I think this mentality breaks down in the reality of the system we currently have. They are constantly working to make your vote mean less. The structures of our constitution effective gerrymander the states’ influence on national levels through the senate. Similarly, the electoral collage is built to favor the right. And after all that the higher courts have been packed by republican, effectively giving an override to functionally any law in the form of sloppy logic from a broken supreme court.

All of that to say, if you draw the line at specifically your ability to cast a vote, regardless of the voice you actually have, you’ve essentially decided so long as there is the theater of democracy you will do nothing to help save it.

Are you censoring yourself saying ass?

It is a bit academic at this point. I just hoped that liberals contend with the reality that you have to align with your voters, rather than always trying to set blame on the millions that stay politically disaffected.

Definitionally, talking about two causally linked things is not whataboutism. You could argue it’s shifting blame, and I would still disagree, but at least it would be coherent.

I corrected a typo, hope it cleared up a bit, but in case it didn’t; the point being it doesn’t mater what you think people ought to do, or ought to feel ashamed about. If your political method ends with, “Well then you’re an asshole and I give up” at the first sign of resistance, congratulations you’ve perfectly described the democratic party for the last decade+.

Ah, thank you, fixed.

There’s nowhere good to go from there.

lol I say no once and you’re out of ideas. I return to my thesis, people with your political instincts are why we are where we are.

No. Now what?

Cool. I am shamed, now what?

Who? I can’t see past the fascist in the foreground.

We should have 75% opacity fascism, so it’s not binary.

It’s not whataboutism to detail the list of failures from democrats that built the current situation we are in. They are weak party that offers little and provides less, and they fail to win much of anything because of it.

People with your political instincts are why we are fighting the what we are today. You continue to fail to learn that you can’t shame people into voting no matter how hard you try.

You wouldn’t believe how hard they vote ever 2 years, buddy. They fight back hard.

Mfs will post this then get into a 3 hour debate on mastodon about the ethics of projecting yaio shipping culture on a race swapped hetero pair of platonic friends from an anime with 12 episodes.

In Bo Burnham fan circles people joked that That Funny Feeling from Inside is the truer generational update to We Didn’t Start the Fire 🥲

Finally, I will memory safe when I accidentally send a broken Invoke-WebRequest 🙂

why would they have used it in the first place?

Because 30 seconds with an image generator looks nicer than 30 seconds in MS paint, the deeper point being the deciding factor is that it took 30 seconds of time.

It shaved off work hours.

I think this only makes sense in some abstract of a net aggregate of artistic labor hours. The reality though is that this work was never done by the artists, never given significant time allocation, and would never lead to hiring more artists.

It was placeholder art. They didn’t reduce the artist hire because they weren’t going to have the artist make orange boxes and MSpaint character icons.

The reductio ad absurdum is equally silly the other way. “Does the seeded algorithmic generation of a cloud texture disqualify anything that uses it as AI???” This is a debate stage level talking point, and is unconvincing in reality.

You do?