Hylactor

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[–] Hylactor@sopuli.xyz 5 points 12 hours ago

To elicit a response is to feel powerful. The greater the response, the more power perceived. It's a self worth issue. America is dying from low self esteem. The bravado we project is just some small dick energy, over compensation. We are a nation of people trying to buy an identity from a car dealership. Presently this yearning for purpose has been disastrously harnessed by jackals.

[–] Hylactor@sopuli.xyz 41 points 4 days ago

Vote. Pressure those around you to vote as well. I had to watch Gore lose, Hillary lose, we can't keep doing this.

[–] Hylactor@sopuli.xyz 11 points 6 days ago

This feels like a trauma response, haha. I'm right there with you.

[–] Hylactor@sopuli.xyz 5 points 6 days ago

If anything it telegraphs uncertainty with the PA joke.

[–] Hylactor@sopuli.xyz 39 points 6 days ago

More like rehashing old shit. Vaccines are pretty settled science as well.

[–] Hylactor@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

At best, one candidate doesn't do enough to oppose genocide, while the other candidate offers their full throated support, advising that Isreal "just finish the job". We're not looking for a perfect candidate, we're looking for the best candidate. And there is absolutely a candidate with a better track record of compassion, and a likelier chance of fighting the fire rather than fueling it in exchange for political favors.

[–] Hylactor@sopuli.xyz 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You're using some pretty high flying rhetoric for someone who isn't citing any specifics. Which "horrible shit" are you most concerned with? The 20 billion dollar settlement she won for people with foreclosed homes? The 1.1 billion dollar settlement she won for defrauded students and veterans? The tie breaking votes she cast in the Senate, more than anyone in history, that helped pass among other things the 1.9 trillion dollar covid 19 stimulus, and the inflation reduction act, which generated 115 billion in tech investments and generated an estimated 95 thousand new jobs? Her explicit opposition to the death penalty? Her work against hate crimes? Her defense of the LGBTQ community? She is capable, intelligent, and proven.

[–] Hylactor@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Really, nothing at all qualifies her? Not her 6 years as an attorney general? Or her 4 years as a senator? Her 3 years as vice president? She's better educated, has a better resume, doesn't have 30 something felonies, and isn't 78 years old. We already tried Trump as president once and America survived by the skin of our teeth. And he has not improved as a candidate in any way in the intervening 4 years.

[–] Hylactor@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Say you need a life saving operation. Your choices are: a skilled surgeon who is suspected to have cheated on their spouse, George Clooney from the hit TV show ER, or a mediocre at best veterinarian. This is essentially the state of things. A qualified person, a fictional character, and a person who is tangentially qualified at best.

The country needs a life saving operation. Harris is extremely qualified candidate who at worst carries some of the murky ethical baggage of any career politician. Trump is not only unqualified, but uniquely contraindicated (vindictive, foreign debts, exceedingly old, litany of bonafide legal issues, unrepentant rapist). And Stein is at best a politician shaped object, who is perhaps qualified enough to be a pundit or a podcast host.

For the safety of people of color, for women, for the environment, for the rule of law, for diplomacy, for the economy, there is only one pragmatic choice, and that choice is Harris.

[–] Hylactor@sopuli.xyz 26 points 1 week ago

Do not let your guard down. Vote. And do what you can to assure those around you vote as well. Especially that well meaning 20 something in your life with a high danger to procrastinate.

[–] Hylactor@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Exactly. I have no doubt Harris will win the popular vote. Unfortunately that's not necessarily good enough to win. And even if she wins, Trump supporters are absolutely not interested in a civilized society.

[–] Hylactor@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 week ago

Trump would just accuse Kamala of raping an even younger, even darker skinned child and his base would clap their hand and coo and drool and continue to babble on.

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