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He/Him. Habitual lurker. Mostly re-share art. If you DM me I'll respond eventually but I'm usually not available to just sit and chat. Zero patience for right-wing rhetoric.
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i'm a depressive who blinks and loses an hour, my relationship model was hideously distorted by my parents being a boomer sitcom couple, and i still think this sounds like a number conjured from the darkest depths of the bad relationships depicted in the openings of hallmark movies
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for a lot of folks during those years. (Not that the pandemic is really over, but you get what I mean, I'm sure.)
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they've experienced less in total. The more novelty you can inject into your life, the more subjective time you'll experience.
I occasionally wonder if anybody is studying the monotony of the height of the pandemic as-publicly-acknowledged in this regard. I'd imagine subjective time became weird
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This has more to do with novelty experienced than with simple progression of time and age. The more you fall into routine, the more memories that are considered rote fail to get committed to memory, and the less subjective time you experience.
Younger people experience more subjective time because
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The conventional wisdom is that third-party candidates and new political parties are simply doomed to relative obscurity. Whether it has to be this way or not is hard to say, except that it has generally shaken out that way.
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Yep yep, glad to have been helpful and/or informative. I'm not a Green Party person so I can't give you a closer gander, but I've known people who are; the one I'd point you at if they were active here seems to have remained on twitter, though.
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As I've had to say a lot in the last decade effective enemy action has to be treated as enemy action, so this whole dynamic results in a lot of finger-pointing and growing anger/tension.
There are purposes that aren't just 'oh they want Trump to win', though.
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an election and it turns into a circular feedback loop.
At any rate, third parties aren't strictly pointless because of the ideological homelessness thing, but the felt effect of Green Party folks (to continue using that example) not voting Democratic instead could effectively lose an election.
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that they won't cross and so they drift towards spoilers that won't win because they're not gonna get what they want either way.
I doubt every person who votes Green Party would've otherwise voted Democratic, but the hypothetical/presumed drain on Democrats is significant enough to make or break
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polar in a way that doesn't really reflect actual policy preferences that well. If you're a leftist, you don't really have a home to speak of; the Democratic party wants/expects your vote but won't actually do a whole lot to pursue policy that you want.
Lot of folks drawing lines in the sand
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As I understand it, the number of votes that a third party gets can determine whether or not that party gets easy ballot and funding access. I don't know the particulars of it, but I know the folks interested in the Green Party want to legitimize it more.
Beyond that... the United States is