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I think being mad at people who had the privilege/access to vote and didn't care to is completely different than being mad at people who's voting rights were suppressed

 

He literally said fuck everyone who didn’t vote how does that not include people who’s votes are suppressed? Even I was fucked over by the fucked uo registration system but no one wants to hear that

 

Oh god it's 2016 election litigation time again?

*runs*

 

I get what you're saying and I agree that we need to focus on suppression and registration and ID laws bullshit.

I think we all know that he's not saying that to people who's voting rights were suppressed due to laws/economic inequalities/access.

 

Then maybe he shouldn’t say fuck everyone who didn’t vote

 

you people make me wanna relapse

 

yeah I agree he should be more clear.

I've just seen this exact argument 5 times in the past 5 days, and I think we're all on the same page when it comes to voter suppression, at least from what I've seen we all know it exists and who it affects. I don't think anybody is ignoring that.

 

I don’t really feel like I’m in a position to judge how people express / direct their anger at current events anymore.

If someone says “fuck people that didn’t vote.” I get it.

If someone says “fuck establishment democrats for nomination Hillary and not Bernie.” I get that too.

Each day, the news sends me down a spiral where I basically blame every one, and every thing, possible. On any given day, out of frustration, I could type either of those two statements depending on when in my anger cycle you catch me.

A lot of people fucked up to get us here. That includes me. I voted in the primary and General. I donated what I could to both Bernie and then to HRC. But I could have definitely done more. I can do more right now.

And that’s something I’m constantly struggling with.

I don’t know. It all just feels so useless. It’s been a bad day.

 

and you’re defending someone who is trying to start the same exact argument again because? some of us are mentally drained at the end of our rope and about to seriously cause harm to ourselves if we have to keep hearing people say the same dumb fucking shit. straight up I’m done being nice about it. people like David are deteriorating my mental health and pushing me toward a relapse.and y’all don’t give a shit

 

I give a shit and I hope you know that

 

I'm not trying to cause you more mental anguish.

 

This seems like a stretch tbh. Would rather not go down the conspiracy hole, there's more than enough visible evil in the world.

 

i believe that headline is 100% a reference to the 14 words. the bullet point containing the number 88 is probably a coincidence but there's no way the headline is.

 

I have a hard time believing that title formulation is a coincidence.

 

almost like corporate culture at these places is toxic

 

don't think any part of it is coincidental.

there's no reason to use 88 there.

 

oh after looking at the context of the 88 yeah thats on purpose i thought it was a statistic or something when i skimmed. that's one damn loud dog whistle

 

Like, why wouldn’t they use a round number that lends itself to sensible percentages, like a number out of 100? Why 88? Because nazis. Fuck this diseased ass country.

 

speaking of which...

 

My sister's dog is the only thing that's prevented me from completely spiraling into despair this week the news is so fucking horrible

 

The majority of people who voted Johnson would have voted for Clinton if they only had two choices. Just sayin