Unfortunately they’ll probably just say they are meant to be the masters of a harem and kill any potential rival males. Literally troglodyte shit

If you seriously think those two options are identical then…go try it and report back on how it feels lol

The anal tears you’ll get without lube are what we’re all suffering right now because of people not voting.

If you think every election has just been the same “since Obama”, then I’m afraid you’ve got a narrow view of history. Shit choices in this deeply fucked up country have been part of the electoral system from the start. People have always lamented that neither party gives them a good choice

Not participating hasn’t worked to make things better, though. In fact, those in power try to get people not to participate as much as possible. Politicians go after reliable voting blocks, not people who wilt when faced with a morally complex choice. When the Left doesn’t show up, they go to the right: because xenophobic assholes sure as hell vote.

And yes: this is all why I agree that electoral politics is terrible. We need direct action, parallel power structures, etc. We need better voting systems and representation, and there are problems so systemic that we need to go beyond reform.

TLDR: Voting isn’t going to save us, but not voting may doom us.

Exactly. It isn’t Intelligent Design, it’s Natural Selection. By which I mean there’s no grand plan, it’s just a vicious, bloody system.

Speaking as someone with a PhD in Biology, nature usually sucks. There’s horrifying parasites, predators that will eat you while you’re still alive, and even herbivores can eat themselves into extirpation if not outright extinction.

The metaphor breaks down because there’s a lot of beauty in nature, and I think we need to protect it, but it’s not something we should try to emulate at a societal level. Natural selection doesn’t think ahead, it just happens, and most living things suffer out in the natural world. Most of us are smart enough to do better, I hope.

That’s one of the most frustrating things about this right wing populism. They’re correctly pointing out problems: wealth inequality, expensive housing, warmongering, etc. The problem they then cause is that they blame the source of these problems squarely on some scapegoats and then do things that only exacerbate the existing problems they diagnosed in the first place.

Billionaire donors gaining even more power and stripping the few checks against said power, doing shit all to make groceries cheaper, and now they’re out there blowing up boats in international waters and committing large scale violence against people in this county. Yet… crickets from the folks who voted them in. Just maddening. They just wanted to shit on the scapegoats

Wrong one! I had to do a double take, but I’m pretty sure it’s actually Leavitt: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karoline_Leavitt

Late to the party, but I’ll bet at least a few right wingers we’re surprised at the turnout. Maybe helped get a few people out of their bubbles, seeing neighbors and friends out on the street. Maybe not, but I know i saw a lot of older rural folks out protesting last time that I’m sure rocked the perceptions some right wings nuts have about it all being teenage anarchists in the street.

This is not solely a news community.

Right? No childish nicknames, no rage-fueled late night social media posting, no off kilter diatribes during an unrelated speech. He’s just, transparently cool with a child trafficker. It is so mind numbingly damning I’m split between being horrified and fascinated by how his supporters refuse to connect any dots.

I imagine a lot of shit teachers keep their jobs simply because there’s usually not a huge pool of candidates for replacements. Higher wages would help fix that issue, too!