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If I’m always given a choice between two bags of shit and one is always objectively worse I will always vote for the smaller bag it could be a 99lb bag vs a 100lb bag and I will still choose that 99lb bag because at a certain point you will be 99lbs done and at that point I really don’t want to stop and think god damn it I still have another pound of shit to eat just because I didn’t want to vote
That’s at least how I feel now seeing the giant mountain of shit I still have to eat knowing I could have already been done with my pile if my candidate had won but at least now I know I voted for the smaller pile
Unfortunately, the "smaller bag of shit" party, whether or not they win the vote, keeps passing legislation to fund research to pack more shit into these bags, enabling the "bigger bag of shit" party to increase their ability to force shit on us. Then the "smaller bag of shit" party can up their own quantity of shit and still point to the other party and say "Well, you won't have to eat as much shit if you vote for us."
I'm hoping to find a way to not eat shit at all. When I vote for the "smaller bag of shit" party I question if this is really the way to do that. The same party fights against those in their party looking for ways to reduce the amount of shit. They are funded primarily by those that are producing all this shit.
This is why I empathize with those who are drowning in shit, thrashing about for a solution to their problems. I also empathize with those who look up and just see shit and don't bother to make a choice. I even empathize with those who see the "bigger bag of shit" party claiming "No shit this time, we swear" and vote for them out of desperation to get away from all the shit. It doesn't make me feel better knowing I voted for the "smaller bag of shit" party because it didn't save any of these people from drowning in shit.
I do struggle to empathize with people who blame those drowning. I really struggle with those who voted for the "big bag of shit" party because of promises that "oh, yes, there will be bigger bags of shit but don't worry you won't be the ones that have to eat most of it. If you vote for us, we'll make sure they drown in shit".
The person who is drowning in the shit. I.e doesn’t even have the capacity to vote because they live in a fucked up place that requires them to wait 6 hours outside on Election Day and they have kids and work and can’t make it gets my sympathies
The person doomscrolling tiktok who has had propaganda shoveled in their mouth and now thinks both sides are equal doesn’t get my sympathy