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More evidence that millennials prefer authoritarianism over democracy: NBC News/GenForward survey says Millennials disillusioned about midterm elections
One telling bit: The candidate quality that matters most to millennials' vote in November is someone who can bring about change.
Given where all the European millennial votes are going right now (i.e. European far-right parties), I'm scared as hell.
"The devil's got all the good gear. What's God got? The Inspiral Carpets and nuns. Fuck that." - Liam Gallagher
Mostly people of color and women. White millennial men, that's another story.
One telling bit: The candidate quality that matters most to millennials' vote in November is someone who can bring about change.
Given where all the European millennial votes are going right now (i.e. European far-right parties), I'm scared as hell.
Well, don't be. That's not what that article says at all, and you completely misinterpreted what it does say. The statistics cited in that article are overwhelmingly anti-Trump, pro-voting, and pro-Democrat. When millennials say that they want change, they don't mean "change from the current system of government" they mean "change from the atrocities of the Trump administration". They don't mean "we want authoritarianism because democracy has failed us" they mean "we want our democracy back".
Edited by PushoverMediaCritic on Aug 29th 2018 at 11:19:22 AM
Erhm... Citation needed?
I mean, it's not like there are no Far-Right voting millennials in Europe (I'm unfortunate enough to have several in my own family), but you're probably misinterpreting the statistics here.
Millennials aren't overwhelmingly likely to vote far right, as a whole they actually skew significantly to the left. It's just that young, poorly educated middle- and working class males are more likely to vote for far right parties than older poorly educated middle- and working class males. (Who are more likely to vote for regular right wing parties instead).
Angry gets shit done.Here's an Axios report from last year
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While I don't have time to do the whole WTF Just Happened Today feed at the moment, I feel compelled to post how they describe the millennial article that ~Mario 1995 posted.
The NBC and Vox links:
https://www.vox.com/2018/8/29/17795718/poll-millennial-young-vote-2018-midterms
What I’d like to see is a rating system for different areas on a scale of how urban to rural it is, with guns generally being easier to acquire in rural areas and harder in urban. (Because if your abusive, obsessed ex is pounding on the door while screaming threats and the nearest police station is half an hour away in a spread out rural area, or your kid isn’t answering you when you call them and you live somewhere where you can hear packs of coyotes howling every night, there is pretty good reason to want a means of self defense on hand.)
On top of that add in a lot of the standard liberal issues like universal background checks, a suspension of rights to buy or own guns for a time if a person is involved in criminal activity or domestic abuse, higher penalties for using a modified gun while committing a crime, (i.e you modded your semi-automatic to go full auto then used it in a shooting or robbery) universal registration of guns already in private collections and a requirement to document the transfer of ownership if you sell or give it away, mandatory professional training before getting a license to encourage things like safe handling and storage, etc.
Beyond that in terms of more technical stuff about guns, I’m not really educated or knowledgeable enough about the subject to say, so I’d defer to others for what should be the specific requirements for, say, safe storage and other issues.
I have absolutely no doubt that in our current climate it’s impossible, however. Too many single issue wonks on the subject, too many organizations that would subject any legislation to endless trivial lawsuits to challenge it on any issue or clause that they can argue is vague with a straight face, regressive judges who would throw any gun legislation out in a heartbeat, by simply saying “Second Amendment, yo” and so on to infinity.
What’s interesting is that the overwhelming majority of gun owners even want change, but NRA propaganda and fears of gun grabbing liberals means that they don’t trust anybody to actually do the things they want because of slippery slope fears and so on and so forth.
Eventually that impasse will break, (or at least gradually crumble) but I’ll be damned if I can see what would actually do it other than about 50 years of pressure on everything from societal attitudes to politicians to the judiciary.
Edited by TheWanderer on Aug 29th 2018 at 2:57:07 PM
| Wandering, but not lost. | If people bring so much courage to this world...◊ |So remember when we were talking about Gillum's surprise victory? Seems his Republican opponent has responded.
Republican Ron DeSantis says electing black opponent Andrew Gillum would “monkey this up”
Y'know I'd call this a racist dogwhistle but it's more like a Trumpet.
Words can't properly express the rage I feel and my burning desire for De Santis to go in the electoral garbage can that he so deeply deserves.
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji YangAnd as an aside, if nothing else Mc Cain's death has given us some good comedy writing
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Edited by BlueNinja0 on Aug 29th 2018 at 12:38:00 PM
That’s the epitome of privilege right there, not considering armed nazis a threat to your life. - SilaswHonestly I've found that minority relation makes more sense if one keeps in mind that they're composed of a bunch of smaller groups who have no problem intrinsically with hating or discriminating against each other.
Hence why you could get black people voting for Trump, they're minorities but they also hate other minorities. Or they're just well off and greedy.
Edited by Fourthspartan56 on Aug 29th 2018 at 3:43:27 PM
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji YangI've often found it naïve and, in a way, sort of offensive to just assume that being a part of being in a disadvantaged group means a person is going to be supportive of every other disadvantaged group.
It ironically comes off as a bit dehumanizing to not understand that oppressed people are perfectly capable of irrationally hating other human beings too.
Edited by LSBK on Aug 29th 2018 at 2:48:17 PM
We already have that specific penalty.
As far as safe storage, I’d go the Canada route and mandate guns be stored disassembled or with a key operating part removed. That’s worked fairly well for them.
They should have sent a poet.With DeSantis's "monkey" comment, have an NBC link
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"You know, he is an articulate spokesman for those far-left views and he's a charismatic candidate," De Santis said. "The last thing we need to do is to monkey this up by trying to embrace a socialist agenda with huge tax increases and bankrupting the state. That is not going to work. That's not going to be good for Florida."
Of all the possible words in the English language he could've used there, "monkey" probably makes the least sense in this day and age... at least beyond being there as a dogwhistle.
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"So, this one guy on Game FA Qs is saying we'll never get Net Neutrality for decades once Kavanaugh almost certainly replaces Kennedy on the SCOTUS. Last I checked, though, doesn't the Supreme Court have no jurisdiction on whether Net Neutrality comes back or not and it's up to the FCC?

Edited by wisewillow on Aug 29th 2018 at 2:04:35 PM