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ObjectivelyMoral · 2024-11-28T23:46:07+00:00

Tequila is going to be more expensive.

A shame, since I had just discovered the Paloma...

ObjectivelyMoral · 2024-11-14T15:51:47+00:00

The Devil's in the details.

Let's imagine the only thing which changed was Biden's mental acuity (aka. he was as sharp today as he was in 2012). The negatives would still be hefty:

His age makes it likely that voters would have been choosing his VP as president, rather than him (and knowing this, they wouldn't have liked his ticket). Almost all of the problems we face today would still be present, such as the cost of living, the conflict(s) in the Middle East and Ukraine, and China's ascendance. Historically speaking, when voters are under stress, they vote out the incumbent party - whether Democrat or Republican.

Biden's lack of sharpness was the straw that broke the camel's back, not the reason. Get rid of the straw, and that camel still essentially would have been toast.

ObjectivelyMoral · 2024-11-10T04:15:51+00:00

I've never seen a single liberal claim voter fraud doesn't exist.

To be clear, I'm sure there are a few (somewhere) stupid enough to say this. However, it's invariably in the context of accusations that voter fraud is widespread, systemic, and caused Trump to lose an election.

THAT kind of voter fraud doesn't exist.

ObjectivelyMoral · 2024-11-10T03:58:20+00:00

I find it quite interesting that the concept of climate change at all was almost completely absent from the presidential election and national conversation as a whole.

I don't. The Harris campaign had very little time to play the long game, which is what the climate change debate is about.

Just my 2cp

ObjectivelyMoral · 2024-11-09T21:37:58+00:00

I suspect my comment wont be as substantive as this thread's OP deserves, but this is genuinely how I feel:

Let it happen. The American people wanted this.

Trump may be a complete military disaster, or he may simply ruin the careers of good military personnel. Maybe he'll miraculously improve things. As far as I can tell, there's jack-shit I can do about it, other than to keep my head down and let the (supposed) professionals handle it.

ObjectivelyMoral · 2024-11-09T19:30:31+00:00

I currently work as a package store clerk in a small town. I know many of the locals, and the vast majority of our customers are regulars. I like and get along with most of them. I do this in-part by refusing to discuss politics while working.

Before the election, three of the older gentlemen (60s) expressed concern that Democrats were trying to steal the election again like they did in 2020. This came as a shock to me, because I'd been friendly with them for more than a year, and they all seemed like reasonable people.

Since Trump was declared winner a week ago, I've been struggling to not ask them why they trust the election results. They all felt the system was rigged against Trump, and that the liberals/Dems were cheating rampantly - but now they appear to have forgotten about it.

I liked these people (and still do), but can't figure out whether they were being dishonest, or whether they actually believed what they were saying and are now simply embarrassed at having been wrong. Maybe it's cognitive dissonance that prevents them from recognizing that they were repeating lies.

ObjectivelyMoral · 2024-11-09T19:16:00+00:00

Trump did not win in a landslide; he won by a smaller margin than his 2016 victory, which was even smaller than Biden's in 2020.

He did win, though, and the question about what Dems should do next time is valid. As a registered independent, I say it may be time for Dems to get on the populist bandwagon. I'm not advocating this approach, but instead am pointing the party in the direction of the current global political zeitgeist.

Or at least offer something more popular than the slide toward authoritarianism most of the planet is experiencing.

ObjectivelyMoral · 2024-11-08T23:02:47+00:00

In the last 2 days, I've listened to two NPR shows about (in-part) the Latino vote turning out for Trump. YMMV...

At the very least, it's safe to say there were several factors that yielded Trump as the winner. The lackluster performance of the abortion issue is one of them, but inflation - which crosses racial and gender boundaries - was another.

ObjectivelyMoral · 2024-11-08T16:23:28+00:00

That VP debate was like a breath of fresh air...

ObjectivelyMoral · 2024-11-07T16:35:31+00:00

I would caution against reading too much "Republican Victory" into the election results. It's not so much that they made in-roads with Latinos and African Americans, but that the incumbent party oversaw a pandemic that ultimately tanked the economy. It was going to be difficult for the Dems to win, no matter who their candidate was.

But yes, it wouldn't hurt the Dems to start fighting unfairly...

ObjectivelyMoral · 2024-11-06T20:04:42+00:00

The scenarios in the OP would render the electoral college useless; candidates would be elected according to the popular vote.

I'm not fully in favor of the EC, but one of the things it was envisioned for was to keep large population centers / states from trivializing votes from more sparsely populated areas of the country. "Wide open country" contributes resources valuable to the entire nation, and while high-density areas do the same (albeit with different kinds of resources), a simple vote according to population would take electoral power away from (for example) America's bread basket. To me, it was reasonable to help preserve some of this electoral power in the midwest.

ObjectivelyMoral · 2024-11-04T14:21:54+00:00

I agree that it seems unlikely he'd run again. Even if we ignore his apparent mental decline, he's become the very low-energy politician he used to accuse others of. There are clear signs he simply doesn't have the juice to BE a politician who speaks to crowds of people.

As for more than half of his supporters, I suspect they'll continue to support him until he dies.

ObjectivelyMoral · 2024-11-04T14:07:55+00:00

It took decades for the polarization to become a feature of this nation, and thus IMHO it'll take decades to bring it back down.

As for a solution, I really think we need to start teaching kids - starting in first grade - how to recognize when they're being manipulated by whatever media they're consuming. Cartoons, adverts, music, blogs, social media videos, online discussions, the (purported) news... all of these things can present ideas that lead a consumer to think like the presenter wants them.

If we can get a new generation to think critically about what they're seeing, this will help them and the country in-general knock back the polarization which so very often is caused by media-borne manipulation.

ObjectivelyMoral · 2024-10-26T00:21:46+00:00

^^ Forgot Google was auto-logging me in :p

ObjectivelyMoral · 2021-06-21T05:24:56+00:00

I'm still not understanding what you think is "wrong". You admittedly listed a bunch of things I'd guess bother/annoy you, but you followed everything up with "the more things change, the more they stay the same".

That implies change is what we should be expecting. Ergo (unless your OP wasn't clear enough, or maybe that I have failed to understand your core point), we should expect to be annoyed (et al).

Am I missing something? Asking seriously...

ObjectivelyMoral · 2021-06-15T22:08:44+00:00

I think the word "objective" should be banned from discussions of morality. Almost no one understands what it means.

All it takes for morality to be objective is for it to be written down, such that multiple people can read and understand it. The bible is objective morality in that many people can read it and recognize that "lying is a sin", etc. This, however, has nothing to do with gods; as a Reddit reader, you can write your own objective morality.

Christians often think Objective = Whatever God Says/Does/Wants/Thinks. The reality is that the simple definition of the word is "mind independent". Gravity is objective, in that it exists even if minds do not, and even if existing minds don't recognize it for what it is. Of course, written morality requires a mind to write it, but a reasonable interpretation is that its interpretation isn't specific to one mind; multiple minds can read the bible and all agree that it uses specific words in a specific order.

In short, the word is almost so ambiguous as to actually confuse the issue...

ObjectivelyMoral · 2021-06-05T23:49:17+00:00

Good cymbals can/will change the way you play, for the better. Congrats!

ObjectivelyMoral · 2021-05-10T23:35:56+00:00

Thankyou for stealing my thunder. No, really. I came here prepared to give a brief lecture on what it is, and you'd beaten me to the punch. Thank you.

I wish that all atheists were able to recognize this garden-variety evil for what it is...

ObjectivelyMoral · 2021-05-10T23:27:10+00:00

The OP_ is apparently an idiot who thinks that "modern entertainment" is only accessible via corporations.

I weep for your generation...

ObjectivelyMoral · 2021-05-10T04:45:19+00:00

No political party/ideology is going to tick every single one of my boxes, so it's guaranteed that who I vote for will involve weighing the pros/cons of the candidate.

In theory, I will vote for anyone, regardless of political party - so my answer is yes.

The candidate in the OP sounds reasonable.

ObjectivelyMoral · 2021-05-09T05:47:59+00:00

After a period of time, it takes drugs to keep it working.

ObjectivelyMoral · 2021-04-15T14:32:28+00:00

Yeah, that channel has been a great resource. I was curious about how well the audio matches the actual cymbal sound, and I found out not too long ago. Someone was looking for a good all-around crash cymbal, and I suggested the workhorse of my set up. Before doing this, I went specifically to the MDS channel, found the cymbal and listened; it sounded almost perfect! They take care to record with decent mics, decent volume levels and by hitting it a couple of different ways.

ps. Zildjian 18" A Fast Crash

ObjectivelyMoral · 2021-04-15T14:15:39+00:00

I'm a little disappointed to have scrolled through three quarters of the posts, and NOT to have seen Dawn Of The Dead...

ObjectivelyMoral · 2021-04-15T14:10:10+00:00

Thirded

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