going to preface this with, don't worry about my immediate health or anything. i am not having a psychotic episode of anything like that, i am 100% sober...and...that's honestly the scariest part for me.
there is a message that finally got through to me, woke me up (wait, motherfucker...is that where "woke" comes from?!?!?), something I'v been aware of for a long time now i think, but it got suppressed down for...10 goddamn years... for whatever reason, until now.
now that I'm aware of it, I see it damn near everywhere, almost every majorly acclaimed movie, song, book, poem, fucking everything...
and it's not like this is some short-term problem either, it's not going away when trump dies, it's not even going away if trump dies and the establishment regains control (i have my doubts they can pull this off).
it's the same goddamn cycle over and over (with slight variations), boom followed by completely deliberate bust, one privacy-overreach followed by another, the same playbook used over and over. and occasionally either end is some random organic act-of-god, which just works to obfuscate the intentional acts.
it's so large and all encompassing you can't even be sure which parts are apart of it and which are just...people still asleep just going about their lives.
and now, because this world seems to be ran by a bunch of fucking psychopaths, I'm even more paranoid sober than when I was having a actual mental breakdown
because how the fuck do I trust anyone now?
how do i seperate those that know from those that don't?
psychopathic assholes from regular assholes?
friend from foe?
hell, how the hell do Ieven confirm that this is real, I know that everyone in my own immediate family is stuck in these little arithmetic bubbles too so i can't bring it up with them, if i tried they would probably be worried I'm going crazy.
and because of past-me's mistakes over the years I have no irl friends whatsoever to talk with either, so i guess all I have left is to send this out onto the internet and hope for the best?
Get the vote out for the Democrats, who have generally been the opposite of the smash-and-grab Republicans for the last several decades.
Don’t believe the agitators here and elsewhere pushing their targeted anti-Democrat messages to the benefit of the far-right. There really is a substantial difference in ethics, public good, stability, and recognition of reality and large-scale problems (like climate change)
Vote democrat but ffs vote in the primaries as well!
The way to fix the Do Nothing Democrats is stop giving them a free pass every election. If Americans would just primary all the bought and owned politicians they could take back their democracy for good instead of 1 step forward 2 steps back every 8 years.
Why do you say “do-nothing” when we’ve seen the ACA, IRA, multiple impeachments, even balancing the budget and the 1996 telecom act; or going back further, the Apollo program, Clean Air act, Civil Rights act, Voting Rights act, Medicare, etc.
What did we get from Nixon, Reagan, Bush, Bush, and Trump?
Obama promised universal healthcare and then implemented fucking Romneycare, a policy written by the Heritage Foundation. And this was one of the most progressive presidents in the past few decades. "Do nothing" is flattering them.
The republicans and the democrats are the sword and shield of the wealthy elites respectively.
Tell me which of those democrat accomplishments you expect to matter in the slightest once trump finishes consolidating power? Especially the impeachments.
None of them will. Unless democrats do something about it.
Lol, it’s the Democrat’s fault that Republicans are tearing it down! Of course!
OP, this is what I’m talking about. This guy wants you to check out.
The democratic party is comprised of individuals of whom many are either incompetent in preventing/stopping, or complicit in, the republican's tearing everything down.
I'm telling people to vote in the primary as well as the election. What about that is checking out?
The definition of insanity is to do the same thing and expect a different result.
You either vote against fascism or you don't.
You can call me insane if you like. But at least I'm not a fascist.
Are you?
Well congrats, fascism doesn't care about your vote anymore. Consider doing something about it.
PS: The parent comment presented voting Dem as if it was going to solve anything. Your reply is irrelevant to the truth of that claim, which is what I was addressing.
It's the bare minimum. For you to lambast the suggestion of doing the bare minimum would imply you prefer doing nothing, not doing more.
It's not the bare minimum; it's less, much less, than the bare minimum. It's like saying to someone with cancer "you should take paracetamol." Voting blue might help with the symptoms a little, but it's not a solution, not by a long shot.
No, it’s not. It’s just a cop-out phrass.
I used to be crazy, then I stopped rolling dice and now I am perfectly well adjusted. /s