hey imagine if ALL this stuff were like this, and all the stuff our systems of organization did were stuff like this.
that would be pretty cool, right? like, no offensive wars, no weird syphilis shit, no trying to find the lethal dose of LSD my spiking random dudes’ drinks.
just, like, being cool and making things better and building shit. wouldn’t that be great?
We know the lethal dose of LSD is high enough that nobody can afford one!
I want custom debit cards again…
And coincidentally those minor improvements are only proposed a second before the election. Probably will never come through. Then you vote and then come another 4 years of tax cuts for the rich and money transfers to israel and the military.
We call this system a democracy, because you see, the power lies in the hands of the people. The power to tick a meaningless box that is.
You can’t take the politics out of politics. Of course the timing is suspect, and on average efforts to make changes like this don’t succeed. But occasionally they do, and now is a good time to start talking about them. Forcing Republicans to take stances on things before November is an excellent idea, because the Republican party itself is in the process of crumbling, and depending on the outcome of the election, there is a chance to pass legislation on various issues that would make life better for the average American.
As you point out, the whole process is totally messed up, politics is so dirty, large corporations and the ultra wealthy are so powerful. But on occasion we do see positive change, so we shouldn’t write it off as impossible or meaningless.
My asshole is bleeding only 22 out of 24 hours. I should be glad they didn’t fuck me more.
Maybe add to that “speaking to a real human” thing the provision that they be real humans who are actually empowered to address issues directly and immediately, instead of some call center where they keep you on hold for two hours before transferring you to someone who transfers you to someone else who hands the phone out the window to a passing town drunk who stumbles over to another call center where he chucks the phone through a random car window in the parking lot which just happens to belong to a manager just arriving at the office, who gives you a bunch of platitudes before telling you to mail a postcard with delivery tracking to a satellite office in the mountains from where it will be relayed on goatback to the bottom of a lake in a nearby fishing village.
At some point we might realise just how little power the greatest office on the planet actually has.
They have power, they just don’t use it in a way you want them to. They serve the oligarchs not you.
But the people do have the power to elect someone who is wlling to make change, bernie for example. Most people just dont vote for their best interest.
The people did vote for Bernie in the 2020 primaries, then the Democratic Party said they knew better than us and made Clinton the nominee anyways. And oopsy the two party system means you don’t get to vote for someone who represents you, just for the person who is slightly less evil.
lol no we don’t. not through electoralism alone, anyway. they need to be AFRAID to offer a compromise candidate like FDR. like, ‘the russian revolution just happened and those circumstances are happening here oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck I do not want to die in a coal mine and the coal miners ARE ALREADY FIGHTING THE ARMY AIR CORPS shit shit shit shit shit’ afraid
