Gramsci wrote:It’s DC so he has plenty of room for luxury opinions. Harris will win by 20%.AdamN wrote: Thu Oct 24, 2024 3:09 pm Ian MacKaye has always said that he votes for the candidate that he thinks is less likely to start a new war.
So he's abstaining.
Never mind that Ian MacKaye, admirable as his ethics and stances on many other things are, might be something like the Bono of punk rock. (I should know, b/c daily life in my own NYC cultural bubble also probably won't change a ton either way b/c of the presidential election.)Gramsci wrote:Ah, the 90s… remember how simple life was…penningtron wrote: Fri Oct 25, 2024 6:51 am Can we also admit that Ian quote (from like.. 1995 btw) is kind of dumb?
But I've always thought that heeding a rock musician's political advice is about as useful as caring about a sculptor or a plumber's take on same.
Or, as the late Will Shatter (whose political opinions I also had little faith in) once put it: "Rock musicians are even worse than your teachers and your priests/They suck up your dreams for sex and rebellion/You made them God and they give you back nothing." (Ok, not so much "sex" in ol' Ian's case, at least not back in the day, but... Heh.)
Then again, of course I'd say that. I'm a shut-up-and-play kinda dude at heart.
Anyway, Harris seems to either be losing most polls by a nose right now or tied w/Trump.
I'm also a bit concerned that Trump is doing actually better than we think, as both the 2016 and 2020 numbers underestimated support for him, probably b/c a lot of people aren't as keen on admitting that they dig him (or that they'd throw the whole fuckin' country away over a tax cut or not loving the migrant situation in their community).