• rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Yeah, I’ve recently talked with my therapist about this choice between very slow, very hard work and sitting on my butt dreaming. And about the idea that it’s better to avoid action than to act, if I’m not sure I’ll act right. And how it apparently came to me in my teens, when I’ve been doing martial arts for some time, girls would smile at me often, and in general I thought I might be too stupid and happy and there should be something smarter. That ‘smarter’ was, of course, just another teenage idea of being wise and not like everyone else. Fucked up my life for a decade.

    By the way, people who’d be removed and theoretical and talk about some imagined third movement created via some magic other than voting - would be called ‘idiots’ in ancient Athens. Because they are on the side of an idea, not real politics. Then it became a rude word.

    Any such decision to try and find a smart shortcut, or that it’s better to wait and see how it goes instead of sweating, - are all wrong and are exactly what propaganda works for. Being honest is smarter than being dishonest. And voting for the party most fitting your ideals is smarter than for the lesser evil.

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      2 months ago

      Tell that to all the people who will be hurt if that protest vote enables someone worse.

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        2 months ago

        Voting for the party that is consciously using the other one as a boogeyman will enable someone worse with no doubt. They are both worse.

        And before the actual ballots are being cast, the public opinion sending right signals to Dems would reduce that risk.

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          Yeah, because only the democrats spread rhetoric that the other party is a boogeyman . The alt-right never said the libs want to turn you kids gay and/or trans.

          Also, who says Harris is a communist, dumbass?

          My man, please watch the news. You’re so full of shit it’s actually hilarious.

          To deliver such bullshit with that kind of arrogance… Chef’s kiss!

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      2 months ago

      I honestly tried to read and understand this but it really sounds like a bunch of nonsense.