During the 2020 election, I stayed up all night researching all the different local candidates. Like literally I was up at 4 am and drove to my local rec center to put the ballot in the ballot box
by the way, all of them suck. some of the positions had 0 opposition and when you look up the candidate, there's no information about who they are, what they do, what they've done, and what their stances are
Joined the military.
After Trump got elected I bought and read 1984 lmao.
I also used to write Harry Potter fanfiction.
fanfiction is okay
harry potter tho... there exists a mega based harry potter fanfiction. one that rivals any works in existence.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9655837/1/Harry-Potter-Becomes-A-Communist
I wrote Harry Potter fanfiction too. Wrote some really sapphic shit about veelas and revolutions that I don’t regret.
I had a similar situation happen to me, but more personal.
My girlfriend at the time told me that if I didn't vote for :hillary-disgust: then she could no longer associate with me. So, despite all my protests, I begrudgingly went and voted for her.
That girlfriend turned about to be abusive as fuck (lied to me about her age for years, among other secrets), which was not a shock at all.
I did that in 2020 and pissed literally everyone off that I knew regardless of their party
:PSL: :peltier-laugh:
Vote totals aren't going to matter to PSL quite so much unless they break through to the same level as the Libertarians and Greens. You can make a meaningful protest vote by voting for anyone outside the two main parties.
Involvement is much more crucial to the PSL at this stage than votes.
thought ron paul was cool in 2008 for wanting to end the 9/11 wars and the war on drugs for the wrong reasons
voted for obama twice
voted for obama twice
You're alright in my book :obama-spike:
I liked Ron Paul's recent delaying of funds to Ukraine. If you consider the role of the western left to be that we must hinder the imperial machine in it's fight against communism abroad then Ron Paul is pretty ok
Take for example the Plymouth Communist party they may never have achieved much success in Britian but they did prevent literal tonnes of guns and steel from being shipped to the Kuomintang during the Chinese Communist parties struggle with them
Take for example the Plymouth Communist party they may never have achieved much success in Britian but they did prevent literal tonnes of guns and steel from being shipped to the Kuomintang during the Chinese Communist parties struggle with them
Brilliant, I'd never heard of that before.
I see people moaning about video game and tv show media here that from an outsider's perspective would make you think that's the only pressing concern at the moment, but in reality are just whining that people like X treats instead of Y treats, forgetting that in the words of the almighty Anita Sarkeesian:
It's both possible, and even necessary, to simultaneously enjoy media while also being critical of its more problematic or pernicious aspects.
And the reason why you're being called a joyless scold is because you take every opportunity to whine about media and the fights you've had on this website over and over again. Media criticism isn't praxis and no one cares that you don't like the Avengers, or Gambo Thrones, or Star Wars.
Shut the fuck up already
I think they are rightfully uncomfortable about the problematic aspects, but instead of yknow checking to see if other people are okay or not with the aspects, they go around evangelizing on points everyone is already aware of.
Like yeah no shit superhero movies are liberal capitalist analogues....what do you want to do about it besides moan about it?
On the one hand I think you're totally right but on the other I aslo think we'll be needing another talk about capeshit within a week or two because of chuds losing their shit over Black Panther 2 and libs leaning even harder into using Wakanda as their analogy for :ukkkraine:
:anita-sarkeesian:
hell yes we stan (I mean this sincerely and am drunk rn)
Have you considered that it’s also possible to simply not like something anymore because you’re aware of how dumb it is after changing worldviews?
Sure, but I think their point is that evangelizing about it really isn't going to do much
I really have developed a deep seated hatred for Marvel schlock but I don't go around chiding those that do, I just avoid it
extremely fucked up and lib you didn’t drone strike kissinger
During the primaries I don't spend literal hours researching, but I do spend like an hour or two just going through all the candidates hoping to find a morsel of information on their actual policies. This year I just went by endorsements and if they had an endorsement from some police shit, they were immediately out. Nobody has policy positions or goals beyond vague "I'll do good."
As for the most lib thing I've done, I used to do the whole "communism works on paper, but when you account for human nature it doesn't work and is inherently worse."
I used to do that. Now I just vote straight D when I can be arsed to vote.
"this person probably doesn't want to throw immigrants into a trash compactor"
I feel like that's far too much to ask from democrats.
If I can get "This person, if elected, probably won't summon SS Zombies to complete the Lament Configuration and finally build the Torment Nexus in the next 2-4 years" I consider that an electoral win.
seriously, it’s embarrassing. If I can vote for someone that just won’t murder us while we organize, then fine.
That's basically my voting strategy. "If this guy gets elected theres a good chance we'll get another two years to organize before the death squads come".
Voting for democrats is lib, especially when they sent $50 billion to Ukrainian Nazis and are disgusted by the mere existence of communists.
I went to Obama’s first inauguration.
I also recently rediscovered a Facebook messenger exchange with someone I knew in college from like fifteen years ago. In the exchange I maintained that communism only works on paper and that Cuba was doomed to collapse. I had totally forgotten I had ever written or thought this. Lesson being: you all may have done incredibly lib things which you can’t even remember.
I also won elections as a democrat. I resigned when I saw my fellow democrats cracking jokes with Nazis. Don’t vote for democrats—ever. They don’t want your vote. You embarrass them, and they would erase you from existence right now if they could.
