What Arcana Do You Think Spud Is?

What Arcana do you think Spud is?

SPUD’S ADVENTURE Atlus Game Boy 1991

Actual poster I saw when I went to the Grand Canyon. Now imagine how many they never find.

Any conspiracy theory about people going missing in National Parks is automatically silly to me. Like "Why are National Parks such a hotbed of disappearances???" because they're full of idiots. You've got thousands of people who've never pissed outdoors in their life wandering around the woods/desert/mountain with zero experience and zero gear and zero understanding that this place can kill them. You don't see as many disappearances in wild areas because people don't go to them unless they have some background knowledge. Whereas you get tour buses full of old folks and suburban families shuttling people into National Parks 365 days a year. If you took the same amount of buffoons and dropped them in the actual wilderness the disappearances would be significantly higher than at the parks. Use your brain.

Voting for Biden is providing support for Biden’s platform. It is telling him that not even a genocide will make you stop voting for him. He doesn’t have to listen to you. He won’t listen to you. Because he knows he’s got you anyway.

I listened in 2020. I voted for Biden even though he didn’t align with my positions, because he was better than Trump. I would have held my nose and voted for him after he kept building that fucking wall. I would have dragged myself to the booth after he declared an active pandemic over for political reasons. But I will not keep voting for him after a genocide. This isn’t a matter of ick, this is a matter of basic humanity. There is some evil I cannot support even to stop a greater evil. Because if this isn’t our line, what is?

This year, I’m voting for the most popular candidate who doesn’t support a genocide. That is my sole issue. If you want me to vote for Biden, help me convince the fucker that I’m serious instead of trying to convince him I’m as flaky as you lot.

By existing as a citizen in and paying taxes to the imperial core, we automatically hold complicity in imperialist oppression because we are literally footing the bill for it. That is just the basic nature of being born to privilege in systems of oppression in general. We can be disadvantaged and marginalized in every single other consideration and we still have to understand and cope with this, and ensure we leverage it as effectively as possible.

Voting abstinence/sabotage does not absolve us of our responsibility to do everything in our power to lessen harm, but it DOES show that when our personal morals aren't satisfied, we retreat into (imperialist, this time) privilege to 'wash our hands' of the situation and declare it's not our fault and it's not our problem.

Tap your sign all you want, you’re still condoning a genocide. All you want is to find the magic words that’ll let you absolve yourself of that.

Excuse you, they’re making out with swords.

They might as well have just started making out with tongue right here like please

What did you think Sashimi Platter meant?

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