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  • Always astonishing to me that I am either being cut lightly a thousand times or fucking gutted by a fish, and I’m angry about all of it and you all seem to think the mature answer is to be grateful for the light cutting cause it’s “better” by comparison.

    “A person can be smart, but people are stupid.”

    Most people are complete utter fucking morons about this. Enjoy voting for slower death and somehow finding a smugness in it.





  • callouscomic@lemmy.ziptoComic Strips@lemmy.worldVoting
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    16 hours ago

    Strawman argument to presume a wasted vote is doing something, or that there are no other things to be doing.

    I’m not crying about it. I’m telling fuckers who demand everyone vote to step the right fuck off their high horse and look around and see the math. It wouldn’t have mattered for so many.











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    3 days ago

    I’m committed to not stopping the fire.

    There’s a difference between being “committed to not stop the fire” and recognizing my tools at my disposal don’t work for me.

    A better version of your example is more like my single fire extinguisher might help me with some of my fire, but it turns out my neighbors lit the whole fucking neighborhood on fire, so rather than fighting my little fire and exhausting myself pointlessly, I chose to walk out and acknowledge I can’t make a difference here.

    If anything I should move out of the neighborhood but that’s a luxury I don’t have.




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    3 days ago

    Where I have lived for my adult life in 3 significantly different parts of the country, it is true that my vote would have not at all affected the outcome on nearly all election positions I could vote for.

    This was true multiple elections in a row. Whether my vote merely reaffirmed what was clearly going to happen regardless, or if mine was a waste since it was clearly not going to matter. In the vast majority of elections I did or could have voted in, I have looked after the fact and seen how my contribution, or lack of, Did. Not. Fucking. Matter.

    Also most options I am presented with most of the time are uninspiring or downright evil.

    As for effecting change. That’s a waste of time. I learned that early on. Everyone has their viewpoints and beliefs and the vast majority will not be swayed. They either will not change, or were already on your side.

    Its not my responsibility to “solve” America’s 250 years of lies.

    So have fun on your high horse as you highlight one cherry-picked recent primary result for one city in a country filled with 90,000 governments and countless elected positions.