Maybe it’s just the Zohran optimism campaign getting to me, but I seriously doubt he would’ve gotten Gen Z support talking about how Dems suck and didn’t close Guantanamo 24/7.

Everyone’s sick of it, for better or for worse

they might try to pull a Yoon after they lose but go take a look at how that worked out for Yoon

This works the other way around too

You don’t have to push through something you’re not enjoying so you can “speak on it”

You can just drop it and move on with your life. You don’t have to force yourself to be a part of the conversation. Its okay!

You don’t have to think about other people or their perspectives when you’re playing a game. You can just play the game.

Unless it is your literal career. You are not obligated to go into a game with a reviewer mindset. Not sure why this is baked into so many gamer’s brains.

Bonus points if people in the future say that there was no black sheep and it was always good.

I think what’s missing in the thought process is again this ridiculous median-voter-ism that thinks successful democratic governance is about parroting back to people what they say they want. No! People want you to lead them in a direction, inspire them, confirm for them that we are moving forward.

After HBO aired the GoT episode with the Starbucks cup, there was a great thread about how many different overworked people had to be at the point of physical exhaustion to have let it get all the way through to the final product