The 2024 U.S. Presidential race

[Dirran]

You Trumpers have moved the Overton Window so far to the right that even the center-right Democrats appear "leftist" to you.

That's sad.

They haven’t moved the Overton Window. They’ve shut it down. They don’t care about policy, just seeing their fellow citizens weep.

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

I'm gonna enjoy bathing in leftist tears on November 6th

I guess you're a liar, because you said you'd avoid politics here on VVO

Being a techy libertarian-right reflexive contrarian edgelord doesn't make you smart or right. It makes you ignorant and easy prey for conspiracy theories and grifters because the "mainstream" says they're wrong/idiots. It's even worse if you're on the autistic spectrum and thus lacking the ability to understand certain things.

"Nobody is going to tell me what to do, no one is gonna tell me my behavior is problematic or my jokes racist or misogynist. Fuck you virtue signaling normies and your fee-fees." That's you at your core. You're like this:

It's not even that exactly, it is that THEY don't want to help anyone and think it is stupid and a waste, since fuck everyone else, and since this is how THEY feel, and they must be right because you know, then anyone saying otherwise is a phony and a liar and just wants to make THEM look bad.
People who have no empathy can not, and will never, understand the concept of empathy. They think it is a lie the rest of us made up just to make them look like pieces of shit, they can't understand feeling bad for people, and so think the whole idea is ridiculous.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/26/donald-trump-americans-vote-psychology

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

They haven’t moved the Overton Window. They’ve shut it down. They don’t care about policy, just seeing their fellow citizens weep.

With Trumpers, cruelty is the whole point.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I guess you're a liar, because you said you'd avoid politics here on VVO

Being a techy libertarian-right reflexive contrarian edgelord doesn't make you smart or right. It makes you ignorant and easy prey for conspiracy theories and grifters because the "mainstream" says they're wrong/idiots. It's even worse if you're on the autistic spectrum and thus lacking the ability to understand certain things.

"Nobody is going to tell me what to do, no one is gonna tell me my behavior is problematic or my jokes racist or misogynist. Fuck you virtue signaling normies and your fee-fees." That's you at your core. You're like this:

It's not even that exactly, it is that THEY don't want to help anyone and think it is stupid and a waste, since fuck everyone else, and since this is how THEY feel, and they must be right because you know, then anyone saying otherwise is a phony and a liar and just wants to make THEM look bad.
People who have no empathy can not, and will never, understand the concept of empathy. They think it is a lie the rest of us made up just to make them look like pieces of shit, they can't understand feeling bad for people, and so think the whole idea is ridiculous.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/26/donald-trump-americans-vote-psychology

I love how people are taking this tool and using them as a learning tool.

 

[detrius]

I'm gonna enjoy bathing in leftist tears on November 6th

I noticed that you avoided this forum after the debate between Harris and Trump. Did something happen?

 

[detrius]

What? No mention about the black porno nazi thing?

MAGA is so racist, even Trump's black supporter is a white supremacist.

 

[Imnotgoing Sideways]

(o.o)

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

I'm gonna enjoy bathing in leftist tears on November 6th

I wish I could say the same, but the tears from your side are filled with psycho-active toxins. Side effects include an urge to contribute to domestic terrorism, subjugate women and minorities and an obsession with normalizing abuses of power.

So no. Won't be bathing in that.

 

[Govi]

 

[detrius]

 

[Cindy Claveau]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

You're preaching to the choir here, haha. But this is a very common misconception in every country. It's especially comical when a tiny nation will riot against their current government over gas prices as if their little island has much say in global oil markets.

There's often specific things that governments can do to ameliorate particular problems. They can cut taxes on fuel, for example, or even provide temporary subsidies, as the British government did to cushion the impact of the rise in LPG prices after Russia invaded Ukraine. These may or may not be good ideas, depending on the circumstances (and they have various consequences, one way or another, some inevitably unwelcome) but they can be done.

Similarly, in the UK, many commentators seem to agree our new Labour government is on the right track in seeking to encourage the building of both affordable housing and renewable power generators by removing a lot of the planning restrictions that had made such developments extremely difficult and expensive.

But the idea that any president can control so massive and chaotic a system as the US economy, let alone that of the world, seems completely fanciful.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

There's often specific things that governments can do to ameliorate particular problems. They can cut taxes on fuel, for example, or even provide temporary subsidies, as the British government did to cushion the impact of the rise in LPG prices after Russia invaded Ukraine. These may or may not be good ideas, depending on the circumstances (and they have various consequences, one way or another, some inevitably unwelcome) but they can be done.

Similarly, in the UK, many commentators seem to agree our new Labour government is on the right track in seeking to encourage the building of both affordable housing and renewable power generators by removing a lot of the planning restrictions that had made such developments extremely difficult and expensive.

But the idea that any president can control so massive and chaotic a system as the US economy, let alone that of the world, seems completely fanciful.

Agreed on all points, especially the last one. And housing prices actually are affected by local policies a great deal more than something like oil and gas markets. A small, poor nation for example might not be able to subsidize gas very much, but they can often change things like zoning restrictions to help housing prices.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Agreed on all points, especially the last one. And housing prices actually are affected by local policies a great deal more than something like oil and gas markets. A small, poor nation for example might not be able to subsidize gas very much, but they can often change things like zoning restrictions to help housing prices.

You (and others) might find this interesting:


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[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

"G-G-G-Georgia's always on my mind." - Paul McCartney.

 

[Khamon]

We had a cadet last year from Georgia and Georgia. He was a naturalized Georgian immigrant, with legal residence in Georgia, and was attending school in Alabama. His name was George, no it wasn't, his name was not George ha ha ha but the cadets called him Georgia and he was good with that.

 

[detrius]

We had a cadet last year from Georgia and Georgia. He was a naturalized Georgian immigrant, with legal residence in Georgia, and was attending school in Alabama. His name was George, no it wasn't, his name was not George ha ha ha but the cadets called him Georgia and he was good with that.

Georgy Georgovich

 

[Free]

Georgy Georgovich

What's his middle name?

 

[Free]

Evil, or incompetent? Why not both?

Ballot error shuts down Montana online absentee voting system

When Max Himsl opened his electronic ballot on Friday, he was dismayed to see a candidate missing from the list of options.

dailyinterlake.com

When Max Himsl opened his electronic ballot on Friday, he was dismayed to see a candidate missing from the list of options.

Voting absentee electronically while living abroad, Himsl saw that under the options for president, only Republican Donald Trump and Independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr. were listed. Missing was Democrat Kamala Harris.

Election officials were notified of the error shortly after the Electronic Absentee System that allows certain voters to cast their ballot electronically went live on Friday at 8 a.m., according to the Montana Secretary of State’s Office which reported that the error was isolated to the online system.

“Our team and the vendor quickly investigated and found that only a few voters may have been impacted,” the Secretary of State’s Office said through email. “As a precaution, the Electronic Absentee System has been taken offline until troubleshooting is completed.”

Montana's Secretary of State, Christi Jacobsen, who's in charge of voting in the state, was involved in a lawsuit for removing voter signatures from a petition to add abortion rights to the state's constitution. She's just another MAGA election denier.