ciggysmokebringer

ciggysmokebringer , 6 months ago to random

What's the thing where you reflexively say you're busy just to avoid things you don't wanna actually do, and then people stop asking if you want to do things, and you're kinda okay with that sorting itself out but acknowledge that it has tremendous drawbacks that interfere with other things you might wanna do?

Cause I still do that and its embarrassing in so many ways but like, I also don't wanna be an implacable curmudgeon, cause I'm not. Or at least I don't think I am.

ciggysmokebringer OP , 6 months ago

If even one person ever popped me on it, like, 'are you really busy or just telling me that' I would admit I was just telling them that for my own reasons, and nervously chuckle through it, but nobody ever has. I would actually be super impressed if someone popped me on it because that would mean they really know how I work and know me then.

SeattleSanchez , 7 months ago to actuallyautistic

My mind has been obsessed with this video all day! So well laid out how our two parties became one since the 80s and 90s.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRc1uouD/
#ActuallyAutistic #politics @actuallyautistic

ciggysmokebringer , 7 months ago

@SNerd @SeattleSanchez @actuallyautistic

I gotta say, first being able to vote in 2002 and missing the 2000 election by a month and a week, and everything that has followed - it really feels like the die was cast in that moment even with pretensions about self governance fluttering about.

'Elections have consequences' is some red meat chest puffing rhetoric for the timid mice that elect bozos that won't actually fight if the legitimacy of The State is threatened. Which it was in 2000, absolutely positively, and then at other various points but especially 2020 again.