No, it's not "a" bad vote. Every single vote that any living person has cast has been a bad vote. Every single vote that any living person has cast has been for greedy, corrupt, self-aggrandizing politicians. They steal from the taxpayer, they enrich their friends, they live lives of cocaine and alcohol and hookers and orgies, and they pass mean-spirited policies specifically designed to hurt one group of people or another.
It's not one "side." It's all of them. The rot goes all the way down to the root.
And I think there's got to be some part of you that recognizes that. There's gotta be some part of you that realizes that the Administration your vote supports is corrupt - I mean, fuck, the President accepted a $400 million bribe in the form of a golden airplane. And when everyone said "Whoa, dude, that's really illegal," he just said "Fuck you, Alito says I can do what I want."
It couldn't be any less subtle. The President hawks NFTs. The President of the United Fucking States is out there hawking pictures of himself dressed in spandex in the world's most obvious pump-and-dump scheme. He doesn't even pretend it's not a pump-and-dump. He literally steals from his own dumbest voters and supporters just because he can.
Do you really think he gives a shit about your beliefs or your religion? Are you just absolutely thrilled that he put his Jewish son-in-law in charge of practically half the government? That he put women in charge of everything from Justice to National Intelligence to Homeland Security? That he's obviously never read the Bible but thinks he can win over Evangelicals with AI slop depicting himself as Jesus Christ?
Was that a good vote, Kaarous?
They would argue that the killing is very much in progress, or at least in the planning phases.
See, they don't actually talk on sites like this, but they sure as shit send journalists out to read them. And those journalists read threads like this and they report back "You were right. They want to kill you all."
And they conclude: "Well then if we don't successfully enslave them, we'll be - how did Kaarous put it - twenty-foot high burning piles of corpses."
It's literally a bad vote. They've fallen for an endless stream of bullshit that's being piped into their echo chamber by corrupt and greedy officials.
And I hate to break it to you, but the exact same is true of you.
You are both voting for corrupt, evil people who don't give a flying shit about whether you live or die, and use your vote solely to enrich themselves and their friends.
They sure did, and, no, casting a bad vote should not be a death-penalty crime.
Let's face it, no American has cast a good vote since, fuck, I don't know, Eisenhower?
That's exactly the same thing they're saying. "Why shouldn't we enslave the people who are actively trying to kill us and our families? You think it would be better to just passively be killed?"
Here's exactly what that 60% of people I care about have done: they've shared memes on Facebook that are only "funny" in that asinine way that seeing something you agree with is funny; they've walked up and down the street with a stupid pink hat and congratulated each other for walking up and down the street; they've said "hey you should recycle that" when I try to throw away a dirty paper plate; they've written some angry songs that no one will ever hear; they've gotten drunk at night and ranted about how the red-hats lack even the tiniest shred of empathy; and they've cast "historic votes for the first woman president" or whatever.
To you, these are all death-penalty crimes. And of course they shouldn't be.
That's why we will be building twenty foot high piles of their burning corpses
If you can't recognize this as not only evil, but comically evil, I don't know what to tell you. But maybe you're just trollin'. Having yourself a goof. It's a weird little corner of the Internet. Who's to say.
The left is entirely certain that the right is transparently evil. I've heard all those arguments for years and years. That you're all just raging psychopaths who delight in violence and murder, with no consideration for peace or human dignity.
And here you are talking about literally destroying them all, so it's not like they're completely crazy when they say that stuff, is it?
They call for you to be brought to heel, to be forced to conform, to have your autonomy and your human right to self-expression stripped away from you. They want to make prisoners out of you.
You call for the streets to run red with their blood. You want to make corpses out of them.
It actually does feel almost perfectly morally equivalent. Two groups of assholes, unable to see each other as even human beings, hell-bent on a war that will leave almost nothing good intact.
Well, it means they're not remotely interested in solving the problem. That they'll never let a good crisis go to waste in the service of lining their pockets. That they pretty much know it's impossible to solve the problem, so they might as well use it as part of a power grab.
Doesn't mean the problem isn't real. It is. It's just that no government or coalition of government has either the will or the ability to stop it. And "guys, our great-grandchildren are probably good and fucked no matter what" isn't a message that polls well.
Liberals lie by saying they can solve it; conservatives lie by saying it isn't even real; every partisan is much more highly motivated to spread lies than face the truth.
The liberals sneer at my "moral equivalency," too. Everyone's so fucking mad that I don't want to pick a fight with a third of the population. Everybody seems to want the 'coming civil war' to happen. Even though, frankly, no one's gonna win it, and whatever survivors are left will emerge malnourished, illiterate, and poisoned by the air and water, in one of the bleakest societies the world has ever seen. Anything other than that is probably just an idiotic fantasy.
No, if the 'coming civil war' really does happen, I'll try to hide underground and eat rats after the rations run out; and I suspect I'll outlive just about everyone I talk to - not that that'll put me in any kind of an envious position.
So they want to enslave you and put a boot on your throat, and you want to rip out their entrails and blame them for your own violence. Why should I like either group? Seems obvious enough that it's all just assholes all the way down.
Hello, Kaarous!
Well, let's look at the second-highest rated comment on this very thread.
"The left is pure evil, every bit as much as their masters. And they deserve the same end. A brutal death and an eternity of fire."
My mom's a Democrat. My drummer's a Democrat. Probably 60% of the people I care about are Democrats. Seems like it couldn't be much more clear that the red-hats are in agreement that they should face brutal deaths and then burn for all time.
Yeah, I'm not gonna be voting for that team.
Android never really had an app store monopoly. You could always download and install .apk files from anywhere on the Internet.
I can't see the administration winning this case. Their claim is that the SPLC defrauded donors by paying informants in extremists groups to gather information about them. Donors are just generally going to testify "Yes, that's exactly what I wanted them to do with my money."
What I'm reading is that the Iranians never actually tweeted this. They targeted "strategic assets" in the UAE including Amazon's data centers, but never claimed to have targeted secret high-tech weather control devices.
I'm also reading that Tehran is experiencing highs in the 60s and Baghdad is experiencing highs in 80s, which is totally normal for April; and that they're getting occasional thunderstorms with the same frequency they got last year and pretty much every year.
Both of those freaks in the box want me dead.
The red-hat freak is an angry, crude authoritarian who supports policies that actively harm me and my family.
The blue-hair freak is an angry, smug authoritarian who supports policies that actively harm me and my family.
Kinda pisses me off that people keep whining at me "nO yOu HaVe To VoTe, It'S yOuR cIvIc DuTy." That's about as compelling as going to a booth and checking a box indicating whether I'd rather have my dick cut off with a machete or a guillotine.
I'm genuinely surprised it's working. Who are these idiots who read Truth Social and go "Whoa, he's saying there's gonna be fighting! Sell oil stocks!" and then the next day go "Whoa, he's saying there's gonna be a ceasefire! Buy oil stocks!"
How can that possibly work more than once or twice?
Is it just me, or is this one kind of like when Kevin Spacey came out of the closet as a gay man, expecting that community to embrace him?