Reading all of this, I just feel like you are a very cynical person looking for reasons to give up. I can’t even bring myself to argue anymore. You win. I’m going to go make someone’s day better.

It’s so obvious to me but I can imagine it’s not obvious to some folks… the bias is actually wild and the articles are very boilerplate and “emotionally charged”

You are wrong in that, yes. Voting is the most basic form of civil participation. It’s like paying your bus fare. Riding the bus is not praxis.

It’s a whole lot easier to organize when you’re able to pressure those in power, though. There is a meaningful difference in organizing conditions under leaders like Zohran Mamdani and even liberals like Joe Biden than it is under fascist regimes.

I’d rather have leaders who are afraid of getting voted out than leaders who want to crush all resistance, and you’re a fool for acting as though it doesn’t matter.

Please go outside.

I condescend idiots who act as though voting does nothing. We managed to elect a socialist mayor in Seattle. The margin was under 1000 votes. Fucking vote.

And stop assuming just because someone is pro-voting means they don’t participate in other effective forms of praxis. You have no idea what people are up to.

I suggest you go outdoors, maybe visit your local library, talk to some people. Ride a bus once in a while. It’s good for ya.

So you’re positioning yourself against “voting” as a concept in this argument, if that isn’t clear by the 23 downvotes

Is this at the Museum of Flight in Washington, near Boeing Field?

I think most pundits have come to agree that he intends to sabotage the Republican party on his way out. Dude knows once he’s done with politics he can just burn it to the ground behind him

If you’re on a Mac, you can likely use an app called “Balena Etcher” to create a bootable Linux USB… if it’s an Intel mac, you can just boot that right up by holding option at boot-time. If you’re on an Apple Silicon Mac, you are not going to be able to boot most Linux distros there. If you’re on PC, you can usually stick the flash drive in and mash F12 at boot-time to get into a menu, select the USB stick, and then it’ll boot you into a “live environment” to test with. That way you can just poke around and see if you like it. Almost all distributions come with a live environment by default.