As I recently said to a friend: “I fucking hate being right.”
And he said “I fucking hate you being right.”
(he was never in disagreement, he just still had a sliver of hope)
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I’ve been against electronic voting in the USA for years. Many states, especially the so called battleground states, rely on these for the most of the results.
People like me, who say paper ballots only please, have been ignored by the very people who are upset by outcomes calculated by procedures they cannot possibly explain ( it’s secret). Who will, until their dying day, swear they have faith in the integrity of these system because their cousin’s friend’s uncle knows somebody who works in sales who says it’s ok.
It really does not have to be that way. It’s a uniquely American trait, I think.
For many here, they can find comfort with each other.
For me, the initial disaster has not stopped, it started over a generation ago, and continues in its original form and fashion. And will be ignored by most reading this.
If you want to see an apocalyptic political satire black comedy film that explores this concept, watch Don’t Look Up (2021).
I remember when that blew up during the pandemic, and everyone was thinking it was about COVID. In reality, it had started production way before the pandemic was on most peoples’ radars, and was intended to be about climate change. But the partisan reactions to both so closely mirrored each other, that it was easy to mistake.
It’s so close to reality it mocks satire.
It’s a satire? I thought it was a documentary.
That movie’s so depressing and frustrating.
So you’re saying its tone is accurate of reality.
Reality is so much worse then pessimism. People have no idea how much even the most dreary and down trotten people they could ever meet are unjustifiably optimistic compared to the raw numbers.
The final lesson of the movie is important.
The sociopaths ending the world will never be satisfied, and they’ll win because good people have too many rules and too much good faith. It isn’t the failure of decent people, hug your loved ones, be happy and content as the sociopath capitalists can’t be.
The greed class will end the world for our species, but unless you let them turn yourself into them trying to beat them at their own monstrous propaganda game, and you can’t beat them as they revel in lies and cruelty like decent people can’t, they can’t force you to be as empty, hateful, and insecure inside as they have to be to need so much affirmation and power(capital).
They have no friends, they have no loved ones, they have no trust, only associates and threats and assets and “big moves.” They see their own children as investments in legacy that they cast aside when they fail to become hateful, greedy, ambitious little clones of themselves.
Eco-Fascism is the only answer. The complete extinction of the human race is needed. Human brain architecture and physiology are fatally-flawed. Our hard-wired survival instincts and Self-Preservation Mechanisms naturally lead to xenophobia, tribalism and greed. What helps animals is the same thing that will doom us… Higher Sentience is a curse and a blight upon this world.
The intentions are pure and the message is good, but I’ll be goddamned if it’s gonna go that way
Do not go gentle into that good night
Rage em if you got em, I’m spent.
“Things have been just fine for me so far, so they will continue to be for everyone!”
The one on the left is The Democrat loyalist when you tell them they ran a bad campaign (they lost).
The one on the right is a Progressive.
Bad campaign or not, everyone is in the same shit boat because some people chose this election to refuse to pinch their nose and vote for the Democrats.
In many ways Dems were as bad as Trump this election. If they weren’t so greedy in their push rightward, they could’ve kept up the lesser evil schtick for at least a couple more elections.
Unfortunately they decided to run a campaign further to the right than bush jr, exposing their whole ass in the process.
Dems are more of the same, maybe a little better depending. Republicans are downright evil. Not sure how you can justify saying “Dems were as bad as Trump”
And people still decided that Nazis were better than a pretty average option so they would rather not vote at all so they could convince themselves it wasn’t their fault if the Gestapo comes knocking at their door in a few months.
“Um, actually, sweatie, things CAN’T get any worse than they are now” was my ‘favorite’ line from those folk.
Congrats, you’re feeling what others have felt for the past 50 years. Hopefully this means you’ll finally fucking abandon the status quo that has kept you incredibly privileged and safe compared to your fellow Americans.
I’m sorry you’re mad you can’t profit off the oppression of others and you might have to do work for the first time in your life.
Whatever you need to tell yourself to keep your conscience at bay.
Could just as easily say the one pointing out the past is a progressive and the one complaining about not being told is the kind of terminally online purist who insisted that Trump “wouldn’t be that bad” because “both sides are the same”
