God, I need to log off. I saw that this chart has a "presentation" axis and immediately got defensive in the same way I get whenever people complain that I don't look "androgynous enough", but then I read the chart lol 😅

Queer person here: we've had to violently fight for our rights and were successful in the past and we will do it again if we need to, so expecting a vote for anything will fix the issues of the marginalized is very out of touch. Doing nothing but voting is 99% political apathy, and it very much feels like all this browbeating is coming from someone who only votes and mayyyyybe donates to the ACLU or planned parenthood once every couple years. Do some real work and stop spending so much of your mental energy on inconsequential (assuming you don't live in a handful of swing states) things. Build coalitions. Form or join unions. Stand up for what is right and protest what is wrong.

If America is going to go through the trouble to convert everything to metric, might as well switch to base 10/decimal time as well lol

Why are you so eager to get people to telegraph their vote when the act of threatening to withhold a vote (even if they plan on voting for biden in November) gives infinitely more leverage than pledging fealty months ahead of schedule so the campaign strategists solidify their stances on everything to keep voters around? Come on, if your goal is to vote strategically, telegraph strategically too so you are voting for a better biden than exists today.

Biden has bypassed congress multiple times to sell Israel weapons. Also, he's given them $1 billion worth of weapons like a week ago, so it's not all sells.

Oh, so you didn't catch that I was comparing your justified terror with republicans' unjustified terror and how easily you can both be convinced to do terrible things.

This country was founded under genocide and fascism and continues to this day. We still have legalized slavery that we support every time we buy tomatoes at the grocery store as well as our tax dollars. Anti-protest legislation and weaponry are being pushed every single year so much that you can now be considered a domestic terrorist if you protest on a road or pipeline depending on the state. We are relatively comfortable as a direct result of us taking advantage of the global south and continued colonialism projects. The more the unsustainable status-quo is extended, the more people will want to burn shit to the ground because they're seeing their friends and family struggling with absolutely no help from a government that would rather bomb brown kids and bail out corporations and practice insider trading than help them out. They are having to choose to never have children and never own a home because of the status quo. Thinking voting in the same system that got us into this mess will fix it is naive. Should trump even be allowed to run if we were a real democracy? Should citizens get any say in if we're perpetuating a genocide if we were a real democracy? If you think voting for biden will "save democracy", you obviously think we have more time than we actually have.

Voting 3rd party is an answer to the wrong question. The question of "how do we fight off fascism" can't be solved at the ballot box, and it can't be solved by someone who refuses to treat threats of fascism harshly and swiftly or even help bolster defenses against it. Voting for someone who is trying their hardest to lose this election isn't going to fix this. Voting 3rd party isn't going to fix this. Being convinced that the government will be our saviors against themselves means you only need to be engaged in politics when it's time to vote. Get to know your neighbors. Physically defend the most vulnerable against those who are willing to "just follow orders" from a fascist government (state or federal). Sabotage and protest and strike until the capitalists and government start bleeding money and are willing to operate in good faith. If you think that's too much work, go ahead and vote for biden and blame leftists when he inevitably loses. Fascism is already here, but it might start affecting you soon.

If this person's beliefs are sincerely held, showing people on the internet the "the right way" to go about being serious about privacy is an impossible task. One can't be on the World Wide Web and "be the change they wish see" (i.e. not be on the web) with regards to their privacy perspective.

And I'm not sure if it's defeatist to state that all of us, just by being online, likely have some hooks in our mouths. It's just the cost we pay for not being luddites. Yes, there's benefits to not having a ton of hooks in us, which is why we do what we do, but even one hook is enough to steal your private info and sell it to everyone. We're posting to the World Wide Web after all, not Gopher/Gemini/Onion. Hell, this goes beyond the internet since the DMV freely sells your personal information too. We make these limited sacrifices so we have an actual community instead of feeling like we're self-righteous in our loneliness.

Someone go tell Bloomberg that campaign money is a better indicator of electoral victory than voters. I’m sure he’d be happy to hear that he won the presidency.

I’d give a Gould if I could.

How does this not have anything to do with us? The taxes everyone pays go to the government that sends weapons to Israel. We're all involved since we are funding it by working and providing taxes. By disrupting traffic going into a city for an hour, that's a pretty substantial amount of taxes lost. Not enough for Biden to change his mind, but until something happens, I'd just start expecting more delays and disruptions if I were you.

It's really not about keeping locals comfortable at all- in fact that is almost always counter to the goals of protesting. If a local who "otherwise would be on our side" decides that genocide is okay and justifiable after waiting in their air conditioned car for an hour, they were never on our side. They're just someone who values their own comfort over anything else.

In 1977 when anti-apartheid protesters determined that the federal government wasn't budging on its stance on apartheid in South Africa, they got a bunch of businesses and investors to end their involvement with the apartheid state (which had a major impact on getting the apartheid system dismantled). Due to the fact that there are anti-BDS laws specifically for Israel, it's not possible to take this approach this time, so the only way to get businesses who invest in Israel to stop funneling money over there is to stop sources of income (or block the entrance of major contributors like they did for Disneyland). It's not that protesters think they'll get Biden to change his mind, it's that protesters want to hurt the bottom line of all companies until something changes. Since the US gov listens to corporations way more than civilians, this is about the only way to do it without violence.

About your sentence on it needing to be a much larger concerted effort with air travel, I'd say that it really doesn't. If companies notice that they suddenly won't be making as much money as they did the previous quarter (even if they're still making tons of money), they freak out.