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It makes peace with voting for the Biden (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Edit: new and improved image, now with 100% less support! Used my expert photo editing skills to change "supporting" to say "voting for"

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Best JFeg ever!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

And remember to be rational, to remain somewhat detached from the constant stream of political narratives and spins that gets thrown your way, where the positive or neutral things get ignored because that gets no click-ad revenue, everything that gets screamed at you is a distortion of reality.
Separate the garbage and the appeal to visceral reactions.

It's easier then to see that Biden and his cabinet inherited an incredible mess, is genuinely trying to clean it up, and there are no overnight miracles when the other political party constantly engages in sabotage of the gears of democracy, while a large segment of the population remains electorally apathetic and aloof.

This constant, perpetual media and social media provocation and clickbait, makes an intellect vulnerable to "divide-and-conquer" tactics, keeps him/her apathetic and aloof, while simultaneously demoralized. And the constant stream of infotainment excrement just keeps on flowing like a river during rainy season.

EDIT: To put in a nutshell, tldr:
Electoral apathy benefits republicans.
Electoral engagement benefits Democrats.
Now guess which side engages most with "divide and conquer" infotainment dumps to keep the electorate as cynical as possible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Stottlemeyer!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Gesundheit

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I doubt it but what if Trump actually gets disqualified from running? We'd have the unique opportunity of having no major opposition. Would be a prime time to pressure all the shill democrats to actually care about something, which includes Biden giving morbillions to Israel.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If Trump gets disqualified, we get what happened in Pakistan - people voting for republican because they don't like the idea of "choice" being taken away. (These people also would not be pro-choice, but the irony would be lost on them.)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Yeah but tbf comparatively PTI was also banned and vote cheated out of a majority.

Here I feel like the democrats will just shoot themselves in the foot and lose in both houses again with Biden as president.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (7 children)

You want to change the system, I am literally 100% behind you. Until then, any registered voter that stays home is a vote for Trump. That is the greater evil...

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

That's not how voting works but hyperbole does.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

It literally is, at its core.

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[+] [email protected] -39 points 9 months ago (6 children)

The greatest evil is America though, so if you’re telling me Trump is going to destroy America…… He’s looking pretty fuckin’ awesome.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago

Trump isn't going to destroy America, just the parts of it he doesn't like. The parts that are democratic and tolerant will be his primary targets.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Trump destroying America doesn't mean he'd make it better. He would make it worse. Even if you think it's the "greatest" evil, that doesn't mean it is at maximum evil.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Before you set the house on fire, consider all the people locked in the attic.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Some of you may die, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

aha, but what if I have a master plan to save them, which involves removing the structural barriers to them escaping the attic via an attack that uses fire? we're making the mother of all omelettes, jack, you can't fret over every egg, or whatever.

this is just raw accelerationism though, and I've been told that's not a kosher ideology, so we can't legitimately engage with it. kind of a shame, but also pretty easily co-opted into just being like, neo-fascism, so, understandable. we need to start lighting the types of furniture I don't like on fire! we need to let the attic burn, with the people inside, because it will provide warmth! and so on. we won't disassemble the house with the master's tools, or what have you, and a house divided against itself cannot stand, but it's also impossible to move houses in this economy, so I dunno. do we need to start knocking out walls for an open floorplan, or what? is the metaphor falling apart, and beginning to collapse, like the house?