"Freewill"

I would prefer to agitate under Trump as that's apparently the only thing that motivates libs to take even the smallest of actions.

Yeah, the libs were ferocious (by lib standards) 2016-2020
- Sure but all of that energy was directed at Russia
The very next line of the song starts with:
You can choose from phantom fears...
TRUMP!
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I'm trying hard not to be a Bluesky reply guy but it's still very tempting to reply to the poster with that.

In the current conditions, agitators are being brutally assaulted, silenced, and killed pretty much all over the country. So I would have to say that I actually don't want to continue to agitate in the current conditions, thank you.

All hiding and lurking ends up doing is lowering the bar of what's considered agitation, do what you can.
Not much of a choice when all options are decided for you, two sides of the same coin, dictatorship of the bourgeois and all that.

About half of the American electorate does not vote, but you don't see these nerds doorknocking or other basic organizing. It's incredibly telling that these people will viciously attack others online, but are complete goldfish ouside where the

grows. It is so much easier to scold than pound pavement.

That's what pisses me off about the
evangelists that come in and pester us. Why argue with people commited to an ideology that have already made a decision based on their knowledge of the situation and political beliefs? Especially when we're a small minority compared to the vast majority like near 200 million who aren't voting (and therefore voting for Trump obviously)
- 200 million who aren't voting (and therefore voting for Trump obviously)
  Matty - in this thread - furiously taking notes for his next book Trumpism 2024: 1 Billion Votes.
- Conservatives read garbage like The Turner Diaries and get their ideology from that, Leftists read the broad spectrum of theory and get their ideology from that. Liberals read Harry Potter and have no ideology.
They're too comfy to ever get jobs as field organizers. Organizers are under paid, work 6-7 day schedules, and the employment is temporary at best.
I started losing my "faith" in the Dems after taking one of those jobs during a desperate stretch of unemployment. Worst job ever.
They're way more upset there's people calling out their hypocrisy than people not voting.
They don't give a shit about winning but maintaining the smug moral high ground is non negotiable.
That’s funny to think about. I’ve re-franchised quite a few formerly disenfranchised felons by explaining that laws changed and they can vote now and helping them learn how it goes. I never thought about the fact that these people care more about attacking other voters than doing the same. I guess if you’re “too good” to hang with leftists, you’re probably “too good” to hang with felons, but I’m a criminal fuck up too, I don’t really feel comfortable around people without records, so it’s easy for me.

The best these lobs can imagine is voting for your "prefered enemy." Free country by the way, unlike bad country 1984 tiny man uighur

So love me, love me, love me, I'm a lob-a-lob
- leaving that typo lol

This person does not speak for all RUSH fans

HE WILL NOT DIVIDE US
- 🫡🫡🫡
I love late 1970s early 80s Rush. I think "Permanent Waves (1980)" and "Moving Pictures (1981)" are great albums.
- Power Windows is sneaky underrated, same with Hold Your Fire and Counterparts

Yeah I don’t think anyone who’s not voting or voting third party thinks they haven’t made a choice. Once again they’re incapable of seeing themselves as anything other than “The Adults in the Room.”

my favorite rush narrative is when the elder race returned from the stars and voted the temples of syrinx down

Mine was when the Snow Dog voted By-Tor back to hell

They listen to Rush as well? Double cringe.

some of us just like to get stoned and listen to a 20 minute bass solo
Their randian takes are super cringe though I'll give you that
- That was Neal Purt's doing. GOAT drummer, not so much on politics.
rude
just because Neil Peart was a bozo doesn't mean i'm not jammin
- Amen!

Youre right I did make a choice.

I made the choice that not supporting genocide was worth way more than any promise a liberal has tried to make and that's before the completely reasonable assumption that all the liberals promises are completely worthless.

How I sleep at night knowing I made the choice not to endorse genocide:

I would posit that whether an action is good or bad is heavily altered by a “spin” factor, namely whether or not one can argue about it and how effective it is. My name is Gyro Zepelli

A comment that lives in my head as a textual earworm is...
Liberals don't want to win elections. They want to win arguments.
- And crucially, they can only imagine winning an argument in good faith against a good faith opponent, without fundamentally changing the politics of their opponent outside of this one argument. Republicans imagine the mass executions of democrats, while democrats imagine one Republican doing the right thing and voting on some milquetoast reform bill.

Fuckin Judeo-Christians. Have you considered the bad karma you get from voting someone actively committing a genocide?

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Alito and Thomas could very well die or retire in the next 5 years. An opportunity for the first dem court since 1974, or you can get two Leonard Leo endorsed 40 year olds to replace them. Basically, there is an opportunity to pack the courts at all levels for either winner. Or punish Biden...

These people can't conceive of any solutions that aren't defined in the narrow confines of the Constitution. How have none of these people considered maybe the Constitution itself is the problem here?
- The Supreme Court was decent for maybe 30-40 years out of ~230, and has been bad for the last 30, and the conservative project to pack the judiciary with dead-eyed reactionaries reached maturity a decade ago...
  But give us five more years and maybe we'll turn this around!
they could've packed the fucking court two years ago or several more years ago under obama.
they don't want to pack the court and whoever you're quoting is a rube
- Exactly, Obungler bungled it all and they never blame him
  Edit: you know what? I take part of that back, he didn't bungle it because he didn't even try in the first place
the next supreme court justice is going to be a raging conservative whether tom cotton or jesus christ is the president.

My reaction to this post:

i can be a moral choice not to vote or to vote but skip over a race. he uses "moral cost" to imply a constant negative value when the value could be negative or positive. more like a moral consequence which can swing either way depending on your set of moral conditions

Yeah my non-participation in this election is more like moral passive income
- i got abortion on the ballot and im voting de la cruz
  ill skip over races where its two evils

"You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice
You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill
I will choose a path that's clear, I will choose Freewill"

It is really ironic that he picked a song about rejecting religion and dogma to promote the idea of religious dogma in the form of politics. Fucking dunce.