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Let me spell it out for you.

There is no fixing that system. It is broken beyond repair. It is a gordian knot, and it requires the same solution.

Do with that knowledge what you will.

You are in this situation. I am not. If I were not able to opt out of voting, I would choose death over submission.

People need to understand what a "no-vote" is. Give me liberty or give me death. We are not playing this small, rigged game.

Humanity is in the age of becoming a multiplanetary civilization, and yet we squabble over petty differences and cater to the lowest common denominators.

We have the stars within our grasp and yet most of us clutch towards dramas played out repeatedly for centuries.

I don't want mere healthcare. I want complete unconditional care for every being alive and to ever live in the future. I want to choose the planet I live on based upon my gravitational preferences. I want my intentions and desires to be read near perfectly and frictionlessly satisfied to the maximum possible. I want equal share in cosmic computational capabilities to be operated as a sovereign extension of my mind.

And I want every other being to receive the same according to the magnitude of their consciousness. This includes plants, animals, and beings we have yet to encounter.

Where you see two choices within a political axiom that has total control over the outcomes within your life and the lives of your community, I see only one. The "choices" are simply ritualistic motions of compliance with decisions the ruling class has already made. I engage with that system only at the minimum required in order to maintain material and bodily sovereignty. Voting in an unauditable and openly rigged system, especially after seeing the DNC is rigged, is nothing but an instrument of mass control.

I create a second choice by not participating. Opting out is a non-destructive, peaceful way to withdraw consent and focus energy on alternatives. Every human being can create these sorts of options. That is how government was originally created. All better systems begin with rejecting the smaller visions.

No one chose to be born into this world. No one should be forced to play human-created nonsense games.

Keep being mad and feeding these machines.

“The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth — whether it’s scientific truth, or historical truth, or personal truth! It is the guiding principle on which Starfleet is based.”

“We work to better ourselves and the rest of humanity.” — Jean-Luc Picard

Some of the basic tenants of Star Trek society are inclusion and shared progress. Elitism and exclusion are how we got to the mess we find ourselves in.

A better lesson is responsibility for the "nerds." You all sold your talents and abilities to salespeople and conmen instead of seeing the value in yourself. Then, you got manipulated into building a dystopian technology that entraps the common people instead of liberating them.

They needed guidance and you gave them your insecurity instead. The evil desires the technology as it is does not have the intellect to manufacture it. That requires complicit "nerds."

Voting is not democratic.

My preferred system is a combination of lottery-based representative governance, where the lottery is selected from a pool of potentials with enough support. Support is tallied via a liquid democracy. This system is relatively incorruptible and offers actual representation.

Is this a system you've ever heard of, or is it one used anywhere?

No?

Then I am not represented. I won't smear my head in shit because everyone else is. Your "democratic government" was destroyed well over 50 years ago when the business plot succeeded. Your "voting" is submission to tyranny. When a mechanism is corrupt and your options are invalidated, the only option is to stop using it.

How well has your voting gone? What about when democrats had control of all branches of government?

How many drone strikes stopped?

Did single payer healthcare get passed?

Was tax law actually enforced on billionaires?

What happened when the "good guys" in your mind won?

What will it take for you to realize where you are? You were never in a democracy.

Nonvoters are casting a vote. It is a vote out of a shit system that doesn't work. Pull your head out of your corporate captured ass. As soon as true rebellion is ablaze, those "nonvoters" will show you where their vote is.

But go ahead. Keep screaming into the void, just like your wasted vote. Blame the nonvoters. Hell, blame them MORE than those actively supporting fascism. That sure makes sense. Don't even think of blaming lobbyists, rigged voting machines, gerrymandering, judicial capture, media capture, analytical brainwashing, first-past-the-pole voting, and absolutely tiny representative pools (easier to bribe)....

No, don't blame that. Instead, put your energy into the people so disillusioned by the system they opt out. THAT'LL show them. Maybe it will get them to vote for your team? Yeah! Bully them until they vote!!

Yes, starlink giving poor communities in the Amazon access to the rest of the world is good.

Yes, starlink giving internet to rural people who have been duped, manipulated, lied to, and cheated about getting internet for decades is good.

Yea, starlink undercutting greedy, corrupt ISPs with a service they had deemed "technologically impossible" and "financially infeasible" is good.

Yes, innovation is good.

Yes, internet access is good.

I am sad that people with telescopes are slightly inconvenienced and have to add in dynamic filtering to correct for minor anomalies of satellites moving by every 10 minutes. It is so sad.

But hey, look on the bright side? For your minor inconvenience, millions more people are now connected. They can get help when something goes wrong. They can participate in the modern economy and get access to more food and medicine. They can share their culture and learn from other's. Remote workers can be among them and bolster their lifestyles.

So at the cost of a small inconvenience that can easily be corrected, the lives of millions are improved. I could write all day to this tune but if you can't see such an obvious thing, there is not much I can say to you. I can just hope any lurkers reading feel seen and heard, cause I am really tired reading the nonsense against such a powerful gift to humanity.

Fucked up the sky for all of us? Who is "all of us"? Most of "us" live in mega cities with so much light pollution it blots out the night sky. Everyone in these horrid concrete jungles has high speed internet and absolutely no connection to the stars. Many of these people have never even seen the stars.

The ones living outside of these cities are the minority, and now they have internet. An internet they have been promised to the tune of countless billions for a very long time. They see the stars every night. Starlink has not impacted their connection with the stars at all.

So I am genuinely curious. Who, exactly, is the "us" you refer to?

And why are you not rallying against the light pollution that has denied billions access to the stars for at least generations?

Chrono Trigger is the most legit RPG out there, no doubt.

OOT just hits different. Tugging some spirit strings.