I'm committed to not stopping the fire.

There's a difference between being "committed to not stop the fire" and recognizing my tools at my disposal don't work for me.

A better version of your example is more like my single fire extinguisher might help me with some of my fire, but it turns out my neighbors lit the whole fucking neighborhood on fire, so rather than fighting my little fire and exhausting myself pointlessly, I chose to walk out and acknowledge I can't make a difference here.

If anything I should move out of the neighborhood but that's a luxury I don't have.

Yeah, not communicating enough with your spouse to know their political beliefs would be a major red flag. That in itself should be the final nail in the coffin.

It's possible that his views were conflicted.

I have family whose politics I understand pretty well, and I don't know who they voted for. What I do know is that they were torn between: "Trump's blatant antisemitism is a danger to us here in America" and "Trump is good for Israel".

The majority of Americans in general regardless of age didn't vote at all. I think I understand what you were trying to say either that or you were just being ageist

I was with you in the first half, until you said you don't vote. You're as much to blame for this shit as anyone

If only we could all people why they didn't vote. Oh wait, we have! There's hundreds of polls asking people their reasons.

That's why I don't even fucking vote anymore

That's literally the first thing you said. Everything else you've said is just doomer shit or that you should leave but also you aren't? So you are advocating for what exactly????

I'm not that person, check the usernames.

My only point is I think there's actually better stuff to focus on than whether people voted or not. I think it's probably on the whole better to vote for the democrats than not vote. But I think there are good faith arguments against it and what really matters is more active ways of fighting fascism.

Oops that's my bad, I'm sorry.

So, I agree with you that we need to do more, especially now, but that also includes voting too. Voting is bare minimum, if people can't vote, I can't see them doing much else.

If they can do other more impactful things without voting then I'm all for it, but voting itself does not take away from doing more.

Like for example, New Yorkers voting for Mamdani in this upcoming election is great, especially because it shows the nation that as a whole we can swing the total opposite direction.

You don't have a solution if your solution starts with "if everyone would just". That's a hope or a fantasy. People won't just.

there are entire departments at companies trying to turn people into insane conservatives

Narrator: Neither of them voted.

Wait, that's dumb. If all "good" people refused to tell their political leanings, and you're not going to meet someone who will not disclose it, you're kinda' just setting up a lonely life with those assinine rules...

Ouch, two reasons not to vote for Trump, IMO...

It is historically accurate to say younger people vote less.

Hoky shit, way to prove to that person (and the rest of us) that you really didn't read all of their post... The last statement makes it obvious they're espousing an entirely different angle.

That is LITERALLY how it works in a two party system, ffs... for being smart enough to care about the environment, that is purely brainless on the politics...

just don't date white people

play the odds

yeah they look like they were drawn yesterday

TIL you can commit a genocide without crossing the 'fascism' line