:vote: :maybe-later-kiddo:
Being both condescending and ignorant on a platform with broad reach is pretty damn cringe, yeah
technically though you should follow complex issues, and you should vote (for the Peace and Freedom party) :gloria-rap:
This might be on several layers of irony. Often the joke is Calvin will say stuff that's correct but framed wrong or he'll say it in an annoying way. Or Calvin will represent a vehicle for frustration or spite. I read this comic as something like ironic frustration with voting, not literal.
The majority of people aren't super informed and don't vote in the USA though.
Its much easier to complain and criticize than to take the risk of deciding to do something when there isn't complete information and any failure will be hung on around your neck.
So, maybe this is less cringe than than it first seems.
of course, voting is only one of the things Calvin lists that he won't do, which includes "not follow complex issues". but any time someone says, "hey, vote also" there's always this big pushback against everything said.
"people should vote" is not the same thing as "people should only vote", but conflating the two allows one to remove what amounts to a relatively small errand once every few years and rebrand laziness as cleverness.
voting isn't cringe. if voting was completely useless, they wouldn't keep trying to stop black people from doing it. and whenever i go in to push buttons, aside from whatever spectacle big ticket BS is going on, there are about a dozen other local things going on that deserve attention.
but some people just want to be edgy and act like ignoring whatever little power they have within electoralism is The Only Real Leftism ™️
If you ever enter a polling location, you get Havana syndrome that makes you a lib.
Yeah, but really, everyone here should still vote. It's not very hard.
but any time someone says, “hey, vote also” there’s always this big pushback against everything said.
Oh yeah, there's the chunk of nay-sayers who take the term "anti-electoralism" to justify never voting in the elections of a liberal democracy.
Also, Calvin is a literal child and is repeating what big brained adults say, both with way more confidence that they deserve to have. A part of me really wants to think there's an important message in that combination.
In America you can either be pro-Ukraine war or you’re “uninformed” there’s no other option.
This comic is older than 30 years. It'd have been a dumb take back then, too, for all intents and purposes, but nowhere near as dumb as it is today
imagine unironically posting this after kansas just voted to protect abobo rights.
talk about cringe, bruh. :yikes:
nah, this is talking about a specific type of guy. not that it isn't kind of cringe, but it's not too bad
