I moderate a community. Do I need to move that community? Or can I just give it over to my new account?

So small talk is a horrible name then.

Could one, instead, just ask “Hey, are you willing to get into a big deep metaphysical conversation right now?” Then ask the question?

Very hungry.

People need to miss at least three meals in a row before they start getting serious. We don’t have the material conditions yet to act.

The universe wanted memes, so it made us.

Wow, that is a jump. I’m curious, how did you get here from my comment?

Yes, I agree. But in our current climate we have media and not a whole lot of social interaction. So for all intents and purposes currently media is driving our culture.

I wish I felt less socially awkward about making positive comments about others appearances.

The media creates the culture.

You can both vote and organize. Why vote? The more fascist the government is the harder it is to organize. For only 15 minutes every 2 years, it’s actually a pretty powerful tool. It may not move things left but it slows down the fascism.

Thanks, yes, in this case I think it makes sense to vote third party.

Ah, I see, you have done the math. Ok, this is the only condition which I would consider voting 3rd party not morally dubious. Thanks!

All that hard work and compromise and yet, you can’t bring yourself to get your hands a little dirty by voting for the lesser evil. You are accelerating the rate at witch your friends die by police. For what reason?

That is because you are effectively throwing your vote away.

Or you don’t care or want to give the more evil of the two dominate parties a small advantage while telling yourself you are good. I guess you do you.

I think firewitch’s point was that third parties almost by definition have zero chance of getting a candidate elected in a first past the post system. This is pretty common knowledge.

Says the person who never has done evil ever. /s

My friend, I don’t know how you are still alive. The only action these days that doesn’t involve some kind of negative consequence is breathing air.

For the rest of us who actually do stuff, so you can whine at us from your computer, we make compromises all the time. That is life.

Prior to the second election of trump. I would wholeheartedly agree with you.

But as time goes on, it’s looking like we don’t have a democracy but a fascist dictatorship or oligarchy. In which case accelerationism may actually be the lesser evil.

I don’t think that is what OP is referring to. I interpreted it as the strange measuring stick tankies use to compare the democrats and the republicans. Even accelerationists agree that the Republicans are way worse than the democrats.

Lately, they have been trying to tell me that North Korea is a democracy.

It’s because they haven’t thought about it.

They’re so used to the paradigm. I pay money. I get product. I get support.

So when they get the product but they don’t pay money, their brain short circuits and thinks they deserve some kind of support.

In a capitalistic world, communistic projects are confusing. Which is sad.