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sgoodwin4813:
--- Quote from: wordplanet on May 13, 2020, 17:27 ---There’s a company that sells spices that took a stand against T after the election. They knew it was risky but without shareholders they were free to express their views and I personally agreed with their stance and support them.
Free speech has been under attack from the current administration so I value companies willing to speak out. I might come up with some photos to submit for this challenge.
Biden wasn’t my first, second or even my third choice, but I plan to do what I can to actively help him get elected. I’ve been voting for 44 years now (every year, local, school board, all of it not just every 4 years). It has never felt so important. As I hear of more people dying, some I know, most I don’t, in a country in chaos with no overall plan, people going hungry, the rule of law turned on its head, I’d be ashamed not to speak up. I love my country and I want it back
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I've been buying spices from that company for decades, especially since they put in a store about an hour away. Apparently I wasn't paying attention because I wasn't really aware of their political views, although I am not surprised. They were expecting to take up to a 30% loss but instead their business increased. Not surprised by that either - people of a particular political persuasion in general probably don't buy too many exotic spices, so they gained more customers than they lost.
You and I have been voting for the same amount of time - I was just old enough to vote in the 1976 presidential election. Since then I have voted in every election available in four states - yesterday I mailed back my ballot for my state's primary election next month. My preferred candidates rarely get elected - especially where I now live - but if you don't vote then you can't complain about the outcome either. I hope you get your country back.
wordplanet:
Absolutely agree. Thanks for replying.
My first election was for president in 1976 too - I voted by absentee ballot in my first 4 elections since I was away in college in different states (3 years in Massachusetts, one in California - I've always been a New Yorker) - When I used a voting machine at age 22 in 1980 for the first time, I had to ask them how it worked!
Hope we get our country back - for everyone's sake. This division isn't good for anyone, no matter their politics.
I remember watching Nixon resign with some of my friends (around age 16) and one said that's why she never planned to vote, in case she made a mistake. I urged her to reconsider - telling her it is a privilege that people have fought and died for, not something we should abandon. Even if you make a mistake (like voting for Anderson in protest - a mistake I made years later and which I rue to this day), it's important to vote and to make your voice heard, and to learn from your mistakes and do better next time, never give up or the other side wins by default. Democracy is a privilege and we should never become complacent. Being informed and choosing the best candidate on the slate, even if he or she is not the one we would like in the best of all possible worlds, is a duty we owe to ourselves and our fellow citizens.
marthamarks:
--- Quote from: sgoodwin4813 on May 14, 2020, 08:35 ---
You and I have been voting for the same amount of time - I was just old enough to vote in the 1976 presidential election. Since then I have voted in every election available in four states - yesterday I mailed back my ballot for my state's primary election next month.
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Good for you both!
And BTW, I've got you beat in the voting department by 8 years… and probably more in actual years.
That's because my first year eligible to vote was 1968… and we still had to be 21 then. By the time you two came along, if I'm not mistaken, Congress had lowered the voting age to 18.
So, by using a complicated, super-sophisticated mathematical formula, I conclude that I'm likely leading you by 8 + 3… or 11 actual years. ;D
marthamarks:
--- Quote from: LinaCo on September 16, 2020, 12:18 ---thanks, this is very useful information! I can't wait to be able to use it in practice.
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One never knows what one will learn when one reads one's way through an old thread here.
Glad you found our lighthearted self-amusement worth trudging through all the way to the (obviously worthless-to-you) end! :D
ShadySue:
--- Quote from: PaulieWalnuts on May 08, 2020, 12:31 ---I'm not familiar with the company. How do you feel about companies taking this firm of a position in politics? Reading further into this shows it's not really about supporting Biden but removing Trump. Would you continue to support them if they firmly were against your preferred candidate? What if it was one of the top three micros wanting to get rid of Biden?
I have a feeling this will quickly go off the rails into hate but I wanted to see if we could have some debate on companies openly trying to influence elections.
https://www.featureshoot.com/2020/04/introducing-photographersforbiden-a-new-project-by-feature-shoot/
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Likewise, Scientific American has come out for Biden, which is really a position against Trump's anti-science stance.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/16/prestigious-us-science-journal-breaks-with-tradition-to-back-biden
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