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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • No, that’s not how our system works.

    In our system you never vote FOR anyone. You are always voting AGAINST the worst candidate. That is literally how it is set up. That is the definition of a two party system.

    Voting against a worst candidate is not propping up that system. Because one of those candidates is going to win either way due to the electoral college.

    If everyone, literally everyone, that was Democrat decided to vote Green, then they’d still lose. Again, electoral college. Nevermind the fact that getting everyone to do it is literally impossible.


  • No one supports the two party system. We recognize it exists and work within it to change it. But it’s designed to not change, so it’s hard.

    Stomping your feet and voting third party for president is performative at best, disingenuous at worst.

    Local elections, vote third party if you want.

    Is that bullying? I lost track of the line between facts and harassment.










  • It’s not obvious to realize this, but the luxury of thinking words are neutral is a privilege.

    Think of it this way. If 5% of the time, when a person said “howdy”, they punched you in the face. You would be very wary of anyone saying howdy. Just in case. Now imagine having to live on edge like that 24/7. It wears you down. It’s exhausting.

    Well, it costs me nothing to choose a different word besides howdy. And for that cost of $0 I can make someone else’s life less anxious. I know how much anxiety sucks because I’m basically made out of it. So I’m going to do what I can to put other people at ease.

    Now obviously black people know that the IT term master and slave are not about them. But they are also conditioned by society that, some small % of the time when those words come up, things go very poorly for them. So yeah, I would be twitchy about it too. Even if my rational mind knew it was silly.