I’m too tired to be terrified

Yes, I am aware we lost.

Aztec human sacrifice and the brutal capital punishment implemented by European countries were both for the same thing: To maintain social order.

Except the Aztecs sacrificed a lot fewer people to their gods than the Europeans sacrificed to their god of “justice.”

David Graeber’s magnum opus “Debt: The First 5,000 Years” goes into a lot of detail about alternative economies that have existed since humans started trading

The democrats didn’t offer solutions to this while Trump lied and claimed he could do this.

Worse than that: Democrats insisted that since the data said people weren’t hurting then they weren’t hurting.

I love that the precursor to the CIA endorses useless meetings as antifascist praxis.

A climate superfund is just nostalgic enough to work.

As if some ceremony will prevent the horrors to come

There’s lots of different neurodivergence and not all of them are scary crazy

No, I got it from The Gutenberg Parenthesis by Jeff Jarvis, which compares how society reacted to moveable type to how it was reacting to the Internet. It’s a pretty short but well researched book.

I’ve been dragging my progressive ass to vote for two and half decades and have fuck all to show for it

I had political awareness starting in 1990 and it’s been the same ever since then.

As if I haven’t been donating to those sorts of candidates already.

I would have had more impact just lighting twenties on fire.

I’ve been voting blue no matter who for 24 years. In every election, no matter the year. And it still all went to shit.

Democrats can’t fucking win shit, and I’m supposed to keep voting for them?

I will, because I don’t have a choice. But I’m not going to act like it will help at all, even if they win.

Except that when you inhale you actually get something.

When you vote you get jack shit most of the time.

Man it would be nice if we weren’t always fucking drowning.

That’s fine as long as they don’t call me a liberal. At least Trump can win something.

I voted for Harris and it didn’t prevent anything.

If voting worked every RATM song wouldn’t still be relevant.

I still bleed in six colors

The divine right of kings did not survive the invention of the printing press. Nation-states likely won’t survive the invention of the internet. I’m hopeful for that.

We will then see it in the 2026 midterms and the 2028 presidential election, when Americans elect true leaders who care about working people and the common good.

No we won’t. We’ll get milquetoast neoliberals and a few blue dogs. And they’ll control one chamber and get fuck all done. Americans are idiots who have always voted against their best interests to entrench oligarchy.

I have no idea how someone with so much experience in politics could possibly think this is what will happen.