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Thursday, October 31, 2024
link smorgasbord: "garbage" people, etc.
"But right now, I am speaking." With an Atlas Intel poll.
Did the left lose Jon Stewart at the last moment?
Rogan is disappointed he won't be interviewing Kamala.
Joe's remark overshadows Kamala's final big speech. Puertorriqueños unaffected.
Tulsi's impassioned speech in Wisconsin.
Article: Gen Z is lying about its voting preferences:
Half of Gen Z Voters Have Lied About Their Voting Preferences: PollAcross the political divide, 27 percent of Democrats, 24 percent of Republicans, and 20 percent of independents said they’ve lied about who they’re voting for.
Nearly half (48 percent) of Generation Z voters and 23 percent of U.S. voters overall have lied about their voting preferences this year to people close to them, according to a recent Axios Vibes survey conducted by The Harris Poll.
The poll, which surveyed 1,858 registered voters online between Oct. 22 and 24, found that 58 percent of overall voters say their preferences are a private matter, with 33 percent saying they aren’t close to certain family members due to different political beliefs. For Gen Z voters—aged between 18 and 27—that number is 44 percent, and for Millennials (aged 28–43), that number is 47 percent.
The survey found that those who came of age during the Trump era are seemingly more sensitive to perceived social pressure and judgment from friends or family.
“There’s a new privacy emerging here, where it’s far more convenient to either lie or not talk about it,” said John Gerzema, CEO of The Harris Poll. “The new social etiquette is to be like Switzerland: Why do you want that heat?”
Among Generation X voters, those born between 1965 and 1980, 17 percent said they had lied to someone close about who they were voting for this year, while 6 percent of those born before 1965 said the same. Another 22 percent of overall voters said they would potentially lie about their voting preferences this year.
Across the political spectrum, 27 percent of Democrats, 24 percent of Republicans, and 20 percent of independent voters said they’ve lied about who they are voting for.
The survey did not ask respondents why they had lied or to whom they had lied.
Gerzema said the toxicity of political polarization has pushed many Americans into self-censoring or lying about voter preferences to maintain social, familial, and workplace relationships. Those raised on smartphones tend to be more averse to social or workplace confrontations over politics and may lie about who they’re voting for to avoid an awkward altercation, Gerzema said.
The Axios Vibes survey also found that 30 percent of men had said they lied about who they voted for compared to 17 percent of women, suggesting that some could be silent supporters of either Trump or Harris amid social pressure to vote for either candidate.
The survey found 40 percent of voters said they’re waiting until election day to vote, in case there is a change in the final week, with 8 percent saying it would be a “gut decision” at the voting booth.
The economy remains the key concern among voters when choosing a candidate, according to a Gallup poll released on Oct. 9. It shows that 52 percent of voters, surveyed in the last two weeks of September, said that the economy was “extremely important” when determining their choice for president, while another 38 percent saw it as “very important.”
ululate!
Teri Garr is dead at 79. A lot of people are commenting on how sexy she was in her heyday... I thought of her as merely cute in a bland way, and a decent actress in comedies like "Young Frankenstein" as well as more serious roles like her part in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." Her TV career began with an episode of "Star Trek" ("Assignment: Earth"). She was apparently also a beloved talk-show guest for both Johnny Carson and David Letterman. She was slowed down by acute multiple sclerosis in the early 2000s. In 2006, she had a brain aneurysm that left her in a week-long coma, but her MS, which she'd suffered from since at least the 1980s (back when it was mild), is what took her down in the end. RIP.
a great example of sloppy language
The reason why I'm not a fan of sloppy language is that it often indicates sloppy thinking. There are people who will be personally offended by that thought, and they'll push back on it by saying things like, "We're all sloppy about certain things," usually as a defense of their own sloppiness. But just as a stupid person can't imitate a smart person, a person who's sloppy with his language can't make himself seem intelligent no matter how well intended or well structured his arguments are. Misspellings and grammatical errors suck the dignity and seriousness from one's thoughts. (Of course, if you're surrounded by fellow stupid people, this doesn't matter.) Now, it's impossible to achieve perfection: I, for example, remain a work in progress and will be so until I die. Go back in my archives and cringe at column-inch after column-inch of terrible writing. Anyway, here's something truly sloppy. I can understand the intention, but it's hard to appreciate the wit when the sloppiness is so... front and center:
Okay, so who's being called a "racist, sexist, homophobic Nazi white supremacist"? Trump, right? So who's "being called garbage"? If I'm not mistaken, Biden said that about Trump's supporters, but the left is currently trying to cover for Old Joe. So who's the "he" who's pulling his punches? I know from current events that this is a reference to Joe Biden, who's the guy calling Trump (alongside all the lefties calling Trump) a sexist, racist, etc., etc. But you can't use a pronoun without a noun somewhere nearby: the pronoun refers to and replaces the noun. If you had no context for the above and simply read it as written, you'd have no idea who was calling whom what, and who was pulling punches.
I know: people will roll their eyes and say that I should expect memes to be sloppily written. And I do: my general expectation is that most memes will be sloppily written and sloppily thought out. Memes are like witty one-liners ruined by stupid comedians. I try to give them as compassionate a reading as I can because there's no hope of correcting every misbegotten meme for grammar, mechanics, and logic. By being so tolerant, though, I merely become part of the larger problem: the acceptance of sloppiness. In principle at least, we should always be vigilant and never accept sloppiness. In my America, one test for your ability to vote would be to have you write a short essay or a long paragraph on a political topic that's motivating you to vote. If the essay is sloppy in terms of language and logic, you would not have the right to vote. If you can't express a coherent thought on something you are theoretically voting about, you should be kept far away from the polls.
Anyway, if you write a tweet or a blog or something else, try your best not to be as sloppy as the above-quoted chump. Sloppiness only makes you look stupid.
QUESTION: why are so many programmers so laser-precise when they code but complete idiots when they write regular prose? I think there must be various types of stupidity.
injustice
Gold Star Mom Tina Peters has been sentenced to potentially die in prison for preserving election files that were ordered to be illegally deleted by Jena Griswold
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) October 30, 2024
Meanwhile, Jena Griswold has “accidentally leaked” all the voting machine passwords and nothing happens
Injustice. https://t.co/WIjDPBjWak
when you put it that way...
That moment when someone says, "I can't believe you would vote for Trump.”
— Kevin Sorbo (@ksorbs) October 8, 2024
I simply reply, “I'm not voting for Trump.”
I'm voting for the First Amendment and freedom of speech.
I'm voting for the Second Amendment and my right to defend my life and my family.
I'm voting for…
JD Vance, sharpening his skills thanks to hostile "journalists"
Trace has the video here. (I'm trying not to embed so many videos so as not to slow down people's browsers' performance. Just click the link to reach the video.)
the photo essays are all up
The next step is done, and faster than anticipated (probably because I'm back early): at Kevin's Walk 8, the full photo essays for every day of the walk for which I had photos are now all up. I now need to work on captioning and commentary—the longest phase of any of this. I'll go as fast as I can... if I can do one day's worth of writing per day, I can have the entire thing done before I re-depart on November 9. I will, of course, have more content to upload as I complete subsequent sections of the route, but the whole thing ought to be done well before the end of the year—a true first. Fingers and tentacles crossed. Meanwhile, if you want to see the images, and if you have a Chrome browser, you can run through them all as a slide show simply by clicking on the first image in each photo essay.
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
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