MourningDove

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[–] MourningDove@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Fighting for a change? Who are you fighting? In what manner do you fight? Give me an example of this fight you’re performing.

Because from where is sit, I’m seeing an awful lot of people that think that withholding a vote because of [insert flavor of the week reason] is somehow going to create change. And protests? They only work if those you’re protesting have empathy and shame. Protests don’t create change. VOTES DO.

By the way- this happens every single election year. Take note on all the change you fought for by doing jack shit.

[–] MourningDove@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (3 children)

It will never cease to amaze me how so many people could expect things to change by doing absolutely nothing.

When given a choice between cancer and a broken bone, you pick the broken bone- every time.

But… now we have cancer- and this isn’t up for debate.

[–] MourningDove@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 hours ago

But when they did it, it was fine…. Right?

[–] MourningDove@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 hours ago

Cool story! I hope for your sake, history repeats itself. And if it helps, from what I understand, the suffering of others is a lot more tolerable when you lack the empathy it takes to think of anyone but yourself.

Good luck! And welcome to my block list.

[–] MourningDove@lemmy.zip 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

Boy howdy! I sure learned my lesson! And I’ll bet you must be happy as the day is long that the millions of Americans hurt by the questionable decision to allow good to be the enemy of perfect have also learned that lesson right alongside the rest of us.

Thank you so much for the tough love you brought down on us all. I’m sure we’re all going to be so much better from it once we’re done morning our losses and are once again allowed to be seen in public.

[–] MourningDove@lemmy.zip 26 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

So… basically the thing he said he would do before the election?

[–] MourningDove@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 hours ago (5 children)

The democrats weren’t the ones that stayed home during the most important election of their lives. Just saying…

[–] MourningDove@lemmy.zip 0 points 8 hours ago

This is absolutely the right way to steer this ship. We don’t need perfect. We just need a winner. From there, we can work towards perfect.

[–] MourningDove@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Can you show your work on this?

[–] MourningDove@lemmy.zip 5 points 8 hours ago (6 children)

After reading through the comments here, I’m no longer curious as to how we arrived at where we currently are. We’re an absolute mess! An embarrassingly arrogant and equally ignorant mess.

And while it’s true that our future remains uncertain, after reading through this thread, I’m not sure it’s a good idea that any of us hold on to any length of hope that this disaster will ever right itself again. That is, if it is to be believed that we are a microcosm of a larger collective.

It’s said, that hope is a luxury of those who have a choice. But we had a choice. And what did we do? We slept. We withheld votes in protest. We stayed home. We opted out. However it is presented- We made our choice.

And now here we are. Salivating at the chance to tear one another a new asshole while we marinade in the results of our inability to do the bare minimum to protect a nation’s democracy.

We didn’t just deserve this:

We earned it.

[–] MourningDove@lemmy.zip 3 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

Did you read the article?

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