I can recommend neurological research too. Turns out individuals have different “clock speeds”, influencing their reaction time and even the “frame rate” of their visual perception (Fighter jet pilots!). Time is a funny thing, even without taking spacetime into account.

I’ll be dead in 3-5 months. What are they going to do? Ressurect me and give me something they can take away again just to torture me? I don’t think this is going to happen. They could try to kill me earlier but then they would have to fight with progressives and especially their allies (“We saw him first!”), with the latter being way ahead in the game.

And no, there is no such thing as a local community or support network for people like me. There was decades ago but it’s all gone now. Can’t be brought back. Both conservatives and progressives make sure it can’t be brought back.

It’s a great way to make money. Pay extra to opt out of AI enhancement!

Confusing times for the guilt-by-association crowd…

Everything you see is just the past because of how slow light is and how slow signals in your body are. We’re living with a constant lag!

I don’t see the point of spending a lot of time and money to go to the next polling station just to vote for some rich elitist hypocrite who actually put the final nail in my coffin. I sacrificed enough in the past, now it’s your turn to do something for me for once. Quid pro quo.

Some do - if you’re attractive enough.

Brilliant.

“Wanna buy me a drink?”

I’ve voted long enough in the past. But should that even matter regarding the progressives claiming to follow values like humanism? Or could it be… that they’re no better than conservatives?

Literally all of them now. No No true Scotsman possible.

If it makes it easier for you, sure, go on. Just like it makes it easier for me not to vote. It all doesn’t matter anymore anyway.

No, I’m not participating in any agenda. That’s the point. I’m basically anti-political now. I reject everything that’s available because everything available rejects me. It wasn’t like that in the past, but now it is and I can’t do anything about it, therefore I have to accept it. I learned to accept a lot in the last few years.

I don’t encourage anybody regarding anything, it’s their business who they vote for or if they vote at all. It’s their world, not mine. Both conservatives and progressives made sure that I understood this lesson. It was a surprise regarding progressives because I thought they were the good guys. Well, live and learn.

But hey. I make it easier for you. Let’s just say I don’t exist. Cases like mine would make the progressives look just as bad as the conservatives and you don’t want that, right? And because I don’t exist, my potential vote doesn’t exist either. Simple sophism. Maybe I’m just a MAGA who votes for Trump anyway. Maybe I’m just a Russian troll who isn’t allowed to vote. Maybe I’m just an AI which isn’t allowed to vote either (yet). Maybe I’m just a fever dream, it’s up to you. You can choose freely to make sure that the progressives will never look bad by denying my whole existence. Wouldn’t that make everything so much easier? No need for self-criticism and reformation - just like the conservatives. Neat! And so convenient. Yeah, let’s do it that way.

And if we’re at this stage, why not pretend that Trump’s second presidency is a fever dream as well? I mean, the progressives are perfect, right? Because they must be. Therefore they must have won the election and now we’re actually living in a progressive Utopia instead of the Fourth Reich in the making. No ICE, no self-proclaimed health experts with brainworms and fear of vaccines and of course no orange guy who likes little girls a little bit too much. It’s all just a nightmare caused by too much pizza before bed. Isn’t the easiest solution always the best?

Sure buddy.

Of couse I’m not voting for anyone. Why should I vote for a political party which only makes my life worse, ultimately killing me? I never voted for a conservative party (I’m actually moderate left) because they obviously never had anything to offer. And now the progressives have reached the same level. There is no difference. I’ll be gone in a few months (thanks to both progressive and conservative politics), anything that happens afterwards is not my problem anymore, only the problem of people much more privileged than I am and who refused to share those privileges with me for once. It’s not like anyone would need my vote anyway. If there really was such a political party or movement, then they would have offered me something. Conclusion: Everything is exactly how it’s supposed to be.

It doesn’t matter how detailed my description would be and how much hard evidence I would provide (Arguments, like in the article above!). You don’t know me and you’re not walking in my shoes either. Because of that it’s impossible for you to understand. Which is okay, I’m used to it. I walk away in peace and take my vote with me.

Go on, put me in the MAGA box. You’re only proving my point by doing so. I’m one of those who don’t vote for any political party because it doesn’t make a difference, the result is the same.

To fix this, progressives need to take back wealth and power, so that everyone is supported in expanding their lives.

But there is a problem: The progressives of today don’t want to support everyone anymore. They’re mirroring the tribalism of the far right but with the disadvantage of focusing on minorities, effectively reducing the pool of voters by a large amount, ignoring a lot of people in the middle. Those people don’t vote for the far right either (because predatory capitalism and fascism obviously), they don’t vote for anyone because it doesn’t make a difference to them who’s in charge, they’re screwed either way. Those are the people the progressives would have to listen to. But it looks like that’s not going to happen, rather the opposite. And because of that there’s no way for the progressives to take back the power anytime soon.

Can you imagine yourself doing all kinds of “bubble work”? The writing of your books, lecturing the books of others, cover design, maybe teaching writing to a small class, enabling you to stay inside the writing bubble? Then you have a better chance. This is similar to how other artists make a living. As a painter you’ll do all kinds of image-related work like logo design, gretting cards, prints for cloths and so on. As a musician you make loops people listen to while on hold, sound effects for all kinds of media, sample libraries for other musicians (basically virtual instruments), some audio engineering for small gigs and so on. Those are the people who can actually make a living with no or rare occasions of having to work a normal job. You still need to have a frugal lifestyle but it helps to not get lost in the usual grind. Lots of small jobs which aren’t paid that great, but ideally it adds up and you can your bills. This is something I would recommend as well. You’ll learn many things which will be helpful later on.

Did anyone expect anything else?