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Lmao, then you should have went to Valorant or Overwatch.

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1 point

Maybe next…

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47 points

He wants to reach out to people of voting age, not children.

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WoW came out in 2004. If I wanted to reach younger voters I would not choose a 20 year old game.

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Roblox is also 20 years old, give or take

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Man i agree with you

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Tbh Overwatch is already 8 years old. If they picked up the game as a teenager when it was most popular, chances are they can vote. While there are a lot of teens who play the game, there’s quite a large 20s demographic

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As someone who swore off WoW not for gameplay reasons, but due to appalling behavior by Blizzard management, I’m not sure I think associating your political campaign with the game is a good idea.

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I get what you’re saying, but I also can’t fault a political campaign for defaulting to the most “basic-bitch” MMO they can find for this sort of stunt. A VP who’s opinionated enough about Blizzard v. BNETD to eschew WoW is, frankly, too much to hope for.

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Drag would vote for a politician who streams Warframe

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6 points

What makes wow a basic bitch?

Also, I think they went with it because it’s popular and apparently walz has a history with it.

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-49 points

Wtf nobody under 30 is going to vote for genocide. You lost them

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32 points

the choices are genocide vs worse genocide. the choices suck, but they also shouldn’t be hard

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Nah. I choose no genocide. Wtf is wrong with you.

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That’s not something you vote for, for that you need to take to the streets. But if you can’t even be bothered to go that the 10 minutes to prevent the ‘worse genocide’ candidate taking power, I doubt you’ll do that.

You don’t need to be enthusiastic about Harris, she’ll still support Israel. But Trump literally told Israel to ‘finish the job’. Don’t pretend they’re the same.

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Your abstinence has high potentially to lead to election of the person who will objectively make the genocide worse, immediately undermining any moral stance you think you’re making.

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29 points

That isn’t on the ballot, you don’t understand first past the post do you?

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1 point

Got vote for Trump then. That’ll really prove your point.

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10 points

I’m absolutely certain that you’re entirely wrong.

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21 points

You’re right! Not sure why you’re getting downvoted. No one is going to vote for Trump who wants to melt Palestein

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10 points

You’re right about Trump, but man it still sucks we can only vote for genocide or genocide slow burn. Not that anything is really slow burn at this point anyway.

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4 points

Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.

Positive change takes time. It may take longer than you and I feel it should, but it happens.

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It does suck. And it’s ok to still vote based on the other parts of their platforms while continuing to condemn genocide.

Engage with your elected officials, your local parties, and other grassroot efforts to bring more pressure to stopping war aid to Israel. The work to change politics and policy is done between elections.

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as aoc said when arguing why you should vote for biden the first time: you’re not just voting for the person who already gives you everything you want. you’re voting for the person you will argue against, criticize, protest and try to convince to do what you want. out of the two, who do you think is less likely to respond to protests? who’s more likely to be open to dialogue, even if it’s an adversarial one?

vote for Harris, then protest the fuck out of her positions you don’t like. maybe with enough pressure you can force some change. with mango mussolini you have no chance.

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I was a Bernie or buster in 2016 and I deeply regret it. Genocide is evil and we won’t defeat it by not participating in the system.

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Participate. Vote West or Stein.

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Or De LA Cruz (PSL).

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You didn’t finish the second sentence…

“Vote West or Stein in a primary, or a general election with Rank Choice voting, otherwise you are actively contributing to the end of your Republic.”

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I realized today that Trump also has a Twitch (because it was recommended to me???) that basically just (re)streams his rallies.

Reported that shit for Hateful Conduct.

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It was pushed on my home page. I reported for inciting terrorism, and reported the twitch app on google store for political terrorism.

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47 points

Even “better”, from what I recall he had what was listed as a permanent suspension after the whole “mildly incited a tiny bit of light insurrection (/s)” thing. They unbanned him specifically for this election season.

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Yeah gotta give him a chance to do a major insurrection obviously, because that sounds like they banned him for failing the first time 🙄

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145 points

What year is it? 2004?

The median WoW player has to be at least 38.

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Yeah…

Great idea. But young voters ain’t playing WOW

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They are watching Twitch though. And what game is playing? Doesn’t seem to matter.

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139 points

38 year old adults are generally assumed to be of voting age, registered, and willing to vote. Do you think he’ll get better voter turnout from something like Roblox or Fortnite?

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4 points

I was going to find the stream and see what types are in the audience. Can’t find it.

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I can glimpse 6:30PM before the paywall blocks it, though I can’t see what timezone. Looks like EST or CST, so probably just ended and vod should be up soon somewhere?

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It’s twitch. Go on any channel with above 500-1000 viewers and it’ll all be the same. Unless it’s a super modded channel with sub-only and slow mode and shit. Even then you get quite a bit of spam

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The title says “young voters”

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Have you ever voted? Like, gone to the voting booth and voted? How about attended a caucus or primary? Because I regularly do, I’m 45, and I’m typically the youngest person in the building.

The US voting base is old as fuck.

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I think there is a new Wow, or one coming… There have been a bunch of ads about it in the last month

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One just came out. It’s pretty good, but that’s easy to say because Shadowlands set the bar very, very low.

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My bro is exactly 38 and plays WoW daily 😅 so from my perspective you can’t be far off. Apropros for people saying wow players can vote, the attempt was to reach young voters.

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3 points

I waited in line at the fountain valley fry’s.

43 here lol

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We could tell from frys

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I feel seen.

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If not older. I’m older than 38 and my guild mates are older than me.

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