• DickFuckarelli [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I have never been so checked out of an election cycle. Normally I get in some high quality shitposting on :reddit-logo: but even this go around - not even that. Why bother? There's was only one contest on my ballot and both candidates are total fucking ghouls.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      2 years ago

      I remember rolling up to a bar in 2014 to drink my sadness away. Tonight, I'm playing D&D with some friends and I haven't bothered to check shit.

      Gotta say, this feels like a much healthier way to live.

      • DickFuckarelli [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I know hindsight is 20/20 but it feels nearly embarrassing to think I thought anything would ever change for the better. And equally embarrassing having feelings of utter despair 2 years later when the dems would on cue get rekt.

        Knowing this is all meaningless now is very freeing, even though I still vote (usually). I feel 1000% better mentally.

        • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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          2 years ago

          I know hindsight is 20/20 but it feels nearly embarrassing to think I thought anything would ever change for the better.

          Obama was one hell of a drug, particularly to a liberalized college-brain. What's the old adage?

          If you're under 30 and you're not a liberal, you have no heart. If you're over 30 and you're still a liberal, you have no brain.

          There's a real appeal to liberalism. It plays on a kind-of naive optimism that shit is going to work out because people are fundamentally good and all our goals are reconcilable with the right technical expertise. And as you grow up, you gain all this competency and agency, and its easy to think that your personal development will mirror the rest of the world around you.

          Knowing this is all meaningless now is very freeing

          Its frustrating to me, because I felt like I had a plan when I was younger. Now that I'm older, I feel more helpless and exposed in a way I never did as a younger person.

          I do feel better not being plugged into the circus. None of the anxiety that wracked me after 2016 - literally keeping me up half the nigh just staring at the ceiling in stunned horror. Now I can just not care.

      • cawsby [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        You only live once.

        Don't waste your life being a wonky politics guy - unless that makes you happy.

    • makotech222 [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      letting go of the american electoral system has done wonders for my mental health lol.