A good one could. “Agape” or love for your people, who you represent or fight for. Imagine if MLK had an office. Some people do care. I think Sanders does, who has a high enough profile for people to know about him. Sawant also.
“Are you my daddy? Do you love me now? Please!!!”
Honk honk
But they are bringing joy and are refreshing. I trust McKinsey.
Oh no, we’re dragging Doug into this now.
Only Quailman can save us.
Because he really loves you and cares about you. As I do. Here is my patreon linke: https://patreon.com/dough
Thanks Doug!
‘I love the poorly educated!" - Trump
Same for the Dems too. They love voters who blindly follow them.
Harris supporters I’m looking at you.
Yea well, less predatory and/or apathetic feels pretty ok right now.
And I say the latter as a gen X.
Man, after the last decade, just let us have this for a little while.
You can’t tell me that Bernie doesn’t love me.
Sorry, he doesn’t. He doesn’t even know you.
Parasocial relationships are unhealthy, even if they are with good people.
Actually he’s the only senate member who happens to be an independent who probably does care lol.
Not that it makes a functional difference, but at least we got 1 / (100 + 435 + presidential cabinet + presidential appointees + SCOTUS + federal court judges)
I love you even though I don’t know and never met you.
They’re not inherently unhealthy lol. They can be great. Find you some therapists to follow on YouTube or something. The ones I’ve found inspired me to go back to school and become one myself:)
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I’m not sure what about my comment made you think that’s my opinion, but no, just taking some advice from a video obviously wouldn’t meet the threshold. I’m talking finding creators you watch regularly and feel connected to while they have zero or very limited awareness to your existence. They shouldn’t be the ONLY relationships you have, but they are natural and should be encouraged to the extent that they are healthy. Think of it like eating sweets. It’s natural, part of our hardwiring to enjoy, but we want to be mindful of our consumption.
Some politicians are people who went into politics wanting to help others and make a positive difference. Others are predators. Sometimes you get to vote between one of each category.
And much more often, you get to choose between a sometimes helpful opportunist and a predator. The choice is still clear, but nowhere near as pleasant.
Goes for celebs and corporations, too.
…and nation, you have a role to the nation. It’s not necessary a loving one, and part of it should be the willingness to violently protest your own nation when it turns on you.
“But Starbucks sent me a free drink for my birthday!” /s
All the more reason not to love them. They shouldn’t even know your birthday.
You’re wrong! Beloved character actor Margot Martindale DOES love me and so does
United FruitChiquita!
Bernie loves me and I love him.
came here to ask but what about Bernie?
Bernie loves you too, I think so does Beyonce.
Definitely weird and just as common with the blue maga.
Is it though?
I feel there isn’t really a blue equivalent of the nutcases who cover their homes and vehicles from top to bottom in Trump propaganda.
It’s kind of cheating to watch the DNC because that’s where and when they come out of the woodwork, but they’re on full display right now to get reference.
But yes, the very public merchandising is definitely the Trump contribution that doesn’t have as strong an equivalent with the Democratic Party.
But then again the GOP is still full of mask-on Trump supporters without the nutcase pageantry.
I feel like there is a significant difference between going to the DNC and going to the RNC.
For one, the DNC attendees didn’t bring jizz cups with them.
Remember when Obama won? People thought all of their problems were going to disappear overnight lol. Acting like they just won the lotto.
I was there for that. It was the first big election where the Internet really mattered for organizing. We trounced the opposition on election day. What we didn’t do was maintain the organization that elected Obama and aim it downballot. We lost the legislature and that was the end of Obama’s mandate.
Hope and change! And then…
And then he pushed for Universal Healthcare? We went into a major depression and his work pushed us out of it? Repealed “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”? You know how shit it was to travel to other countries under Bush thanks to the Iraq War? Do you know that minorities for decades saw the presidency as a “Old White Dude club” since forever?
People acting like they fucked around for their presidency.
And then he pushed for Universal Healthcare?
Which he failed to deliver despite Democrats having a filibuster-proof majority. Instead they appeased Republicans by implementing a Republican healthcare plan from the 90’s. They couldn’t even codify Roe V. Wade into law despite that being a campaign issue for Obama. For some reason the timing wasn’t right.
You know how shit it was to travel to other countries under Bush thanks to the Iraq War?
You mean that war Obama didn’t end because it was “too complicated” and instead killed hundreds of people (including children) with flying robots? That Iraq war?
We’re talking about a guy who was given the Nobel Peace prize at the start of his presidency (for not being Bush) and then accelerated the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Shallow, shallow take. Mile wide, inch deep.
Valuable contribution. Much rhetoric. Very wise.
Romneycare?
i think the issue is that the media dominating US is basically like sports fans, but there are only 2 teams (that actually matter) so it always comes down to an US vs Them attitude, for me here in Europe there is the party that’s closest to my views and then there is the party that’s close enough and actually have a chance to do things, so I vote for them and if they stop doing the things I want them to do, I will vote some other party.
I once went to a superbowl party where the host filled a few coolers with beers and taped a presidential candidates name on top of each cooler. People voted by grabbing a beer from their guys cooler.
American politics never made as much sense to me as it did in that moment.
Not really related but you comment reminds me that in a lot of places, you dip your finger in purple stain after you cast your vote, and that’s how they make sure everyone gets to vote and nobody votes twice. Like, if there’s no ink on your finger yet, you can walk in and vote. Even if your not from there.
There’s never going to be any such think as a perfect election. There’s always going to be people voting that shouldn’t be, or votes that don’t get counted correctly, and that sucks but it’s a massive undertaking with opportunities for mistakes everywhere.
In other words, the election result are always going to be an approximation of the electorate’s will. We should aim to be close but not perfect.
