Congratulations! You managed to sum up all the shit I've been thinking in a clear and concise way that I never could, holy shit. Stole this screenshot because I couldn't find the o tweet, even under your new handle
Yeah, I deleted it. I try to keep this handle under wraps, and word about it leaked out, so I went into a panic and deleted all my old tweets and changed my handle.
So true, no candidate is perfect but someone like Bernie has held his principles for some time it's too bad, we had to deal with an anti-Bernie in Trump .
I can't speak for everyone else, but I'm 20 and the people I hang out with are 19-21, and those of us who didn't vote (myself included) were all stuck working...
I agree. I think maybe part of the problem is that young voters and lower income voters of every demographic are more likely to end up being the ones working to keep stores and restaurants open on our voting day, thus causing them to miss the chance to vote. Making voting day a national holiday would solve this problem. That would also help the overall level of awareness of the event. Oh and in my state you have to register to vote by mail, there is no online registration, which doesn't help the turnout either.
It wouldn't matter. Only bankers and government workers ever really get federal holidays off. I havent gotten Cheistmas off in the past 5 years, so I sure as hell wouldn't get an election day off.
Maybe instead of there being a super Tuesday, it can be a Super WEEKEND and have the polls open until midnight.
These options would have helped me, but I was completely unaware of the vote happening so I didn't make an attempt to vote by mail, and once I heard that there was a vote I assumed that it was the early voting that I had heard mentioned.
This is my first election as an adult, and given how I thought this worked you can probably imagine the education I received on voting.
Not that that is an excuse- I should have done my own independent research on something so fundamental at this point, but I completely misunderstood the process and I feel like I can't be the only one.
for me it’s different. some of my friends vote, but thats all they do. they hardly do any research or anything else. most of my friends just dont pay attention at all. they dont have jobs either, they are perfectly capable of being informed voters. they just dont care for some reason. they dont think that elections are rigged or that its unfair or even that its a waste of their time. they just straight up do not care because they have no reason so they go back to looking elsewhere for a hit of dopamine.
What's your squad normally like? I'm trying to get some context because now that you say that, me and all my friends are Bernie bros who work and like to smoke and have heated discussions about the progress of humanity. And that now feels like an important detail for me to add because my experience may not be the best example.
Agree- but how do we change this? I’m putting together a monthly meetup to discuss a viable 3rd party option. I say we stop playing they’re game and make our own, invite everyone in.
“Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with.”
—Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., letter from Birmingham Jail.
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Only a voter who’s never looked deeper than optics and pretense would think Bernie’s some sort of wedge driver.
1000%
Damn straight.
This is my twitter :). I changed my handle to "stillbaboo".
i can’t find the original tweet
I deleted all my old tweets.
Congratulations! You managed to sum up all the shit I've been thinking in a clear and concise way that I never could, holy shit. Stole this screenshot because I couldn't find the o tweet, even under your new handle
Yeah, I deleted it. I try to keep this handle under wraps, and word about it leaked out, so I went into a panic and deleted all my old tweets and changed my handle.
Wanted to retweet this shit but can't find the user. Why do people censor the username when it should be spread out?
It's my account, but I changed the handle to stillbaboo.
I didn't censor it, I just found it on Facebook
So true, no candidate is perfect but someone like Bernie has held his principles for some time it's too bad, we had to deal with an anti-Bernie in Trump .
This is so incredibly true. It’s just a tragedy that more young people didn’t get out to vote. They don’t really care enough.
I can't speak for everyone else, but I'm 20 and the people I hang out with are 19-21, and those of us who didn't vote (myself included) were all stuck working...
Voting day needs to be a national holiday
I agree. I think maybe part of the problem is that young voters and lower income voters of every demographic are more likely to end up being the ones working to keep stores and restaurants open on our voting day, thus causing them to miss the chance to vote. Making voting day a national holiday would solve this problem. That would also help the overall level of awareness of the event. Oh and in my state you have to register to vote by mail, there is no online registration, which doesn't help the turnout either.
It wouldn't matter. Only bankers and government workers ever really get federal holidays off. I havent gotten Cheistmas off in the past 5 years, so I sure as hell wouldn't get an election day off.
Maybe instead of there being a super Tuesday, it can be a Super WEEKEND and have the polls open until midnight.
What about early voting or vote by mail?
These options would have helped me, but I was completely unaware of the vote happening so I didn't make an attempt to vote by mail, and once I heard that there was a vote I assumed that it was the early voting that I had heard mentioned. This is my first election as an adult, and given how I thought this worked you can probably imagine the education I received on voting. Not that that is an excuse- I should have done my own independent research on something so fundamental at this point, but I completely misunderstood the process and I feel like I can't be the only one.
for me it’s different. some of my friends vote, but thats all they do. they hardly do any research or anything else. most of my friends just dont pay attention at all. they dont have jobs either, they are perfectly capable of being informed voters. they just dont care for some reason. they dont think that elections are rigged or that its unfair or even that its a waste of their time. they just straight up do not care because they have no reason so they go back to looking elsewhere for a hit of dopamine.
What's your squad normally like? I'm trying to get some context because now that you say that, me and all my friends are Bernie bros who work and like to smoke and have heated discussions about the progress of humanity. And that now feels like an important detail for me to add because my experience may not be the best example.
One could make the argument that the people constantly complaining and not voting are actually excluding themselves.
Good thing they underlined it, or I never would have seen what the tweet says
Agree- but how do we change this? I’m putting together a monthly meetup to discuss a viable 3rd party option. I say we stop playing they’re game and make our own, invite everyone in.
“Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with.”
—Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., letter from Birmingham Jail.
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