I'm done engaging with the election doomers here. They're indistinguishable from an influence operation, except that they're more smugly self-satisfied wallowing in their own fatalism.
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@mattblaze not saying places like Australia with compulsory voting have a better system (many flaws here too) but it reduces the value of the "why bother" narrative. And traditionally we get a sausage sandwich as part of the ritual, which imo makes it a far superior system!
@mattblaze I don't think I'm usually very conspiratorial, but I can't belief believe you haven't already written off your various packs of naysayers and detractors as 100% a concerted, organized sabotage. You give them too much credit by even engaging with them.
A thoughtful critique is one thing. A pack of emotive salience grinders is another.
I mean...I can feel despair at the state of my country *and also vote and volunteer*. Sometimes people feel despair and that's okay. Saying "the GOP is going to do some fuckery" does not include the words "don't vote" anywhere in it, in fact it should motivate you to vote even harder to vote the bastards out.
I dunno, I can't speak for anyone, but I don't think people being scared is unreasonable given the circumstances, and...well...Mastodon has a lot of fatalists. Not saying it's healthy.
Not asking you to put up with it, either; I appreciate your work.
I get that it's exhausting, but I do think characterizing them as a foreign-influence operation is, sometimes, being a bit unfair to people who are truly scared, not that that helps the tenth time you've seen it in a day.
@rk @mattblaze @tartley
The professionals can remain calm because they think they can see past the chaos monkey strategy of flinging feces everywhere - the strategy of no strategy but simply looking for an opening to appear from the ensuing mess.
What I don't know is how resilient the system is, especially faced with people who just want to see the world burn. We're like people living on the 50th floor of an apartment building in an earthquake zone ... the engineers have done the calculations and it should be safe but ...
@mattblaze I'll vote on Election Day. Not sure what else I can do.
