let’s gooo
Unless all these Gen Z kids actually fucking VOTE it won’t matter, because Boomers fucking do.
Oh, you think the choices are trash? Well fucking vote in the primaries then. Get involved at a local level, and start promoting candidates that represent you. Don’t just bitch and moan that the choice is between a codger and senile draft-dodger.
But the two aren’t mutually exclusive? This doesn’t tell anybody anything because one thing relates to politics and the other thing relates to sexuality and gender identity.
Okay, but the bit that relates to politics relates to a deeply and aggressively homophobic and transphobic political party, so…
Right, but there are some people who are both gay (satisfying the LGTBQ bit) and Republican, which is very strange to say within the same sentence in today’s age. Only reason I say that is because I have known a couple of these kinds of people and it was… interesting, to say in the least.
But the GOP keeps trying to police gender and identity.
And yet, there is very little overlap
the american dream
You can say the same thing as ADHD, Crohn’s disease or being Hispanic.
The gay agenda
Only the third one is an identity, the first two are medical conditions.
Now if they’d just vote….
A lot of us aren’t old enough to vote yet
Ok you get a pass 😉
They do vote…they’re in areas where their vote doesn’t count.
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Specifically, an estimated 27% of eligible voters in that age group turned out to the polls in 2022
In 2018, approximately 31% of young people voted
It’s not that many, and it’s actually down from the last midterm election. Fucking vote.
Golly I remember once on Reddit saying that people should vote and by howdy did a whole bunch of angry people vote me down double digits because, you see, apparently voting doesn’t matter and I made people feel sad.
People get mad when they have a problem and you provide a solution they can feasibly take part in. As soon as they have any agency/capability to take responsibility suddenly they are unable to.
My mother in law famously stopped seeing a psychologist when they told her that she has the power to fix all of the problems in her life. She then spent the next 15 years being an unbearable cunt until her second-eldest had a child and suddenly she doesn’t want to fuck up the grand kids as much as she fucked up her own children.
To be fair, I’ve voted my whole adult life and don’t really feel like anything is better off because of it. I will continue to vote for the lesser evil, but I also completely understand why people are frustrated with this system. We just keep voting between a turd sandwich and a giant douche, and it gets old. So it doesn’t surprise me when people feel like voting is useless, it feels like it’s hopeless by design. We need a new system.
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I think 28% of the population belongs in the lgbtq+ spectrum. a lot of older people were closeted, or actually unaware of their own sexuality. Younger people might just have an easier time coming out about it.
also, less and less young people are right leaning as the years go by, and the republican brand will be irredeemably tarnished for all future generations as the party of literal fascism, so get ready for even less of a share of future generations voting R.
Doesn’t matter unless they actually vote.
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As it should be. FUCKING VOTE! And remember, by not voting for Biden, you are voting for Trump whether or not you actually cast a vote. ALL of the Trump supporters WILL show up on the day.
Either way you’re voting for a Palestinian genocide and the continuation of neoliberal imperialism.
Edit: the future is bleak either way, Biden has explicitly shown support for the continuation of support for Israel as well as the bombing campaign in Yemen and Syria. All this is to say that there is genuinely nothing we can do to help the middle east in this election.
But sure, we can get a better minimum wage or whatever.
No. You don’t get to tell me that I have to vote for Biden when he’s not doing anything to earn my vote. He’s allowing Israel to carry out a genocide. So he’s not actually less evil than Trump. You’re just upset because Trump’s shitty policies will impact you more than Biden’s shitty policies. Biden has the lower approval ratings than Trump did at this point. He has not earned a second term.
How about the Dems run a candidate who isn’t dog shit? I vote for Dems as a form of harm reduction, but they aren’t reducing harm anymore. So what’s in it for me? Dems haven’t not done anything about the supreme court, student loans, or threats to democracy and they are largely supporting the actions of Israel. If I’m right, and this is a genocide (I am), then voting for anyone who supports it would be an evil act. They’re going to have to make some changes if they want to earn the votes of people who don’t want to see a genocide carried out on our watch with our bombs.
That said, it would be a real problem if Trump won. So if that happens, I hope you’ll be willing to place the blame where it belongs: with the Democrats. They are the ones doing nothing to earn our votes. Biden isn’t even campaigning.
Of course nobody can tell you who you have to vote for.
But regardless of your choice and your reasons, the math of the votes in our stupid system does mean that voting for anybody but Biden, including voting for nobody, helps Trump or his Republican replacement.
If you don’t care about that, that’s fine. Some might argue that you SHOULD care, but that’s a different conversation. The voting decision is a private one that’s yours alone, but understanding how the choices affect the outcome is good for everybody.
That said, it would be a real problem if Trump won. So if that happens, I hope you’ll be willing to place the blame where it belongs: with the Democrats. They are the ones doing nothing to earn our votes. Biden isn’t even campaigning.
Biden is governing. He’s doing the job he was elected to do. Perhaps that’s enough to earn some votes? Or are votes only earnt by rallies and advertisements?
In any case, it’s completely silly to blame the Democrats for losing if you don’t vote for them yourself. If you prefer Democrats over republicans, then you have to vote for them. Even though they aren’t perfect. If you don’t vote, then it is totally unreasonable to blame anyone else for getting an undesired outcome. Not voting implies that you have no preference.
(And yet again, this is another case where ‘ranked choice’ voting / preferential / instant-runoff would make this whole situation a lot easier. USA could really use some serious electoral reform.)
New copypasta?
If you want to copy my words and spread them across the Internet, go right ahead.
Now bots are getting lazy ans want people do to their job for them?
Hey, if bots care about genocide, then they’re probably better people than you. Have fun voting for Butcher Biden. I do not have to.
I think it’s pretty obvious where the blame would be if Trump wins: the stupid folks who refused to vote out of principle. If it was possible that neither could win then your strategy could make sense. But there are ONLY 2 OUTCOMES. Requiring dems to earn your vote is unfortunately meaningless when the only other option is FAR WORSE YOU CRETIN OF INANE CONCLUSIONS.
Man it’s crazy how these people think they can instill some false duty onto any leftist to “do the right thing” without actually weighing each of the choices carefully. They just see a D next to someone’s name and think they must be the good guy, regardless of what they say.
Did we all forget about the kids in cages on the border? Or the lack of free healthcare/college? Did we forget about the union busting? Biden is not a good guy, he’s just barely better than Trump. He’s certainly better at hiding the heinous shit from everyone.
But yeah man, were all bad people and unamerican for wanting a better choice and hating our hand I guess?
okay, then welcome your next dictator Donald Trump and all that implies (Gilead like conditions, rescending civil and gender rights, requiring Christian worship or prison/execution, an end to all journalism and only Trumpian little red books where you pledge allegiance to him every day or get reported to the police)
Please get out and vote.
I really hope that they do.
Because I am worried about the camps.
We’re all worried about the camps.
Not buying it. Probably just scared of the well deserved ridicule received if they identify as Republican. We’ll see how the vote goes.
This is actually quite interesting. For me, answering a questionaire like this is frustrating because the true answer is much more nuanced than what the given options are and I feel like I know what they’re trying to ask but my honest answer is going to give them confusing results from which they’re going to pull incorrect conclusions from.
For example: Politically I’m slightly right from centre but I’ve always voted left. I’m also non-straight but I don’t identify as LGBTQ (I literally had to look up the correct way to type that)
Weird that your response got downvoted, but that seems to be how things go on here. Weird, but not surprising. If you’re slightly right from center, you sound like a centrist Dem.
I’m also non-straight but I don’t identify as LGBTQ (I literally had to look up the correct way to type that)
If you identify as non-straight then you’re identifying as LGBTQ. Don’t get hung up on the specific letters in the acronym, that sort of changes from year to year. You can pretty much sum it up to literally mean anything that isn’t straight which is what you said you are.
If you identify as non-straight then you’re identifying as LGBTQ.
No I don’t. That’s the point; if this is asked on a questionaire my answer will be no. It’s irrelevant if other people want to label me like that - I don’t.
You labeled yourself non-straight. That falls under LGBTQ.
Edit: I’m not trying to force you to use the acronym, I’m just saying “non-straight” most definitely falls under it.
It’s irrelevant if other people want to label me like that
Correct. You get to label yourself and no person on Earth has a right to comment on that. You’re choosing not to and it’s unclear why or to what end.
…it’s unclear why or to what end.
The abbreviation in question has negative cannotations in my mind and thus I don’t want to be accociated with it. I prefer the term sexual minority if I absolutely need to be put into a category.
has negative cannotations in my mind
I feel like you may have just demonstrated the importance of the study being reported here. The people responding affirmatively do not carry that burden.
As a piece of advice: this is a “you” thing. Whatever you need to do to get there, learn to be ok with yourself and stop worrying about what others think of you.
My point is that people answer these kind of questionaires differently. Just like I may not check a box others might think I should have, some other person checks a box others might think they shouldn’t have. Just because one thinks of themselves as native american for example doesn’t mean others do. That nearly 30% LGBTQ rate indicates, to me atleast, that something like this is going on here aswell.
I don’t consider myself to be especially worried about what other people think of me. I don’t know what makes you feel like I do.
It sounds like you’re over-complicating your own life.
Why do you think that?
I’ll say it, because I ran out of fucks a long time ago and I couldn’t give a fuck about down votes:
You are a moron.
And that’s fine. Someone has to prop up the bottom half of the intellectual spectrum. The problem is self awareness.
Forest Gump knew he was a moron. Most morons don’t.
It sounds complicated lol.
You’re being quite vague.
Because people here are smart enough to not comment on whether someone has an authentic identity, what that identity is, what it should be, etc. You do you. It does also sound a bit like you’ve decided that you don’t fit other categories just because but you may not also know in which ways or why.
Sorry
non-straight but I don’t identify as LGBTQ
This is pretty much what the “Q” part is. Queer in this context refers to not conforming to standard roles in some way or another.
Shy Tory factor. It hasn’t usually been common to see in US polling.
You’re dubious because why? Do you think there were only two options? Do you identify as republican or LGBTQ?
What they’re saying is it’s more embarrassing for a teen to come out as republican than LGBTQ+ (obviously depends on the area)
Fuck yeah.
cool post, but political party affiliation means nothing when both sides of the “political spectrum” are actually the same side which are in the pockets of the same individuals who wish to putrify society, the results of which lead to this exact news article :)
The West has fallen /s
Call Gerard Butler quick!
A storm is coming…
Republicans know this, and push culture war issues to drive certain voters out of their states/area.
