Don’t put a shithead’s message in the headline. It spreads it. Headlines must be true, not false.

Look up George Lakoff videos, everybody.

Three.

Do we have to be 57? I just wanted to be part of a counting train.

I don’t like this chapter of Alice in Wonderland but the writing is good

cough cough news media

It starts with fury. Everything is beyond messed up over there.

Add in: anger funnels focus. Tunnel vision. It almost feels morally wrong to think of another thing. Anger helps you in a physical fight, so this makes sense. Also, ordering lunch while your neighbor’s house burns down is kinda dickish.

Add in: first past the post voting. This is the big clincher. It forces two party systems mathematically, and most people understandably haven’t heard why.

Factoring in the information in that video, you realize your choice really is Harris or Trump. Third choices get transformed into a vote for the candidate you dislike the most. So you take the best option.

Take away the knowledge of first past the post, and you have every reason to think that third parties will work if you all just had some spine and imagination, god damnit. You resolve not to let yourself be one of the ones who sat by silently while horrible things happen!

Cast protest vote thinking it makes you one of the people who actually helped, not realizing first past the post transforms that vote into a vote for trump, and everybody keeps fighting instead of watching that video and letting the facts it points out inform what they do.

The resistance infiltrating the enemy base in disguise can get a lot of work done. Especially if it’s long term and you don’t even need to sneak around.

Even just a low level functionary who’s not a nazi or a terrible person makes my time dealing with a government agency better. There’s not an automatic moral imperative to bounce.

The slightest effort at extrapolation makes this whole idea monumentally short-sighted.

That’s an outdated phrase by about 48 hours.

At a certain point I have to admit that I’m the asshole here for continuing to be on the side of Team Humanity.

Give Ukraine nukes and the finger guns before January.

Not even a little bit.

And you’re probably not gonna get a point of comparison, because it’s looking likely to be one party rule by the absolute shittiest american embarrassments forever at this point. At least until America does some stupid shit globally and gets themselves invaded by a united band of good guys down the road.

Opposing the genocide meant voting for Harris to avoid this exact situation.

There’s a smallish band of dipshits who care more about shouting about the genocide than stopping it. Not shouting about it (understandable and correct and good) and then stopping it. But actively not stopping it so they can shout.

The only chance–and it was only a chance–to save the Palestinians, was to keep Captain Dipshit away from the steering wheel and bust Harris’ balls incessantly until she did maybe half the right thing.

Because that option is better than what they’ve been doomed to now. But you don’t mind that. You have your purity, and that’s what your core value is.

The is the correct energy, and exactly the correct thing to say. Thanks for saying it. Now I can type this shorter message instead!

Trump and his party are nazis. Nazis suck because they bring the law of the jungle into civilization.

The law of civilization is cooperation.

The law of the jungle is, can I physically do it.

Republicans basically exist to shout, burn their own house down (also yours), and celebrate. They’re going to burn the checks and balances.

It’s simply a nazi infestation.

And then this weird limp dickness in the Democrats that compromising and doing nothing is the cure for cancer.

Vast numbers of people maliciously paused their duties in a thousand ways to let him through. They installed him, is how he got eligible. Because you’re absolutely right, he was and still is ineligible in a thousand ways.

And then the cockroaches came out of the walls.

Well you only need to worry about it from one side, so that’s half your worries gone right there.

God damn this is stupid. People area gonna die and worse. Use your damn head.

Late 2015.

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Pronounced “yike” as in Spanish. This is called eliding.

As long as progressives (and correspondingly, everybody) gets nothing, we’re good 👍👍🤘✊