11 months without politics (1 Viewer)

[MTskibum]

Just reading through the last page of this thread i notice that there are types of posts that you do not see elsewhere on this forum anymore.


There are minority of people who identify so strongly with their political party that it makes it the defining trait about who they are as a person. They let politics bleed over to the other parts of their lives, they bring up politics at work, early in conversations with strangers, etc, and they can't help but believe there are people out there that want nothing to do with the one side verse the other side.

Yep. I had a stranger on a ski lift bring up some big "news" he saw the prior night, from one of the pundits, maybe Tucker Carlson.

I don't care much for politics under any circumstances, but certainly don't even think about it on vacation, while doing something I love. And the crazier thing was, he changed our conversation from the quality of the snow that day, when there was only a short segment of the lift ride remaining. Maybe three support poles, so like 150 feet? Even if I were interested, there was no time for a meaningful response.

Now that I think about it, perhaps he was trying to distract me from finding his powder stash?

Anyway, the next lift I shared with a different stranger. We also talked about how beautiful a day it was. I mentioned the odd conversation from the prior ride, and we shared a laugh.

Then, about the same place near the top of the lift, I asked "What do you think about abortion?"

That deserved the laughing emoji. No way you said that.

 

[Terminalxylem]

That deserved the laughing emoji. No way you said that.

I did, and it garnered a laugh IRL.

 

[MTskibum]

I have no interest in seeing a resurrection of the PSF.

A new forum for Religion though, that would be very welcome if you could set that up. Unless of course the objective of religious threads is to proselytize, in which case, those posters would simply ignore it and keep posting in the FFA.

To be fair, I think it's a real point to ask if Christians (or people of other faiths) SHOULD do more evangelism and trying to get more people to follow Jesus. That's a pretty clear instruction in our Bible. That could be an interesting thread maybe at some point.

I've said it before, but if I believed what the Bible offers, I'd feel compelled to spread the word out of compassion for humanity. The fact it doesn't happen more often undermines the message imo.

Politics replaced religion.

People now believe that their specific side is the only side that can save humanity. Instead of religious evangelicalism you are getting political evangelicalism.

 

[MTskibum]

My absolute favorite comic of all time.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - 2013-04-07

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - 2013-04-07

www.smbc-comics.com

 

[titusbramble]

1. Claim victory way too early.
2. Let the polls catch up to the claim over the course of the evening.
3. Takes some states a while (couple more days to tally votes because it's way too close).
4. Because #3 is happening, something fishy is going on.
5. If the polls end up disagreeing with #1, it was rigged. Some flavor of uprising occurs.
6. If they agree, some flavor of uprising in celebration occurs.

Maricopa County AZ has 4.5 million people, which is more than some states have. They also have a bunch of state election laws passed by their legislature that are picky about vote counting and reporting. I read today that, due to sheer volume and their laws, it could take up to 12-13 days to reliably count all the votes.

The UK has more than ten times that many people, and outlying islands excepted, we know every result by the time we wake up in the morning. That the US can't do the same (and, additionally, that huge areas do not require any ID to vote whatsoever) is completely inexplicable to the rest of the world.

 

[Joe Bryant]

this thread makes me sad.

I can see that. We managed yesterday to muddle through some of the garbage (and a big day of reported and deleted posts) but did have some good conversation. I think everyone had their say.

We'll wrap this one as I think we all have a pretty good answer for the original question in the first post. And there doesn't seem to be much sense in continuing as it'll eventually get back to what we had earlier yesterday and politics. If anything, this was a good reminder of why closing the PSF was best for us. Thanks folks for helping us keep politics out of the forums.

For a good place to discuss politics, several folk said they very much liked the ARS forums. https://arstechnica.com/civis/threa...f-engagement-revised-october-27-2024.1500464/

I'm sure those are great and will give people desiring online political talk a good spot.

And as I said yesterday, I can't recommend enough finding real life people to have these discussions with who know you and trust you.

I'm sure you will, but I hope you vote if you can and please be kind and thoughtful with other folks, especially those that don't see things the way you do.