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And the planet as a whole. I think we’re going to have to move past this model if we’re to survive. You can’t just keep feeding Moloch ad infinitum.

My point was that the US thinks it’s important to outlaw certain civilian arms while its military constitutes an existential threat to continued human civilization. I think it’s ironic, but apparently people don’t like that here.

For me it’s not helpful to be clinical about suicide, to treat it as a pathology to be treated or cured. It’s an existential question. Not thinking about dying, not killing oneself, is just as much of an action as thinking about suicide or committing it. As a society, we have normalized the former and stigmatized the latter. Objectively, though, we decide to not kill ourselves every time we wake up and go about our day. I’m just someone who accepts and engages with this choice.

I decide to be alive because I usually have hope for the future. Sometimes I don’t, and I consider the alternatives. This is impossible to create a product for because my feelings are tied to the health of the planet. The biggest things contributing to my “suicidal ideation” are the extinction rate, the rising CO2 level in the atmosphere, and the retreat of the alpine glaciers.

I think that’s a naive position honestly. The major parties have in their interest the perpetuation of American imperial hegemony, at the expense of people worldwide that it considers expendable, as well as the planetary ecosystem. I have a lot more sympathy for victims of this system than people who have benefited from it (albeit indirectly or unknowingly).

Because for me politics is about principles and voting for my own interests and the interests of the greater good. There are people who are running who represent those interests. The duopoly is all about scaring people into voting for one of them, and I’m not going to respond to scare tactics.

Democracy is also about accepting multiple viewpoints and arguing your own. I won’t be intimidated by this kind of thing.

You’re assuming a lot there about my politics, friend.

There are a lot of hypothetical conversations in this thread about fascism and “November” but for me this election is about something actually happening right now. People are being exterminated by US weapons in Gaza. I will not be voring for an administration that sanctions genocide. There has to be a political price for this kind of behavior.

I can’t acknowledge voting for the Democratic party as “the lesser of two evils.” To me it looks like Americans are afraid of losing their country, while the rest of the world has been running for cover from American weapons for over a century. The era of American exceptionalism and impunity is over. It’s time to rejoin the rest of the world. “Fascism or genocide” is not going to cut it.

Sanctioning and providing material support for a genocide is not in the same category as any of these things.

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How about we outlaw nukes instead? F-35s? Missile cruisers? Reaper drones? Whatever they have in orbit that can kill us?