Who are we voting for this election?
Voting in a bourgeois democracy yada yada... But seriously if we all came together and went out to 
, who'd it be? I saw joke responses for Markiplier that seemed to gain traction on tiktok the same day, other comments here and on YouTube proposed Jill Stein(or it was just yt and my mind is playing tricks). Asking because I had had a discussion with my roommate (the other roommate that isn't the LL) and he said something along the lines of if I don't vote I don't get to complain, which i don't agree with but understand the sentiment. That and we discussed more of an importance of local elections rather than national. And idk I'm not one for caring anymore. If things were better and more hopeful I'd try but teeth hurt and it's not getting better, hair is falling out, body is weak, diet is shit, youth is gone, and I've nothing to show for it. So I definitely don't care anymore and more than likely won't participate myself unless I really see some sort of movement even then I'd probably walk into traffic before voting again.
I’m voting for Claudia de la Cruz, and I’m doing it because voting for a socialist makes me feel good.
I went back and forth on voting for La Riva or Hawkins back in 2020. I ultimately settled on Hawkins purely because it seemed smart - La Riva was on so few ballots, I was hoping the Greens would do well enough to be a spoiler (didn’t happen).
While in the end it really doesn’t matter, afterward I was kinda kicking myself for voting my head and not my heart. I often reflect on my own political journey - and how I’ve been all over the spectrum but I finally feel at home calling myself a communist, and I know this is where I’ll settle in for the rest of my life. Voting PSL - even though again, it doesn’t actually mean anything in the big picture - is like a sort of self-validation of who I am now. So I’ve been planning to vote PSL since then, and I feel very proud to do so.