Never Have To Vote Again


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31 thoughts on “Never Have To Vote Again”

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      1. It is slightly different navigating Substack but not insurmountable … I just have to decide whether I want to try something new AGAIN. There is always something new out there to try. Currently enjoying a creek in the woods and listening to Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s “Ripplin’ Waters”. I like the sound of water flowing over rocks … the start of this song!!!!

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      4. I can’t find comments in the comment section, for starters. I like having conversations with people. I read something and it sticks in my mind. I work it out then i reply. On Word Press I have no trouble going back into a blogger’s post, and starting up a new conversation. Substack doesn’t work like that. Maybe I just don’t know how to use it right, but I’m too busy to search things out. Once they are lost, they are lost to me!
        The other thing is I am not down with is making money by charging people to be have to pay to make comments. It is my outlook on life that such things should be free. I don’t blog to make money, I blog to reach out to people, and invite them to have conversations, even as we are doing right now. Not all Substackers charge for the privilege, but I am not a capitalist. I believe in “free speech” in every sense of the word free.
        For those who want to charge, that is their privilege. I am not one of them, nor will I support any who are. It goes against my whole philosophy on life.
        I do not want an srgument either, I do not like arguments. But I do like giving my opinions, and I love conversations. This is me — I cannot be anyone else.

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      5. There are more comments at Substack than there are here. I’m sorry but I don’t know why you can’t find them because there at the bottom of the blog.
        Also…THERE IS NO CHARGE TO COMMENT. Where did you get this idea and how when you said you can’t “find the comments?” Maybe you’re thinking that you need to subscribe to comment, but there’s also not a charge to subscribe.
        Seriously, don’t try to describe until you understand it. You’re going to state something false, like you just did, and scare people off from it.

        I know you don’t want an argument but don’t make false claims about the outlet I’m trying to make a living with.

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      6. It is not false for me, Clay. I tried for a year to find my way around. I know where the comments are. On some blogs you do have to pay for them. There were many blogs I read that would not let me comment.
        What I was looking for were specific comments, but the way they are presented you either reply to them right away or not at all.
        Maybe things have changed, naybe they worked the bugs out. I won’t be back to find out.
        I have every right to my opinion, by the way.

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      7. Certainly you have every right to your opinion but you don’t have a right to your own facts.

        You don’t have to pay to comment on my blog. Stop stating here that you do.
        And reading your comments that Google won’t let you create a new password tells me that you’re not very good at managing your way around the internet.

        To everyone else, DO NOT LISTEN TO RAWGOD ABOUT HOW ANYTHING WORKS EVER.

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      9. Initially, I signed up with Substack as a free user a week or two ago. Substack has emailed all of Clay’s cartoon notifications to me with no problem. Yesterday, I signed up as a paid user. Substack successfully emailed a receipt and a welcome, as well as Ann Telnaes’ notifications to me, no problem.

        When I try to log in, however, that’s a different story. I don’t remember the free account having asked for a password, and I have no record of one. When I try to sign in, I can’t give it a password, so the other option is for Substack to email me a new password request. Fine and dandy . . . except that suddenly it doesn’t seem to know who I am, just insofar as being able to sign in. I still receive notifications for Clay and Ann. Over the past two days, I’ve tried to get my hands on a new password request at least a dozen times. My email address has no typos. The notifications are not going into my Spam folder. I can still go to Substack and see the cartoons and read the blog, but dammit . . . I’d like to be able to “like” what people are saying (or not), and to make comments myself at some point. I will try dealing with their Bot again tomorrow in the hopes that there is a better response on a weekday. *Le sigh!*

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      10. I’m sorry that’s happening to you, Deb. I had to reset my password so I could use it on my devices other than my computer. I don’t know what to tell you. I’ve had the same complaints about WP. Maybe Google your problem. There may be a Reddit answer. Let me know if you get it worked out.

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      11. I have that problem with Apple and Google.To get on some sites I need to go through either google or apple. I joined google so long ago i cannot remember if I gave them a password, but it won’t let me get a new one. On the other hand, Apple tells me I do not exist. I cannot find a way to make them believe i am me.
        And I don’t have any 6 year-olds around to teach me how!

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      12. To clarify for some of you – I’m a subscriber to several blogs on Substack, some paid and some unpaid. Some of those blogs allow you to comment even if you don’t pay for the subscription and some don’t allow it. Even if you can’t comment, you can still read the comments of others and they are often fascinating. The prices are different for some bloggers than for others. I don’t know if each writer chooses their own fees to charge or what. Yes, there’s a learning curve, but for me it was pretty short. I found it well-worth it to spend some time playing around with the system in order to figure out how it works. There’s a wealth of amazing content there – Joyce Vance, E. Jean Carroll, Jeff Tiedrich, Andy Borowitz, Ruth Ben-Ghiat (sp?), Mary J. Trump, and many, many more that are entertaining and informative! Like this page, you get used to seeing the same people there and it starts to feel like ‘home’ very soon. Sort of like going to Cheers Bar. (NORM!) In a world were so many people are at odds with one another, it’s nice to go somewhere where you can feel supported – and sometimes even get an alternative perspective on things – without leaving home.

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      13. Thank you, Mary.
        Yes, the writers select their price plans. I copied Jack Ohman’s as I felt that was fair for everyone, which is $8 a month. But most of the content is free, at least for now. That includes the cartoon (which I still post here), blogs, and comments. I did my first blog last week for paid subscribers only, and it was just three roughs.
        I’m still on the learning curve but I can assure you, commenting is free on my Substack.

        Thanks again, Mary. Your clarity on this is appreciated.
        Clay

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      14. Thank you, Mary, you explained it better than I did. I just don’t bel8eve in anyone having to pay From all the blogs you gentioned, if you have to psy for even hslf of them, that is quite the bill., especially monthly, for what should be offered for free. That is my opinion.

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      15. Why should my work be offered for free?

        You say you’re entitled to your opinion, so state your opinion on why everything you want should be free?

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      16. Not everything I want is free. Ever. But since you asked:
        I just think what people can offer other people to help them enjoy their lives, to improve their lives, to make changes in their lives, or just to share their experience should not be a matter of “available only to those who can afford to pay.”
        If someone has a good message, give it away. Sow it like seeds, so that it can grow everywhere, not just in special places.
        Our society puts far too much emphasis on getting paid for everything they do. It is sad enough there are people who cannot afford to live in beautiful houses surrounded by beautiful things. But it us even sadder that the less someone can afford means they often have to go without something that could help them.
        Ideas cost nothing to create. Be a good citizen — share what you have so everyone can benefit!

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      18. Bloggers should make their mohey by doing their daily jobs or, professions, just like everyone else. You, Clay, are in s unique profession, you live by selling your work. Most people do not. But even so, since I have no idea how much you make to survive on, do you really want to live by what you can nake charging subscriptions to your readers? Charge $10 bucks once a year or something if you are that hard up for cash, you will get more subscribers by charging less. Charging $8 a month adds up not only for you to receive it, but for those who have to pay it. This may not seem like a burden to you, but the people who most need comic felief in their lives are the people who can least afford to pay. They already feel like 2nd or 3rd class citizens. By charging for subscriptions you might be taking their voices away — that is what people like Robert Reich and Heather Cox Richardson are effectively doing. You can read their blogs for free, but to take part in the conversations that costs $5 s month, every month. People on fixed incomes — the poor, the disabled, senior citizens, they can’t afford that! But how do they feel when they sre silenced?
        I will crerit Robert Reich, he is willing to give away free subscriptions to people who cannot afford them, but others like HCR are not.
        How would you feel if you could could not add words to your toons because you are charged different rates to create the toons, but then add text. That would be the reverse of reading a post but not being able to comment.
        This is what Substack does. It turns free speech into a matter of privilege. Not all bloggers on Substack ask a reader to subscribe in order to communicate, but many do.
        To me it feels like the Go Fund Me site.They take a percentage of evegy dollar people give to help out other people in need. By now the owners of Go Fund Me have made millions upon millions by providing a service to the needy. Are they ever going to give away those services for the cost of doing business. I doubt it. They don’t need to charge percentages anymore, they’ve made enough money to live on for the rest of their lives. They don’t need more. The people who are being funded, they are the ones eho need more. And the people who are generous enough to help them, not all their money is getting to where it is needed. Go Fund Me is a pimp, living off the avails of other people’s misfortunes.
        Our society is SICK!
        There are bloggers on Substack who could use finacial help, presumably you are one of them. I cannot afford to help you, but others can. Good for them. I can still comment (so far) on Word Press, for however long you publish your toons there, for which I thank you. I like your toons and I like to be able to comment. But if you were to move exclusively to Substack I would stop following you.
        It is my nature to take some small part in what is going on. If I cannot comment, what is the use of reading your toons. I need to be able to participate.
        You seem to think I am some kind of troll or something, but I am not. I am fighting for those in similar situations to me, those to whom $8 a month would mean going without something else. Every dollar has to be accounted for. And there are millions of us in this world. Luckily I live in North America, I already have privileges bullt into my life — other people in other places do not have even those privileges. They are the ones who, if they can afford the internet, need your daily humour (as political as it mostly is) even more than me. Humour is a choice for me, I can live without it. Too many people on this planet need it wherever they can get it. They don’t have a voice — I DO! So I use it.

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      19. I do not think you are a troll, but I do think you’re unrealistic and a bit ignorant about this subject.

        First, get over this whole free speech thing. You don’t have free speech on privately owned platforms. For example, the speech you have here on my website is a privilege. The Constitution doesn’t provide you a right to free speech on Twitter, Threads, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, etc, etc. In fact, you don’t even live in this nation so yeah, it doesn’t apply to you.

        You write that bloggers should give their work away for free and survive off their daily jobs. This is my daily job. This is not a hobby and I’m insulted that you think it’s easy enough to do what I do that you believe I could have this sort of output in quantity and quality in my spare time.

        Again, you don’t know what you’re talking about and you’re disrespecting me.

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      20. Read what I wrote again. I did not disrespect you. I called your profession unique. If anyone was disreapected, it was me. But I don’t care. I am used to that.

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  4. I thought having people never vote again was a major part of the US Republican ideology even before MAGA took over. Why exercise voter suppression tactics in certain parts of the country otherwise?

    That there are people who would willingly give up their rights to vote makes me wonder if they really understand what is at stake. Sure, they can still hug their guns when they need comfort but how long will they be able to enjoy that luxury given the fact that their messiah WAS recently shot at by a registered Republican.

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  5. Clay, I am also unable to like commenters’ posts or to post myself on Substack. When I try to like a comment, I get the message “Subscribe to like this comment”. When I try to comment myself, it brings up a window to “Create your profile”. When I fill in the requested profile info and click to save/post, red print appears that reads “Please login”.

    I’m already a subscriber (free account initially, paid subscription currently). It won’t let me log in. When I get the email titled “Finish Signing in to Claytoonz” and then click on “Sign in now,” a new tab opens with the message:

    “This site can’t be reached
    email.mg-tx1.substack.com unexpectedly closed the connection.”

    I receive every other form of email from Substack, but this is bedeviling me. I ran into similar problems with Word Press. Long story short, I had to create another Word Press account using a different email. I could do that here with Substack, but I’m not sure whether my existing paid subscription would roll over to my secondary email, or just remain in limbo with my primary email.

    Just to recap, I can’t log in to Substack. I can’t like comments, and I can’t post comments. Despite asking for the “Create a new password” email link multiple times, I never receive one. So I’m just puzzled. I am pleased to support your content in any event.

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    1. That is bedeviling and unfortunately, I have no control over that, but I’ll do some research and see what I can do. I’ll start with the help section.

      Thank you for your support.

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    2. First thing, check your spam folders for the emails. I had to create a new one too shortly after I built my Substack. Other than that, send me your user name and email. You can send it to me privately at claytoonz.com. I’m talking to Substack about this.

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      2. Thanks, Clay. I’ve checked my Spam folder repeatedly, right from the start. Nothing has been diverted there, over multiple instances.

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      3. Oh, I’ve also dealt with the chat Bot. I have to say, it’s much better than other Bots I’ve encountered, but eventually I just ran outta gas (it was late in the day). It hadn’t gotten to the point where it would give me a human to speak with, but it did ask whether I wanted it to look into the situation further, which I responded “yes” to about three times during the course of that interaction. By then it was quite late at night, and I intended to pursue that the next day, but . . . as I said, I ran out of gas. I much prefer dealing with humans, LOL! I’ll go ahead and send you my info privately.

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