I went sad posting on a small support group cause I keep having depressing thoughts at night. Like I don’t wanna kill myself, but life is so shitty with no end in sight. It feels wrong that I grew up with all this fanfare and optimism about the future… all for this. For a future we hate. Obviously I get by and I try to make the world better in little tiny ways but it gets to me more and more lately.
Anyway my post received varying levels of “same” and then someone writes this long ass comment commiserating and then telling me to “help in tiny ways wherever I can but remember to fucking VOTE” because sitting and being sad about it doesn’t help anyone"
I’m in Puerto Rico.
I just…
Wow lol
Someone said to make sure to vote under a story about Trump’s post office election tampering. I didn’t know I could vote for my vote to be counted.
Vote
Voting, internally, for my own happiness.
I’m in Puerto Rico
Honestly curious what libs say to this
It can go a couple of ways.
They usually ask why, and then I have to explain that it’s because the US doesn’t have a direct vote and we don’t have representatives to do any voting for us, aside from one guy who is essentially a lobbyist for PR in congress. This always leads to them commiserating with me and then almost ALWAYS leads them to believe that the obvious solution is to make PR a state, and then I have to go into this other explanation about why it’s worse to have us become Hawaii part 2 and have our culture eradicated by bitcoin nerds and airbnb people and startup techbros and Florida boomers while not actually getting any meaningful aid because we’re a nation of brown people a la Flint.
Occasionally they will argue that even though I am a disaffected voter I am actively harming people by shit talking Biden on main because it could influence people into not helping the Dems win, which is bad because [the same tired reasons].
As a mainlander, I’ve had some success getting through to libs like that by saying “well, they should be either made a state or they should get independence with massive reparations, and they should be able to choose which one for themselves”.
Obviously the context is different when you yourself are actually living in PR, but I find that they tend to respond slightly better to an argument like “well, we’ll rhetorically keep your dumbass idea on the table, but also here’s a better idea, and it’s not up to mainlanders to make that decision for people actually living on PR”
