BashfulBob
Damn, can't believe Cromwell happened again.
No no no. Economics is when there's an evil ghost and you have to beat it with the power of being horny for a girl that's not into you.
they would run the same campaign
I'm waging they would have simply not pulled Biden off the front of the ticket and let him take the L, so Kamala could run in 2028.
This year it's nothing. I say that I'm with the people of Palestine and it's like I said the secret word. Immediately it's "Ok, thank you." and they hang up. What is up with this?
They're trying to hit a call-quota. The people on the other end of the line don't actually care if you vote or who you vote for. They just want to make their 1000th call and go home. You'll notice you still keep getting called so its not like anyone is registering what you're saying.
When I dabbled in electoralism I used to see this on the other end. There would just be a line of phone numbers getting dialed. 90% of them wouldn't pick up. Anyone who answered the phone promoted you with a "R / D / Undecided / Other" option menu. If someone on the other end of the line is saying "I won't vote for genocide!" what do I select? Undecided/Other. But that doesn't take you off the phone list, it just spits you into the "Try again later" queue.
The best way to get these calls to stop is to identify who is making them and say you're staunchly supporting the other one. That still doesn't work too well, because you're getting called independently from Presidential, Senatorial, and House phone bankers who don't bother to coordinate because that would mean functioning as a party rather than a random assortment of self-centered egomaniacs. But it does at least get the network you said "I'm voting for the other guy" on to flag you as "Opposition, do not call again".
Go the Exo-Squad route. Colonize Mars and genetically engineer a race of superhumans to survive the harsh conditions. Then become terrified of your Mars-Engineered Children, reclassify them as a hostile alien species, and spend the next five years doing interstellar pogroms in cool mechs.
William Shattner went to space and it just made him sad.
What a waste. You could be using it to build a guillotine instead.
Why hide your hand when you're sitting on a royal flush?
When you're in the most propagandized country on Earth, leftists are few and far between
He matters in that he reveals the ideological hollowness and fecklessness of the Green Party.
They do that with their absolute inability to organize anything locally. They can't function as a party. They only exist as a brand.
But that's exactly why a guy like this doesn't matter.
They have to at least be good in theory!
Greens cultivate an image of "naturalist" types. And that attracts people who believe everything from plastics to nuclear energy to vaccines to hormone replacement is sinful.
That's a problem of the ideology. And it's a tough nut to crack, because there's a natural contradiction between ecological purity and industrial technology that I've yet to see a good simple way to navigate.
It's not the only natural schism I see form in left-liberal circles.
The DSA chapter I flirt with from time to time inevitably has a nasty struggle session over AES states and whether or not they're just another flavor of bourgeois imperialism. You get under the hood of these heated arguments, and a lot just ends with "Who do you believe?"
I don't think you can get a "Good in Theory" candidate unless you can find a set of facts everyone can agree on. And as America is the most propagandized country on Earth, that's a big ask.
He sucks, sure. But anyone you pick will inevitably disgust some number of Leftists for some take on a divisive issue.
But also if you start sounding too radical, you're a Fed.