@davew It's more like she's offering a hunk of wood with nails in it, vs. a platter of shit with bits of broken glass, tbh. I would much rather have a nice wooden log and maybe we can remove the nails, and you know, it won't smell or make me sick... but neither is edible. Oh and the log is also supporting genocide, which makes it a tougher call. Rooting for log with nails, just to be clear. Go log with nails. Yay log.

God I wish this were that simple. I really do.

@trisweb @davew One side will roll back the rights of women and LGBTQ people and in fact has already succeeded in rolling some women's rights precisely because one of the candidates was president and put two people on the Supreme Court.

One side will not.

So if you say both candidates are equal, you are implicitly saying the rights of anyone who is not a straight cis man is not important.

Since Sedaris is not a straight cis man, it's obvious why he'd use the analogy he did.

@ucblockhead @davew I know the dichotomy very well, and I completely understand and appreciate your laying it out plainly.

I am not saying both sides are equal.

I'm saying that the dichotomy doesn't make one side good.

And asking people to make that true doesn't make it so.

Face the truth, and ask for the commitment. Don't make the ultimatum into a moral judgement. Don't make it into a binary.

Make it a tough job we must roll up our sleeves and do together because it must be done.

Because it must.

@trisweb @davew I definitely understand the point. But given our unfortunate bipolar political system, you can either work within the system or give up all voice.

I definitely agree that neither side is good. That has always been the case. One of the reasons we lost all momentum as a country on social safety net is that the Democrats impaled themselves on Vietnam and so we got Nixon. Now history seems to be repeating itself but worse.