Drew a headshot design of this sethrak a year or two ago which i sold to someone. They commissioned me at the end of 2021 to design the entire character head down!
Nothing more concerning than watching this site fall for the exact same âLook how useless the Dems are, theyâre just the same as the GOP, why do you even vote, voting is pointlessâ routine they did in 2016.
Because yâknow what? The people who are telling you that you shouldnât vote⌠do vote. And they vote Republican.
The Republicans build their entire strategy on manipulating districts to group together more of their supporters, relying on the Electoral College, and disenfranchising the left, because theyâre so backwards and archaic that if they didnât do those things, theyâd never hold office again.
Iâm not gonna say Bidenâs perfect, because heâs not. Dude is the very definition of an establishment Democrat and heâs probably almost certainly too old for the job. Heâs made basically no impact in any visible way. Thatâs all true.
But heâs also got basically the entire Republican party and a handful of his own standing in the way and making it impossible to achieve anything.
I mean for fuckâs sake, in 2017-2018, this site was filled with people screaming âTyrant!â and âFascist!â every time the Cheeto Man used an executive order to force his awful ideas into law without due process, and now those same people are becoming angry with Biden for not doing that.
In 2020, this site was filled with people going âHey, donât go all doomsayer and apathetic when Biden doesnât take over and immediately fix everything, because thatâs probably not going to happen, and getting the country to swing left is going to take a lot of time and effort and itâll be a slow, painful process as a result.â
And oh look, now theyâre going all doomsayer and apathetic because Biden didnât take over and immediately transform one of the most racist and corrupt institutions on the planet into a leftist utopia with a snap of his fingers.
And yeah, a lot of this shit shouldnât take a long time. The people who have suffered under Americaâs regime for decades shouldnâthave to wait for the old rich farts in charge of the machine to painstakingly fix their bullshit, it shouldnât be like that. But it is like that. And we canât fix that quickly any more than the Democrats can fix the damage the Republicans have done.
Yeah, the current crop of Democrats are about as uninspiring as it gets. But youâre not going to get any movement leftwards if you keep letting the extreme right that is the current GOP back into power.
I see the same shit every week these days. A screenshot of a tweet will start circulating, with the usual âOh look how useless the President isâ âHeâs not doing anythingâ âHeâs given up after trying nothingâ âRemember when you said we had a moral obligation to vote for this manâ and it will be massively popular, and all the blogs that talk politics will reblog it and agree with it.
And then two days later, itâll reappear with an addendum added pointing out that the person that made the Tweet is a dyed-in-the-wool Republican, and has voted Red in every election since they hit voting age, including 2020.
Do you think this shit kicking into high-gear as we go into Midterms Year is a coincidence, or have you all just forgotten that this was the exact same strategy the Republicans used in 2016?
I feel like this site needs one of those âIs-The-Animal-Video-Cuteâ blogs but for political Twitter screenshots. âIs-The-Tweet-Republican-Propagandaâ or some shit like that, because the answer is nearly always yes.
And I see a lot of people trotting out the age-old âItâs not my job to educate you!â
Yeah, no, see, that doesnât work. Sure, it might feel righteous in the moment, but letting people do their own investigation on politics is basically feeding another brain to the right.
Itâs been happening as far back as GamerGate, and probably before that too.
People asked the Left questions, the left went âItâs not my job to educate youâ, so they went looking for answers, and they found people like Carl Benjamin, like MundaneMatt, like InternetAristocrat/Mr. Metokur, who ended up telling them that GG is right, actually, and there goes another one into the Alt-Right Pipeline.
The leftâs unwillingness to actually talk to people, the fixation on paywalling our news sites and telling people to do their own research has only ever sent more people to Fox, to Breitbart, to 4chan.
So hereâs whatâs going to happen.
When election day rolls around, you are going to go and vote. You are going to vote blue. And maybe itâll stick in your craw, maybe youâll do it with gritted teeth, maybe youâll spit on the ground afterwards.
But youâll do it. Because the alternative is this:
