Nice try FBI

Goodbye.

Oh 100%. This is why I had respect for the party for not running anyone for president.

I see a lot of folks being critical of the movement due to controversial associations (the Bushes etc.), and while I don’t personally like what these people have done, I recognize passing RCV will mean making strange bedfellows. It’s kinda like when you see AOC and Ted Cruz working together on banning lawmakers from becoming lobbyists.

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My comment or the political party?

Andrew Yang is a billionaire which does suck, but if a billionaire is able to help us get RCV I’ll take it, but that’s just my 2 cents.

As for me I’d love if my comments were being funded by dark astroturfing money. I got credit card debt that I need to pay. Sadly I still need to go to work.

Edit:

Andrew Yang isn’t the one guy funding the party- just like any party they are pulling from many sources, I just assumed the comment was trying to get at the fact a billionaire is setting this up. I had a knee jerk reaction to that because I see purity tests as an unproductive way to judge a movement. There should be boundaries sure, but there should also be a degree of pragmatism in how to get things done.

So I think a lot of folks don’t know the context this comic was written in and how misleading the message is.

This is an attack comic on a recently created 3rd party, the Forward party, created by Andrew Yang. There are several pillars to this party’s mission, such as UBI and Campaign finance reform, but the core of the party is the ranked choice vote.

If you aren’t familiar with ranked choice vote, Here is a great video explanation , but essentially it gives voters the ability to vote for multiple candidates and removing the entire “voting 3rd party is throwing your vote away” situation. If the forward party is successful to getting this passed in every part of our government, it would fully upend the two party system.

This comic is pointing at Andrew Yangs slogan in his 2020 run for president as well as for the forward party- “not left, not right, forward”. What he is trying to do is tap into the discontent found in a majority of Americans. Most voters would like to see choices beyond Dems and the GOP and these voters are all across the political spectrum.

Someone like my father, a former Republican who is disillusioned with the party but is still heavily free market, and myself who believes more in regulation and strong institutions both agree on the issue of RCV because we are in the same boat of feeling like we aren’t actually represented in our government.

I’d say this comic is a perfect example of “if you ignore the details of a philosophy and redefine it’s rhetoric, you can make it stand for anything you want”.

TL;Dr this comic is trying to convince you that the Forward party is the exact opposite of what it really is by ignoring any nuance.

Edit: Here is a video explaining the positions of the forward party. Keep a critical eye while watching it as I’m not trying to sell you on the party, but at least for you to be aware of it’s existence.

90% is California transplant flags

Next 10% is saying “I make $300k creating internal systems for streamlining data aggregation for business needs. Dang I love this city, it just needs another glass building- that theater/ historic landmark/ orphanage could totally be bulldozed”

In another post someone said to watch the news maybe once a week. That’s all you really need to actually stay informed- after that it’s doom scrolling.

Make sure to audit your sources from time to time- how are they fact checking? What systems do they have in place? Are they publishing to inform or to enrage? Are they talking to you with a crystal ball? What questions are they asking, who is asking them, and who benefits from the answer?

When interacting with strangers on the Internet, be like Mr. Rogers. If they aren’t being like Mr. Rogers, then be like Mr. Rogers. This isn’t for them, this is for you.

I’m struggling in this too, so many are. These tips may or may not work, but I guess fortunately we’ve all been through this before so we have some idea of what’s to come.

I just don’t want to become the person I was from 2016-2020, I did not like that version of me.

Person: “good afternoon!”

Seattleite: “haha I’m in danger”

Better buy yourself a Subaru, a North face jacket, a climbing gym membership, and some weed and Zoloft.

Quick context, if you ask for directions in Seattle, people will gladly help, but you will see the terror in their eyes that they have to socialize with someone they don’t know.

PNW should be: acts nice, is scared

Oh yea, he never turned off his mic. Pretty sure I heard his mom come down with tang and Oreos and he cussed her out

I hoped that 2016 was a fluke, that Americans weren’t that dumb and hateful but rather we got caught unprepared by a personality we didn’t expect to run for president.

I hoped that 2020 was the true thoughts of Americans, that the insurrection represented the dying grasp of an extreme minority.

I don’t think Trump stole the 2024 election. I think it proved that yes, this is America. Whether you think America has changed into this or was always this, it doesn’t take away the fact that a majority of Americans will believe anything so long as it makes them hate. Good news doesn’t drive votes. Fear and anger drives votes.

I’ve tried so much to try and be a middle of the road voice of reason and moderation with my friends and family. I didn’t want to be a knee jerk conspiracy theorist, I was always patient with people, listened to them, told them the places they were right, and asked them questions hoping they would ask themselves. I’d say “be like Mr. Rogers. And if someone isn’t acting like Mr. Rogers, be like Mr. Rogers.”

It started to hit when a friend of mine who is very left wing told me that people with college degrees are brainwashed by the deep state. I had just told her I had a degree in political science.

I ordered another drink and changed the subject but it hurt. Now I know she is representative of a majority of Americans. I’m worried civil war is all but inevitable when facts just don’t matter as much as anger.

Edit: Lord grant me the strength to be like Mr. Rogers in this comment section.

Oh hey it’s that mean voice in my head

Yea, what stinks is usually I end up in relationships where I don’t ever feel that infatuation. I always delude myself that the infatuation will come if only I try harder, but that’s a part of why everything implodes.

I feel like the times I’ve had long lasting relationships, I never felt any immediate excitement, and any time I’ve felt excited, that’s when my heart breaks.

I’ve chatted with my therapist about it years ago and we don’t think I have BPD. I do have bipolar disorder though, however I am 6 years in remission.

Normie here, Lemmy is pretty easy to use imo. I think the transition is happening now kinda like the Internet in the 90s or online dating in the 10’s.

Ofc I just got here and I’m using Voyager.

A theory I have is that everyone who hates reddit eventually left leaving the milk bags brains. I was mod of r/mapporncirclejerk and left when I saw my mod queue get exponentially worse. My friend told me it was because the decent people left for Lemmy.

Now I’m mod of !cartographyanarchy@lemm.ee and it’s sooooo much easier.

I’m gonna need this next time I’m in the bike lane. No SUV is gonna cut me off now.

It was more performance art.

I was treating it more like a Twitter chain since the one liners kinda didn’t pace right in a single comment imo

But c’mon I think some of these one liners slap. This is my anger therapy.

Anyone reading this feel free to comment/ message me with your angry jokes and I’ll upvote.