I realize that for a long time I've withdrawn from politics other than getting myself worked up over American elections.
I read a joke once in a science fiction politics comes from poly meaning many, and ticks meaning the bloodsucking insects. I think whoever said that was a fucking inbred that was lucky to pass third grade.
As dirty as politics is perceived, it`s also how we decide resource distribution and try to get to things like human rights. Politics since the enlightenment is that government power comes from the governed as opposed to the power of god or some other mystical bullshit.
Lately in the news the government has approved an oil pipeline near some sensitive ecological areas. The Standing Rock tribe are dying and fighting over similar bullshit down in the south.
So I`m working to resist the pipeline any way I can. Because in a modern democracy, resisting is your right as a citizen. And I don`t mean resist in the fucking stupid second amendment way that American fascists like to masturbate over when they`re not shitting themselves at the sight of black people who aren`t in jail.
So get involved in government. Volunteer for a local election, vote for county dog catcher and the most meager boring post you can think of. Just don`t get involved every four fucking years and then die off like a coma victim after a car crash.
Get the fuck off your ass and show that you have a say in life and prove you`re not one of those worthless pieces of crap who bitch and moan how their lives don`t matter.
Action matters, fuck your good intentions. If you want to have a say in your future you can, but you can`t do that by being pure or being lazy.
Fuck that.
I read a joke once in a science fiction politics comes from poly meaning many, and ticks meaning the bloodsucking insects. I think whoever said that was a fucking inbred that was lucky to pass third grade.
As dirty as politics is perceived, it`s also how we decide resource distribution and try to get to things like human rights. Politics since the enlightenment is that government power comes from the governed as opposed to the power of god or some other mystical bullshit.
Lately in the news the government has approved an oil pipeline near some sensitive ecological areas. The Standing Rock tribe are dying and fighting over similar bullshit down in the south.
So I`m working to resist the pipeline any way I can. Because in a modern democracy, resisting is your right as a citizen. And I don`t mean resist in the fucking stupid second amendment way that American fascists like to masturbate over when they`re not shitting themselves at the sight of black people who aren`t in jail.
So get involved in government. Volunteer for a local election, vote for county dog catcher and the most meager boring post you can think of. Just don`t get involved every four fucking years and then die off like a coma victim after a car crash.
Get the fuck off your ass and show that you have a say in life and prove you`re not one of those worthless pieces of crap who bitch and moan how their lives don`t matter.
Action matters, fuck your good intentions. If you want to have a say in your future you can, but you can`t do that by being pure or being lazy.
Fuck that.
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