And yeah, we know the Democratic Party is not some kind of righteous savior party. Yeah, there are plenty of capitalists, centrists, Liberal White Allies ™ in the party. But they’re still genuinely better than the Republican Party, and closer to the end of the spectrum that we want to move everyone to. Parties can change - if you show up to change them.
Let me put it this way - you don’t want to vote, you want a revolution instead? Revolutions are unbelievably violent, unimaginably violent, on a scale no living Americans have ever experienced unless they’ve been in an actual, literal war zone. Most of us would most likely die in a revolution. I’m not interested in diving headfirst into that. And historically, revolutions never end in utopia. They end in chaos that causes most people to hit their fear-driven authoritarian thresholds and turn towards strongmen to tame the chaos, and that always ends in warlords and political coups and worse dictators than before.
(“But here’s some advice, boy. Don’t put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That’s why they’re called revolutions.” - Yes, thank you as always, Sir Terry Pratchett.)
We teach all the wrong lessons about the American Revolutionary War. The real revolution, the earth-shaking part of it, wasn’t the fighting or the war or the killing. That’s just the bloody rhythm of human history. No. It was when they set up a system of government that handled power transfer peacefully through elections and stuck to it. It was when George Washington definitively and witheringly rejected any notion of being crowned king. It was when he stepped down after two terms when he probably could’ve coasted for a lifetime. And it was when he handed power to the next president peacefully, willingly, and as a required function of the system of government they were part of. Voting IS the revolution.
If they made Terminator 2 in 2018 John Connor would teach the T-800 to make bofa jokes
“
No, no, no, no. You gotta listen to the way people talk. You don’t say “affirmative,” or some shit like that. You say ‘big mood.’
And if someone comes on to you with an attitude you say ‘then perish’“
“And if you want to shine them on it’s ‘’begone thot"
“Begone, thot“
“Yeah, or ‘pee your pants’. And if someone gets upset you say, ‘stay in your lane’! Or you can do combinations.”
“Perish, thot.“
“That’s great! See, you’re getting it!”
“Big mood“
He dabs as he sinks into the lava at the end
there would have to be a seen where he has trouble with a captcha
y’know like transphobes and people who think it’s cool that they choose to do nothing out of total submission and petty spite which they direct to the wrong fucking people
like choose not to vote, fine, but don’t go around whining at people who actually want to try while implying they’re delusional just because it’s ‘annoying’ to see them talking about their issues.
or people who continue to insist to me that Trump isn’t “all that bad” because they’re privileged assholes who aren’t being affected by his bullshit, therefor they assume there’s no problem and people are making it up or exaggerating.
I’m curious who you would have preferred to have won, given the candidates left at the time were all a joke at best.
With it down to just Trump or Clinton, though, the choice for most was obvious…
he didn’t win because people wanted him
he won because so many people didn’t want clinton
It he was actually pit against a decent and intelligent human being I don’t think he would have stood a chance.
(oh and some cheating involved but we all know how people love to cry that any bad things found out about Trump is just a government conspiracy to elect Hilary)
I frankly didn’t want either of them, so in that time, yes, voting felt absolutely pointless because what’s the point if things are going to go to shit either way?
dont forget that he lost the popular vote by 3 million so the people DID voice who they wanted to win. its just russias meddling and an archaic system of electoral college were exploited by him to undermine who the people actually voted for
ive never used treecko again after my first playthrough bc i didnt like how his lil arms are always just out there like that but im playing him again and this fucker
is out here T-posin!!
*Tpose in front of primal dialga to assert dominance*
