god-oh with no stressed syllable, like a french person with that name might pronounce it

Obviously I was being glib. But even if I weren’t, I am not intending to be a leader, so Pratchet is not talking about me.

Having said that, voters have dynamic, even mutable qualities, and those are exactly the qualities that determine elections. There is an entirely reasonable approach to politics that is about educating and informing voters so that they can make more rational decisions. There is a very effective approach to politics that encourages and exploits voter disenfranchisement. Yes, voters can be the problem.

you will not divide us

I’m not even sure what this is meant to mean. What do you imagine my motives are? Who am I supposedly trying to divide?

And how does that apply to me?

The comment was about GenZ voting! It’s super relevant!!

Young women are the only cohort that strongly supports the NDP. The difference between young men and young women is striking enough to be panic inducing.

No, not “the same”.

Gay people have exactly as much money as everyone else. There are proportionately as many gay billionaires as there are gay homeless people.

Recognize is not perform.

literally russian bot farms

Ah yes, it’s society’s fault young men are swinging hard right into fascism like they always do. It’s society’s fault that toxic masculinity has become a political movement. If only we had allowed young men into women’s shelters, the next 20 years of repression and oppression could have doubtlessly been avoided. Stupid society.

Jagmeet is decent. Its the voters who are complete shit.

Young men have really lost their way.

At least that means a less conservative (ie LPO) Ontario premier…

But with the US electing swinging to what we laughably refer to as the left, I wonder if it could cause the CPC trouble in the upcoming election. Could hope for a coalition government…

easy. wait.

Didn’t notice that the speaker had changed, sorry

No. Those are things that it would be nice to do, but they are not critical, they are not the point, they are incidental. It is not worth sacrificing human lives so that people don’t have to see needles, clearly if there is a choice that has to be made, the point of this is to save the life. It is not worth sacrificing human lives to shuffle people around and make them shoot up where you’re okay with them shooting up. You are not that important. This is a public health measure, to prevent people from fucking dying. I don’t know why you want to resist seeing it in those terms.

Guy. You’re being obtuse. But okay, I’ll play along.

When you buy bacon, is it alive? No. How did it get dead? Someone killed it. Did that person do it for free? No, of course not, it’s an incredibly traumatizing job that people hate to do and they only do it because they are poor and can be exploited. Some of the money that you paid for that bacon necessarily goes to killing a pig. How the fuck can you even pretend you don’t see that.

also you:

almost no one pays anyone to kill animals, except pests I think

I think that a smart voter should be aware that the first task is electing Harris, but then they need to immediately transition to fighting Harris. It’s a weird position to be in.

Oh I see, you mean the government farms out most social services. Just to be clear, the staff working the SCSs are not volunteers, nor anyone above them, but I don’t think you meant that.