LovingHippieCat

Where I live there used to be two gay bars. One of them held events for queer people, things like a queer adult prom for people who weren't able to go as themselves when they were teens. Or drag shows of course because that's such a fundamental part of the community. These weren't events only for queer people but they were primarily for queer people. The thing is they became more and more overrun by straight folks, including my parents and a bunch of their straight friends. So one day they changed ownership and stopped being a gay bar. Now my town only has one gay bar.

That shit fucking sucks. Come to a gay bar if you want, but you gotta understand that it's not for you. It's for queer people to have a space to be themselves without straight people judging them in some way. We use it to meet people like us, to have fun with people we can feel safe around. If you don't respect that then stay the fuck away.

This seems to be a complete misunderstanding of how the primary system works. I am saying that Bernie won West Virginia and got the majority of those delegates that could be won that day. That is winning the state. The super delegates get lumped in but they aren't a part of the same process. Bernie won WV because he got the most votes even if he didn't get the super delegates he still won the state. You could literally look at my source I provided and you'd see that he won.

I'd recommend separating the super delegates from the situation and look at it just for what the delegates were up at the time of the vote. Thats what determines who won the state.

Even better, just look around this wikipedia article to see who won what states and everything. It's all right there. I'm just repeating the literal reality of how it went down.

See now that's an actual conversation to have! Not saying that Clinton cheated and/or was always going to be the candidate but that how the media represented the race depressed turnout. That's a thing that continues to happen from the media trying to suppress progressive turnout and it often works. But those things still don't change that if those progressives hadn't been so easily suppressed and had continued to go out and fight and vote regardless of what the media said, just like trump voters did, then Bernie would have won the primary and the super delegates wouldn't have mattered. And then likely would have won versus Trump, in my opinion.

You win the majority of the delegates that were up during the primary by voting in the primary. Which Bernie did. But when the convention rolled around and Hillary was 3 million votes ahead of Bernie country wide and significantly closer to the nomination delegate threshold, the super delegates came into play to decide things. But that doesn't change that Bernie won the state. Those 8 super delegates are from West Virginia but they were only allocated at all because neither Bernie nor Hillary had reached the delegate threshold needed to win the nomination.

Nope Bernie won the state. He won and got 18 delegates and Clinton got 11. But then at the convention Clinton got the 8 super delegates from the state which put her at 19 delegates to Bernie's 18 but Bernie still won the state. Here's my source.

Ballotpedia. Doesn't do local elections everywhere but still.

Honestly they should have made something much smaller to make a name for themselves then slowly build up to something larger like a Highguard. You can't make a sort of shadow drop like they did by being "former devs" of a game when in almost all instances of that marketing has failed. It's just dumb to try and start with something as big as Highguard even disregarding the problems with the game.

Bad management all around.

I have a Substack and a Ghost (an alternative that's better in some ways and worse in others). The benefit to Substack is that growth on there is very possible with little participation in the social media like aspect they have, Notes. Ghost, meanwhile, has made growth incredibly difficult since they don't have that social media feature and you need people to actually sign up for your site instead of just clicking subscribe. It's kinda frustrating because I genuinely don't want to support Substack in any way but I write about videogames for almost 150 subscribers with continued and consistent growth and leaving that would be....annoying. What I've ended up doing is simply refusing to do any paid subscriptions through Substack so they don't get any money from me and instead have made a buy me a coffee and will eventually make a patreon.

There's also just the reality right now that most of these types of places have some Nazis on them since Nazis are now just chilling out in the open as opposed to hiding in their basements like they used to. There's only so much you can do if you want to be on the internet as a creator.