“When someone says both sides, its obvious they have not been watching the actions of the political parties. Lets look how they vote.” - /u/armored_cat
Really annoys me when I read apathetic people saying that Dems and Reps are the same. Yes, there’s a lot of crony corpos in the Dems side but they are in no way even close to the same. There’s a lot of stuff the Dems have done that I’m not a fan of, but are still not even close to being the same as Reps.
This is a great comment that outlines the stark differences on voting records that I archived so it wasn’t lost.
They are not the same, make sure you vote to keep the fascists out. Also vote in the primaries so we can get more progressive/populist representatives as candidates. Voting is not the only answer to salvage the future but it’s definitely a part of the answer.
Ayn Rand is so very much not the person I want to be the guiding light for AGI. That’s not even a subtle failure.
Anyhow, this is the stuff I’m actually pretty focused on in day to day life. I have a fair degree of fatalism because I have a well-grounded idea of exactly how hard it is. That doesn’t mean I’ve given up, but I don’t think covering our eyes and ears and saying, “LA LA LA SHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUP” is going t solve the problem.
“Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”