You’re right, it is a privilege…
So is having food on the table.
Thing is, if you decline those things, those people will still be crushed and starving, and you’ll just have an empty stomach yourself and a slightly more shit government.
Right, so where’s the damn rocket, then?
Accusing people of wasting time voting is a privilege reserved for those who aren’t affected by election outcomes… But people are in fact dead.
Most of the people building those sandcastles you’re so quick to trivialise will not in fact have seats on the Rocket.
The point is that revolution is necessary
It’s been necessary for decades… But revolution is a bloody nightmare that lays the groundwork for rebuilding. You are still going to need a government after the revolution and I’m yet to see any actual tangible plan for what that is that somehow precludes voting right now… It’s literally a form you fill out once or twice every four years.
At the risk of painting with too broad a brush, does this rhetoric not means that a lot of leftists have got one foot in the past looking at historic revolutions and one foot in the future dreaming of a revolution to come? And what do you think that means they’re doing to the present?
What do you mean “never the plan of the majority”?
Don’t the majority of US adults already not vote?
See also: British people who are weirdly pro-monarchy.
Remember before you had kids?
It’s kinda like that.
Ew.
I have an M1 Macbook Air running Tahoe and just left Apple Intelligence switched off. No issues. I don’t have a use case for any of the AI shit.
This has seriously made me reconsider upgrading to Golden Gate.
I meant to say the animals act more practical.
Sure a cat won’t jump into a burning building to save you; it’s a survivor and it knows it can’t drag you out anyway.
If you try to play with them like you would a dog, they just look at you like you’re a weirdo.
Sampling error: By definition, you never hear from the ones who did give up social media because… they gave up social media.
I also like cats; as animals, they’re just far more practical…
Not if you’re selling whole burgers, but the “set dressings” are allowed to be fake.
You can use fake pancakes to advertise a syrup, and fake syrup to advertise pancakes. McD’s can’t use fake mayo on pictures of burgers, but you can use it in the “serving suggestion” picture if you’re selling frozen burger patties.
I adore a 2-and-half star experience.
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I think that’s the fuckin’ point of the whole “gun regulation” debate, hence the meme… He lived by the sword and died by the sword.
Forgive my ignorance, but how tf are you alive?
Why on Earth would we want to build anything even close to Data from Star Trek under these conditions?!
No matter how you slice it, we’d be trapping them in a living hell!
There was this old book in my school classroom I remember that was speculating about the future; it had illustrations of robot butlers and maids helping people about the house in that 1960s-painting style. Think the future as seen in “The Jetsons”, or Andrew from “Bicentennial Man”.
That’s the “robot assistance” I was promised. So I’d say to my robot “Hey, can you turn the lights down?” And a humanoid robot would walk over to the light switch and turn the lights down.
Of course, it turns out building robots like that is hugely expensive so it’s easier to just sell smart lights that connect to a voice-activated app on your phone. That’s just not the same as a true general purpose robot, dammit! There’s no whimsy. Generative AI is ruining the Internet and for what? I’m no closer to my true robot butler and flying car than I was 20 years ago.
Who in this debate is arguing for voting instead of leftist action?
I mean to say I really don’t get why filling out that ballot once or twice every four years precludes leftist action altogether. It’s really not one or the other.