I’m just happy to be a little useful to the Fediverse! 🙏

The fastest we know of, and during a campaign where there are widespread reports of suppression of the local ethnicity, including forced sterilizations

“It’s a good thing that our current situation couldn’t get any worse.”

Situation: [gets worse]

Hard not to sympathize. World is fucked.

Wait, you guys have trains?

Depending on whether the stars are right. Or whether you need to cross the tracks - there’s always one when you need to cross the tracks.

Jesus fucking Christ. What a fucking slug Trump is.

Unfortunately, that’s the only kind of voting there is, so long as there are factions and negotiations (ie always, realistically speaking).

People think of voting at the polls like an opinion poll, but it’s not, or shouldn’t be treated as such. We are the equivalent of electors in a college or legislators in a parliament. What we wield is not our opinion, it is our political power, what little sliver of it we have in the great mass of the electorate. If Senator John Q. RealtivelyLeft abstained on a bill for universal healthcare tomorrow because the wording displeased him, we wouldn’t say “Well, that’s just his opinion”, we’d lambast him for forsaking a chance to make this fucking country a little less miserable for his own petty partiality. Same with voting.

Look to your left and to your right. Your fellow voters are there, and it’s only by majority vote that anything gets passed.

Be strategic. And also, be loud and unafraid of your own position; it’s the only way the calculus on strategies changes.

Common DSA L.

Fucking idiots. Pulling your endorsement of one of the top fucking 5% of most Pro-Palestinian Congresscritters for being INSUFFICIENTLY pro-Palestine.

“Pug, you’re an incredibly smart kid, but you’re lazy.”

Me, unable to remember homework, but acing every test and going above-and-beyond on any project with freeform requirements, leading to solid Bs and Cs despite half my assignments being a flat 0 for not being turned in: “Yeah.”

… kind of wish someone looked a little deeper into the issue at the time.

Damn, you really gonna make me vote for the prohibitionist YEC?