• sunflowercowboy@feddit.org
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    7 hours ago

    You think you just said something wise, but there is a huge difference. One affords you more time, 2 or 3 hours don’t matter much if you know you’re dead.

    But you’re not, you can act. Progress is haltingly slow because people do not want retroactive talking points. New and shiny is entertaining. Our worlds have grown too vast, too fast. Legislation cannot catch up with the world they have awakened upon the 1s and 0s.

    The 3rd party is you, you can act.

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      7 hours ago

      Buying time for what? What can we make the Dems deliver on that will take us out of this state where we’re constantly having to vote to avoid fascism and nothing else?

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        Do you think happiness is reached and then let go? You have to clench it and never let go.

        Sadly life is not so simple, we like freedoms and so we must uphold them. They are a structure of ideas that you have to maintain. If you cannot even maintain the now, how can you make progress, how can you heal?

        You buy time for the hope you can savor life once more.