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    Me: *autistic panic*

    the-cimmerians

    right now it’s almost halfway through 2023, and 2024 is an election year in the US. I have started to see a growing proliferation of posts suggesting that there is no difference between the republican and democratic parties–the exact same kind of posts I saw an awful lot of before the last major election here. I am unfollowing folks who post or reblog these sort of posts, as I consider these posts to be fascist propaganda framed as leftist discourse, designed to suppress anti-fascist votes and voters. 

    silverhand

    Prepare yourself to vote for Biden now, because the only other option is someone who will make 2016-2020 look like a picnic.

    You work with what you’ve got, not what you wish you had.

    I detest Biden more with every passing day (and he was not in my top 10 candidates in 2020). 2024 will be an election between:

    • Biden/The Former Guy
    • Biden/DeSantis
    • Biden/Republican Fascist to be Named Later

    No Labels is an op. It’s being funded by unknown parties to defeat Biden and the Democrats. Their election scenarios are fantasy football for political junkies.

    No Third Party has a road anywhere outside statewide offices (Bernie is the exception that proves the rule, and he’s a Democrat for all intents and purposes).

    Arguably the rosiest scenario is that TFG breaks with the Republicans to form his own party and tanks any chance the Republicans have, but that’s not looking as likely as it did two years ago.

    If you’re pissed, get involved in your local elections. Ensure that no position is running unopposed (and that includes if you’ve got a conserva-Dem somewhere now–primary them).

    Get the House back in the Democratic hands (unless you’re up for two more years of this only with MTG as Speaker this time). Increase the margin in the Senate (and send Selema to her post-senate career). Make sure your school board isn’t full of flat-earthers. Wake sure your county counsel isn’t going to shut down your libraries if they have a book someone doesn’t like.

    As Stonekettle says, if you want a better country, but a better citizen.

    prismatic-bell

    There’s a reason we call it a civic DUTY, not a civic privilege.


    Starting mid-April I’ll be posting to-do lists and action items for people who’ve never gotten involved before. One party wants you dead. FIGHT.

    lookninjas

    Speaking as a Michigan resident:  Look at the laws being passed in Michigan.  Now look at the laws being passed in Florida.  Spot the difference?  That’s because Michigan is being governed by the Democratic Party, and Florida is being governed by the Republican Party.  That’s the difference.  They’re different parties.  It is not the same.

    You want what we’ve got?  Vote for it.

    (And you want Michigan to stay the way it is and not slide backwards into the shit we had to deal with with Rick Snyder, or even just the way it was when the House and Senate were Republican-controlled?  Keep fucking voting.)

    quiteegregiouslychuffed

    D are not our friends or even allies but R is a staunch enemy

    weaselle

    look the main thing is that our first-past-the-poll voting style automatically and always devolves into a two party system where the majority of people dislike both parties. This is now a known phenomenon, a feature of our voting method as inevitable as water running downhill. 

    But that isn’t going to change until we get some sweeping voting reform that revises our voting system into some kind of ranked or run-off voting

    Meanwhile one of our destined-to-be-disliked parties is actually trying to do things we want (health care, living wages, social services, public transportation, civil rights, education, support for gay and trans people, religious tolerance, etc) and one of our parties is banning books and undoing women’s rights and supporting corrupt racist police and endangering gay and trans lives while paying people to make posts about how both parties are equally bad so that people don’t vote democrat.

    Like, we are going to not like a lot of how the Democrats operate, that is a feature of the current design, but they are trying to protect women’s rights, they are trying to help the homeless, they are trying to raise minimum wage they have agendas that include important things. And republicans? are at this point a literal cult that want to create a religious fascist state.

    Even my father, now 80 years old, a man whose politics i have often despised, a man who voted for Reagan for fucks sake! even he (unhappily) votes Democrat now, because he’s not an insane person, and the republican party has become SO BLATANTLY EVIL AND STUPID that he can’t ignore it.

    Democrats pass legislation we want that republicans then find ways to block. Democrats have passed bills that:

    close gender pay gaps
    raise federal minimum wage
    make becoming a US citizen easier for immigrants
    protect civil/public water sources from pollution
    cut greenhouse gas emissions to fight climate change
    increase gun regulation
    lower and control prescription drug prices
    improve healthcare access for those with pre-existing conditions
    protect net neutrality
    protect gay marriage rights

    these are all the subjects of specific real bills that democrats have either passed into law or tried hard to pass in the last few years.

    Meanwhile republicans act to block these bills while championing book bans and attacking trans folk and giving more power to corporations to ruin our planet and taking away women’s rights. 

    when you see posts attacking Democrats from the left or whatever, the talking points and quotes can often be traced back to right wing sources

    So all posts trying to keep non-republicans arguing amongst ourselves and calling for us to not vote democrat (or not vote at all) ? I will be assuming they are bad-faith posts and i won’t be spreading them or engaging with them or anything.

    Honest critique of the party is necessary, but like it or not our system currently is a two party system, and i’ll be voting for the better of the two until we can change our voting style to make additional political parties viable.

    elljayvee

    I live in Pennsylvania.

    Neither of my children is cisgender.

    The last gubernatorial election was, literally, do we elect this guy who is overly fond of cops but is generally a normal human being, or do we elect this other guy who believes frightening conspiracy theories and wants my children removed from my care and forcibly detransitioned and honestly would prefer them to be dead?

    That’s it. That’s the kind of choice we get in first-past-the-post voting. If that second guy won, we needed to move. There was no safe way to stay here. The votes of my fellow citizens were all that was standing between my kids and serious fucking danger.

    And my fellow citizens DID turn out. Lots of them came out and voted to reject the scary death cultist. I am grateful to all those who went, ugh, I don’t really like this guy, but the other guy is worse, and hauled themselves down to the polling place to get it done.

    You, too, can vote to reject scary death cultists, in your hometown and your home state and in the country as a whole.

    findingfeather

    Getting rid of the scary death cultists is a prequisite for getting political representation you actually want.

    comingupfrombehind

    NO. I’m going to be voting for cornel west and the democrats and their braindead apologists can suck my fucking silicone dick. I’m sick of being held hostage by capitalists who use and abuse me and couldn’t give a flying fuck about me, all they want is my money and my vote so they can stab me in the back and enact the same fucking policies as republicans would.


    You had FIFTY MOTHERFUCKING YEARS to make roe v Wade law and instead y’all fundraised off it crying wolf the whole time. Fuck you. The democrats are also a fascist party, because capitalism in decay IS FASCISM.


    Can’t wait to be blamed yet again for the failures of democrats. Instead of running a YOUNG person who works to meet the needs of the electorate they block any primary challenge and instead force this demented dinosaur who caused this mess onto us?! He voted to make student loans inedible to be discharged in bankruptcy. He voted for the 1994 crime bill. He voted for the Iraq war. He’s been in office for like 50 fucking years and I’m sick and tired of neoliberal bullshit and shaming anyone who dares to criticize the democrat PLANTATION.


    Oh and obligatory FUCK REPUBLICANS as well. Stop fucking blaming me for your own fucking ineptitude. You EARN my vote you are not ENTITLED to it.


    Holding me HOSTAGE is not a fucking flex dipshits.

    comingupfrombehind

    This really aged well. Guess the vote blue no matter who bots are gonna support the genocider in chief. Don’t you know, Palestinian babies are Hamas?


    I wish biden would just fucking die already. I hate having to wish death on boomers because they won’t fucking retire.

    I once again destroyed a friendship by committing the mortal sin of probably being autistic 😞

    When u go to meet a girl and she’s making out with another girl 😬

    I’ve kinda realized over the past few months that I’m probably autistic… and today is just another day of me being reminded how much I’m the odd one out. Started a new job after crashing and burning at my last one (and now at 34 I’m back to making just above minimum wage 😞) and already everyone pretty much hates me even though I’ve only been here for a week…

    I’m bad at making small talk and nobody wants to hear about my special interests. Literally just got told to stfu. Maybe one day the despair will end…

    I think my ketamine needs to be upped because I still care too much and want to cry from the endless rejection.

    People be like yOu NeEd HeLp YoU nEeD tO wOrK oN yOuRsElF… ok how??? Howwww???? I can’t get health insurance, I’m broke, and the “help” is chemically beating me into submission to serve capitalism better and be more profitable.

    I’ve been living with complex trauma shit for years and nothing has ever helped. I’m exhausted. I’m just done. There’s no help, the cruelty and suffering are the point.

    So fucking depressed and suicidal. Nobody is going to love a miserable and angry person and I can’t exist in any other reality because of neurodivergence.

    I just wish I could die already. Life isn’t worth living anymore for me.

    I wish we could get this collapse shit over with so I can die already… still suicidal, still neurodivergent, still living in a world that hates me and abuses me. I’m so tired of living.

    the-cimmerians

    right now it’s almost halfway through 2023, and 2024 is an election year in the US. I have started to see a growing proliferation of posts suggesting that there is no difference between the republican and democratic parties–the exact same kind of posts I saw an awful lot of before the last major election here. I am unfollowing folks who post or reblog these sort of posts, as I consider these posts to be fascist propaganda framed as leftist discourse, designed to suppress anti-fascist votes and voters. 

    silverhand

    Prepare yourself to vote for Biden now, because the only other option is someone who will make 2016-2020 look like a picnic.

    You work with what you’ve got, not what you wish you had.

    I detest Biden more with every passing day (and he was not in my top 10 candidates in 2020). 2024 will be an election between:

    • Biden/The Former Guy
    • Biden/DeSantis
    • Biden/Republican Fascist to be Named Later

    No Labels is an op. It’s being funded by unknown parties to defeat Biden and the Democrats. Their election scenarios are fantasy football for political junkies.

    No Third Party has a road anywhere outside statewide offices (Bernie is the exception that proves the rule, and he’s a Democrat for all intents and purposes).

    Arguably the rosiest scenario is that TFG breaks with the Republicans to form his own party and tanks any chance the Republicans have, but that’s not looking as likely as it did two years ago.

    If you’re pissed, get involved in your local elections. Ensure that no position is running unopposed (and that includes if you’ve got a conserva-Dem somewhere now–primary them).

    Get the House back in the Democratic hands (unless you’re up for two more years of this only with MTG as Speaker this time). Increase the margin in the Senate (and send Selema to her post-senate career). Make sure your school board isn’t full of flat-earthers. Wake sure your county counsel isn’t going to shut down your libraries if they have a book someone doesn’t like.

    As Stonekettle says, if you want a better country, but a better citizen.

    prismatic-bell

    There’s a reason we call it a civic DUTY, not a civic privilege.


    Starting mid-April I’ll be posting to-do lists and action items for people who’ve never gotten involved before. One party wants you dead. FIGHT.

    lookninjas

    Speaking as a Michigan resident:  Look at the laws being passed in Michigan.  Now look at the laws being passed in Florida.  Spot the difference?  That’s because Michigan is being governed by the Democratic Party, and Florida is being governed by the Republican Party.  That’s the difference.  They’re different parties.  It is not the same.

    You want what we’ve got?  Vote for it.

    (And you want Michigan to stay the way it is and not slide backwards into the shit we had to deal with with Rick Snyder, or even just the way it was when the House and Senate were Republican-controlled?  Keep fucking voting.)

    quiteegregiouslychuffed

    D are not our friends or even allies but R is a staunch enemy

    weaselle

    look the main thing is that our first-past-the-poll voting style automatically and always devolves into a two party system where the majority of people dislike both parties. This is now a known phenomenon, a feature of our voting method as inevitable as water running downhill. 

    But that isn’t going to change until we get some sweeping voting reform that revises our voting system into some kind of ranked or run-off voting

    Meanwhile one of our destined-to-be-disliked parties is actually trying to do things we want (health care, living wages, social services, public transportation, civil rights, education, support for gay and trans people, religious tolerance, etc) and one of our parties is banning books and undoing women’s rights and supporting corrupt racist police and endangering gay and trans lives while paying people to make posts about how both parties are equally bad so that people don’t vote democrat.

    Like, we are going to not like a lot of how the Democrats operate, that is a feature of the current design, but they are trying to protect women’s rights, they are trying to help the homeless, they are trying to raise minimum wage they have agendas that include important things. And republicans? are at this point a literal cult that want to create a religious fascist state.

    Even my father, now 80 years old, a man whose politics i have often despised, a man who voted for Reagan for fucks sake! even he (unhappily) votes Democrat now, because he’s not an insane person, and the republican party has become SO BLATANTLY EVIL AND STUPID that he can’t ignore it.

    Democrats pass legislation we want that republicans then find ways to block. Democrats have passed bills that:

    close gender pay gaps
    raise federal minimum wage
    make becoming a US citizen easier for immigrants
    protect civil/public water sources from pollution
    cut greenhouse gas emissions to fight climate change
    increase gun regulation
    lower and control prescription drug prices
    improve healthcare access for those with pre-existing conditions
    protect net neutrality
    protect gay marriage rights

    these are all the subjects of specific real bills that democrats have either passed into law or tried hard to pass in the last few years.

    Meanwhile republicans act to block these bills while championing book bans and attacking trans folk and giving more power to corporations to ruin our planet and taking away women’s rights. 

    when you see posts attacking Democrats from the left or whatever, the talking points and quotes can often be traced back to right wing sources

    So all posts trying to keep non-republicans arguing amongst ourselves and calling for us to not vote democrat (or not vote at all) ? I will be assuming they are bad-faith posts and i won’t be spreading them or engaging with them or anything.

    Honest critique of the party is necessary, but like it or not our system currently is a two party system, and i’ll be voting for the better of the two until we can change our voting style to make additional political parties viable.

    elljayvee

    I live in Pennsylvania.

    Neither of my children is cisgender.

    The last gubernatorial election was, literally, do we elect this guy who is overly fond of cops but is generally a normal human being, or do we elect this other guy who believes frightening conspiracy theories and wants my children removed from my care and forcibly detransitioned and honestly would prefer them to be dead?

    That’s it. That’s the kind of choice we get in first-past-the-post voting. If that second guy won, we needed to move. There was no safe way to stay here. The votes of my fellow citizens were all that was standing between my kids and serious fucking danger.

    And my fellow citizens DID turn out. Lots of them came out and voted to reject the scary death cultist. I am grateful to all those who went, ugh, I don’t really like this guy, but the other guy is worse, and hauled themselves down to the polling place to get it done.

    You, too, can vote to reject scary death cultists, in your hometown and your home state and in the country as a whole.

    findingfeather

    Getting rid of the scary death cultists is a prequisite for getting political representation you actually want.

    comingupfrombehind

    NO. I’m going to be voting for cornel west and the democrats and their braindead apologists can suck my fucking silicone dick. I’m sick of being held hostage by capitalists who use and abuse me and couldn’t give a flying fuck about me, all they want is my money and my vote so they can stab me in the back and enact the same fucking policies as republicans would.


    You had FIFTY MOTHERFUCKING YEARS to make roe v Wade law and instead y’all fundraised off it crying wolf the whole time. Fuck you. The democrats are also a fascist party, because capitalism in decay IS FASCISM.


    Can’t wait to be blamed yet again for the failures of democrats. Instead of running a YOUNG person who works to meet the needs of the electorate they block any primary challenge and instead force this demented dinosaur who caused this mess onto us?! He voted to make student loans inedible to be discharged in bankruptcy. He voted for the 1994 crime bill. He voted for the Iraq war. He’s been in office for like 50 fucking years and I’m sick and tired of neoliberal bullshit and shaming anyone who dares to criticize the democrat PLANTATION.


    Oh and obligatory FUCK REPUBLICANS as well. Stop fucking blaming me for your own fucking ineptitude. You EARN my vote you are not ENTITLED to it.


    Holding me HOSTAGE is not a fucking flex dipshits.

    Nothing quite like the high of feeling an imminent grippy socks vacation in your future 🤪

    I keep reminding myself that capitalism has decided that I hold no value and shouldn’t exist because I’m a burden… never good enough… too neurodivergent, too much and not enough at the same damn time. I’m 34, been working for 21 years, never been able to hold a full time job for more than a year, hell, lucky if I make it six months.

    The ONLY thing that’s keeping me going right now is fantasizing ways to destroy capitalism, preferably with my bare hands.

    Those 8 white men who own more wealth than the rest of the human population have names and addresses. I think more of them need to go explore the titanic…

    Anddddd I lost my job, thanks neurodivergence it’s been real

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