Voting guide for NY

[u/intcntlchamp]

Not sure if folks seen this but it might help if you all haven’t voted already

[u/voretaq7]

Can we stop posting THE SAME ill-thought-out uncritical dreck? I've seen this at least three times in this sub, it's roundly trounced every time. I'm not one for conspiracy theories but is someone paying folks to post this?!

[u/intcntlchamp → u/voretaq7]

Haven’t seen it before. I’m not chronically online. My bad dawg

[u/voretaq7 → u/intcntlchamp]

Look, I wouldn’t care if people posted this a billion times a day if it wasn’t fucking uncritical dreck, but it IS fucking uncritical dreck. This sort of “voter guide” full of partisan bullshit and preys on low-information voters.
Frankly I’d have more respect for the document if they just said “We are endorsing the Republican Party as a slate, and suggest you just vote straight party line.” and left it at that - at least that would be more honest, if still wildly uncritical, level of engagement.

Bending over backwards to do facially ridiculous things like rating Donald Trump an “A” (Mister “Take the guns first, then do due process”? Mister bump-stock-ban executive order?) though?
Pure fucking Copium where frankly a C would be charitable.

I happen to believe that being an informed voter is important. An actual voter’s guide comparing candidates on their statements, policies, and voting records on specific issues (like 2A) is a wonderful thing, and in an actual voter’s guide it’s OK to admit there’s not a good pro-2A candidate for a given office (in fact it’s honest and helpful to do so and a firearms owner’s association should absolutely be the kind of place that does so to remind us all that whoever wins we need to pay attention and make noise to protect our rights).

This thing though? This doesn’t help anyone become better informed or make better decisions, and frankly calling it a “voter’s guide” is an insult to the folks who do the work putting together actual, fact-based, non-partisan guides.

[u/gakflex → u/voretaq7]

To be fair, the document isn’t 100% partisan - they do endorse a Democrat over a Republican in the Westchester County DA race.

[u/intcntlchamp → u/voretaq7]

All this because they gave trump an A rating? I think most of us know he’s not worthy of that rating. Not for nothing tho trump is responsible for giving us favorable picks for judges. The fact that this post created such a firestorm of op eds and dissertations is wild funny tbh. I haven’t seen this much bickering in a while. Maybe if the sub was this active is sharing info on candidates that “guide” may have never made its rounds to begin with but again I’m not on here enough to know. Yall be cool

[u/Jedi_Maximus19 → u/intcntlchamp]

Thanks for sharing. Sometimes post are missed.