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Fair.
Don't forget to make a lot of friends for playing PvP with. In Minecraft I mean.
Don't ask stupid fucking questions on clearnet, comrade. OpSec. Look it up.
Easy. I already said it's fair if you don't want to answer the question.
I'm just skeptical of people who say they believe Trump is a fascist threat and their response is to vote. If we're on the verge of a takeover we can't just wait until November to do something about it.
My official, considered response is definitely "Voting is the legally prescribed method for correction." Why did they include the second amendment if it's not legal to use? 🤷♀️
Your skepticism is valuable and appropriate. Violating opsec is not.
Well there's the three boxes theory: ballot box, soap box, ammo box.
I think we have to use our voices to pressure Biden by any means necessary, and this is the other legally prescribed method. As long as his campaign is certain that you will vote for him no matter what he does, he will take advantage of you. You're silencing yourself.
I grant completely that I'm in a no-win situation spiraling increasingly rapidly out of control. Gaming this out, regardless of the outcome of this election, the pressures that caused this situation are still in place. The longer the inevitable crisis takes to reach its peak, the higher that peak will be. More and more frustration from faithfully diseducated morons will pile on each other while people with at least half a fucking brain wonder WTF but continue to go to work each day because if I don't I will starve or find myself back on the streets. I recognize that I'm caught in this broken, losing scenario where all legally available options are designed to perpetuate the existence of an intolerable system. Without some sort of critical mass of supporters, I don't see any traction here or any way out of this mess. I see us being rescued some ten or twenty years from now from our mask-off fascist state by europe and india and japan and maybe, if we're lucky, china wont ask too high a price to help too.
Soap box... Yes, but. Most people's idea of a soapbox anymore is basically the juvenile's chinese spyware program. Media is dying due to, you guessed it, perverse incentives provided by a broken system. I am frankly reluctant to grab a megaphone and stand in town square talking about the end is nigh, though I would never have even considered writing that sentence a decade ago, let alone actually contemplating it, so...
I dunno. I wonder if I might actually be able to do more good in my gerrymandered district by voting third party.
opsec? lol we're all anonymous here
I've got a bridge to sell you.
Edit: It occurs to me that you might just be young enough for it not to be common knowledge that the NSA is spying on everything you do, and not merely gullible. They have tapped your phone and are listening in. They are monitoring your internet activity. They are recording all of it and are becoming increasingly sophisticated at analyzing the data in enormous quantities.
I actually saw a bridge for sale on a website recently - 160 foot steel truss bridge for use in the logging industry - $0.50/foot.