Apologies for the double post, if this ends up being one. I'm on my phone currently.
Nice jobs on the likes though guys. Good way to show who just assumes their own moral and intellectual high ground here, despite the apparent feeling of being unable to convincingly argue in favour of it.
Also don't do this. I'm not sure where all of this is coming from, the combativeness towards no one in particular, just the group in general.
Personally, I've been arguing what I've argued since last year. I wanted Bernie to win, he had no chance, I knew that, but here we are. America has two candidates I've never wanted and now I'm being asked, not by you in particular but just as an American citizen, to choose between two steaming piles of shit and then somehow explain why I chose one over the other when I have two other halfway decent meals to choose from instead, ones that aren't shit. Sure, those two meals, Stein and Johnson, might give me a stomach bug, but at least I won't get shit between my teeth.
What I don't like, and again I mean this in regards to the conversation being had everywhere in America, not just here on Mach in particular, is that no matter what I say against one candidate, I have to constantly and consistently say something negative about the other candidate. Hillary and Trump at this point, for me as an American citizen, are just melded together to make the worst, most terrifying couple if candidates we could have to deal with. No, of course it could be a thousand times worse, we could have a dictator killing people and forcing elections to go certain ways, I know that, but Trump and Hillary are just the results of a fucked up system run by people who don't have enough of a fuck to do anything about it. America just does not care anymore and we haven't in years. This becomes easier to see the older I get.
You're upset that people are reading and liking posts they agree with and yeah, that's right, they are, but I think I can speak for most people when I say that we're all just tired of hearing about this every single day and being asked to defend our positions or beliefs. Yes, that's life and there's some major shit going down and yeah, maybe this community isn't the one you thought it was, Lumpy, one that would debate things on end for the sake of it, for good conversation, but you've gotta keep in mind that people just get tired eventually.
I'll cut this post off now though. I don't want to come off preachy or write a damn novel. I don't want to be the one defending the "just leave us alone in our houses with our tvs and music players" argument, but after getting beaten over the head with discussion after discussion over those two shit snacks and no one wanting to even consider the other options, can you blame me for wanting to just not give a fuck anymore and tossing a like at someone saying something I can actually agree with for once?
Shit's fucked. In the past I've felt bad for not registering to vote and letting my vote matter, but this election, I don't feel bad at all. Either way, we're not getting anyone worth a damn. Not in the ways that matter to me at least.