For example, I sometimes do want to vote for Trump. Not because I like the man. Not because I find him as a credible leader, in fact, he’s a murderer in my eyes by negligence because of his handling of the 2020 COVID Pandemic.

But I want to vote for him because of all of the collective amount of stupidity I see society spiraling into and almost at a stunning level of complacency. We complain more than we do. We nitpick and cherry pick anything from anyone that isn’t warranted and make a big deal of it like someone’s post on social media.

We continue feeding into the things we cry about being bad. Just so much fucking stupidity at competing levels that challenges the previous record.

And I want to vote for someone who is as destructive as Trump, as a means of just punishment because of this. It’s like, society doesn’t learn as much as it should, so fuck you, have another 4 years of this asshole and this next set will most likely be the kind where we’ll see irreversible damage.

All because of society’s obliviousness and idiocy.

  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
    11·
    6 months ago

    Thanks to voters like you for Brexit then I guess.

    Sure we’re all stupid, but I’m putting my money and energy into what I want to make better, rather than worse. Sometimes that drive to do better comes from spite.

    I vote and tell others to online here and in real life, I attend city council meetings for the stuff I care about (transit), I go out and meet the poor and suffering where they are and donate to my local food bank. When I boycot something I stick to it. When a platform turns too shitty I find ways to get away from it (Lemmy), or at least get it to arms length (Matrix/Beeper).

    Issue is, there’s only so many things that I can be not complacent about. The Gaza war is terrible and I talk about it often, yet it’s just a situation I can’t see a way I can convince the US to hold Israel to account no matter what I do. Rents, affordability, climate, there’s stuff I care about but when I am back from my full time job there’s just no more room to think about how the world is fucked 10 ways from Sunday, and my mental health is better for not focusing on things I can’t fix.

    • snownyte@kbin.socialOP
      110·
      6 months ago

      So you go on to say that you want to make things better. But then go on later to say that you can’t make a situation better in regarding the Gaza situation.

      And then closing that when you work a full time job, it suddenly stops mattering. This is EXACTLY what I’m talking about with society, this pumping brake issue with people. See you talk all to the high heavens about issues but cave into defeatism after sounding so bold.

      We need more doers than just thinkers and you aren’t a doer.

      • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
        8·
        6 months ago

        To boil it down for you:

        I can do a lot, but I can’t do everything. I’m reserving what I can do to stuff where I can make the largest impact.