KoboldCoterie

"Is my freezer the problem? No, it's every ice cream manufacturer that's wrong."

I've bought Target's store brand ice cream fairly recently and it was a perfectly normal consistency, for what it's worth. Maybe it's regional?

Everyone I want to talk to knows not to call me; I feel exactly the same. Phones used to be useful, but the sheer volume of telemarketers and scams have reduced it to uselessness. If it wasn't for 2FA occasionally requiring a phone number, I wouldn't even have one at this point.

If I were the victim of genocide, I wouldn't be a voter at all, because I'd be dead. However, that's kind of irrelevant - are you the victim of genocide? I'm assuming not, if you're voting in the US election. Even if you're Palestinian, your people are the victim of genocide, but unless you're in Palestine, you aren't.

That said, if you are Palestinian, I feel for you, I honestly do, and it would explain your view somewhat.

I think we can both agree that there's only two outcomes that're possible in this election: Trump wins, or Harris wins. (If you don't agree, I'd be happy to hear your third outcome.) If you truly believe there's no difference between the two of them, you need to do some research on the topic, because there are a lot of differences, even if they don't pertain to this issue specifically.

If, between the two of them, you hope Harris wins, a 3rd party vote is voting against your interests. If you hope Trump wins between the two of them, a 3rd party vote is still voting against your interests, because you're effectively taking a vote away from your preferred candidate among the two who could possibly win.

Edit to respond to your edit:

The outcome is the Democrats stop committing Genocide or they don’t get votes. “But Trump” isn’t even an argument.

Unless you're out there protesting, or writing letters, or making phone calls, or in some way letting them know that their policy is costing them your vote, it's a useless gesture. Posting on Lemmy isn't going to change any politician's minds. It's not even going to change anyone's mind here, in all likelihood. If you actually want to make a difference, you need to make your voice heard by the people whose minds you're actually trying to change.

I don't think it's a waste of time. Even if I can't convince him specifically, there are other people reading these posts. If someone came to this thread who was less sure, and I can change their mind, that's good enough for me.

Well, I'm not a single-issue voter.

I'm not rewarding them for anything, but I accept that it's possible to oppose one policy a politician has, even a very important one, and at the same time support a lot of other policies they have, while also vehemently opposing almost all policies that their opponent supports, and make my choice based on that information.

Based on this post, you seem to be a single-issue voter, though, so I'm trying to understand what you're hoping the outcome is. You acknowledge that a vote that supports Trump, even indirectly, is not helping the people of Gaza, so why would you vote against your own self-interests? What's your goal?

If your goal is to show opposition to what's happening in Gaza, there's much more effective ways to do that. Get out there and protest - the protests at the DNC are getting a lot of news coverage, that's where your activism could actually make a difference. Not here.

A normally blue voter voting 3rd party is indirectly helping Trump win the election. Do you think Trump's Israel policy is going to be better than Harris's?

So, what course of action are you proposing? Vote Trump? Vote 3rd party? Don't vote?

What's your intended / expected outcome?

Oh, we can see post / comment count, but that's a meaningless statistic, no? The whole point of karma - the whole thing that makes karma toxic - is that it's based on farming upvotes; it's why Reddit is a cesspool of low-effort meme comments that're engineered to gather those upvotes. Post / comment numbers can't really be hidden anyway, unless you're also proposing hiding a user's comment history... you could get a quick rough total just by checking how many pages of posts and comments there were and doing some quick multiplication.

This might just be a feature specific to the app you're using; it isn't displayed publicly on web, at least on any instance I have an account with.

I'd go so far as to say no op eds at all. If I'm paying for news, I want factual, high quality, ideally unbiased news, not some chucklefuck's opinion. I can get some chucklefuck's opinion all over the internet for free. (Case in point: You're getting it right now, for free, by reading this comment.)

Looks like MacOS and various Linux distros had a deformed, illegitimate child.

There was a poll a few weeks back that showed Michelle Obama being the most popular pick; take that with a grain of salt because we all know how biased and skewed those poll results are based on a number of factors which we can't know.

That said, I think she did a lot of great work as First Lady and I'd happily vote for her. I think she's got the potential to get people fired up and excited about the possibilities, much like Obama did, and everything else aside, that's what we really need - excitement, enthusiasm, and for people to want to get out there and vote. I think she could provide that moreso than anyone else on the list.