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I remember when this was an important issue to me. It still is important, but at this point there are so much more important issues at stake which shouldn't ev

I remember when this was an important issue to me. It still is important, but at this point there are so much more important issues at stake which shouldn't even be issues. Does educating voters about issues like this even matter in 2024 if there won't be a vote any more by 2028? I'm tired.

A4ET8a8uTh0 2y ago
I feel this. And it does get overwhelming. As in, I actually removed myself from digesting news for the duration of my vacation and the result was pretty pronounced. Maybe uninformed people are onto something. I am only half joking at this point myself.
- tpmoney 2y ago
  To me, it's not that you need to be uninformed, but that you need to stay out of the firehose stream. In my decades on this earth, I can't remember a single election or major supreme court decision that wasn't considered "the most important X ever in your life" that was surely going to "change everything". But they can't all be. Everything can't be a crisis all the time, even when those things are really important. But when you sit in the firehose, being blasted by constant propaganda, opinion pieces and "expert analysis", it's easy to lose sight of the fact that these things matter, but only to the extent they actually change things on the ground level. Like the day trader that sits with their stream of stocks and freaks out over the signs of the impending collapse of the world waffle iron trade. It might well be important, and it will have many knock on effects, but a lot of that importance is focused and magnified by their position in the middle of this trading market, and the whole world and market is more than just waffle irons.
csomar 2y ago
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- Spivak 2y ago
  You mean the very popular lady to everyone not chronically online? Look, I couldn't care less about Republicans at this point. I would kill for Romney. It's political Conservatism and the MAGA cult fueled by Evangelical Christians that surrounds it that genuinely scares me and I think that fear is warranted. Because when it comes to that group we're really not talking politics anymore and instead an explicit platform of walking back all social progress of the 20th century. If you want small government, low taxes, deregulation, and welfare reform then we're perfectly aligned.
- Daedren 2y ago
  The parent post's point is that it doesn't matter if democrats have an absolute number advantage if democracy itself is under risk of being subverted. Most likely a reference to Trump attempting to usurp the election with fake elector certificates and getting out of it with the supreme court granting him criminal immunity.

A4ET8a8uTh0 2y ago

I feel this. And it does get overwhelming. As in, I actually removed myself from digesting news for the duration of my vacation and the result was pretty pronounced. Maybe uninformed people are onto something. I am only half joking at this point myself.

tpmoney 2y ago
To me, it's not that you need to be uninformed, but that you need to stay out of the firehose stream. In my decades on this earth, I can't remember a single election or major supreme court decision that wasn't considered "the most important X ever in your life" that was surely going to "change everything". But they can't all be. Everything can't be a crisis all the time, even when those things are really important. But when you sit in the firehose, being blasted by constant propaganda, opinion pieces and "expert analysis", it's easy to lose sight of the fact that these things matter, but only to the extent they actually change things on the ground level. Like the day trader that sits with their stream of stocks and freaks out over the signs of the impending collapse of the world waffle iron trade. It might well be important, and it will have many knock on effects, but a lot of that importance is focused and magnified by their position in the middle of this trading market, and the whole world and market is more than just waffle irons.

csomar 2y ago

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Spivak 2y ago
You mean the very popular lady to everyone not chronically online? Look, I couldn't care less about Republicans at this point. I would kill for Romney. It's political Conservatism and the MAGA cult fueled by Evangelical Christians that surrounds it that genuinely scares me and I think that fear is warranted. Because when it comes to that group we're really not talking politics anymore and instead an explicit platform of walking back all social progress of the 20th century. If you want small government, low taxes, deregulation, and welfare reform then we're perfectly aligned.
Daedren 2y ago
The parent post's point is that it doesn't matter if democrats have an absolute number advantage if democracy itself is under risk of being subverted. Most likely a reference to Trump attempting to usurp the election with fake elector certificates and getting out of it with the supreme court granting him criminal immunity.