wishing all non-usamericans a very shut the fuck up about your opinions on our voting actually. contrary to popular belief we're not fucking stupid and we know how voting works. first of all if someone is making the choice to abstain from voting as opposed to voting for the lesser of two evils (or actually supporting one of the parties) they have put a LOT of thought into that decision and it's not made lightly! second of all do you fucking HEAR yourself. "don't even think about who that vote's going toward" what the FUCK are you talking about. it is so incomprehensible to me to walk up to someone and tell them that it's important to vote but not to? vote for something good? yeah don't worry bro just vote. surely putting no critical thought into the end result of your political actions will end up fine. even if this were not a much more complex situation where undecided votes are being used to pressure different political sides and decisions not to vote have a lot of thought put into them, this take completely ignores the central problem, which is that people don't want to put a man who is actively contributing to genocide at the moment back into power. i think it's pretty fucking significant to think about what someone might do if they get elected actually.
you get it. you understand. you see how it's different. man i really don't think you do actually. the way to fuck over one party in a two-party system is to vote for the other party and the "better" party here is fucking terrible and will only continue pushing right if unchallenged. "just vote for genocide joe! don't think about what will actually happen! don't you want to screw over trump!" man do you hear yourself???? if we could shut down the condescension for a second and use our brains maybe we could have a productive discussion that didn't hinge around a fundamental misunderstanding of both our electoral system and the political movements that are currently involved and invested in the actions of voters right now. in the meantime goddddddd if you don't know what you're talking about take the high ground and shut the fuuuckkkk upppppppp
Odd thing, ain't it...you meet people one at a time, they seem decent, they got brains that work, and then they get together and you hear the voice of people. and it snarls.
btw when i talk abt it being unfair that lark was forgiven for what he did and sparrow wasnt (by henry) i say that in perspective of how sparrow probably feels, yk?
like obviously there are a lot of contradictory factors in play when it comes to both of their situations (lark & the rogue card and also the fact hes around 12-13 when it happens, and sparrow being an adult,) but like- personally i think if you/i were sparrow, that watching your father continuously forgive someone for something detrimental that they did even though they don't want that forgiveness for fucking years and then watching the same man go and immediately after you fuck up on that same level he tells you he will never forgive you? like that fucks you up
i dont think sparrow resents henry or lark for any of this but i definitely think he thinks about it like A LOT, because i definitely would-
as someone who has a fked up relationship with my father and is really close with my brother (who also has a pretty f-ed up relationship with him) i still love them both dearly, but that doesn't mean that my father's contradictory attitude towards both of us doesn't bother the fuck out of me, and i still think of it as unfair
the inherent poetic overtones of how sksw Link constantly falls, only to be caught by his sailcloth which is made by and is thematically tied to Zelda who is his childhood best friend and how it reflects just how much he cares about/relies on his loved ones and it also reflects how, by the end, he needs to trust his loved ones and let them help him and they're all there together by the end of it and it all comes down to him but whatever happens, he still has people who will fight with him and he knows that if he falls, his loved ones will always catch him before he hits the ground and SOMEONE ASK ME ABOUT THIS SO I CAN WRITE YOU A COHERENT ESSAY-