Oh I hate to break it to you, many people of color are very conservative, and some are also maga supporters.

The real advice is don't date people from known conservative places, go to liberal cities where you can at least know they are more-likely-than-not, to be at least left-of-center, and possibly a leftist.

Too late seems pretty apt in this case!

The system needs to change for it to not be a bifurcation, for all practical purposes. The system of voting needs to be changed from First Past the Post to be something like Ranked Robin voting, STAR voting, or Score voting. All of those are my preferred alternatives, but Ranked Choice is still solid over First Past the Post as well.

A different voting system enables third parties to hold real power and to grow in influence.

You can see that isn't a solution by the way it works in the UK

Genocide the natives and take their land? It does sound very American to be fair.

white isn't a race it's the social construct that means the absence of race

Irish stopped being a race when they were accepted into whiteness by becoming police in large number

That's why it's literally impossible to be racist against white people

That's a much different take than, "don't tell people your leanings and don't accept others that won't tell you theirs".

in the context of the US, if you (generally) chose not to vote in the 2024 election then you are guilty of doing nothing to prevent the atrocities committed by the Trump administration

This is really a false dichotomy. There are so many other ways to fight against the atrocities. Given how enthusiastically the democrats are cooperating with the fascist agenda, if you didn't vote but you uploaded some info to one of those ice watch apps, or went and protested in LA, or shuffled papers to slow down their progress in your federal job, you probably already did more tangible good than someone who did the other way around.

I mean, I don't think it is.

Surely you don't mean to imply that you can only do one or the other. That would be a false dichotomy, which, surely, you would understand.

Non-voters just love piling on more shit to fight against, i guess.

Mental gymnastics won't save your soul.

Not only did I not mean to imply that, I didn't imply that. If you read that into my comment it's 100% you.

Where I have lived for my adult life in 3 significantly different parts of the country, it is true that my vote would have not at all affected the outcome on nearly all election positions I could vote for.

This was true multiple elections in a row. Whether my vote merely reaffirmed what was clearly going to happen regardless, or if mine was a waste since it was clearly not going to matter. In the vast majority of elections I did or could have voted in, I have looked after the fact and seen how my contribution, or lack of, Did. Not. Fucking. Matter.

Also most options I am presented with most of the time are uninspiring or downright evil.

As for effecting change. That's a waste of time. I learned that early on. Everyone has their viewpoints and beliefs and the vast majority will not be swayed. They either will not change, or were already on your side.

Its not my responsibility to "solve" America's 250 years of lies.

So have fun on your high horse as you highlight one cherry-picked recent primary result for one city in a country filled with 90,000 governments and countless elected positions.

I don't think it gives any indication that there is only two options

oh I see the red and blue arrows now, still you could say this anywhere and be suspicious

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 I'm not voting for a capitalist party.

One is actively requesting avoidance and the other merely suggesting ulterior paths. It's the difference between someone saying, "punch that fuck in the face!" and, "words will do you no good with this one".

History shows that if the Dems regain full control, they will not reverse all this carnage 100%. They will reverse maybe 25% of it and pretend the rest isn't happening and maybe claim they don't have enough control and we'll hear the term bipartisan.

That's why I don't even fucking vote anymore. When they DO have some ability to improve things, they barely do. Biden proved to be exactly the slow-moving watered-down change I expected.

Fuck em all. And fuck you when you tell me how wrong I am. I really don't give a fuck.

Put up serious change on the ticket or I'll just roll my eyes again.

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I am entirely lost.

Sahara is saying not to date republicans, and not to let them trick you. I'm saying the same thing.

If you meet someone who, presumably like you, absolutely will not say anything until you do, then the both of you should write it down on a card and reveal them at the same time.

Or, you should say something about building a border wall. See if they bite.

Or, you should take them to see the Barbie movie. See if they shift in their chair too much.

Like, there are solutions to this problem, and I feel like you're just not willing to see them.

As a corollary, imagine you're gay in the 1960s. You can't tell anyone you're gay because you'll get beaten in an alley. But, you would still like to find other gay people. How would you do this?