“What’s going to happen in this next election? I’m terrified about what could possibly happen, because our leaders matter. Who we select, who speaks for us, who holds that bully pulpit, it affects us in ways sometimes I think people take for granted,” Obama told Jay Shetty on his podcast “On Purpose.”
“The fact that people think that government — ‘eh, does it really even do anything?’ — and I’m like ‘Oh my God, does government do everything for us, and we cannot take this democracy for granted.’ And I worry sometimes that we do. Those are the things that keep me up,” she said.
“The bars are different for people in life. That I’ve learned,” she said.
Without naming Trump, she continued: “Other people can be indicted a bunch of times and still run for office. Black men can’t. You just learn to be good. And in the end, you benefit from that extra resilience.”
I did read it and vexikron’s reply about how voting isn’t their priority because they are injured and homeless.
Which is why it’s kind of irrelevant until the homelessness episode ends; you can’t focus on other aspects of your life.
Vexikron isn’t being an ass, they’re being a regular human who is having a shit time of it and responding to lemmings who are telling them to just go to a shelter and vote their way out of it.
That solution to their problem is tone deaf and insulting.
It’s not like they pulled the voting comment out of their ass as a solution to homelessness. It was a response to Vexikron saying they wouldn’t be able to vote in their comment.