in any significant way based on who we elect, so why skip a badly needed day’s pay to vote? There’s just no point.
The former is an assertion that all wage earners lives aren’t affected by voting therefore they shouldn’t bother voting. IF you’re a wage earner THEN there’s no point in voting".
The latter is understanding a scenario from a potential perspective of a wage earner who doesn’t see change being discouraged.
Like you said in your own post,
someone who thinks both party’s won’t help
Can you point out where they say “if wage earners think both parties won’t help”?
If not, then you’re the one selectively interpreting this…
someone who thinks both party’s won’t help
I don’t read it this way all - there was no conditional on party efficacy and it in fact was an assertion that their lives won’t change due to who was elected, which changed the overall statement to read like the working class shouldn’t vote.
Tbf the 50% that voted for trump aren’t here, plain and simple, so that’s why you don’t see engagement with them.
The only political engagement you’ll see here on Lemmy shifts overwhelmingly left for all parties, so you’ll see mostly squabbling between various left factions.
Well here’s a comment from someone I was talking to that was politically engaged yet arguing that folks might as well not vote.
I’m not going into the thinking behind it, but it’s certainly happening.
Being politically “engaged” on Lemmy doesn’t mean much in terms of ensuring voter participation. I’ve seen plenty of folks with a “democrats have to earn my vote” sentiment. That very much seemed to play out given the much lower voter participation for Democrats this year.
Yup, I feel that. My “new” car purchase this year was a used 2015 Nissan leaf that was like 6k. It baffles me how my colleagues budget their money. A rivian?? Son, that’s the cost of a new roof.
EDIT: I don’t know new car prices so I had to look it up. It’s actually almost the cost of two new roofs! The high end model is a down payment for a nice house in my market!
That’s a great point, we’ve been around the block so we’re less receptive to enshittification bullshit
My parents sent me a video from a Chinese “practice English” channel about the negatives of Kamala.
It was fucking insane, the channel was mostly “this is what you say at the doctor’s office”, “let’s practice ordering food”, and then hard conservative talking point videos casually thrown in. I’ve always told others that non-english speaking communities in America are especially prone to conservative radicalization because they’re so isolated from the general public.
I love them, but I was furious when I replied. It’s a little sad honestly, I’ve given up hope on them politically. Had to make it very clear that if they talk to me or our kids about politics we will not engage and will just leave.
He has the concepts of a plan
That movie had no business being as good as it was.
In a similar vein, rain now prompts thoughts of “oh fuck is there a leak anywhere?” Instead of enjoyment, haha…
As others have said, every time this gets brought up, the counterpoint is that we already pay more for healthcare than other countries, and there is 0 response.
At some point it’s just old man yells at cloud.
Wife and I have both finished the book and absolutely loved it. Thanks again for the recommendation. Here’s to books 2 and 3!
When I’m senile? Ice cream sandwiches. I’d have forgotten I’m lactose intolerant, God be with the poor soul taking care of me.
I’m so glad that you posted this. I had a similar experience. My personal goal is to ask some things only twice, and then suck it up and move on.
The girl I dated in high school broke up with me when college started. A few years later, we were talking again, and we were in the friendship fog. I asked her out again, she said no. That also hurt like hell, but I told myself I’ve asked twice. Time to move on.
I actually recently found a journal entry from that night - “It feels like I am king of the friend zone with her, but holy shit it feels so good to have that cleared up, and now I know I have a solid friend who I don’t have to worry about dating potential”.
After that she was the first female friend who I didn’t constantly have a thought of “…but what if?”, and that was incredible.
Over 10 years later, she’s like a sister to me - she was my best ma’am at my wedding, and I was a bridesman at hers. (my wife likes to poke fun at the imbalance here, but we had a small wedding haha)
Carrier has arrived
Do you have any rock climbing gyms near you? Could get a punch card to one.