Petty reason: They spoiled something I wanted to watch/read/play knowing full well my hatred of spoilers. Had this happen: I was actively in the process of playing through the Mass Effect series and a person gave me a massive spoiler. I’ve cut that person off and never wish to speak to them. They could not apologize and receive forgiveness if they tried, they might as well move on with their lives.

Non-personal reason: I would be hard if not impossible for me to forgive someone for having been an eligible voter in the US 2024 elections and having not voted for Harris.

There are many terrible things I’ve experienced and awful things I myself have done, but funnily enough I can forgive others and myself for them pretty easily. I think I usually can’t forgive someone if they stubbornly take the stance that they know what is best for me in said actions or if they were sadistic enjoyment, petulance, or hatred. But actions taken in the moment of heightened emotion, desire, desperation, I tend to be very forgiving about if they ask for forgiveness, even if the acts themselves are often considered pretty extreme by most people.

I can’t really tell you much more about it without outing my embarrassing and likely in a few cases socially obvious questions.

The most I can say is giving it some details about an encounter or series of encounters and asking it to clarify if it thinks some or other courses of action are reasonable or socially acceptable or advisable. And whether I’m imagining things or if there was “something there” if someone may or may not be flirting for instance.

And some other things that I will not be revealing here.

TBH, I’m an autistic male and using AI for dating advice has 100% helped me get laid (still working on a stable partner though). Not because its super smart, but because I can rapidly ask multiple questions I’d be otherwise unable to ask a human without incredible and crippling embarrassment and get answers that are “good enough” if a tad broad or obvious probably to most people.

But as a broad trend, I’ll admit that is a little worrying.

If I wanted to be pedantic, I’d point out that no one truly deserves anything. (good or bad)

But casually speaking, I agree with the Reeves, Devito, & Perlman mentions in other posts. I’d also add Dolly Parton, Don Cheadle, & John Oliver.

They seem like genuinely sweet and well intentioned people.

I hate insecure sex negative guys so fucking much.

God damn I’m envious of everyone involved.

On top of which, none of this blows over when Trump dies.

The damage will remain. But Trump holds the charisma power of his movement. MAGA will continue to exist, sure, but without a unifier and their proclivity for being “anti-establishment” in their aesthetics, they will likely splinter and in-fight.

Neocons will likely regain their footholds along post-trump grifters in the republican party. But they’ll pale in comparison in their political power and influence.

RIghtwing politics in general however will thrive. The institutional capture is very thorough.

getting the fuck out of the way.

Of what? I think you’ll be disappointed at the numbers that join a violent cause in favor of leftism in the US. And those stupid or crazy enough to do so are not going to be the most valuable contingent of individuals.

Fascism absolutely eats itself from the inside out over time. That’s why fascism frequently engages in aggressive invasions of neighboring countries to sustain itself where it’d otherwise be completely unsustainable.

That said, this fascism already has a critical weakness to its longevity: Trump is a husk at this point. He had a sentinel event about month and a half ago, it happened on live TV. Sentinel events indicate a significantly increased risk of fatal stroke in the following 4 months.

Even if he survives this period of elevated risk, his time is still likely short. He almost certainly wont finish this term. Let alone get another chance to try for a third term.

What we’ll get after him is a decaying conservative country, severely and brutally damaged by self inflicted wounds that neither party will be able to repair. It will flail at the world and make everything worse for everyone, US or otherwise. Our lives will get worse but Trump’s fascism will die with him. If someone manages to replace him can carry the torch I’ll be very surprised.

We’ll get a blue wave in the next two elections I suspect but democrats will not be able (even if they were overwhelmingly willing) to fully repair the damage done and then the fish brained electorate will let the republicans win again.

Perhaps by then I and whoever I manage to take with me will at least have fled to Canada. I have a lot of saving to do.

People survive fascism plenty. Maybe me and my people will survive, maybe they wont. I certainly would not improve our chances by trying to initiate a violent revolt against the most technologically advanced military on planet earth… even if it is run by incredibly stupid people at the moment.

We’re almost certainly more likely to survive keeping our heads down.

That said, if I or my loved ones end up in death camps, I’ll know exactly who to blame, I also probably wont care anymore though about blame. I’ll probably be pretty preoccupied with emotional devastation.

Fretting about moral high ground is for virtue ethicists.

I hate stupid people. I might actually hate stupid people more than evil people at this point. I’m complaining because of that. I am screaming into the void that is your collective empty skulls for some scrap of catharsis.

I am not a patriot. I don’t believe in duty. I’m not a saint. I don’t believe in virtue. Duty and virtue are both for stupid people. I am a consequentialist.

I don’t group with people who were content with Trump winning against Harris in any way whatsoever. And I’m not interested in getting people who think like me, people who are actually my allies, killed.

There is no good reason for me to fight in a stupid civil war and get myself or my friends & family killed. To get my actual allies killed by rallying them to fight.

If people who were content with this result, who abstained from voting or voted third party, want to risk their life fruitlessly: they ought to do so and stop telling me I owe them my allegiance to their cause.

I’m not a liberal, I’m a consequentialist. Electoral politics are gravely consequential. Non-consequentialists are a vile evil.

What a lot of liberals don’t get about leftists criticizing the Democrats is that it isn’t “both sides are bad”.

Yes, leftists like yourself absolutely do. This is just a lie.

We criticize them because they’re lauded as saviors of the common people due to their occasional, surface level platitudes and vague gestures toward “progress”.

Liberals laud them maybe. Not electoral leftists or consequentialist leftists.

Y’all get defensive because deep down you know the Democrats are never going to save us or even stem the tide, but they’re the systems “solution” to the fascist problem so bygolly were just gonna keep “voting blue no matter who” until the country is “”““fixed””“” again. It’s a narrow, misinformed, and foolish perspective that deprioritizes everything but elections and tribalism.

We’ll never be saved by anyone.

What flawed lesser evils provide is an opportunity. Throwing away a chance because its not a glorious revolutionary act is so painfully and aggressively stupid.

I can’t speak for every leftist, but the ones I know and the spaces I run in outside of this godforsaken site don’t want to talk about the Democrats, they don’t want to talk electoral politics

That’s because they’re content to not pay attention to the suffering of the wider world outside their immediate communities, unless its Palestine.

Electoralism is a distraction, and we’re all falling for it.

If electoralism was immaterial or jsut a distraction, the republicans would not be trying to rig it in their favor at every turn.

I’m not saying don’t vote.

Sure buddy. You only wrote all of this anti-electoralism to say that it makes perfect sense to vote.

Why are we wasting so much energy chirping at each other when we could be active in the streets, supporting our communities, and building alternative systems that sidestep the two party system entirely?

I wasn’t doing that before November 2024 because I knew that trying to convince you to vote for Harris in this way was a lost cause and would just harden you further because of psychological petulance. Now I just intensely resent you. It no longer matters, we are fucked. You can go ahead and not vote now I legitimately do not give a fuck.

I don’t want to cooperate with someone who actively advocates for making things worse for me. THEY ARE MY ENEMY.

Plenty of people already are, we’re just pleading with the libs to get the fucking hint and actually do something for once

Again, not a lib, but I don’t owe you types fucking anything. I was enthusiastic to do things anyway. I did volunteer and help. I canvassed. I protested. I risked my job. I donated. I volunteered at a food pantry. I have my current job in non-profit work because I wanted to help my community.

Especially after November 2024 however, there is a voice in my head that tells me “fuck these stupid fuckers, they don’t deserve my help. They want to drag me into the mud so I’ll get a fire in me to fight and then I’ll just get shot by a cop or a brownshirt, forgotten in a mass of angry people. Fucking assholes.”

If you are content to let things get worse so people will become motivated to risk their lives for your revolutionary project, you are an evil manipulative asshole. You and your comrades deserve to be hated and reviled.

They want a collection of people that don’t want to die in a stupid civil war to die on the front lines of a civil war. They don’t want it to be optional.

If they could, they’d be the blocking detachment shooting deserters, screaming “shitlib” as they blow people’s brains out of their skulls.

Was Biden really better?

Yes.

We’ll blame both of you.

Though really we wont because we’ll probably be too distracted by all the horrible suffering. Or we’ll be dead.

You must be new here.

We’re not going to make it because of people like you.

"You owe it to us all to go fire bomb a Walmart. "

The only time I apply virtue ethics is when someone is a virtue ethicist (I hate them).

NYC still has a ton of money in politics. NYC still uses first past the post for its general election of their mayor.

Systemically, there are parallels to the rest of the country. The same shit could happen at the national levels.

Its a deeply flawed democracy, with mechanisms to strengthen land owning and wealthy. But it still holds real democratic potential