That said I am very concerned with the influence he undoubtedly will have with our space asset acquisition policies.

Idk what the exact definition of a full lock in is, but if you have to break a window to get someone out I’d think it still qualifies since the locks were all engaged.

Time to justify it by giving your nephew a punch card to YOUR climbing wall!

Ah, the roy videogame from Rick and Morty

Do you have any rock climbing gyms near you? Could get a punch card to one.

Corrected! Too early in the morning :)

It’s taken a while for me to get to the point where I’ll write a comment, and think “do I really want to kick this potential hornets nest?” And delete the comment.

I find myself having a much better time hanging out and interacting with the folks in the asklemmy communities versus those in political threads.

EDIT: removed a block of text that took all too long to type out because I’m not going to spend more time further arguing the interpretation of someone’s comment as if it were religious script.

Quite frankly it hardly matters. You asked for proof of folks politically engaged yet not voting, I shared what I thought constitutes proof. You believe it doesn’t qualify, but other folks reading this can draw their own conclusions.

Thanks for keeping the conversation civil - have a good one!

If you’re a wage earner in this country, your life does not change in any significant way based on who we elect, so why skip a badly needed day’s pay to vote? There’s just no point.

You’ll notice that’s different from

If you’re a wage earner in this country and you think your life does not change in any significant way based on who we elect, so why skip a badly needed day’s pay to vote? There’s just no point.

The former is an assertion that all wage earners lives aren’t affected by voting therefore they shouldn’t bother voting. IF you’re a wage earner THEN there’s no point in voting".

The latter is understanding a scenario from a potential perspective of a wage earner who doesn’t see change being discouraged.

Like you said in your own post,

someone who thinks both party’s won’t help

Can you point out where they say “if wage earners think both parties won’t help”?

If not, then you’re the one selectively interpreting this…

someone who thinks both party’s won’t help

I don’t read it this way all - there was no conditional on party efficacy and it in fact was an assertion that their lives won’t change due to who was elected, which changed the overall statement to read like the working class shouldn’t vote.

Tbf the 50% that voted for trump aren’t here, plain and simple, so that’s why you don’t see engagement with them.

The only political engagement you’ll see here on Lemmy shifts overwhelmingly left for all parties, so you’ll see mostly squabbling between various left factions.

Well here’s a comment from someone I was talking to that was politically engaged yet arguing that folks might as well not vote.

I’m not going into the thinking behind it, but it’s certainly happening.

Being politically “engaged” on Lemmy doesn’t mean much in terms of ensuring voter participation. I’ve seen plenty of folks with a “democrats have to earn my vote” sentiment. That very much seemed to play out given the much lower voter participation for Democrats this year.

I wonder if this results in more kids being raised in brainwashy conservative families.

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A flexible filament like tpu will probably make it much more bearable

Holy shit I forgot about Stella “demon semen” Immanuel. Bruh this timeline.

Thanks, you too!

That’s a lot of selective interpreting right there, lol.

I don’t have the time or want to unravel everything - I’m only sharing evidence that good things are happening amidst all the doom and gloom, and they’re typically lead by Democrats.

That’s a strange line of reasoning to discourage voting. I just got my mail in ballot, I’ll probably be dropping it off the next time I have a day off.