• spujb@lemmy.cafeOP
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    5 months ago

    yes everything is on fire and track 1 has a few extinguishers but not enough.

    track 3 has an indeterminate amount of fire hydrants because i think it depends on which party actually gets the seat.

    track 2’s extinguishers have gasoline in them 😭

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      5 months ago

      Also, 95-99% of the time your vote doesn’t matter for… “reasons”. Including other votes (e.g. a liberal President paired against a conservative Congress), older votes (especially Supreme Court appointments), and non-votes (corporations are in control regardless of who or which party “wins”), etc.

      One lever pull event barely scratches the surface - we did not get ourselves into this mess in a day or even a decade, and it would take even more effort to get ourselves out.

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      And somehow, even knowing that, the Democratic party went all-in on Hillary fucking Clinton, smh. Americans are basically responsible people, and we can count on everyone to eat their veggies, r-r-right!? Even without bothering to campaign, R-R-RIGHT!?

      Trump did not even want to win - he was as much a symptom as he later fed that forward to become a cause himself.

      Therefore I think that “we”, the people who put effort into thinking things through, deeply, need to wake up and stop wishing and hoping that things will work out as we all hope and dream. Except that despite me saying “we”, that’s as far as I’ve gotten, so really truly it does not include me, who is merely a backseat onlooker hoping for my favorite team to win but offering little help along those lines to cause it:-). I don’t know what the next step is regarding the latter, but I offer kudos for trying to get people to understand regardless:-).

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      5 months ago

      track 2’s extinguishers have gasoline in them

      Wouldn’t that make them “tinguishers”?

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        5 months ago

        technically yes but the Republican party calls them extinguishers in order to fool voters that are concerned yet poorly educated about climate issues

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          5 months ago

          Don’t forget, they also then demand that their supporters ignore the very obvious fact that gasoline is coming out of the extinguishers. After all, those voters wouldn’t want everyone thinking they were a librul, now would they?