turning off voters is the biggest reason why we don’t vote imo in this environment and there’s nothing you can do about shitty choices that the democrats will give us; but there’s things you can do to overcome the other institutional part of it; aka gerrymandering:

setup free voting ride shares with free filling snacks in gerrymandered states that will pick each person up from home; drop them off at their polling station; pick them up from there; and then drop them off at home w/o having to wait for everyone to finish voting. the lines are VERY long and take hours in heavily gerrymandered places like houston texas and people hate voting already; so making them wait or skip dinner to vote is a non-starter.

setup free voting phone number and/or website that will help register you to vote (not just tell you what you need to do) on your behalf and include the option to mail you a pre-filled envelope and stamp if paper registration is required. advertise it HEAVILY on all forms of media everywhere and make it clear it’s not from the government.

then, assign a case worker to every client to ensure that the registration was completed and followup on the problems that gerrymandered places usually create to suppress votes. also get lawyers or people familiar with election laws to file inquiries on each voter’s behalf each time a gerrymandered place manages to find a reason to disqualify a voter and use that case worker to manage it.

expect it to fail the first few times because people hate talking about politics so they won’t listen for the first few cycles.

i want to see straight guys duel to get straight women.

You can sort of hack that process by getting a t-shirt wet, putting it on, and allowing the moving air to help speed up the evaporation process.

better when don’t wear a shirt, spray yourself with water and sit it from of the fan; the convection feels fantastic on your skin.

That’s priceless to the power hungry. It’s not just money, it’s control.

that’s why their banning it; they can’t control it in the way they want

the take away from social media is fascinating, especially on the lemmyverse: the pejorative stores about biden’s performance are everywhere online and tv, but heavily downvoted on .world while the rest of the lemmyverse is much more closely matched with everything else in the world.

in 4 years progressives will hopefully realize the DNC needs them more than they need need the DNC.

the progressives already know that the dnc needs them more than they need the dnc as evidenced by dnc surrogates perpetually shaming progressives for not voting for the dnc; i’m guessing there’s a typo in your sentence somewhere, but i’m not sure where.

That’s the problem, everyone told the DNC this was going to happen and yet they all just kept with Biden.

i think that’s only the tip of the iceberg; we’re going to vote for them anyways so they literally have no reason to bother listening, ever.

I’m fully willing to endure 4 years of Weekend at Bernie’s if it means I won’t have to go through the embarrassment of having the orange moron at the helm.

DEAR PLEASE GOD someone turn this into comedic satire before the election!!!

the agitator will either tear the shoes apart or maim them.

you’d think it doesn’t need to be said because it’s obvious, but i speak from experience that it does need to be said: make sure you don’t put them into an agitation based washer; impeller or tumble washers ONLY!

(or atleast use a laundry bag if you have only have access to an agitation washer)

and air dry them IN THE SUN!!!

I’m a software engineer

You’re not getting anywhere above entry level in this industry if you’re not fun

same here and fixed it for you

I can’t seem to shake off the loud “It’s Gay” inside my head when something like that happens.

a very small part of me is glad i’m gay when i encounter one of the many ways that straight men are so terrified of being perceived as gay. it’s a bit like watching the video of a child freaking out in shallow water because he couldn’t touch the ground only to be corrected by being pushed into standing; except that this casual homophobia has MASSIVE impacts on people’s psyches and how they treat others.

up until now i hated that people cocooned themselves up too much from other people’s plight; your comment made me realize that they’re merely overindulging in something pleasant, as i do.

he literally use to brag about getting the bill that created our student loan debt problem passed the senate.

also: he’s been in federal politics for over 50 years; but we can only judge him for 3 of them?

ysk that cherry picked 3 years has been hit and miss at best.

i’m convinced that creating echo chamber cocoons are the reason why things are so fucked rn.

I can remember the end of the Vietnam War

how do you not remember biden’s anti-gay votes or his anti-gay, anti-me2, pro-studentloandebt, or pro-isreal advocacy; like most boomers do?

was it because none of that affects you or is it because you’re willfully ignoring the last few decades to make his presidency look better in your eyes?

or is it simply because trump is so bad that the alternative is automatically good enough?

in that case: here’s bernie calling out biden’s bullshit

does repeating this lie help you believe it?

the most progressive candidate since FDR

by what standard?!

dude literally voted against gay marriage; gays in the military; permanent student loans; advocated against gays in federal service; racial integration; sexual harassment claims; blocked access to non-american social media platform; and blocked americans from affordable electric vehicles.

was it the one law that passed decades after it was no longer an issue and, not only did nothing, but gave bigots legal protection for their bigotry?

as i said before: no one knows the right answer, but there are plenty of wrong answers, we know they’re wrong because we’ve tried them and things don’t get better (and we sometimes try it again with the same results); we’re only allowed to pick from among those wrong answers only.

trying anything otherwise might also be a wrong answer; but we will never know because there are plenty who will shame you if don’t pick the same wrong answer they do.