holy moley
holy moley
Maybe the kid’s parents should learn to do the right things to keep them safe
It should be obvious now what those things are
They only understand when it personally affects them in some capacity.
I keep this image saved on my phone, because it is relevant way too often:
When those in power choose to ignore the people they represent, then what other options are there?
Essentially you’re saying elected representatives can use their children as human shields so they can do whatever they want.
And you’re saying thise kids deserve to have their lives endangered because of whatever stupid decisions their parents are making? The kids don’t have a say in anything, and they can’t leave! This person was too much of a coward to take this action to wherever the councilperson works. Nobody cares about innocent lives lost anymore.
And also, the more this sort of thing happens, the less people will want to put their families in potential danger. You will get fewer good, quality people running for any office.
When those in power choose to ignore the people they represent, then what other options are there?
Oh I don’t know, off the the top of my head… Elect people who will represent the people accordingly, run for office and be the change you want to see, move to another town/state that is more in line with your beliefs. It’s certainly not to assassinate those that I feel aren’t living up to my standards.
Essentially you’re saying elected representatives can use their children as human shields so they can do whatever they want.
Never said anything remotely close to that.
Why we talkin bout the Klingon dilithium mining moon?
Everything’s fine on Praxis, don’t need help nope it’s all good thanks move along
Hear me out…
How do we know it wasn’t a peaceful person leaving a hand written note begging for no more datacentres, when their nemesis, Dr Datacentre, drove past and started shooting at him?
There was a firefiiiiiiiight

The four boxes of liberty-
That’s literally not true. The current administration is in power because 86 million eligible people didn’t bother to vote.
If “Did Not Vote” had been a candidate:
Between work, here, and other things pulling at me, got confused what it was about. My apologies.
For the actual topic, though, I still don’t see Dems are more than the control opposition party. You throw enough at most of them and they’ll let you do something.
I’d be interested in an interactive version of this where you could assign a percentage of those votes to the person who lost the state as a naive proxy for “what would have happened if the people who thought their vote didn’t matter because [D|R] would win anyway”. I know it wouldn’t be an actual measure but it’d be fun to mess with anyway.
In particular I find it kinda interesting that CA and TX are both didn’t vote and both historically considered “easy wins”
I think you are on to something, but I’d say it actually largely deflates the ‘people didn’t vote and if they had, maybe the outcome would have been different’ narrative.
“Did not vote” rules in non-swing states. I wager that, for example, most people didn’t vote in california not because they see their candidate as a lost cause, but because they know “their” candidate has carried the state for sure.
So in a shift to proportional electoral vote or popular vote, you’d probably get a lot more voters engaged in California, Hawaii, NY, and pick up democrat votes but you’d also get more red voters from Alaska, Texas, Utah, Kansan, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Alabamba, Tennesse… etc… I’m not sure which group manages to bring out more non-voters in that scenario…
I wager that, for example, most people didn’t vote in california not because they see their candidate as a lost cause, but because they know “their” candidate has carried the state for sure.
That’s a natural interpretation as well. I wonder if it’d be possible to at least guess at whether it was that or “my person won’t win so what’s the point”. There are probably so many other factors. For example the “did not vote map” looks surprisingly similar to the SOVI map: www.atsdr.cdc.gov/…/svi-interactive-map.html
Drag the offenders into the street to be tried by televised mob justice?
Seriously, until multiple people responsible get serious consequences the situation will continue to devolve.
“Comply” with 3 conflicting orders being screamed at you behind masks.
Get shot anyway.
Was Renee Good a family member of yours?
Because she could have been
Edit: sorry I’ll dignify you with an actual response that reflects my views, I shouldn’t just reaction image something like this. I think political violence is going to ramp up due to the deteriorating living conditions within the American empire and there’s nothing we can do to prevent that. The goal should be to direct it.
Group in power has ratcheted up political violence in multiple staggering ways, deliberately, they use it constantly to brutalize people.
What are you even talking about? There is no peaceful baseline that exists to be maintained. They have broken the social contract entirely. Where have you been?