At least it’s not articles just repeating stuff from reddit posts.

They clearly don’t want to have any say in the matter at all.

No, the Democrats didn’t do enough… but they’re hardly alone in that. America is a country of “I want what I want, and fuck everything else”. You can see it in the people who vote conservative against their own interest… but you can also see in the people who’d rather stay home than fight for something that’s a little better instead of a lot.

No answer is perfect. And waiting for perfection to land in your lap so you can start acting on it is exactly what the GOP and Trump coalitions are capitalizing on.

The system sucks, but refusing to participate, or pretending you can change it by force, is only going to make things worse for you and everyone around you.

Congress is mostly Republicans.

Or did you think that the presidency was the only thing that mattered in the US?

Try telling someone working 40 hours a week who can afford to go to Disney every year that they aren’t.

The system is unfair, but that does not mean all unfairness is equally distributed. It also doesn’t mean that all systems with unfairness are the same. Telling people that they are is lying to their face to try and justify your own inaction.

Pretty sure he lost in the square of public opinion years ago, now he’s just capitalizing on it.

It’s sending a sacrificial pawn so the tyrant doesn’t think of their absence.

No, but they do have an effect on emotional states.

What’d you call me?

I want to eat

I want to have shelter

You know… I don’t think it really works for all things.

Hey, that’s my sons name!

The world has been ending for a long long time. This is just the latest speed boost we’ve run over.

Forgot to opt in maybe?

Or, for the more sinister approach, forgot people had to opt in to organ donation and was just taking organs willy-nilly?

Probably for the same reason so many terminally online “politically engaged” people insist that they’re clearly morally and intellectually superior to everyone else despite the fact that all they do is whine about how the “lesser evil” (in just one of thousands of elections, no less) isn’t good enough for them.

Maybe if you stopped focusing so much on the negatives, and started promoting positive change, people wouldn’t argue with you so much.

There’s no one issue that, independently, could have change the outcome that no other could have as well. Blaming it on just one thing is just as ignorant as blaming it just on voters.

It’s as much on the Harris campaign as the American people who didn’t fucking show up, despite all the evidence that it’s going to be so much worse with Trump.

Trying to say “It’s anyone’s fault but mine” at this stage is pointless, though… because what’s done is done. We’re fucked. Doing nothing but point fingers only damages us in the long run, because it’s that much more energy not spent on fixing it in the future.

For Palestine? Probably. In so many other options? It’s laughable that people think that the two candidates were in any way similar.

Biden, and by extension Harris, have not waved their hands and saved the country (even if they could, which they can’t, because we elected politicians not magicians), but they have done leagues more for people than anything the Trump crowd has.

Being ignorant of that is dangerous, but spreading that ignorance is borderline manslaughter for all the people who are going to be hurt because millions of people decided not to show up for this election that did for the last.

I’ve absolutely still seen people making those arguments. It’s fuckin’ wild.

Doing a real good job of building bridges to convey your ideas, I see…

Unless of course you don’t want to share thoughts and just want to be right.

With banks there’s a financial incentive for private institutions to provide barriers. Barriers that can still be bypassed with the right tools and initiative. That incentive doesn’t exist for media providers. They just want their content as accessible as possible. Meaning any roadblocks they’re forced to utilize will be half-assed at best.

Not to mention it’s a stupid idea in the first place. Banning something doesn’t make it better, it just makes it more tantalizing. Just look at prohibition, or abstinence only education. All it does is create a more unsafe environment for those outlets.

I had a bank account when I was 11.

I think it’d look better with a belt.

Being human doesn’t make you good. Plenty of humans are monsters. They’re not some eldritch evil that simply started existing hating, they chose this.

That makes them worse, of course… but still very very human.