Man I might be imagining things, but I’m pretty sure he played it back in the 00s. I remember him saying something about 40-man raids and leadership when he was talking to a group of high school seniors about voting.
This was right at the time he was campaigning for his first term in Congress, and I doubt it was recorded anywhere. It still makes me chuckle thinking this guy is running for VP.
“Mr. Walz what is your position on student loan forgiveness?”
“Stop DOTs”
“Interesting. What do you think the escalating border issues?”
“Many whelps. Handle it.”
Minus 50 DKP for Trump
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.
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.
What year is it? 2004?
The median WoW player has to be at least 38.
I think there is a new Wow, or one coming… There have been a bunch of ads about it in the last month
I feel seen.
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.
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?
The title says “young voters”
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.
I was going to find the stream and see what types are in the audience. Can’t find it.
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
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?
Yeah…
Great idea. But young voters ain’t playing WOW
Do kids still do WoW? I assumed it’d be all parent aged folks by now
Article on Waltz’s gaming history…
You know what just occurred to me, Waltz might actually be on the other tail of WoW players if he picked it up in the early 2000’s. He might actually be decent at the game.
Walz
Yep. I have a relative his age or even a bit older who’s been a WoW fanatic since release.
If I was going to pick a high profile stream, I’d sandbag for a game I’m good at.
It’s not like they want to pander to 14 year olds, who historically have pretty low turnout
Children never show up to vote, that’s why they keep losing their rights.
It is.
Yeah well, they need to vote too. Hope it went well
Yeah, I’d guess the average age is probably ~30-35+ years old. There are probably some younger kids that play, but I’d be surprised if they represented more than a marginal amount of the overall playerbase.
Wtf nobody under 30 is going to vote for genocide. You lost them
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.
the choices are genocide vs worse genocide. the choices suck, but they also shouldn’t be hard
Nah. I choose no genocide. Wtf is wrong with you.
ok, how?
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.
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.
That isn’t on the ballot, you don’t understand first past the post do you?
You’re right! Not sure why you’re getting downvoted. No one is going to vote for Trump who wants to melt Palestein
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.
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.
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.
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.
I’m absolutely certain that you’re entirely wrong.
“How can you kill that which has no life?”
This is one of my top two episodes!!!
“How do you kill… that which has no life?” Is one of the best lines.
I thought you were great in it!
Zing.
Well here’s some fun info for ya
Oh hey, it’s Pirate Software’s dad.
I haven’t really seen much of South Park, but heard Thor talking about this. Is this actually the character they designed around his dad?
Yup
Twist: Tim Walz is Leeroy Jenkins
‘least I have a chicken in every pot’
Instant vote for him. That is some presidential behavior. I’d love to finally have a progressiveish president that just tries to get shit done.
The Dean Scream of Wow. Only it got him more famous and traction.
As long as we got someone crunching the numbers, I’m cool with there being a Leroy Jenkins to ignore the stats.
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.
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.
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.
Drag would vote for a politician who streams Warframe
Ngl, if a politician goes 5/9M on stream, I might just vote for them, 100% chance if they are the raid leader
If he can get 40 randos into the same instance in under 30 minutes and kill the boss, an entire country is nothing.
What is 5/9M?
Kill 5 bosses out of the 9 total in a raid dungeon in the mythic difficulty
What’s his build?
Demo-lock to trigger the weirdos.
Lmao, then you should have went to Valorant or Overwatch.
Maybe next…
He wants to reach out to people of voting age, not children.
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
WoW came out in 2004. If I wanted to reach younger voters I would not choose a 20 year old game.
Man i agree with you
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