okay so I read the whole thing. it describes a really shitty, extant system. it defines the spoiler effect. it shows how the spoiler effect makes the already shitty system even more shitty. all that's fine and well. never once does it say that voting for minor party candidates is literally a vote for republicans, which was the actual statement that I took issue with.
you're welcome to make the argument that the result is the same and that's why you specifically will only vote strategically. that's fine. it does absolutely nothing to compel me to vote for either democrats or for republicans. or even to vote at all for that matter. why participate in such a fundamentally broken system at all then? just to give one more point to 99% hitler? no thank you.
it totally boils down to "how do i frame and organize my interactions with you based entirely on your genitals?"
same kind of social function as medieval europeans basing how they talk to and interact with people based on class determining whether their interlocutor is above them/below them/their equal, but, ya know, it's all based on your bits.
Zuzak's comment is great and i wouldn't dare to suggest that I could do a better job - I just want to hammer on the point that
you are not the agent of karma
when I say you, i don't mean you DragonWasabi, or you DragonWasabi's friend, i really mean anyone. especially in most Buddhist schools, there really isn't a "distributer of karmic justice" or what have you. it's just, as i understand the Buddhist perspective, a force of nature and it is how it is. it doesn't need an agent, and acting as if one is that is almost certain to worsen one's karmic load, hence ahimsa.
disclaimer that i myself do not identify as Buddhist or anything resembling a Buddhism expert. i took one intro to Buddhism class in college and that's all i've got.
that seems to be where the buddhist view regarding karma separates itself from, say, hinduism, where karma becomes the entire basis for the caste system
"hinduism" (itself a colonial term with little basis in material reality regarding actual practices and beliefs) is just as multifaceted and diverse as buddhism, if not moreso. i largely agree with your comment, i just think it's important to point out that among vedic traditions you will get very different thoughts on the caste system and it's justifications and it's relation to karma. a dualistic vaishnavite will likely see the castes very differently than a follower of non-dual tantric shaktism. both are likely to have perceptions of karma, but one might argue that it justifies castes, another might argue that castes are entirely an illusion as is the whole imminent world (as in some forms of advaita vedanta), and yet another might argue that castes are merely part of god's play but don't have any more significant implications than that.
(unironically, and while it doesn't particularly bother me too much to see images of meat, i still appreciate the cws and i'm sure others do as well. this could be for other reasons than too. i don't want to start an argument with you, but I just want to say that even if you find it strange, it is something that some of us really appreciate and it makes hexbear a better place. thank you.)
the lead sales guy was super aggro and would harass others into not raising it with finance because he'd been there the longest and wanted to make sure he was paid first. Very crabs in a bucket mentality
what a total lack of class consciousness does to an mf
the part about being physically threatened by an unpaid contractor is really scary tho, i'm glad you got out of there
if ever there was a good time to organize, its when everyone there knows what's happening. i can imagine it being really difficult to keep it on the down low and under management's nose in an environment like that tho
yeah, although i'm not convinced that large corporations are all that much more innocent of this.
the changing of roles/expectations from what you were hired on to do it always a huge red flag. i learned that one when i got hired to do a very specific computer/digital media job at one place and they told me I might "occasionally need to scrub the toilets"
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okay so I read the whole thing. it describes a really shitty, extant system. it defines the spoiler effect. it shows how the spoiler effect makes the already shitty system even more shitty. all that's fine and well. never once does it say that voting for minor party candidates is literally a vote for republicans, which was the actual statement that I took issue with.
you're welcome to make the argument that the result is the same and that's why you specifically will only vote strategically. that's fine. it does absolutely nothing to compel me to vote for either democrats or for republicans. or even to vote at all for that matter. why participate in such a fundamentally broken system at all then? just to give one more point to 99% hitler? no thank you.