christian

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[–] christian@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

Reading this just unlocked an ancient memory. There was some DOS game that was included in a big pack of cds in sleeves that came for free with the pc my mom bought in 1993 (I think). I could never play it because none of those cds came with manuals and the game required the last word of manual page 5 or something to actually open.

[–] christian@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Any impact protest voters might have had could be outweighed a thousandfold by nonvoters. Why call out protest voters unprompted as a cause of an election swing when their impact is a drop in an ocean?

Half the country didn't vote. If 1% of them leaned Biden they would still have had more impact than protest voters, and I feel like the percentage leaning Biden might have been slightly higher than 1%.

I feel like I see protest voters called out 300x as much as nonvoters and I can never understand why it's so disproportionate.

[–] christian@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I opened the door to the wrong car once before and almost got in. I can picture myself getting as far as sitting down, but I can't picture myself realizing and then thinking "hey there's no rush so I should pull out my phone to take a photo of this dog before leaving".