Dude sucks and is ruining the planet, but this quote is taken out of context and if you read beyond the headline you’ll see that. He’s saying that his employees should “wake up every morning terrified” of losing their customers to competitors. That’s just like… a dumb capitalistic aphorism that doesn’t really mean anything.

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> white people jump 250ft straight downward into hay bales safely

I sleep

> black samurai based on actual historical figure

MY HISTORICAL ACCURACY

Same energy as the boomers posting those crazy “Facebook is not allowed to use my stuff!” posts on FB. Some people never learn.

While your general thought is true, that example is from almost 100 years after the founding fathers era and in the leadup to the Civil War.

Feels more like a very vengeful god has taken decided to tap back in, based on how intentional it all feels sometimes. Maybe that’s just my old protestant roots lol

I’m a scum bag for not wanting to get into a debate with someone threatening suicide in lemmy comments? If they’re telling the truth, they need to talk to someone qualified, not random idiots on lemmy. If they’re using it as a debate tactic, it’s beyond fucked up. Either way, not sure how that makes any sort of statement on me. Lost a friend to suicide not even a month ago so fuck me for not wanting to engage with this right?

I honestly can’t think of a better sign of the times than a candidate with literal brain worms. The Simulation is real and very broken.

They do a straight comparison of sympathies between Gaza and Israel further down the article. Look for the graph with the title “Sympathies in the Middle East Situation, by Party ID and Age”.

It’s been an exhausting day for me on this thread and frankly, it’s not worth it anymore. I’ve had a person threaten suicide multiple times, a person just randomly start belittling for no reason, and a large chunk of people who just refuse to read articles. Gonna tap out of this one, so you all take what you will from the articles and I’ll just leave it there.

Call a suicide hotline. Nobody here can help you in this forum and it’s very clear you need to have a discussion with a therapist. You’re in no place to be on Lemmy having discussions about anything, much less heated political topics. I’m going to block you after this, not because I dislike you, but because I want you to not have any incentive to respond. Go get some help friend.

I’m confused, did you not read the stats I linked in the comment above?

I agree. I’ve played a few matches of 2142(?) over the time since it’s been released and it’s gotten to an okay state. I know a lot of different people raged at various points of them, but I had tons of fun with the dev cycles of 4/1/V. They were just fun at the core, even when DICE was doing something dumb with the loop messed up a weapon or whatever. This one just falls flat after a few matches.

I did not play prior to this release and my group has really enjoyed it so far. I highly recommend for anyone who is interested in the idea of a survival crafter set in an SCP/Control -style facility.

I would be happy just having a playable battlefield game guys…

Not sure you’ve been “having to explain things” to me as much as just having a discussion with someone. I’m not really sure why you felt the need to get so dismissive and rude to someone who has clearly just tried to talk to you about something we both care about and approached in good faith. I really don’t need any “help” and I’m not sure what you even mean by that last statement. I hope you have a good rest of your day?

Then what demographic do you think it is?

Older white men, the core republican demographic. Inside of the general democratic camp, it would likely be older Latino males right now, but I would need to refresh my stats.

Not for Obama.

You’re joking, right? Ask any young person today what their thoughts on Obama are and you’re gonna hear “drone strikes” first thing. The electoral politics of 2024 are vastly different than the ones in 2012, especially with young people. The way social media delivers news and raw footage to people, especially the youth who know how to operate it best, has completely altered the relationship between foreign policy and PR at home. Obama would be skewered today, and I’m surprised that someone on the left is even holding him up as an example for Biden to follow in foreign policy maneuvers.

Historical the youth vote is very important, we can’t just give up on the whole demographic because they don’t like moderates. They’re the fucking future of the party, we need to actively go after them. I don’t expect Biden to bust out a sac solo live on MTV like Bill did.

Totally agree, but I do wish we could get the sax solo. (Sac solo is also a hilarious typo given the Bill Clinton proximity)

But he’s not trying to reach out at all.

Don’t agree, and here’s exhibit A of my comment above. He has forgiven as many student loans as seemingly possible with the current court structure and he has made climate change a high priority. Those are both targeted directly at the youth. He’s trying. Now, he might be failing, but why? Because a crisis has occurred that the youth feels incredibly strongly about, and they are one of the most uncompromising demographics. Most other demographics will remember those earlier wins and put the ones they lose in larger context. The youth is uncompromising, which is both their largest strength and weakness.

For what it’s worth, I’m not trying to argue with you on the broader topic of whether the younger demo is worth pursuing. Technology and political degradation is just going to consistently put the youth demo at odds with the raw math of campaigning, and that’s something I worry about. I don’t want any of what I’m saying to be true, but I worry that it is.

The demographic Biden struggles most with isn’t young people and beside that point, every demographic is unique. Young people are impossible to please. Not individually, but as a demographic, they are inconsistent, fickle, wrathful, and fairly apathetic. I’m still in this demographic and it wouldn’t be my first stop for a reliable election winner. Then look at the Gallup poll I sent and think about this purely from a campaigning perspective. How does playing to the youth on Gaza win you anything? Frankly, it looks like the math is stacked against us on this.

I still think we should fight for this. I still think there should be protests, demonstrations, campaigning for more ethical candidates. I no longer think trying to win this through selling it as a carrot or stick for winning the election is going to work though. The electorate just cares way, way more about economics and Biden (from a campaigning perspective) would be much more well-suited to focusing on that.

I think it’s really lame to set up a false dichotomy for people between asking you to vote in the presidential election and asking you to kill yourself. That’s not productive discussion at all and really injects a gross tone into the whole thing. Can we not trivialize suicide as some sort of debate tactic, please?

They were responding to me instead of you and just clicked the wrong comment I think, just to give them some grace. I would wait for a comment addressed to yours specifically because they may have a different framing.

You responded to the wrong person. I can reply here though, no worries.

You’re reading that 34% stat incorrectly. It is not saying that 34% of young people view that as the most important issue, they are saying that when asked about it when put head to head with another issue from that list, it only won 34% of the time. I believe that difference also mostly accounts for your 2nd/3rd choice dynamic as well, because it would have also been paired with those other topics and lost accordingly. Look at the other scores on that list. It’s clear that this conflict is not the primary driver of the election season right now.

Now, I’d love to see more stats, but between this and that recent Gallup poll, I’m going to start needing affirmative evidence in the other direction before I just start making leaps. For what it’s worth, I also find this conflict heinous. Israel is committing horrific war crimes. Global policy never outperforms domestic issues though. Caring about your own survival is human nature, so I kind of expect it.

Keep on advocating for Palestine and Gaza. I will be as well. Just don’t expect to be able to hold the election over their heads as leverage, because it’s becoming increasingly clear that leverage doesn’t exist.