Reminder that “Stockholm syndrome” was invented because the police fucked up a hostage situation so badly that the hostages felt unsafe with the police and had to negotiate their own release with their captors who were behaving more rationally than the police.

idk what to call this, but it’s much worse than the event Stockholm syndrome is named for.

This is good advice though. I will use my vote for others and I will use it wisely. By not voting for supporters of genocide I will show the entire world that I personally don’t support genocide. This is the most important election of our time, make sure you tell the whole world that you oppose genocide by not voting for candidates that support genocide

Like I’m sorry but this has nuggets of comedy gold in it. Parts of it totally have the skeleton of a funny copypasta that I could totally see some witty member of a site like this (not me lol) writing this as a meme.

Like “Dems put my family in a concentration camp. But I voted dem. They ignored my human rights as a LGBTQ person. But I voted Dem”

This is some cuck shit lol.

Everybody pretending like they live in a swing state. A handful of states and about 10% of the population are going to determine the president while the 90% of us scream into the void

Jesus titty-fucking Christ, 140 characters was such a good idea.

It means working from within the Democratic party to make it better, even when it has betrayed its values.

What values?

I fought for redress for my community and have spent my life ensuring that America understood that we could not betray our Constitution in such a way ever again.

Constitution? That shit was talking about white men only and we’re really gonna lean on it?

Stockholm Syndrome is the perfect description for this. Try to state that you won’t vote for Biden this year and see the bullying you’re going to get. I will vote, but not for democracts or Republicans. I’m sick of being fucked over all the time, and this “the lesser of two evils” bullshit. They can both eat a bag of dicks.

The latest Hell of Presidents honestly did a great job of describing this same phenomenon, going from Lincoln to Arthur.

You had a guy who was constrained by the demands of the political moment (Free Real Estate) who managed to leverage that demand into genuine revolutionary change. And he was empowered by a groundswell of ideological supporters, zealous converts, and economic interests who simply clocked where the wind was blowing. But then the machinery of politics took over the show, the ideologues were jettisoned in favor of compromises, and the only thing political leadership cared about was the consolidation of additional powers.

Takei is a Native American living under the Garfield administration and staunchly asserting the need for strong abolitionist Republicans, when the party has long since abandoned abolition in favor of professionalizing the administrative state. He’s been subjected to a litany of abuses under his own guys, but all he can see is the Bloody Shirt of prior opposition groups. And he’s fucking old. All he can care about is the next administration, because at 86 years old he simply isn’t going to be around to see what 2028 or 2032 or 2040 has in store.

If you can’t stand them at their worst, you don’t deserve them at their best!

Real Charles Taylor hours.

“He killed my ma, he killed my pa, but I will vote for him.”

A whipped dog won’t bite its master.

I really thought this was going to end up like W.E.B. Debois’s “Why I won’t vote”.

Stupid post. Basically, “Democrats have done nothing for me, but I’ll keep voting for them.”

The Democrat party’s values are taking bribes and cynical pork barrel politics.

Or Andrew Jackson who was basically an 18th century crypto bro

I’ll bite. Let’s say you 100% agree with this argument.

You can use this argument to make the case for Trump. This blade cuts both ways.

Either we choose imperfect progress, or we default back into stagnanation and rotting.

It’s a pretty simple choice in my book