i've been deeply and cripplingly depressed for almost half my life at this point, and the past four years, bookended by the two worst years of my life, have been particularly brutal

and although it wouldn't be accurate to suggest that trump's presidency was the only thing bringing me down, a day hasn't gone by where i've been able to avoid thinking fatalistically about the future because of it, whether it be my country's, my loved ones', or my own—which really begins to take a toll on your psyche when you're constantly having to dwell on it

so while it's definitely going to be all fun and games watching racists and incels seethe on /pol/ and other right-wing internet shitholes for a good while, and it's good to meme about that being the best thing about this victory, the one thing i'm honestly looking forward to is getting to feel a little bit more okay about life on a day-to-day basis—because as dumb as it sounds, this is definitely going to lift my spirits

biden's not going to save the country—not by a longshot—but as far as my morale is concerned, i'll be sure to get a 5% boost at least just from having trump out of office, and it's going to feel great

If the GOP wants to go back to the way things were before Trump came down the escalator, I un-ironically think Jeb would be a good contender against Biden.

Jeb is a mess. Jeb is a waste. Jeb is a big fat mistake.

imagine four years of /pol/ tears

the AP hasn't called MI for some reason, i wonder what they're waiting for

AZ going blue is super fucking pog, i'm delighted to be wrong about that one

at this rate, it's gonna come down to either MI or GA (somehow) and sadly, i'm thinking MI is a lost cause

but i can't actually bank on GA going blue either, because historically it's been a foregone conclusion for republicans

fuck dude

Quote from: Verbatim on November 03, 2020, 03:45:17 PM

Quote from: Mordo on November 03, 2020, 03:36:35 PM

Whoever wins, we lose.

i'm all for doomer memes like this, but it's gonna be hard for me not to see trump losing as anything but a resounding victory

It's a short term victory 100%, but damn it if I'm not still salty none of Bernie's policies are on the table for Biden. I can't see potentially 8 more years of "nothing will fundamentally change" as a good thing for everybody. People need socialized healthcare like right fucking now.

it's worth noting that bernie practically begged his base to vote for biden, though

it's not ideal, but the path to socialized healthcare down the line does start with biden

before i pokémon go to the polls:



i'll never forget that my county was the only one who went blue in my entire peninsula in 2016

i live in the heart and brain of my state

grey states will decide the election



my prediction

if MI shits the bed again, but i'm otherwise 100% accurate, we'll actually have a tie

New wuestion, what is the worst change in your life in the last four years and what how do you expect it to get better/worse depending on who wins

is this some kind of "why do you even care who's president if it doesn't affect you personally" meme, or what

Quote from: Verbatim on October 31, 2020, 01:11:28 PM

Quote from: SecondClass on October 31, 2020, 01:09:47 PM

It helps to know what the words mean, ngl I had to google some of the definitions

The verboseness of the words was my only major stopgap

what words did you have to look up

I just reran it so I could remember:

• Aghast
• Despondent
• Tentative
• Pensive
• Incredulous

hmm, i guess you don't read much

incredulous is a good one

don't forget that Trump lost the popular vote by over 3 million people last time. All those votes meant jack shit in a state like mine which is guaranteed to go blue because of the electoral college anyway.

be that as it may, i'm not a defeatist, so this fact doesn't really make a difference to me—if anything, it demonstrates that trump's win was a massive fluke, and that he could be easily disposed of if just a few rust belt states turned blue, and specifically the ones with a disparity of less than 1%, of which there were several (MI, WI, PA)

so i'm not calling you out in particular, but the general sentiment, because those sentiments can carry across the country in states where it actually will matter

Trump is obviously considerably worse, but Biden is a pretty shitty fucking choice too. Biden represents a return to the status quo for a lot of people, but things were pretty fucking garbage already pre-Trump. I don't feel any responsibility voting for a candidate that doesn't represent my interests past pushing things back partially to where they used to be.

getting rid of the worst president we've had in our history should directly represent the interests of anybody with their priorities straight

it's really not a vote for biden, it's a vote to get trump the fuck out—i'm almost a single-issue voter on this, because my dislike of biden doesn't justify the risks associated with potentially giving trump another 4 years because i decided that now is the time to be a choosing beggar

you didn't need to write a paragraph shitting on biden, because nobody likes biden—that just doesn't really matter, because the election is, first and foremost, a referendum on the incumbent

if you're starving, but all you have to eat is this bad-tasting and unhealthy junk food, you don't just choose to starve to death just because you'd rather have filet mignon

so you've sidestepped your valid opinions only rule by not having any opinions at all

this is the epitome of getting all your political positions from your parents

Change bad

you should not talk about politics, and probably shouldn't vote either

voting for the lesser of two evils is tautological anyway

who else are you gonna vote for? the greater of two evils?

pretty much nobody who votes thinks they're doing that, unless they're an accelerationist

Are you still in computer science? Sorry, I honestly just don’t remember that well, but I think that’s what you were in last time.

And to be fair to your doubt, I’m the youngest person in my department, but only by a handful of years. I think the next-youngest is twenty-seven, but at least a few new hires during orientation were near my age (But they’re elsewhere in my district so I don’t know them well). I might’ve started even younger, but I took a semester off because of my deteriorating mental health Sophomore year, and withdrew from all but one of my classes at the start of Junior year following my cousin passing away in the Spring. My grief was delayed and I eventually broke down halfway through the Fall semester.

i see—yeah, you could say my stint in compsci may as well have been "semesters off" as well

i wound up switching out of that in favor of my initial choice (english) a couple years ago—it's not that i didn't do well, but i was extremely miserable (FUCK how math classes are taught), and i eventually just came to the conclusion that it's better to study what i'm actually interested in rather than worry about what'll get me paid more, and if that means i won't pay off my debt in a timely fashion, i figured "so be it"

i only regret that i didn't last long enough in compsci to earn enough credits for a minor, although i was close

sorry to hear about your cousin

oh, you got dumb

shame