At least a furrowed brow.

I’m not claiming otherwise.

Fucking oil companies are literally going to willfully kill us all in the name of profit if Trump doesn’t beat them to it.

Yes yes I don’t think that’s relevant to the bit I responded to.

The right wants nothing more than to accelerate the process, so I can’t see how that connects.

I had the same reaction. Enshittification came for Windows more than a decade ago, WTH are they thinking with this meme?

Hey you got what you wanted, and you got to post a lengthy manifesto about it. I don’t feel obligated to give you more of my time than I already have.

Only in a two-party system.

So you mean - like the system this election took place within?

For the love of all that is holy, do not assume that they will figure out everything you just typed above from the fact that you didn’t vote for them.

I don’t actually agree with your choice, but I do agree with this:

The Dems can be better, but they choose not to.

So please, if you have convinced yourself that withholding one vote out of tens of millions will somehow send them the message you are trying to send, please also convince yourself that it would be even more effective to drop them a line and let them know how you feel in explicit detail.

https://democrats.org/contact-us/

Same message for everyone else who chose a protest vote on Tuesday. It’s all great to feel like you did the right thing, but maybe now question whether your message will actually be received, and be sure that it does. Otherwise you put Trump in for literally nothing.

It’s OK, your explanation is not required.

And half of it is either not true for me personally, based on some hefty assumptions even if applied generally, etc…

Jokes on them, in 50+ years I’ve accumulated almost nothing anyhow!

Yes but does every president have them in their phone with hearts next to their name? I don’t think so.

I’m fairly sure he’s got Putin in his contacts. He can just call him first and say, “Trust me bro, I got this.”

(Not that I think Trump will nuke Ukraine, nor do I believe for a second that our military will allow that to happen.)

None of that changes whether you will be among the primary groups to pay the consequences, which is all I said.

Harris abandoned queers, brown people, and the entire progressive side of the party and needed to pay the consequences.

No, the queer community, brown people, disabled people, etc will now pay the consequences. gg

No no, I was told repeatedly that Trump would be no worse than Harris. Clearly the Palestinians on the ground are wrong somehow.

Fair point! So which part of my reply to the other commenter was incorrect?

Sure, OK. But it’s not a universal observation. Leaving off “to me” makes it so. That commenter didn’t sound that way to me. See how that works?

I now wish he’d won in 2020. Maybe it would have finally been the thing that stopped D from tacking to the right. Plus, we’d be a month away from being done with him now. We’d be a month away from starting to rebuild from 8 years of his shit. (well ok, more like two months)

Instead, factoring in the supreme court, the house and senate, and figuring all the shit he dismantles will take more than just 4 years to put back together, I figure I’ll be dead of old age (as will anyone over 50) by the time any of the progressive goals that seemed like they could one day be obtainable at the end of 2020 actually have any chance of becoming obtainable again.

And that’s on top of the untold horrors that await the queer community, people of color, folks with special needs, etc etc during the next four years, and I’m now not 100% sure we’ll get another election at all.