I’m committed to not stopping the fire.

There’s a difference between being “committed to not stop the fire” and recognizing my tools at my disposal don’t work for me.

A better version of your example is more like my single fire extinguisher might help me with some of my fire, but it turns out my neighbors lit the whole fucking neighborhood on fire, so rather than fighting my little fire and exhausting myself pointlessly, I chose to walk out and acknowledge I can’t make a difference here.

If anything I should move out of the neighborhood but that’s a luxury I don’t have.

Implies my vote would have changed the outcome. But it wouldn’t have, and didn’t in some past cases. So no, you’re fucking dead wrong.

That’s an unproveable negative, and a strawman.

Where I have lived for my adult life in 3 significantly different parts of the country, it is true that my vote would have not at all affected the outcome on nearly all election positions I could vote for.

This was true multiple elections in a row. Whether my vote merely reaffirmed what was clearly going to happen regardless, or if mine was a waste since it was clearly not going to matter. In the vast majority of elections I did or could have voted in, I have looked after the fact and seen how my contribution, or lack of, Did. Not. Fucking. Matter.

Also most options I am presented with most of the time are uninspiring or downright evil.

As for effecting change. That’s a waste of time. I learned that early on. Everyone has their viewpoints and beliefs and the vast majority will not be swayed. They either will not change, or were already on your side.

Its not my responsibility to “solve” America’s 250 years of lies.

So have fun on your high horse as you highlight one cherry-picked recent primary result for one city in a country filled with 90,000 governments and countless elected positions.

So what I’m reading is, there’s two approaches, neither of which have solved fuck all, therefore everyone is wrong.

Well, then I guess that explains a lot.

History shows that if the Dems regain full control, they will not reverse all this carnage 100%. They will reverse maybe 25% of it and pretend the rest isn’t happening and maybe claim they don’t have enough control and we’ll hear the term bipartisan.

That’s why I don’t even fucking vote anymore. When they DO have some ability to improve things, they barely do. Biden proved to be exactly the slow-moving watered-down change I expected.

Fuck em all. And fuck you when you tell me how wrong I am. I really don’t give a fuck.

Put up serious change on the ticket or I’ll just roll my eyes again.

They just want internet points and the brief satisfaction of feeling smug by being a piece of shit to someone online.

Yes. And even in a swing state, it may take a million or more votes to swing it.

The few states with apportioned electors are the outlier.

What if they were in a state where their vote wouldn’t have even remotely changed the electoral vote outcome? It’s a strawman blame game you’re playing to feel smug about yourself in a generalized approach.

You don’t know anyone’s personal situation yet you have no qualm placing blame for a worldwide issue on a single individual.

Good for you. You shamed someone for not solving the worlds climate issues with a single fucking vote that may not have even made any difference at all.

I’ve had a lot of good recent experiences with Enterprise (in the US). There’s some interesting services like Turo, but I can’t bring myself to try it yet. Weirdly too personal being other people’s cars.

Don´t you wish for (young) people to develop good values…

Sounds like a fucking dog whistle for sure. Get off lemmy.

Then that contracted AI gets used for customer service at a public facing federal agency.

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Everything goes to shit.

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Switch to Proton Switch to Proton Switch to Proton Switch to Proton Switch to Proton Switch to Proton

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Its always the next thing, and the next thing and the next thing. What’s the new proton everyone will annoy the fuck out of us with?

This is why I stopped giving a shit. Actually. I do give a shit. I will let them surveil all of my shits, and garbage, and vomit.

Wait for something fucking idiotic like:

“U.S. government to implement 5,000% tax on new solar technology…”