edit: for posterity, this was satire but i’m comfortable recognizing it wasn’t opaque enough hence the poor reception. we’ll get em next time.

for those still refusing to get it: voting is harm reduction, see my other recent posts.

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    edit: for posterity, this was satire but i’m comfortable recognizing it wasn’t opaque enough hence the poor reception. we’ll get em next time.

    Your genius will be understood in time o7

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    Yes, never holding the DNC accountable helps them perform better over time. That’s why spoiled children academically outperform those of parents who expect them to study. Slavish support of the under-performing neoliberal era DNC has secured strong protections for basic rights like abortion and led to an ever fairer economy, and has in no way contributed to the rise of Trump among what was formerly the DNC’s working class base electoral majority.

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      Not voting != “holding the DNC accountable”

      They would rather lose than pivot left. They are unlikely to actually solve any problems the working class faces, but things will get much worse much faster under the other party of big business.

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        True! They’re happier to lose with Reagan’s electorate than to win with the dirty hippies. Maybe that should tell you something about who you’re voting for. At least the GOP has a democratic process by which a critical number of voters can take over the party like Trump did. The DNC is a cabal of neoliberal boomers who hate everyone who voted for, campaigned for, and donated to them pre-Trump and there’s no democratic mechanism by which to reform the party because they don’t hold real, fair, primaries.

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        “it wasnt opaque enough hence the poor reception”

        Instead of “oh I guess my teenage edgyism wasn’t as brilliant as I thought”

        Introspection — you should try it

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    Unfortunately I can hear these arguments non-ironically with only very small changes in the wording.

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          There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

          There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

          - Douglas Adams

          Reason #42 for more funding to go towards theoretical physics.

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              PugJesus wants a re-roll on reality, and this is the only reliable way to do so. At least as far as I’m aware.

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                  Part of me wants to create a user named Hypnotoad for the express purpose of replying to this exchange and offering his services. But it’s coming up on 4am and I’m expected to be a productive member of society in a few hours.

                  🍄‍🟫

                  I’m helping!

                  - Bizarro Quinn