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CoggyMcFee

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  • Gen Z commit to ‘canceling out’ their MAGA parents votes in new TikTok trend

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  • I can’t really see how this is different from anything except that it is an online movement. There have always been slogans, campaigns, and movements to get people motivated to vote. This particular movement is helpful to motivate people who might feel that their vote isn’t significant, as it helps them to think of it in concrete terms as a chess move against their MAGA loved one. I don’t see why that is so stupid. It seems like hating it is more of a knee-jerk reaction against people who use TikTok. While I dislike TikTok myself, this seems like one of the weakest examples of why it’s bad.

  • Trump’s ready to declare victory on Tuesday — no matter the results

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  • Yes, they want weeks of no official result being declared, during which they say Trump definitely won, so that when the final result comes in, if it’s Harris, they can say Democrats are trying to overturn the election

  • Most of the trick-or-treaters have been skipping my house, and I finally figured out why

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  • But if you don’t get the amount of candy you want in the end (and even with a slow pace my kids have always had more candy than they could ever finish), just buy some more. Who cares about the excess of candy?

  • Most of the trick-or-treaters have been skipping my house, and I finally figured out why

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  • If your lonely, go to a bar. I'm trying to run these street with my kids and make some real candy profit.

    If you just want a bunch of candy, go to Walmart.

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  • Yeah, I’m not as addicted to Lemmy as I was with Reddit, because there aren’t as many comments and niche communities and an algorithm messing with me, but like I check Lemmy throughout each day and if I’m honest there’s not much purpose aside from getting that hit.

  • Straight men, what's the weirdest thing you've been told you can't do because it's gay?

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  • Election 2024: Kamala Harris on NBC vows to double federal minimum wage to $15

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  • Not voting in enough Democrats into Congress to do anything and saying the Democrats didn’t actually want to do anything

  • Trump has taken the lead over Harris for first time in 538 forecast.

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  • You just fundamentally do not understand statistics and it’s tiresome

  • Obama tells Black men it’s ‘not acceptable’ to sit out election

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  • And here I thought it was not having the needed amount of votes that caused her to lose.

    I’m sick of people blaming Hillary‘s campaign for all the horrible shit that ensued afterwards. Candidates campaign because it is in their best interest to do so, but at the end of the day, this is our government. It’s our job as citizens to educate ourselves on the candidates, the voting system, and the stakes of the election. We should be figuring out who best to vote for, whether they are good at campaigning or not.

    So, while Hillary might have won with a better campaign, the blame for Trump getting into power firmly rests with the voting public. We knew what kind of person Trump was before he was elected, and we knew there was a vacant Supreme Court seat.

    Don’t blame it on the fact that people weren’t manipulated well enough by a giant ad campaign.

  • No country still uses an electoral college − except the US

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  • It would also probably be a constant battle to keep it in effect anyway, because every state that has entered the compact can always leave. As long as you can shut off the compact by removing one or two states from it, it will be an unstable mess.

  • Dating apps be like

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  • I don’t know what country you are from or how your voting system works. But I will guess that your country has many parties and after the election, a governing coalition is formed.

    In the US voting system, similar parties get punished by stealing votes from each other. So, in effect, we have to form our coalitions before the election and choose the single candidate that will stand for all of us. So, you can think of the Democratic Party as the Democratic Coalition, made up of some truly left-wing factions, as well as some not very left-wing or even centrist factions, and so our candidate will be much more watered down than what you’d see in a different system.

  • Harris to release medical records as campaign looks to pressure Trump to do the same

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  • Also might cause Trump to publicly obsess over it which certainly doesn’t help him in any way

  • Tim Walz calls for scrapping of electoral college to decide US presidential race

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  • Are you aware of what is minimally required in order to pull off this kind of change? There is no outcome to this election that will result in the Democrats having even the faintest possibility of doing this.

  • This moon decoration my wife got

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  • I don’t know if you realize how condescending it sounds to hear you say you “don’t want to ruin whatever enjoyment she gets out of it” by telling her… what? That you arbitrarily look down on the use of this absolutely grammatical construction?

    The thing that bothers me most about stuff like this is that it is effectively some kind of “gotcha” that makes people feel foolish, like their natural, completely grammatical speech has errors, or something they should feel bad about.

  • This moon decoration my wife got

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  • The worst kind of grammar pedant: the one who is passionate about a “rule” that is actually only a style recommendation.

  • How can I mock AI in jest

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  • “How do I help my uncle Jack off a horse?”

  • Non-Americans who have been to the US.. What is the weirdest thing about America that Americans don't realize is weird?

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  • Yikes!

  • Non-Americans who have been to the US.. What is the weirdest thing about America that Americans don't realize is weird?

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  • A problem with this question is that the US is such a big and diverse place, that you could have this same question posed to Americans only, asking about their experience visiting other parts of the US.

  • Non-Americans who have been to the US.. What is the weirdest thing about America that Americans don't realize is weird?

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  • You think an American wouldn’t also regard that interaction as weird?

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
    CoggyMcFee @lemmy.world

    How does my navigation system determine the specific wording it uses about each turn when giving directions?