Those poor advertising service providers!

It makes sense to me and i do like 8 weeds every day.

What if someone threatens his corgis tho

I didn’t know poke-balls came in fuzzy brown

I’m in this picture and I don’t like it.

play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Rocks are real people. That’s why they make great pets.

It’s mine.

I refuse to argue about this due to the following reasons, assumptions and attacks against your person: …

Kthxbai

How do you avoid getting caught?

You don’t have to prove anything to anyone, but you have a choice to mock / belittle other people and their issues or not to. You may get repercussions for joking about sensitive topics like these people did, but that’s not really the point.

There are no prizes for choosing not to use dark humor beyond personally knowing you may have spared someone a little bit of suffering. If that matters to you, take it into consideration. If it doesn’t, that’s fine too… I just advise you to remember your choice, why you took it and observe how it makes you feel and what it makes you become.

And there are all kinds of shades of gray here, too. You can joke around once in a while if you want to, but extreme attitudes tend to cause extreme consequences.

And just to be clear, I’m not claiming to be an example of anything. I used to be the dudes Derek hung out with. Hell, i still am if you catch me on a bad day. Just sharing what I feel those decisions taught me.

Whatever you choose, hope it’s for the best.

Are you ‘Derek’?

“P”

This assumes single-dimensional political repercussions, though, which i don’t personally consider a good analogy.

Imagine if they not only set temperature, but also humidity, average rainfall, barometric pressure, wind speed, intensity and frequency of sunflares and chancea of tornado. Imagine if the person handling the thermostat set it for millions of locations with different needs simultaneously.

Imagine if your expectations were likely to be missed by a longshot in all regards and furthermore, all the information you were given regarding any possible consequences was completely untrustworthy.

This is what politics feels like, to me, in latin america.

Hope i’m wrong and you guys have it better. Best of luck.

They’re all bad ones, from what I can see and have learned. At least the ones we get here.

From my perspective, I don’t think there’s a good way to tell who is worse. Plus, even if we were fully able to predict all consequences of electing anyone in the ballots, there’s the value of the short term vs the long term and what demographics benefit most, which get punished, what interest groups are supported, which are persecuted, and which economic activities benefit.

I don’t feel qualified to make judgement calls or bet on anyone in any of those regards.

I have my opinions and values, and none of them align with the candidates I’ve been presented during any of the elections during my entire lifetime.

You feel differently and that’s great. By all means vote. I honestly hope it makes a difference for you and those who you care about. I really wish I agreed with you too, I just lost all faith. Don’t want to convince you either.

Hope it goes better for you guys than it has for us.

I agree with your second statement, but in the case of my county, all options tend to be very bad. I realize this comment will be well unpopular, and am not trying to convince anyone of anything, just explain my perspective.

I don’t vote.

Voting is mandatory here, so I show up and fulfill my civil duty, and have even been in charge of voting tables when “drafted” to do so by authorities. I just don’t vote for any candidate because I’ve always disliked all of them, their policies and their discourse. Furthermore, our electoral process is so full of fake news, statements taken out of context and general mudslinging, it’s nearly impossible to make a genuinely informed decision. Peer pressure gets wild too.

I don’t want to vote for someone who will later on go on to continue the pattern of corruption, populism, nepotism, selling out to foreign interests, authoritarianism and incompetence that has been the hallmark of the vast majority if not all of our political leaders the last century.

People get very worked up about these things too, and I also don’t want to jeopardize my bonds with loved ones due to my decision, which I didn’t even believe in to begin with.

I’m deeply sorry but I’ve lost all faith, not only in the democratic process but also of any possible political candidate or system fixing society for the vulnerable and deprived.

It just seems to me that healthy societies emerge from social trust and solid values, not votes… So I try to do my best to be an example in those regards, hoping it will make a small difference in the long run. I wish we would all focus on that to be honest.

Whatever you believe in or do, I wish you, your society and our world the very best.

Because pudú.

I am being personally attacked.

It’s misanthropy.