Its a joke. I wrote in La Riva last time and honestly cant be bothered to do anything this time. giving a fuck about voting or even how others are voting is tiring. I tried, I tried and it was fucking pointless. If I could literally send in a ballot with feces on it I would. which is why suggestions of voting down ballot but leaving president empty and shit tire me so much. I argued that shit a million times to libs and socdems in 2020. voting is not a meaningful act. While I am not going to vote for trump, jesus have some faith in me! i don't see voting as a political act at this point. Its a roll call, its out of our hands, it exists solely to make oneself feel better and to tell themselves someone else is worse. The american left cant decide between if the elections dont matter or if voting is a moral act with some level of sacredness.
You wanna get real? After 2020 im done caring about how people voted, even if people vote reactionary and are reactionary it hardly furthers their politics either way, its moving without that vote. There are differences between your Blinkens and your Boltons, and shit, but whatever horrible shit people think when voting, if it is transient, then they are reactionary either way.
If someone voting for trump for whatever reason is reactionary, then voting for Biden or Hillary for harm reduction just as much makes one a fucking mass murderer. I think BOTH are true for the record. If voting is just roll call for who wants others to know they are a "good person", then all the tactical Hillary voters might as well have implicated themselves as fine with raping Gaddafi to death with a bayonet.
I am sick of pretending the differences actually make a difference. It feels hopeless, I have no energy for thinking someone is reactionary because they shitposted about maybe voting for trump against Hillary. Its investing an importance to voting that we need to move beyond. I think people still hold a certain reverence or sanctity towards the act itself even if they couch it in hating elections. Its as important as we culturally decide it is; and when the end result is say millions of Afghan children starving either way, I hardly care about what individual voted for who.
I'd probably follow the latter half of Utah Philips advice on the 2004 election
sorry to dump all this on you, but I dont want people to get the wrong idea from a fucking shitpost, but also have a.....well a LOT of shit to say about this. Part of me feels like I should burn the Bernie shirt I bought during the election. It seems silly, but its been eating away at me
Its a joke. I wrote in La Riva last time and honestly cant be bothered to do anything this time. giving a fuck about voting or even how others are voting is tiring. I tried, I tried and it was fucking pointless. If I could literally send in a ballot with feces on it I would. which is why suggestions of voting down ballot but leaving president empty and shit tire me so much. I argued that shit a million times to libs and socdems in 2020. voting is not a meaningful act. While I am not going to vote for trump, jesus have some faith in me! i don't see voting as a political act at this point. Its a roll call, its out of our hands, it exists solely to make oneself feel better and to tell themselves someone else is worse. The american left cant decide between if the elections dont matter or if voting is a moral act with some level of sacredness.
You wanna get real? After 2020 im done caring about how people voted, even if people vote reactionary and are reactionary it hardly furthers their politics either way, its moving without that vote. There are differences between your Blinkens and your Boltons, and shit, but whatever horrible shit people think when voting, if it is transient, then they are reactionary either way.
If someone voting for trump for whatever reason is reactionary, then voting for Biden or Hillary for harm reduction just as much makes one a fucking mass murderer. I think BOTH are true for the record. If voting is just roll call for who wants others to know they are a "good person", then all the tactical Hillary voters might as well have implicated themselves as fine with raping Gaddafi to death with a bayonet.
I am sick of pretending the differences actually make a difference. It feels hopeless, I have no energy for thinking someone is reactionary because they shitposted about maybe voting for trump against Hillary. Its investing an importance to voting that we need to move beyond. I think people still hold a certain reverence or sanctity towards the act itself even if they couch it in hating elections. Its as important as we culturally decide it is; and when the end result is say millions of Afghan children starving either way, I hardly care about what individual voted for who.
I'd probably follow the latter half of Utah Philips advice on the 2004 election
sorry to dump all this on you, but I dont want people to get the wrong idea from a fucking shitpost, but also have a.....well a LOT of shit to say about this. Part of me feels like I should burn the Bernie shirt I bought during the election. It seems silly, but its been eating away at me