I am genuinely and utterly broken in the brain by people like that insufferable meme-poster up there.
Yeah, buddy, it really fucking sucks that you can't just like, show up once every 2-4 years and pull a lever and someone else like magically fucking fixes everything for you. It sucks that you might have to like... actually do more things.
I keep saying, over and over, that actually making things better in a situation like the one we're in right now is not gonna come about through glorious revolution where only bad people die and definitely only theoretical people who are Over There somewhere, definitely not anybody you really know. I keep saying, like... the Reign of Terror, percentage-wise, on the US population?
Just... the greater Miami metro area. Gone. All of it. Or Minneapolis. Just the entire fucking city. Blood, the stink of death, piles of fucking corpses.
And yeah, if we get to the point of fucking armed uprising, I got no illusions about what's happen next or what's likely to happen to me, but what's actually more likely to happen way before that is that shit will get slowly worse and slowly worse and old people will keep starving to death or freezing to death alone in their homes and kids will keep dying from preventable diseases and unhoused people will die more and more from heat stroke and people will get sicker and be hungrier and they'll lose teeth and bone density from poor nutrition and they'll lose their homes and their family units will become frayed and they'll lose necessary treatments and this woman will die from an untreated ectopic pregnancy and that dude will die because he couldn't afford his insulin and this older trans person will die bc losing their HRT fucked up their body and made their diabetes worse.
And you can't actually fix any of that fucking shit with a smarmy picture of partisans, and you really can't fix it with the guns that got photoshopped out, though I guess sometimes it's nice to think you could. And you can't fix it just by voting, either.
Voting is the equivalent of carrying Narcan around in your backpack. It doesn't fix the problem. It reduces harm. It doesn't reduce harm appreciably unless a fucking lot of people do it, and do it consistently. You are gonna have to do more than just carry around Narcan if you want to address the problem of people dying on the street from fentanyl overdoses.
And if you carry the Narcan around, you know what? People are still gonna fucking die in the meantime, and shit will be bad, and that sucks.
But more people will fucking die if you don't.
Look, at this point, either you believe that voting is valid harm reduction, or you don't. We'll keep doing our best to convince y'all. But fucking stop sniffing your own farts about some glorious revolutionary cosplay.
It's embarrassing. You might as well be a 9 year old arguing that you don't have to clean your room because Superman is going to do it for you.
No he won't. Clean your fucking room.