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Personal advice for voting, with a side of vent.
11 months ago
TL:DR: The big picture is a mess because lazy crybabies have nothing better to do. Help your state, your town, and yourself by focusing on the smaller picture, where you should be. Some people will appreciate you for it more than you think.
You really want this country to improve by voting?
Focus on electing your local and state governments, whoever is in your state government will matter more to you than whoever takes the white house.
The current national election is just an overglorified dumpster fire fueled by the news and the drama consumers they control. No matter who wins, they're going to cry about it for precious internet points and ad revenue. Screw the news, screw doombaiters, and screw drama consumers.
I have no sympathy for anyone who disguises their anger from "didn't get toys this Christmas" to "I blame this person because everyone else said so". I get that feeling, but I did that many years ago myself, and it didn't help me out in the long run. If this hyperfixation is unhealthy for me, then it is also be unhealthy for you too.
If you have the spare time to weaponize irony, emotionally blackmail people into doing your work, believe your own lies, and spit on those who are trying to help you out, then you have spare time to perform exercises, meditate, talk to people on a casual level, or just overall improve your behavior in general.
I get we're in rough times, but I am sick of the emotional blackmailing - so is everyone else, and so are you.
This is the digital information age; for once, at least use it to help yourself, for your own sake.
Any childish bait games, political tear-jerking, and any other appeal to emotion BS will be scrubbed with hell on a stick up the ass. Don't try me.
You really want this country to improve by voting?
Focus on electing your local and state governments, whoever is in your state government will matter more to you than whoever takes the white house.
The current national election is just an overglorified dumpster fire fueled by the news and the drama consumers they control. No matter who wins, they're going to cry about it for precious internet points and ad revenue. Screw the news, screw doombaiters, and screw drama consumers.
I have no sympathy for anyone who disguises their anger from "didn't get toys this Christmas" to "I blame this person because everyone else said so". I get that feeling, but I did that many years ago myself, and it didn't help me out in the long run. If this hyperfixation is unhealthy for me, then it is also be unhealthy for you too.
If you have the spare time to weaponize irony, emotionally blackmail people into doing your work, believe your own lies, and spit on those who are trying to help you out, then you have spare time to perform exercises, meditate, talk to people on a casual level, or just overall improve your behavior in general.
I get we're in rough times, but I am sick of the emotional blackmailing - so is everyone else, and so are you.
This is the digital information age; for once, at least use it to help yourself, for your own sake.
Any childish bait games, political tear-jerking, and any other appeal to emotion BS will be scrubbed with hell on a stick up the ass. Don't try me.
The internet is filled with many people of all personalities and backgrounds, but that noisy 1% are just narcissists who only say the most childish and hurtful things for those precious internet points; and will pray those points will help them get famous in the end, when it really doesn't.
...Makes me wonder if those kids really have any friends to begin with.
Aside from that, my issue isn't about the fandoms or the developers, but the people who wail about the political bullshit being shoved into their face, but then ironically shove the political bullshit they hate on everyone else for a stupid reason, which repeats the bullying cycle they wail about so much. Half the time it's just people begging with tears for others to do the work for them, which is something a 5 year old would do.