u/LowBeautiful1531

Inequality poisons society.

Keeping friendships balanced is enough of a challenge even when the deck isn't tilting more and more steeply under us all every day...

If there aren't enough barbarians at the gate, the Democrats will hire more.

No, it's not fucking ethical.

Claiming to be better than fascists, then turning around and enabling, amplifying, and platforming fascists to use them as a weapon to scare people into supporting you, instead of using those resources to earn votes by actually helping people, is not just dangerously stupid, it's breathtakingly evil.

It worked just fine.

The point was to terrorize the country and reinforce the spoiler effect that holds us all hostage.

It was objectively fucking insane. No reasonable person with any functioning moral compass spends millions of dollars promoting fascists.

Doesn't fucking matter. There is no excuse.

Ah yes, the old "Well I'm not hearing a no" excuse.

People like you seriously scare me.

UNCONSCIOUSNESS removes it holy shit

You remember the DNC was sued for rigging their primary in 2016, and the argument they used to win in court was that they're a private organization with NO OBLIGATION to run a fair primary, right???

Ever heard of Good Cop / Bad Cop? The entire game is convincing us to forget they're working together to screw us over. Obama handed Roe v Wade and the Supreme Court to the Republicans, practically gift-wrapped.

It takes another layer of privilege to believe the Democrats are survivable. They're not.

Then there's Altered Carbon. Yeah.

The Democratic party will fight harder to keep third parties off the ballot, than they ever will to put any kind of ranked choice voting on it. The spoiler effect is the weapon they use to hold us hostage.

Good candidates can be voted in at the local level, but major changes at anything approaching the national level are not allowed. The corruption is too entrenched, at a national level it's as scripted as pro wrestling. Lucy will keep dangling that reform football in fro t of us, but that's a honeypot where real change goes to die-- they've been stringing us along on fake hope for generations.

It'll take direct action, mutual aid, and labor organizing the likes of which our ancestors used to set the stage for real change. Every time our outrage gets bled off by fear mongering and voteshaming, every time we carry water for fascists and war criminals just because they're standing next to other fascists and war criminals who act worse, we lose momentum.

Don't tell people to swallow shit. There are better uses of our energy.

They're not weak. They're complicit.

Power exchange should be limited to enthusiastically consenting, well-communicated and negotiated boundaries within balanced, caring relationships.

Anybody who fails to respect safewords and tries to apply domination or force on somebody who doesn't agree to it, should certainly be regarded as a threat.

We have to bust out of that fucking cycle or we're doomed either way.

You actually think that's still allowed to happen?

Yes, it IS fucking difficult. It's goddamn nauseating. Being shoved into a position where we're expected to believe WE HAVE NO CHOICE yet somehow this == democracy, isn't just difficult, it's a nightmare out a Saw movie or Black Mirror. Fuck everything about all this shitlibbery.

Not looking forward to the endless spamhordes of mindlessly stupid unsolicited sexbots AI will unleash... If they ever become physically self-replicating that's a whole other Terminator sequel we do NOT need.

Haven't figured out how to report them if they haven't posted?

I keep getting followed by accounts who all have the same random 5-character pattern for a username, are all supposedly 18 year old sexy girls or whatever who want to do this and that and wtf the algorithm thinks a repulsed ace wants with this shit I can't imagine. Like a dozen of the damn things. Can't report an account though apparently, just posts?

I keep hoping things will come together. It's so much harder than I thought it would be.

I have met three people out of a thousand who cannot pass out

...Wait, what??

Oof!

If oxygen wasn't being cut off from the brain, the loss of consciousness wouldn't be happening. There is no magic way to choke somebody without choking them.

I mean, if we're going to go after the drug dealers, we may as well start with the important ones in positions of power.