On the one hand you have a clear choice. Otoh it seems like a permanent hostage situation.
I voted here in India today. Against the corrupt, extremely misogynistic, anti-environmental communist party in power and without throwing my vote away. But it was so random beyond that. I am voting against the misogynistic trash of the last 12 years that left my mom dead. I have no expectation that whoever wins will be any better. But one must still do what one can to vote out the known misogynists. And if things got better I would still be suspicious though cautiously less hostile.
Not for anyone or anything.
I looked at something called “The Federalist” once vaguely feeling that exclusively following one brand of human stupidity was making me biased against the left more than the right.
Otoh I would like to save my remaining brain cells. And..
How are people enthusiastic? Imagine if you had to worry about being dogged as suicidally depressed when you are no such thing (the name of a favorite movie of mine)? It can seem like shtick when you honestly communicate and that generally ..these cultish and tribal societies full of a stealth ai push calling people misanthropes for not backing totally shady corrupt and self serving ai pushes. And theatre and gaming.
There was a lot on “The Federalist” about some person called “bad bunny”, whose canned statements about immigration and America have the effect of nails on chalkboard and are generally insulting to human intelligence like all celebrity comments and pretty much everything.
It is an Ai push I suppose for lazy people who claim to be overworked.
Otoh people without much by way of policy positions do like to focus on such persons whether it is that ass Hulk Hogan or this “bad bunny” person.
I am explicitly the platonic ideal again of someone who outside of known people hates everyone equally. And doesn’t always buy the decision making of most anyone including myself as I navigate a pointless hellscape filled with crowds of idiots. I am an idiot too! “We”-all bonded by mind numbing self serving idiocy.
Anyway the only piece on “The Federalist” I agreed with was by a woman who was angry that Andrew Cuomo has a radio show given that she lost her mom during the pandemic.
So did I. Her oncologist was decent and he is my onc as well because he is someone I respect and trust completely. Unlike ai shills, he is genuinely overworked like my oncology nurse. Regardless he was an excellent doctor till the greed ramped up locally.
One difference between me and George Carlin is that being a woman I cannot not vote.
I am furious about the last 14 maybe 16 years.
Otoh much like Carlin I cannot join any groups. I disgree with him further that you can see the universe in every human’s eyes. In many eyes all I see is greed and avarice and a complete disregard for everyone and everything else. And that is found in all groups.
I am free at last. To hate without reservation and I do. It just happens to be devoid of explanatory strategies filled with bigotry or small mindedness. My hate knows no bounds. Otoh it is driven by whoever you are on the inside alone or in teams.
I hate stupid and sleazy people. In groups and individually.
I am still a humanist though. What can you expect with this dumb self serving bloody trash. Utterly disgraceful.
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