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I agree w/r/t how absolutely... childish... the word choice is, and I think folks trying to argue the merits here are missing the point. Yes, Putin's individua
by TameAntelope 5y ago
I agree w/r/t how absolutely... childish... the word choice is, and I think folks trying to argue the merits here are missing the point.
Yes, Putin's individual actions in Ukraine have had a negative effect on the global economy, and yes that negative effect is creating additional inflation, but "putin price hike" is so obviously a sound-bite crafted explicitly to trick voters into not "blaming" the current administration.
I voted for Biden because I wanted an adult in the Oval Office, and an adult doesn't talk like that, in my opinion. I understand why it can feel necessary to talk like this, but you give up the high ground by doing so, and I think that's a mistake.
- hintymad 5y agoI didn't vote for anyone last year. When I watched the talks given by Biden in 80s, 90s, and 2000s on foreign policies, on racial issues, and on education, and I found him repulsive and couldn't believe the projected image of him being "nice grandpa", "adult", or "moderate".
- TameAntelope 5y agoEh, I think of "I didn't vote" as a pretty antagonistic position to take at this point in our democracy. I personally wish we had mandatory voting laws like in AUS.
- ncmncm 5y ago"Not an out-and-out grifter" is what carries the day, lately, on a good day. We are left to pray for such good days.
- uoaei 5y agoMany, many names on the ballot in 2020 fit that description. Electoral reform (approval voting ftw, I don't get the obsession with ranked-choice) is a crucial part of the solution to these problems, but mandatory voting is completely stupid if you keep first-past-the-post. That would only serve to enshrine the spoiler effect in law as an inevitability in US politics forevermore. Great for anyone who gets paid by DNC or RNC, terrible for literally everyone else.