Quote by RowanThorn
I find the stance of accepting the status quo to be what’s truly privileged. That means you acknowledge the suffering and hardships of others but refuse to take action.
From a place of comfort you accept the exact system that has made things progressively worse for decades because you have the privilege to make due.
And I think the idea that we can change this country’s hyper violence and colonial grip on the world without subverting and dismantling the current system is lazy idealism. One that is die for many to accept, especially those without kids who won’t have to see them suffering in a world of climate chaos and genocidal state violence. I do feel the moral high ground in this case.
I’m voting 3rd party because I refuse to believe the steady march to climate destruction and colonial tyranny is not acceptable. That yielding to ‘the lesser of two evils’ is still the firm and unwavering support of those evils. All I hear from you is empty rhetoric with no real action. Not good enough for me.
Frankly if you don’t believe you’re on the moral high ground how are you living you’re life?
Yeah, this sounds really pretty, and I'm sure it feels nice convincing yourself that hoping for suffering that you, yourself will hardly experience (if at all) is the morally sound decision. But in reality, it makes you no different than those against whom you claim to rally. Sacrificing others and not yourself for a good cause is cool, I guess.
I assure you, there's no comfort in how I navigate the systems that impact me. Quite privileged of you to assume so, LOL. Being that I have vast experience in being trampled by systems in ways that you never will be, I understand all to well the push and pull of political games and the impact therein. I live this shit every day. Tell me of the most recent right(s) and privilege(s) taken from and/or denied to you and I'll tell you mine. I hate to play that card, but you toss around words like privilege as if you and I are the same in that regard. I quite literally can't have a privileged perspective, or it would mean my demise. Anything I've ever "accepted" about these systems have been entirely against my will. Therefore I'm fully aware of how dismantling these fucked systems is the only safe and productive way forward, so please spare me the lesson in that regard. You, in particular, will never have the range to teach me anything in that vein, and it's cringey to see you try.
With that being said, if the lesser of evil that we all know how to navigate is what we got, then that's what I choose. I don't claim to know the way forward because I'm still figuring this shit out myself, but I do know that blind faith in any political party or affiliation is how we end up in this same spot every 4 years. The part that seems to escape you is that your faith in the Green Party or whatever party you'll have the privilege of tossing your vote is also a part of that system. It is asinine to think any party born out of our current system, even the ones claiming to combat them, will be impactful enough to change it, especially when the goal is to claim the same level of power and status as the current parties. It's just supremacy in a different outfit. No system made in the image of our current system, regardless of how great their principles are, will ever resist reverting back to its previous dysfunction. Your failure to recognize that will always be counterintuitive to whatever moral standard you believe you embody.
As far as me having empty rhetoric and no action, you have no idea what actions I take towards dismantling systems, or at the very least supporting and empowering others with the resources at my disposal as they navigate the same fucked systems as myself. I'm just not inclined to share them on a fuck site. Even if this is the Think Tank, I have my limits. However, I assure you, my actions extend much further than meaningless arguments in a Think Tank on a sex site under the guise of an Elle Varner avatar. I come here to blow off steam, not to invoke change. I know where my voice and actions are the most productive and impactful, so that's where I use them.
You're voting third party because if it goes to shit in the ways that you're hoping, it will impact you the least. If that weren't the case, you wouldn't be. It's easy to make sacrifices when you're not the one that's actually gonna be sacrificed. I'd entertain your faulty sense of morality if it was your ass on the line in your decision-making process. But again, you know it's not. That's why your belief of yourself as having a moral high ground is tainted and empty at best. It's actually quite telling that you believe you have a moral high ground. No morally sound person would claim such a thing.
I appreciate you informing me that my approach isn't good enough for you. I use the disapproval of people like you as my moral compass. Lets me know I'm on the right track in this endless puddle of shit we're trying to escape.
