I think they weren’t ever going to use them because they know they would get nuked in turn. Once it became clear the bluff wasn’t working, makes you look weak to use a threat and not follow through.

They say your time is much better spent guaranteeing people who already will vote blue show up to polls than trying to change the opinion of people who will vote red.

So that looks like asking people “do you have a plan to vote?” And perhaps in a less nosy phrasing: “When will you vote?” “How will you get there?”

People verbalizing a plan makes them more likely to follow through.

There are many places you can sign up to go canvassing, which is great. I would suggest in addition to and maybe before that, make a list of everyone you know and would feel comfortable talking to, and talk to them about voting. You will get much more mileage from existing relationships. (It’s like how sales differentiates a warm lead and a cold lead)

Once you’ve exhausted that list then every little bit still helps. I do think high density events like farmers markets, community gatherings, concerts, games, etc have better rate of contact than door to door.

In my experience “please call me” is more often business speak for “you’ve really got a problem now” than a statement of weakness. Like they’ve got too much shit to say to you to fit in an email, and they maybe don’t want what they’re about to say to be written down

Seems to be the elf is setting themselves up to receive the human’s inheritance money. If they play their cards right they could pull this scam many times

Even if you can afford it it makes no sense. Impulse giving is not a solution to systemic food insecurity, homelessness, insufficient healthcare, etc. If there’s a societal problem, there should be a societal solution. I don’t turn to Walmart to meaningfully address these issues, nor do I trust them to.

When your id says you’re 100 and you look 21 it’s going to cause issues.

You want to get away from ever needing an ID. The wealth you gain from compounding interest should allow you to hire accounting experts who will handle your transactions and hide your wealth among shell companies. I think once or twice you could go with the “this is my child, me Jr” routine, but eventually you need to have some kind of emissary who conducts business on your behalf while you cycle through fraudulent ids and move around every 20-30 years.

If you look at the poll in that article apparently every generation leans Democrat, so why aren’t they winning?

A big factor is that gerrymandering means in a given state a majority of voters will vote Democrat but Republicans will get a majority of seats.

Same with national elections, it’s good to remember that Trump didn’t win the popular vote when he “won” the first time.

And each state getting two senators regardless of population means that lesser populated states have an outsized influence, and they’re usually Republican.

So all that to say, it doesn’t mean there’s more of “them” than “us.”

The U.S. should go to proportional ranked choice voting, which would not only avoid gerrymandering it would allow has to vote for third party candidates without throwing our vote away.

When Biden beat Bernie it sucked, but the other candidates dropped out and put their weight behind Biden so it allowed him to get the most votes. That’s not anti democratic, just strategy.

I’d say this go round will be much less democratic if Biden drops out, because registered Democrats more or less all voted for Biden and then all these party insider delegates will actually be the ones picking the candidate.

Don’t get me wrong, I will still vote and advocate for pretty much anyone over Trump, but the Democratic party is not covering themselves in glory here.

In my ideal system we’d have ranked choice voting, so many people can run without risking being a “spoiler”. If an individual doesn’t have enough votes to get a majority, those votes will move on to the voter’s second choice, then third choice and so on until someone has a majority of support.

I’ve never heard of trophy eyes before, but unless you’re a big act most of these bands take home less than say, a white collar job. And odds seem good they’ll get sued too. So I’m not surprised they’re not throwing cash around

Yes please. Would love if they didn’t phrase it in a horse race kind of way, “it would be a boon to the Biden campaign” and instead “it would be appropriate because Trump tried to overthrow an election and we have a specific constitutional amendment prohibiting insurrectionists from running for office”