I take your point and agree, actually. Single issue voters are always a nuisance though, and these ones are nothing new.

Also worth noting that we similarly have blood on our hands for a lack of support for Ukraine. All that time that the US political system was bogged down and unable to send aid meant they had to pay the cost to hold the line in manpower instead, so I can understand the frustration.

I think it should be pretty clear, right? It’s different because America is helping them commit genocide. It’s not like this is all happening separately from us and people are calling for some kind of foreign intervention, they’re asking that we stop helping the people doing a genocide.

That’s not to say it’s my only priority this election, but it’s definitely up there, because I, like many Americans, feel like I’m complicit to some degree.

Make no mistake, though, Trump would be far worse. I still know the score here, but I can understand why it ranks highly on people’s priorities.

Definitely agree, but for what it’s worth, I certainly didn’t stop being a dumbass teenager the moment I turned 18.

Frankly, you won’t get fair treatment unless you treat it like an employer-employee relationship; It reminds me of workplaces that say ‘we’re family’. I have personally found those kinds of workplaces to be some of the most exploitative, because they want you to feel like you owe them something when you honestly don’t.

In my opinion, companies intentionally use tactics like this to abstract away from that fact.

Warm water ports 😩

As they say: reality is always going to be on the side of the one who respects it more.

The weakness of our system is that it often assumes everyone is acting in good faith

This is like the fourth time I’ve seen you comment something unfathomably based.

Depressing as it is, I couldn’t agree more. I fear for the future of our country.