Comments by "Patchwurk" (@patchwurk6652) on "Professor Dave Explains"
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@asyetundetermined "these comments highlight my point further. You fundamentally fail to understand what voting is."
Oh PLEASE tell me o wise one, tell me what voting is. /s
"But when the rubber meets the road, when a choice has to be made, your best intentions are not recorded and will not achieve what you wish. "
You have no damn idea what I wish, yet apparently "complying with your agenda" magically gets it done?
"Voting is one such opportunity for us to yield to the trappings of our position. It is an action of realpolitik, not ideology."
Blah blah blah blah Booooooored.
"You can vote however you wish. It is reality, however, that your vote has practical downstream effects which may be entirely incongruent with what you desire. Recognizing that, and carrying on anyway for personal reasons, is definitionally selfish."
Translation: Stop being selfish and DO WHAT I WANT!
Smug, self-satisfied, arrogant, patronizing, all while saying nothing but "Do what I say or else You are selfish."
Bored with people like you.
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@asyetundetermined "these comments highlight my point further. You fundamentally fail to understand what voting is."
Smug patronizing incoming.
"Please, by all means, develop and advocate your ideals. Do your best to implement them in a way you see fit to amend society positively. But when the rubber meets the road, when a choice has to be made, your best intentions are not recorded and will not achieve what you wish. "
Translation: Only have principles until it contradicts your agenda. Then abandon them for YOUR political convenience.
"Part of the disillusionment and loss of ideological optimism that Dave references in the video is the resignation to engaging with the world as it is, not as we would like it to be. Voting is one such opportunity for us to yield to the trappings of our position. It is an action of realpolitik, not ideology."
Lotta word salad there. Mind spitting it out in a less pretentious way?
"You can vote however you wish"
Thanks, didn't need your permission.
"It is reality, however, that your vote has practical downstream effects which may be entirely incongruent with what you desire. Recognizing that, and carrying on anyway for personal reasons, is definitionally selfish."
Considering your entire point is "Do what I want, or else YOU are selfish", I can't say I care what your assessment of selfish is.
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@alexistoran2181 "I'm not sure whether this is directed at me, particularly since I myself am under 30, but I do have principles. Principles that the Democrats - and the Labour Party in my own country - often fail to uphold. But the Republicans and Conservatives oppose my principles far more, and if allying with a bad party is what it takes to defeat an evil party, that's what I will do."
Thanks for at least explaining your standpoint in a non-smug pretentious manner, even if it's still just boiling down to "But other guy worse though" as a rationalization for why you're compromising them.
"It can be sickening to be forced into that choice."
Not so actually. That choice is easy. What's annoying an sickening is the endless cavalcade of people whose reaction to you NOT compromising where they 100% did. The smug, hostile, pretentious acid-dripping self-victimhood from people who violate their stated principles only to act like you're the one whose ruining things when, by all accounts, the only reason we're even IN a position at the mercy of the GOP is expressly because they, your so-called allies, previously failed again and again and again to uphold their so-called principles, only to act like a bunch of assholes because you're not nearly as mentally weak. You wanna know why the GOP in America is so powerful? Ask the Dems.
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