Never had heroes because basically this. Almost all people in a spotlight let you down eventually. Something about being rich makes people into depraved cunts.
Maybe not Dolly Parton. She’s been consistently good. Mr Roger’s too. But still, not many people on the list.
…I want to be your neighbor. We don’t have to interact or anything if you don’t want. I usually keep to myself anyways. I just want to live somewhere quiet and cold with decent internet and a nearby place to pick up package shipping if it can’t come to the door. Lol
Carlin right?
Are you pooping at work? Politics that force companies to allow you to have bathroom breaks can be thanked.
Is there a sidewalk when you walk or ride a bike? Thank your taxes and the people that pushed city politicians to install those pathways.
Like being able to take public transit? Then be glad regulations and ordinances in your city encouraged those services to be available.
Your political opinions and your thoughts on how your community and city are run, will most certainly change with regularity if you are putting in the effort to understand what can be done to improve things. And most people start with the things that affect them on the daily.
It’s naive at best, but either willful ignorance or poorly reasoned resistance at worst. You can’t change things by not participating.
And pretending you have any high ground, when you don’t vote because of a singular issue being a problem, is foolish to the extreme.
Some people think they will improve things by not participating because the candidates don’t line up perfectly with their principals. All you get then is the direction others pick for you. You’ve solved nothing, but potentially made things worse.
There is no upside to not participating if you are seeking to improve things. If you are a shitty person and fear other people because of melanated reasons, by all means, allow other more reasonable people handle the voting. But otherwise, look at all the issues and vote for the one that does the most good or the least damage.
Lmao that name
It spits the garlic through the peel
I’ve broken every press I’ve had. Pressed the grate right out of it.
May I have a copy of your birth certificate, driver’s license, SSN, along with credit card info, bank and trading accounts, and a video of you naked to post online in multiple public forums?
No? Guess you like privacy more than you thought…
People having varying levels of desired privacy. I don’t like to give out things just because someone wants to know, and by law I should be protected so as not to be compelled to.
Privacy isn’t about hiding things, it’s about not giving them away because someone else wants them.
It is a unicorn. I dread the day Gaben dies and Valve ends up going public. It feels like the last bastion of decent online services.
Until they lock it up where you can’t. Or they’ll decide on selling data and injecting ads into your convos or streams.
In other words this hasn’t been enshittified to the max yet at all. There are new and horrible depths to explore.
Prescription meth does wonders for focus. Lol
I’m riding the same struggle bus and there are a lot of us. More like a struggle cruisliner, or struggle ark. Keep up the fight. I know it’s exhausting, but don’t let the bastards drag you down.
Nothing incorrectly perceived about it. You willfully choose to be ignorant. The world moves on with you whether you choose to participate in it or not.
You want to try to hide behind this singular position as if abstaining from voting solves or improves anything. It doesn’t. You choose to live in a fantasy whereby your abstinence leaves you without blame. If anything, you and others like you become just as callused and evil as those in power. You all helped put them there because you all did nothing to stop it. You saw a bad option and a horrendous option and behaved childishly and gave up.
You don’t care what actually happens to anyone. You don’t actually care if anyone lives or dies, because if you did, you’d have done something to slow or stop the current administration/regime from gaining any power at all.
Sorry, not inaction. Willful ignorance.
In a better timeline that would be the ICE we had too.
I’ve been taking to calling them I.C.E., sounding out each letter. Neuters the “cool” factor that I think they try for.
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Daddy wants me to investigate harder.
-Kash Patel probably.
You just prefer dead kids AND fascism. We get it.
By inaction you allowed a worse evil.
Oof. Lot to unpack there.
Somewhat related but I had to stop listening to Lostprophets once I found how shitty the lead singer was.