That’s a good idea.

Typically though it seems that posters of comics are self sorting. So if I don’t want to see the anime chick I just block that one person and she goes away. It is a little heavy handed to the person who posts them though I guess…

It means this person is outrageously pretentious and also not great at written English.

If you try to unpack this word salad, basically this person is of the opinion that you should protest dirty and smart (I get some hard lefty, “mop” kind of vibes), as opposed to just showing up in huge numbers once in awhile not getting anything done. This person then makes an offhand assertion that the system is rigged against this kind of protest in some double standard way. It seems like they think this is not effective, and also that the people that rise to the top in these situations are not the kind of people you probably want in leadership.

It makes me think the person feels they are much smarter than they actually are. Instead they ended up looking kind stupid in a “I’m in high school and I am very smart” sort of way.

At least that’s what I got from reading it twice and that’s as much effort as I have to give it.

Northern Indiana / Chicago, millennial. Basically everyone in my circles own. Have one friend who rents (lives in NYC).

It seems not too crazy to own in IN, but the problem is you have to live in IN.

Unfortunately it won’t work for my webOS LG in the living room, but it’s a start!

Better that people vote for metrics than candidates I would suggest, and measure against those. If we gotta vote for questions too, so be it.

I was unaware of this. Easy to set up?

Maybe make new friends? There are plenty of men who are happy to acknowledge that the twilight movies are bad, not because it would be gay, but because they are written poorly.

I will counter here and say that the exact same argument can be made for superficial love of movies just because they are “girly”. See also the notebook and P.S. I love you which I also don’t think are particularly good. I mean, I can boil your argument down and say that women think “kick ass” or “shoot em up” are bad movies (because they are, but they are entertaining) and it’s “always the most insufferable women” who say these movies are bad.

I feel like you’re looking for a reason to be injured and making the discussion gendered for reasons that are beyond the argument. Just like your stuff and dislike what you don’t like and who cares about the rest? Maybe it’s more insufferable to not just acknowledge that some of the stuff you happen to like is not great, but feel very sad because people call it out as not being great.

This sounds increasingly whiney to me TBF. So I guess kudos to you, it’s likely to be objectively unpopular.

All that is left to do is get my supervisor to buy in: this HOA thing has left a bad taste in her mouth for fringe people with more time than sense. Time will tell.

women don’t care to criticize the trash men watch

I’m not so sure about that. I’ve heard plenty of movie critiques by all kinds of social/genital setups. If you like it, watch it, but nobody else is obliged to like it or like that you like it (even though that matters exactly zero).

I agree that money isn’t everything in a run, but it’s in the same way that money doesn’t buy happiness: you have to have a baseline amount to contribute to get your name out–or not be suffering in the case of happiness.

So for me there are really 3 routes:

1. Congress. My district is deep red because of gerrymandering. My congressman is a second generation congressman and their resting warchest is about $3M. I’m fairly certain if he wins this time it will be at least his 3rd term maybe his 4th.

2. State representative. This position is held by one of my personal friends and I’ve worked for her campaign. She does a good job. Her district is now also super gerrymandered and is solidly blue.

3. State senate. Gerrymandered red, but the candidate worked for our ex governor / university president and is politically clouty. I don’t really know how to break in here but it’s more feasible than, say, being an actual senator.

The problem is, by local DNC guidance–and they are mostly shit heels and massively underprepared in my area–they want you to bring money, a campaign manager, and odds and ends parts of a team before you get their support. I don’t WANT to kick in 20k, and have 12 friends who will give at least $1000.

More than I don’t want that though, I don’t want to go to people’s houses, knock on the door, ask them what they think about issue XXX, and then say thanks and walk away after giving them a flyer after they tell me something pants on head idiotic. People are by and large ignorant, stupid, or both, and it’s very difficult for me not wear that on my face. I have enough friends, I don’t want to go to neighborhood chili cookoffs and kiss babies, and I don’t want to go to weekly mixers. I want to read legislation and politic. The whole business of elections is a drag. It’s not that I’m autistic or something and I don’t understand people or hate public speaking (I quite enjoy that) or that I CANT navigate social situations, it’s that I have a young family and I don’t want to dick with earning social credits.

I decided instead to join my HOA board to try to do some good, and that has cured me of wanting to do anything like city council; the juice isn’t worth the squeeze.

This is why I have not made a political run. Being a good representative is a job I think I could excel at, but I can’t stand the obligatory glad handing and angling to be elected first though.

I also don’t like anime of any variety.

Actually though Twilight was fine with me, but the books were better obviously. Robert Pattinson and Kristin Stewart are the best we could do for casting?

Thought this was c/cartographyanarchy for a second.

Step 1: get good at punching.

Bosom* even.

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I think beasts are a different thing.

Don’t forget “hi” and the 2 Walken commas. Whoever wrote this text has the literacy of a 13 year old.

If you want people to take you seriously, learn to read and write.

Sure, nature writ large is resilient and adaptable.

Individual species die off all the time. Sometimes for stupid reasons.

This is true but I’m genuinely not sure if it’s worse that they are babies or of it would be worse if they were matured to say 60 or 80 percent lifespan in the same conditions before visiting the slaughter house…