Notices by bailey//rockruff⚪ (ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz), page 98

don't just question things when shit goes wrong for you. question everything all the time. question your own morals and ideals, question things you believe to be 100% true.

always think about shit from every angle even if your consistent conclusion is no different than before, because we are constantly learning and growing, and there is always new information entering our brain to colour our views.

(this is sarcasm i don't particularly like being upset about politics)

of course the thing i can do to rectify that is a little venting (done) followed by something fun to replace the dumped thoughts

nice mood bailey

just really really baffled that the same people yelling about how the system is broken and how voting doesn't work, are the same people that tell everyone the best course of action is to vote and offer few or no alternatives other than "vote for these candidates that are saying all the things you wanna hear!"

not, like, "here's some ideas on what we could do instead of electing dictators to authoritarian rule" or "here's some ways we can get rid of corrupt people outside of voting"

the overton window will continue to shift, convincing more white people to vote for the system's mascot (trump), more laws will stoke the fires of voter oppression, more deportations and incarcerations and other racist shit that even happen to ACTUAL CITIZENS (not that citizenship ever sets anyone apart as being more or less worthy of living here) will disenfranchise the very voters that at least vote for the least bad option

so like, fuck voting? fuck all-powerful leaders?

think about how voting works. majority vote. think about how the system basically elected exactly who the system wanted to be in power to protect and proliferate itself. voting DOES work, if you are the oppressive rulers trying to maintain control over society.

majority vote = the oppressive majority retains control and marginalised/minority voices are stomped out.

if you can't see past your own societal conditioning nor see that something as obvious as AUTHORITY is one of the key problems in a society of OPPRESSIVE RULE and IMBALANCE of any kind then i really can't trust you to know how to make a better society.

also as a footnote, if the DSA turned to revolution i'd still be wary because a lot of them are either tankies, or still believe in our current authoritarian government being "good if we fix it" (how did it break in the first place?)

like you may as well be yelling "make america democratic again" because all we're doing is further pushing the idea that voting works, the majority vote system is just, and if we put people in power that we personally like, then everything will be grand.

nah, having people we like in government doesn't do anything to change how oppressive government rule is, nor why we're in this mess and always have been.

this society has already been called democratic. nobody knows the meaning.

also like, the DSA is too soft and is basically a lighter take on the status quo. few of the members seem to fully question their societal structure, they just seem to cherrypick what they like and stop thinking about the rest?

the reason we have FASCISM in a largely AUTHORITARIAN societal structure is obvious but we keep yelling about "democracy" and elections like we haven't literally done this for decades and only proved to uphold our current society

i am so tired of hearing about voting! it's useless! it's privileged! it's what you've had conditioned into you since birth and a surefire way for me to ignore you on the grounds of not questioning the society you live in adequately enough! voting is not the only way and certainly not the most important avenue for political change!

sleep time. goodnight!

still obsessed with hesitant alien. if you asked me what my current favourite album is, that's probably what i'd say

i'm clean!

my wallpaper looks extremely blue in that photo thanks to the orange light in this room but it really looks like this

@ctrlaltdog

i put a tacky little shelf above my computer monitor and it's slightly crooked and off-center but it still adds a layer of coziness

1v1 me in rocket league

someone i know who doesn't use mastodon basically described the different instances as being separate platforms and i'm not sure if outsiders actually have a grasp on what mastodon actually is (or any federated social media software)

reminded i have msn on my computer every time i restart which is like, once or twice biweekly

@chosafine heck yeah! good choice