While I want the GOP to lose, I'm dreading the potential Democratic blue wave because I've seen what happens next. Yet while I'm pessimistic about our institutions, I'm not about humanity. An essay on why winning elections isn't the same as building a better world. www.patreon.com/jessiegender...

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and a whole lot of people who grew up with these games are going to believe that their "childhood" was "ruined" because women or black people got to work on video games, and not because a rich piece of shit stole everything those devs ever built

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Oligarchs will keep burning our planet to build an AI god that will never come. Politicians will keep serving capital as the world burns. But I’m not pessimistic about humanity, only our institutions. We can still build beautiful communities rooted in care, solidarity, and lives worth living.

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This isn’t doomerism, nor an argument against voting or fighting GOP voter suppression. Voting can materially improve lives, or at least keep them from getting worse. So please, vote. But don’t mistake the temporary relief of winning an election for the work of building a better world.

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I’m not looking forward to 2028 where so many of us are gonna keep talking about issues we need to address and so many won’t listen because the motivator of “fuck Trump” will be gone and people just want comfort over doing the work to actually fix things.

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