Realistically the voting system in each state needs to be changed, otherwise it’s a bit of a moot point to vote third party in many instances.

The thing is that it’s definitely something achievable to change the system. Alaska and Maine both have Ranked Choice voting. NYC has Ranked Choice voting as well.

If groups supporting ranked choice voting, like the Equal Vote Coalition or FairVote, get more support then it becomes more than just a pipe dream, and third parties will have a legitimate chance to win without having the spoiler effect being a major disincentive.

The quiet part is there wasn’t a plan to tax the rich for another decade or two when they thought shit would actually hit the fan. Shit hit the fan much sooner than they hoped, as this was an issue they were going to leave the next generation to handle. It’s more an issue of the baby boomers having had control of the DNC for decades.

Business was booming during the Obama years; why did it matter to the rich people in Congress if the rest of us had to hustle more? That’s the real reason they didn’t tax the rich when they could have, well that and they were getting tons of funding from the big businesses.

The pro-corporate Dem plans went up in flames quite a lot when Hillary was not elected. Now that shit got worse much sooner than they hoped, they’re in a rock and a hard place because they still don’t want to tax their rich buddies but the voters are actually pushing to vote them out if they keep doing nothing.

That quote in particular is an awful thing to hold dear if your brother loves you and the rest of your family. What good is this ‘freedom’ without the people most dear to you? You become a shell of yourself without the people that give meaning to your life, imo.

This post reminded me of the fond memories I had in the gardening class I took.

Professor Sprout, as we called her, would have us do a meditation session before we all got to work tending the garden. At the end of each meditation, we were told that we were planting a seed in our own internal garden.

Getting enough sunshine, nutrients, and love is how those little gardens inside of us can thrive into something beautiful.

Be — The Boulder.

I feel it’s a bit tacky as a first question, but if I’m not asking it at some point I personally feel like I’m not making a real effort to know someone.

For a lot of people I think it’s just their go-to ice breaker since most people have a job or some kind of education they are involved in.

I personally really enjoy hearing about many people jobs since they really open my eyes to a different lifestyles and working environments out there, or I might get the scoop on workplace drama stories.

I can believe it a bit. I feel like LA gets influenced quite a lot culturally from Hollywood, and it’s morphed into a lot of fakeness, a competitive atmosphere, and lots of people trying to front being wealthy or coming from money.

I don’t think that’s everyone, but some of my friends that moved to LA struggled with the clicky-ness of the place and another I visited had friends that all were money focused and wanting to flex their wealth or their family’s wealth.

I feel comfortable expressing my emotions, but I’m less expressive than I might have been due to my upbringing. It usually takes me a little more time to really ‘lean into’ what I’m feeling as well.

I’ve been working on shifting my perspective a bit from my default feeling not being ‘nothing’ but ‘openness’ and I feel this has been having a positive shift for me to embrace what I’m feeling and even what others are feeling.

I’m sorry to hear that. I would believe that she would give you one at a time like this when you need it.

I hope you can find the warmth you need, in any case.

The world is cold enough as it is, it’s nice to have that genuine care to remind us that the warmth is still out there.

Sending a hug your way if it helps friend, thank you for being here.

This isn’t an issue of Lemmy itself, but I realized after I made the switch that I personally am a bit burnt-out from the Reddit model in general at this exact moment.

I’m using other Fedi apps more at this moment in time. I’ll probably be more active later in the year, but it’s a nice little break being on the smaller Fediverse apps where things are a bit more personal with the people I’m interacting with, which has been fun for me.

I think Lemmy/Piefed will grow to get more Reddit sized with time. Personally, I get like 10x the engagement on comments and posts here than I ever did on Reddit, which to me makes it much more joyful to be around.

You can trust a name like Mantis Toboggon.

The Supreme Court can be expanded and term limits can be put on justices; so not all of what we’re seeing can’t be undone, within our lifetimes, for the justice department. However, a Supermajority trifecta is needed in the House, Senate, and White House. Justices can also be impeached if I am not mistaken.

I feel people should instead say they’re neat/organizational freaks. The idea actually comes across accurately that way rather than making people actually believe you have a neurological condition.

Maybe it’s just the area you’re in or the sample size? All my married friends are loving it, myself included.

I wake up and see my best friend everyday, how cool is that?

That we can have bullet trains, but not here apparently for no reason other than greed.

I see what you did there, lol

Cozy cat is cozy

I disagree that they don’t apply due to the subjective discussion. The issue is we’re talking about something very abstract like it’s always black and white when reality has a lot of grey.

How are we defining knowing better here?

If we’re saying the leader knows that there is information they don’t know, but they act like they do know that information then that can lead to trust issues.

If a leader doesn’t know that they don’t know something, then you would hope they have the capacity to learn and are willing to learn new pieces of information so that they can be more informed.

In either case though, you expect them to act based on the information in front of them that they are familiar with. If you bring up new information, in a low stakes setting, they should be open to receiving that new information.

If you bring up new information in a high stakes setting, that can catch some leaders off-guard since in theory they have had time to review all of the present information before a setting was high stakes. If for some reason the ‘facts table’ being used is wrong or outdated then I believe discreetly bringing this information up to the leader in these situations can be beneficial but I would leave the judgment call to them for what information to go off of.

I agree, our messaging is so bad in terms of actually reaching these people. Politicians need to get out of their comfort zones and give a compelling message to these voters.

It’s shocking how little of the Democratic platform even reaches these people’s ears and what little they do hear is wishy washy corporate speak rather than giving direct ways a progressive platform can change their life for the better.