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I wonder how long it will be until there is a Great Firewall of America...
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ProfessorDetective wrote: ↑Sat Aug 01, 2020 8:46 pm
Honestly, if there were one thing that could get the younger crowd to go out and vote him out of office...
I can guarantee you that the majority of people who uses Tik Tok to the point of its absence being an electoral point has never and will never vote for Donald Trump. The potential damage to him is low, meanwhile, China is now such a hot button topic that his potential gains among his own base are huge. Tik Tok is a security risk. India thinks so, many in the UK parliament thinks so, and now so does Trump. A stopped clock is right twice a day like it not.
As an aside, every election I hear something like this ''Ooh! don't underestimate the Millennials! Don't underestimate Gen Z!'' and you what? They still never vote! They cannot be arsed. They cry and cry and cry about issues and yet when it comes to actually putting a cross in a box they don't do anything. We had that recently here in the 2019 election with Jeremy Corbyn. Its Gen X and above that decide elections, and that is proven again and again.
ProfessorDetective wrote: ↑Sat Aug 01, 2020 8:46 pm
Honestly, if there were one thing that could get the younger crowd to go out and vote him out of office...
I can guarantee you that the majority of people who uses Tik Tok to the point of its absence being an electoral point has never and will never vote for Donald Trump. The potential damage to him is low, meanwhile, China is now such a hot button topic that his potential gains among his own base are huge. Tik Tok is a security risk. India thinks so, many in the UK parliament thinks so, and now so does Trump. A stopped clock is right twice a day like it not.
As an aside, every election I hear something like this ''Ooh! don't underestimate the Millennials! Don't underestimate Gen Z!'' and you what? They still never vote! They cannot be arsed. They cry and cry and cry about issues and yet when it comes to actually putting a cross in a box they don't do anything. We had that recently here in the 2019 election with Jeremy Corbyn. Its Gen X and above that decide elections, and that is proven again and again.
Millenials and gen z are big targets of voter suppression and gerrymandering.
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clearspira wrote: ↑Sun Aug 02, 2020 12:24 am
As an aside, every election I hear something like this ''Ooh! don't underestimate the Millennials! Don't underestimate Gen Z!'' and you what? They still never vote! They cannot be arsed. They cry and cry and cry about issues and yet when it comes to actually putting a cross in a box they don't do anything. We had that recently here in the 2019 election with Jeremy Corbyn. Its Gen X and above that decide elections, and that is proven again and again.
I have usually (but not always) voted (Gen X), but sometimes I just get so depressed by what's on offer, all of them portraying visions of the future that I find outright unappealing and depressing (when they actually bother doing anything at all other than attacking the other side) that it's hard to see any point in it.
Millennials never really had a strong centralization of customs like Gen X. It's not unlike the general conceptions of Democratic and Republican respective cohesions from the Clinton-Bush-Obama era.
ProfessorDetective wrote: ↑Sat Aug 01, 2020 8:46 pm
Honestly, if there were one thing that could get the younger crowd to go out and vote him out of office...
I can guarantee you that the majority of people who uses Tik Tok to the point of its absence being an electoral point has never and will never vote for Donald Trump. The potential damage to him is low, meanwhile, China is now such a hot button topic that his potential gains among his own base are huge. Tik Tok is a security risk. India thinks so, many in the UK parliament thinks so, and now so does Trump. A stopped clock is right twice a day like it not.
As an aside, every election I hear something like this ''Ooh! don't underestimate the Millennials! Don't underestimate Gen Z!'' and you what? They still never vote! They cannot be arsed. They cry and cry and cry about issues and yet when it comes to actually putting a cross in a box they don't do anything. We had that recently here in the 2019 election with Jeremy Corbyn. Its Gen X and above that decide elections, and that is proven again and again.
Millenials and gen z are big targets of voter suppression and gerrymandering.
That's some high quality BS right there.
Not only do colleges and universities tend to act as polling places, they also have organizations that actively encourage students to register to vote.
Antiboyscout wrote: ↑Sun Aug 02, 2020 10:37 pmThat's some high quality BS right there.
Not only do colleges and universities tend to act as polling places, they also have organizations that actively encourage students to register to vote.
If it's high quality BS, certainly you'd support things that work in other countries, like same-day registration, automatic registration, extended polling periods (1-2 weeks), better public transit guides and more polling locations to make polling more open to people using public transit, pre-registration for 16 year olds, and high school civics courses that discuss voting, the various positions and measures that people can vote for, and the role of voting in our political proceedings.
Those would all be sensible measures, right?
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