Tim Walz Rally Goes Live on World of Warcraft Twitch Stream
www.wired.com
This is the latest chapter of the Kamala Harris campaign’s effort to reach young male voters.
    • L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works
      140·
      24 days ago

      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?

        • throbbing_banjo@lemmy.world
          28·
          23 days ago

          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.

          • zod000@lemmy.ml
            3·
            23 days ago

            When I lived in FL, I swear I was the only one voting that wasn’t retired.

          • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
            3·
            23 days ago

            I first voted when I was 18. Younger people vote when you give them a candidate that actually speaks to their needs. If we had West and Stein on the national debate stage, I’m sure we’d have more young voters.

              • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
                3·
                23 days ago

                I mean the greatest threat to the future is the climate crisis and nuclear arsenals. Both of those require dismantling the military industrial complex.

                Harris has doubled down on continuing to extract carbon and spending on the military.

                But those are just the existential threats

                • forrcaho@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  23 days ago

                  I hear you, but please still get out and vote for Harris/Walz this November. This is about keeping the infrastructure of representative democracy in place so we will be able to work towards those needed changes. If Trump wins, all that is going away, and those of us guilty of thought crimes such as believing in global warming will end up in prison at best.

        • L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works
          8·
          24 days ago

          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?

        • nyctre@lemmy.world
          1·
          24 days ago

          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

    • SassyRamen@lemmy.world
      9·
      24 days ago

      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.

  • ObsidianZed@lemmy.world
    124·
    24 days ago

    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.

    • neoman4426@fedia.io
      47·
      24 days ago

      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.

      • recentSloth43@lemmy.world
        9·
        23 days ago

        Yeah gotta give him a chance to do a major insurrection obviously, because that sounds like they banned him for failing the first time 🙄

    • recentSloth43@lemmy.world
      6·
      23 days ago

      It was pushed on my home page. I reported for inciting terrorism, and reported the twitch app on google store for political terrorism.

  • peopleproblems@lemmy.world
    72·
    24 days ago

    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.

  • Dagnet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    24 days ago

    Ngl, if a politician goes 5/9M on stream, I might just vote for them, 100% chance if they are the raid leader

  • ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    16·
    24 days ago

    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.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      24 days ago

      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.

  • Godric@lemmy.world
    16·
    23 days ago

    I saw that. For the first time, I saw that Kamala Harris was live in my recommended channels, instead of Donald Trump, who is live every other day.

    They’ve a lot of time and some viewers to make up, but it’s a good start.

      • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        24 days ago

        WoW came out in 2004. If I wanted to reach younger voters I would not choose a 20 year old game.

          • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            23 days ago

            Well reading through the article I actually dont agree with myself anymore if WoW is what he was good at and he was streaming. The headline made it sound like he just picked a game and launched it. Yeah, if you want people to see you play then pick something you are good at with the most players. I still believe WoW is too old for an actual “young” demographic. Once again that would be Apex Legends or something for 18-26 year olds. WoW is going to net you mid to late 30s at the youngest on average.

      • wellheh@lemmy.sdf.org
        1·
        23 days ago

        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

        • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          18·
          23 days ago

          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.

          • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
            4·
            23 days ago

            lol. Don’t make such absurd assumptions. I’ve been Palestine to work for peace there. But, unlike you, I cast my vote to align with my values, activism, and work.

            • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
              7·
              23 days ago

              That’s great, I’m sure you’re doing important work! But on the ballot in November there are three options:

              • Vote for a party that will continue the genocide.
              • Vote for a party that will accelerate and expand the genocide.
              • Don’t vote.

              Not voting helps boost republicans, low turnout always has. With the broken FPTP system, voting third party is equivalent to not voting.

              The Palestinian cause will unfortunately not be won on the ballot anytime soon. I don’t know about you, but for me, the moral satisfaction of not having voted for the Dems is not worth throwing immigrants, gay and trans people, reproductive rights, muslims and other marginalized groups under the bus. And with Project 2025 they’ve made it abundantly clear what’s at stake.

              I’m no US citizen, but if I was, I’d vote for Harris in a heartbeat. I’d curse the Dems name for the genocide they’re enabling while doing so. But the lives of queer people and immigrants are more important than my moral satisfaction.

              As it stands, I’ll continue going to protests, supporting boycotts and as much as I can for Palestine over here, before I’ll vote for a German party next year that won’t free Palestine either. My government is sadly just as guilty as yours, and just like you I don’t have a viable party with a strong anti-genocide stance. But I’ll not cynically vacate the stage for fascists.

              • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
                4·
                23 days ago

                This is misinformation. There are candidates on the ballot that are opposed to the genocide.

                Also, you literally have a Parliament in Germany and you’re still choosing to fuck over the Palestinians?

                • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
                  6·
                  23 days ago

                  To your edit, what would you have me do? I’m asking honestly. At the moment, I’m voting for the most left wing party on the ballot, but even they are lukewarm when it comes to Palestine. There is no party with a pro Palestine stance.

                  For the EU election there was, and I’ve voted for them. I hate electoralism as much as the next gal, but what can we do as individuals?

                • SemioticStandard@lemmy.world
                  5·
                  23 days ago

                  Third party candidates are unfortunately not an option, and you know they aren’t. You and people like you are either arguing in bad faith, or you’re too disconnected with reality to know that you’re arguing in bad faith. By throwing your vote away with a third party, you are playing directly into the Republican’s playbook.

                  Congrats, you’re Trump’s tool.

            • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
              5·
              23 days ago

              If this is in any way true, then you need to know that you are doing extensive damage to the future of the Palestinian people by convincing people to vote for anyone other than Harris (or to not vote at all).

              I’m certain you know this, and it’s been explained to you over and over and over (which is why I’m skeptical about your motives), so I’m not going to spell it out for you again.

              But those people you allegedly worked with in Palestine will be dead in less than 6 months if Donald Trump wins.

              In spite of all your whinging about “moral high ground,” the practical, real life, reality when the dust settles, would be that you played a direct (and not inconsequential) role in their murders. No abstraction needed.

              So if (when) you refuse to accept this reality, I have to assume that nothing you say is in good faith, and that what I just described is the outcome that you desire.

        • Vespair@lemm.ee
          13·
          23 days ago

          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.

    • BigBenis@lemmy.world
      33·
      24 days ago

      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.

    • SassyRamen@lemmy.world
      23·
      24 days ago

      You’re right! Not sure why you’re getting downvoted. No one is going to vote for Trump who wants to melt Palestein

      • kurwa@lemmy.world
        12·
        24 days ago

        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.

        • pyre@lemmy.world
          17·
          24 days ago

          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.

        • littlewonder@lemmy.world
          15·
          24 days ago

          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.

        • whoisearth@lemmy.ca
          5·
          23 days ago

          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.