Unfortunately, no. I’ll have to reach out in some other form… I was told my question was against the rules of “Asklemmy”

Jerboa

She took the expression, “spice things up in the bedroom” literally.

Huh. Hadn’t heard that initialism until now.

NVE?

Ferrite mat’l for circuit components… YAG lasers… Those are off the top of my head… Yes, there are uses.

I think they nailed him to a cross, not trees. Still didn’t work… but, the more you know!

Have you tried altering how you say things?

Found the lady who parked in the wrong spot!

Hey there, now… it’s destroying more than just democracy.

I mean… he’s doing it to the US, too… so, of course.

I’d still assume there’s less smell of, literal, shit at a bodybuilding competition.

Yeah, agreed… my outlook is pretty bleak for my country, and by that I mean its people. Conservatives are truly a lost cause, in most situations. The exceptions being people too blinded by propaganda to see the harm they’re doing. I don’t see a lot of people “defending” non-voting, but that may be more anecdotal.

I get it… and I earnestly agree with most of your sentiments. I’m probably just clinging to hope that people aren’t such disappointments as to WANT it, so much as “not care enough” to avoid it. (If that is even somehow better)

You could argue the former, yes, I’d concede that. Though, I couldn’t say also that makes them “for” tRump… just not opposed to him. Neither is right, mind you. This is a situation where I truly wish that “Did not vote” was the winning candidate.

I could say indifference IS better than malice or willful ignorance… but, this could easily be disregarded as desire to ignore the greater concern (which I think you’re driving at) MLK’s expression of, “He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.” Comes to mind. Sure, we’re getting philosophical… but I couldn’t refute that standing, without deploying willfull ignorance of my own.

I am, vehemently, clinging onto the notion that people in my country are ignorant and lazy, rather than fully malicious… I can stomach the former far easier.

Voting literally is a “civic duty” for those who want democracy.

It’s not. It’s ALLOWING with the exact amount of steps. Now, there is no argument to be had that this isn’t still a pathetic, apathetic, route to force us all down. Inaction is still an action. I am not defending those people, either.