"…I don’t see any way that he could match her level of intensity and humor,” said a Walz ally who was granted anonymity to speak freely about the governor.

So don’t try. Go for down-to-earth, earnest, hard-working, straight-talking and honest.

Glad to hear he’s working with Pete, I think that’s probably the perfect combo of midwestern sensibilities and savvy to disarm Vance’s Yale-trained style.

That’s true. We should not necessarily be taking the most extreme measures to simply render the tactic fully ineffective, though. At a certain level it has to be allowed to work, because its leveraging against our humanity, which we should not be discarding too completely. Beyond even the ethical concerns, disregarding them too much creates future strategic problems by instilling more hatred in future generations.

It’s a question of where to draw the line. It’s been particularly egregious in Gaza, where unlike Lebanon, there was nowhere really safe to flee to.

No problem, your perspectives are important as well. I just like trying to remind people not to paint with too broad a brush.

Putting 100% of the blame on either of the sides in this one is not a terribly good idea. Sometimes a conflict has a clear historical oppressed and oppressor, but this particular one has each of the two sides doing quite a bit of foul play for over a century. The Arabs more in the earlier days, the Israelis more in the recent days.

Dealing specifically with the use of human shields, while yes they do get used, at a certain point you shouldn’t just be shooting through them just because you can. Israel is also not sufficiently meeting its obligation to help distribute the food and care for the innocent people displaced by this war. If they were to do so, perhaps they could leave the next generation with less hatred in their hearts.

A trustee is someone that manages the assets for someone else, in this case an organization.

You keep that saved like its some damning thing, but it’s really not. Trolling is actually harmful to a community. That’s not.

I think basement dweller is much more likely. Let’s not forget, trolling is fun at a certain age. It’s a recreational activity, engaged in as a way to enjoyably pass the time. This is why the advice always used to be to not interact, and just starve them of any engagement so it stopped being enjoyable. To not feed them.

That stopped working when real effects also became achievable, but we shouldn’t forget that the first motivation is still there. Just because ignoring them won’t make them go away now, because they’re trying to actually work on a nebulous goal, doesn’t mean it ever stopped being fun.

I mean, is it so hard to believe, when we used to get regularly DDoSed and even occasionally hacked, that we’d also pick up some dedicated trolls from time to time? It’d frankly be pretty naive to think we’d be so lucky, if someone has ever spent any time in the seedier corners of the internet where these things come from.

It’s that fun aspect we have to remember. I mean, I disagree with ozma, Linker, jimmydore, lots of people very regularly, but they’re not stringing out dozen+ long comment chains just trying to irritate the person they’re interacting with at whatever moment. They’re not trolling, they just have strong opinions. It’s specifically that having fun at other people’s expense thing that makes this one different. And frankly, it’s very common on the internet, just usually not so much in moderated spaces, when the mods are being appropriately responsible. The rest of the internet is still out there though, can always go spend some time on 4chan’s /pol/ if you need to see the sorts of things we’re dealing with. Maybe a LoL lobby, I hear those are lovely. Maybe the comments sections under some Gamergate youtuber’s videos, or Ben Shapiro or someone.

Plenty of places you can find people that just want to have a good time at your expense. For fun, with just a side dose of fuck-the-world.

The Heritage Foundation was founded on February 16, 1973, during the Nixon administration by Paul Weyrich, Edwin Feulner, and Joseph Coors.[11][12][13]

So uh, which one endorsed Harris? And Proj 2025 has dozens of authors, not one btw.

I like some of Stein’s policies, but a lot of them are just silly and naive. She wants to abolish the Electoral College, for instance. Great, but since that’s directly in the Constitution, she’s going to get an amendment through with a 2/3rds vote in both houses of Congress and ratified by 3/4ths the states? Which kinda requires some of the red ones?

Then big one for me, is “peace-loving” Stein is critical of Ukraine aid. I cannot support hanging them out to dry like that, even though we promised to help keep them secure after convincing them to de-nuclearize, after the fall of the USSR in the Budapest Memorandum.

Our word has to be worth more than that.

I’m all for progress towards a utopian world, but offering one as your policy platform is a little manipulative when we have a government of checks and balances that has some republicans in it.

… yes, a person that engages in trolling is a troll. What did you think it was?

Convenient scapegoat. What is easier to admit, that we are causing our own problems by not addressing new challenges appropriately, or pointing a finger at an outside group and going “their fault!”.

Is this the article you were referring to?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/02/01/us/politics/democratic-presidential-campaign-donors.html

Or perhaps it was this one?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/politics/bernie-sanders-donor-lead/

Your assertions of media foul play do not seem to be accurate.

Moreover, older Americans punch above their weight because they’re more likely to be registered to vote and to cast a ballot. Recent polling from The New York Times/Siena College put seniors at about 29% of the electorate, compared with only about 13% for voters under 30.

I knew there was a disparity, but over double is a bit more than I expected.

Perhaps you should work on your reading comprehension. If you look, I never said “my post count”. I said “the comment count on the post”. It has nothing to do with me.

You’re doing the broken record repeating thing again. Though I guess you did switch from “not supporting” to “not voting”.

Given your pattern of spinning things, though, I think people should take that with a grain of salt.

Really? Which two did Trump do?

Popular policies like investing into green energy, capping prescription drug prices, appropriately regulating business, helping students with the price of college, raising taxes on the wealthy and helping first time homebuyers get a house?

I know it’s your opinion that you don’t support Trump, but statistically speaking you most likely do. If we consider how many Cruz supporters there are, vs how many Trump supporters wishing to syphon away dem votes, we find the group of Trump supporters is over 10x larger. Given how people can lie on the internet, it’s best to go with the statistics over just trusting in your word.

Do you think that is some sort of bad thing?

Yeah, that’s a good point, I didn’t think of that.