• agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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    23 hours ago

    I repeat, voting is not mutually exclusive with alternative methods. I never said it was sufficient for change, just that it buys time until those alternatives are mature enough to actually accomplish anything.

    This is not sunk cost, this is using a garden hose to try to slow the spread of a fire until the firetruck arrives. Where’s the firetruck? All I see are self-proclaimed firefighters sitting at the station, arguing over what kind of firehose to bring. Until the truck pulls up, I’m going to keep at it with the garden hose, and beg my neighbors to bring theirs to help. Because if we keep waiting for you to show up with the truck, the house will be burnt to cinders.

    Spend a little less time criticizing my garden hose, and get the fucking firetruck out of the station.

        • theonlytruescotsman@sh.itjust.works
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          21 hours ago

          Correct, hence why I corrected your logic in your metaphor.

          You still don’t understand that being shot in the left nut or the right but doesn’t change the shooter or the pain.

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              21 hours ago

              It’d get there a lot quicker if you’d stop pretending the firefighters shouldn’t even try or are Russian agents or are secretly maga super soldiers or whatever bluemaga nonsense gets around and stopped insisting your hose of gasoline is giving us more time.

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                20 hours ago

                What? No they wouldn’t. They’ve been putzing around at the station since before either of us were born. What’s taking so long? Show me the firetruck. Wheels, engine, ladder, hoses, all assembled and ready to go. The firefighters haven’t even started putting it together yet, much less on the road. Tick tock, house is burning. How many more decades do I have to wait?

                If you don’t want to be accused of being a shill, then stop helping them. Millions of voters refused just like you asked, and now we get genocidal fascists instead of genocidal liberals. MAGA got exactly what they wanted. You might not be a secret agent sent to disperse propaganda, but you definitely fell for one.