• Chronicon [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    Tumblr is seemingly full of the least materialist-minded liberals you’ve ever seen. The entire framing of “you have to vote based on what the candidates claim to support” even if they were honest about it, is on its face a shit idea when BOTH CANDIDATES HAVE BEEN PRESIDENT, AND ONE HAS BEEN IN CONGRESS FOR 11,000 YEARS BEFORE THAT

    THEY HAVE TRACK RECORDS

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Liberals in general treat politics as prayer and ritual to a pantheon of polytheistic gods. You must perform the Biden voting sacrament or else the nefarious Putin will ruin this year’s grape harvest.

      • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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        Nate Silver is the temple’s leading haruspex. When he predicted in 2012 that the volcano god would not erupt based on the entrails of a bird, he was widely applauded for being correct among the townsfolk.