I imagine TBI is going to be more variable in its effects than something from constant low level brain damage (chemically or impact) or from a stroke as well though right?
If my assumption is right, then that would likely explain why you are an outlier, rather than that brain damage's effect doesn't at least trend conservative.
As an American, no, at least when it comes to averages. Fuck the average American.
OK, I actually think we might be getting somewhere for once. What exactly do you propose to solve that problem? Because saying people need to make more educated decisions isn't going to make it so. Most people do not want to even think about politics let alone become deeply educated about it, so its an uphill battle on somehow educating the masses before you have any actual political power to mandate that education.
I mean, I still think game theory applies with first past the post. Like for instance if you have 2 equally liked anti-racist candidates and 1 singular awful one that appeals to subconscious racism, the racist one is more likely going to win due to splitting the anti-racist vote. But still, I'm curious about your solution to the educated voting problem.
I'm saying that people who are paying attention can't know for certain that a sufficient number of other people are paying enough attention to even shift their vote from the democrats to a brand new leftwing party with sufficient "brand awareness" without undermining the lesser evil's chances by jumping over for any given major election.
Half the population pays virtually no attention to politics. Meaning trying for a third party for president is a laughably if not willfully ignorant unless you've done the ground work elsewhere in government built up awareness of the party from holding smaller offices first.
I mean I disagree, but I am curious. Who then?
No thanks. I already resent the amount of my life I've spent on trying to make the world not suck and not just... living a life.
Then again, I do also resent being born. Not the same as being ok with dying though.
I also discount your political takes because it has lead us to doom.
OK, so you are saying the world started out "broken"? I guess it'd be best if a vacuum decay event just instantly wiped out humanity at the cradle in that case.
I don't view Harris as a fascist and I more or less agree with Womble.
That's not what I said. I had a strategy, it was to put my energy into an election outcome that would prevent the fascist from winning. I don't view Kamala Harris as a fascist like you seem to, shes at worst a typical neo-liberal. I'd rather fight against a neo-liberal than a fascist. She lost, and all available non-passive options are now awful and I am not motivated to do much other than openly hate almost everyone even slightly responsible in this outcome.
Available strategies now include: Hunker down and survive an indeterminate number of years, flee the country, or die in a doomed rebellion. All knowing the earth is cooked at every corner anyway so who gives a flying fuck.
I'm not doing that last strategy, you can have fun getting shot in the street by fascists if you want. I'm going to just try my best to not die.
Yes you do. You support him via advocating for a completely ass backwards promotion of third party voting.
If a third party is to be even remotely viable in FPTP, you don't fucking start with the presidency.
You can't magically drum up sufficient support for a candidate to win the fucking presidency with zero/near zero seats in congress or the senate.
Having a strategy doesn't guarantee ideal outcomes. It also clearly doesn't guarantee you avoid the worst ones either. We were never inevitably going to the promised land. The key was to maximize good and minimize bad. We've maximized bad.
It doesn't matter that much anymore. I'm not advocating we continue any strategy because I think we're doomed now. We're on a sinking ship and you are arguing over whether we can swim across the entire ocean to safety.
The new goal is to not die due to a fascist take over the United States. A lot of us are about to fail that. Maybe me, maybe you. We'll see in 4 years.
No its not. That doesn't even make any sense. Moral compromise has been a constant of human civilization.
They weren't completely ignored by Harris. She could have done a lot more (in particular to distance herself from Biden), but she did try to appeal to them at least once.
The problem is that even doing that wasn't going to help much because the propaganda campaign to paint her as the pro-genocide candidate was already floating around enough that low information tik tok voters were likely nudged primarily against her.
Regardless, if my family was being butchered in that situation IDK how I'd react but I know the rational decision was still to prevent the fascist that actively hates Palestinians from winning.
But obviously voters are not rational.