#useless tankie fuckers

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The green party (and just about every 3rd) makes lofty promises but never delivers

Do not vote for them, do not vote for that tankie shit cornell west

(I do not understand why people think he's a better choice than Biden because he "supports" certain things that Biden allegedly doesn't, anyone can "support" something, what has he actually done? What policies has he enacted? What laws has he passed? What deals has he made? None, because he's not a politician, he's a performer, Biden actually has done those things, and he's damn good at it, because he's got decades of experience)

Vote Democrat, Vote for Biden, Vote Blue Down the Ballot, because if not, then you are helping the Republican fascists

i registered to vote for the first time ( i feel old) now that im an adult but my state has closed primary elections which i was wondering if you have an opinion about. my initial thought was that its bad because i had to register democrat (rather than my states green party which represents my beliefs more) just so i could vote between democrat candidates, which feels like being pressured into supporting the weird pseudo two party system we have. but then i looked it up and apparently a reason for this is so that people from opposing parties wont purposefully mess up the votes just so that their preferred candidates have an easier time winning, and i think that makes sense too. but is that actually the reason theyve closed it or is it just to force us dem/republican?? cause it feels strange

Okay, look. I respect the fact that you're a young person, and I appreciate that you have not only registered to vote, but plan to vote in the primaries, so I don't want to lecture you too much. That said: I am taking you out for coffee, I am sitting you down, I am looking into your eyes, and I am urgently telling you the following:

The Green Party is a scam. It is a scam. It has existed for decades in American politics as an empty shell corporation weaponizing the good intentions of young people like yourself, because all it theoretically stands for "it's good to save the planet maybe." Which is not something that any non-insane person seriously disagrees with, but there is no world in which that cause is actually furthered by registering/voting Green (you mentioned that you did vote for Democrats, which -- good, but listen to me here, youngun, okay?) It ran Jill Stein in 2016 to siphon more votes from HRC, and this election it plans to run Cornel West, a pro-Russian tankie who positively equated Bernie and Trump, as another spoiler candidate. It does not stand for "protecting the planet" or America in any real way. It has never elected a single senator or congressman, let alone a president. It stands for empty performance/grievance political theater by those people who feel too morally superior to vote for/affiliate with Democrats, often because the internet has told them that it's not Cool or Hip or Progressive enough.

If your main priority is climate/the environment, you're doing the right thing by registering as a Democrat and voting for Democrats. (Also: the adjectival form is Democratic. It is the Democratic party and Democratic candidates, otherwise you sound like the Fox News host who wrote a book literally entitled "The Democrat Party Hates America.") They are the only major party who has in fact passed major climate legislation and have made environmental justice a central tenet of their platform. As opposed to the Republicans, whose Project 2025, along with the rest of its nightmare fascist prescriptions, openly pledges to completely wreck existing climate protections and forbid any new ones, just because we weren't all dying fast enough under their death-cult rule already. That's the main logical fallacy I don't get among both the Online Leftists and the American electorate in general: "the Democrats aren't doing quite enough as I'd like, so I'll enable the active wrecking ball insane lunatics to get in power and ruin even the progress we HAVE managed to make!" Like. How does that even make sense?

On a federal level, the Greens have contributed nothing whatsoever of tangible value to American or international climate policy/legislation, environmental justice, or anything else, because as noted, they don't have any elected candidates and mostly focus on drawing voters away from Democrats. There might be plenty of good candidates on the local or city level, which -- great! Vote away for Greens if they're available, or the only other option is a Republican! But on the federal/primary level, please understand: once again, they are a scam. There is no point in affiliating yourself with them. You're welcome to register Green and vote Democratic, if that makes you feel better or if you prefer having another label next to your name, but once again, I'm telling you in my position as a salty Tumblr elder that they have done nothing but harm to the causes they claim to care about, because "environment" is such a nebulous priority and has demonstrably been hijacked to stop the American government entity, i.e. the Democrats, that is actually working to improve on it.

As for your question: nobody is "forcing" or "pressuring" you to vote in primaries. By your own admission, you made a conscious choice to register as a Democrat in order to vote for Democratic candidates. If you were just a regular registered voter of whatever party affiliation, you would vote in the general election for whatever candidate the primary process produced. But if you are sufficiently vested and committed to that process that you would like to have a say in who is running under that party label, it is not unreasonable that you would register as a member of that party. Nobody has twisted your arm behind your back and made you do so; you are taking a considerable level of initiative on your own. Likewise, open primaries can be both a good and bad thing. This falls under the "the political system we have is flawed, but we can't magically pretend it doesn't exist and act according to our own fantasyland versions of reality" thing that I keep saying over and over. So yes, if you want a role in shaping the Democratic candidates who emerge from a Democratic primary process, you will usually register as a Democrat, and nobody has forced you to do that. It's that simple.

Likewise as a general programming note: I'm trying to cut back on politics a bit right now, because I don't have the spoons/bandwidth/mental health to deal with it. I apologize. So if you've sent me a politics-related ask recently and haven't received a response, I'm not deliberately or maliciously ignoring you; I just am not able to handle it as much as usual and will have to put it on pause. However, I feel as if this is important enough to be worth saying, so, yeah.

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Can I ask a question? Do you have any tips on how to start playing Overwatch? I really want to play but I’m completely new at it. 😬

Ironically I played a little today, I haven’t played much in a while but yeah I can give a few tips. Idk how much sense they’ll make as I don’t know how brand spanking new you are. More under the cut

Overall tips:Learn the map. There’s a big library of maps so learning where people like to put stuff or where a Widowmaker would hide is good. You don’t need to know all the health packs but the big health packs or ones one like a control map are good to know so you can get to them and also be cautious.Be aware of your teammates status. If you see that alot of your teammates are dying and you just respawned don’t rush in. I know touching the map and saving the game would be great but most of the time it doesn’t work. It’s better to try to get you in with the team and try to do a last effort push.You literally don’t need to buy loot boxes. I’ve never spent money and i’ve either gotten what skins/emotes/ whatever i wanted with time or you just get enough money through getting coins from the boxes or duplicates. Before a big event I suggest just start hording coins so if there’s something new you want you can get it as most skins that you would want during an event that’s legendary and ew is 3000 coins.If you see a genji reflecting for the love of god just stop shooting him.Tank HelpTanks are different, and finding one is crucial to learn even if it’s just to learn if your team needs one. You don’t need to be a tank main but learning how to just help is worth it. Roadhog has two shot types (i literally just learned this and have been playing for years no one every tells me primary/secondary fire shit)If your Orisa there’s a thing you can do if you have a shield out and have your ability ready for a new shield but don’t need it yetJust look up at the sky and use the ability that way you used it and it’s on cool down but don’t need it yet and it’ll eventually fall down close to you and replace your old shield.If your Rein don’t always charge. I know how tempting it is to charge into a big group but you gotta remember that you are THE HUGE SHIELD if you run into a big crowd your not using your shield and your teams in danger. Also if you right click you can look around without moving your shield which rocks. Also spam fire strike. You get so much charge from it and even if you miss it’s a good kinda spam move to get distance or just make sure they don’t go in.D.va use the defense matrix and also self destructs are hard to land and get a ton of kills, don’t expect that, it helps sometimes if you boost into the air and shoot it off as most people don’t look up at the sky. Hammond: I got no fucking clue man i’m still learning him. Winston: hard to learn but really useful. Can use the ult to regain health when your low. When your winston you don’t take out the tanks you take out the squishies that’s your goal. That and little turrets. zarya: shields are your best fucking friend. That gives you energy and ult charge and the energy makes everything stronger. Try to get good at timeing the shields. Shield teamates going in.Offense: Do you like precise aim? Mcree, Widow, Hanzo, Genji, Ashe, tracerdo you not like aiming: Junk, Mei, bastionTracer: always keep a blink just in case. Remember you can blink backwards and side to side. Tracer is good up close, your basically useless trying to shoot from too far away you need to literally be UP in their shit.Blink + Ultimate+ recall best bet to not blow yourself upMccree: don’t fan all the time. I know you want to, i did but it’s a bad habit and you get no where with it. Don’t try to get a quad with dead eye get what you can.Mei: for the love of god be aware of your walls cause your wall can also block your allys and i’ve had so many times where i’m gonna do something and a wall comes out of no where and just fucks shit up. Also you can shoot your ultimate in the air and yeah it does take more time to get out it can also surprise people.Junkrat: spam. Doesn’t matter spam. If they yell at you they don’t understand that’s just Junks thing. also you can jump using the mines, use that to get higher or to finish someone off.Hanzo: If you don’t know where the enemies are but are aware of where they WOULD be. Throw a dragon. Usually throw a dragon when their in one place, he’s really good for control points or payloads cause you know they’re all in one spot.Genji: I have no clue cause I suck at Genji but remember if he kills or the person he used his dash on dies you can use it again. So you get that fucker like every 2 seconds. DON’T GO RUSH IN ULT READY ON YOUR OWNSym: You can rotate the barrier to your liking. Spam ballsAshe: You can shoot the dynamite in the air if you keep your cursor in the same spot right after you chuck it. otherwise I just kinda throw it in a team fight. Coach gun is good for getting to places or disingaging.Bob is my husband and yes I bought the Gangster skin that’s pink cause of wilford don’t fucking at Me.Uh if you see a bob that isn’t yours just... don’t try to attack hide. literally hide you are not gonna win.bastion: You got a heal, you can use it when walking use it. don’t always turret in the same place, get up and move around after a while it catches them off guard. In your ult you can shoot at the ground and do a little jump, gets you to certain places.Pharah: concussion blast people away or off maps, it’s fun. Try to ALWAYS be in the air. A pharah on the ground is useless. Don’t always use the ult  in a place where you can easily get sniped from the air unless you know you got a good chunk of the enemiesDoom: Your ult can save you from so much shit, from falling off maps to just retreating use it. Probably better then trying to kill with it as it’s kinda iffy with kills. If you need to get somewhere use your ablities to get there faster, trust me some of them come back fast like the punch it’s easier to just punch and fly your way to the point then walk.Reaper:If your stuck in a trap or something like a zarya hold just ghost it. You can usually get out. Don’t teleport right in front of someone do it a little behind or off  otherwise they can just insta kill you.Try to be sneaky with the ult and ghost in there and use it. Yes that’s how people know your gonna use it but it’s effective. OR your can drop down from somewhere and use it though depending on the map it’s ehSoldier: plop down a heal even if you don’t need it your teammates can. If they got a million barriers up don’t ult. It’s gonna be wasted. If you are then just try to widdle the shield down. You can do a rocket jump to get to higher places.Sombra: hack anything and everything a health pack an enemy, anything helps. Keep your translocator a little back then you would want just in case someone tries to trap you with itWidow: be good at aiming. Position yourself in unexpected places instead of the usual nests. Use your poison trap it’s dumb but if you throw it in a fight it can do something otherwise it tracks people trying to kill youtorb: throw the fucking turret. You can now throw that fucker up on weird places. You couldn’t before. I love chucking that thing. Also molten core just fucking splooge it everywhere. It won’t hurt trust me.healers:mercy: Don’t try to go into a big fight and rez one person. Try to only rez when it seems safe and if it’s dodgy you can go but don’t kill yourself trying to rez one person. Learn how to zoom from one person to another with guardian angel it helps alot and makes you way harder to hit. If they don’t need heals use the hurt spray, don’t always be on heals.Lucio: learn how to do basic wall rides, it helps make you harder to hit and also is just fun to fuck around with. boops are good but you can use them to kill, to push people away if your getting hit don’t always try to ledge kill. But yes ledge kill it’s fun.If you feel a team fight going on or hear a ult go off pop the ult. You don’t need to go from a big height to do it just get it down as quick as you can.Moira: Don’t always use the hurt ball. I know you do. But sometimes a heal ball in a battle is just as useful. Spray the heal juice, don’t always rely on the ball to heal. Zen: Always keep your heals on someone, don’t just not have it out. Charge attack often especially around corners. Popping transcendence is so good in fights it just makes everyone sad cause no one can do shit it’s great do that.Ana: Nano boost heals, you can also heal with your ult so do that. COMMUNICATE WITH YOUR TEAMMATES ABOUT YOUR ULT MAKE SURE THEY GOT ULT. nano granade yourself if need be it doesn’t hurt anyone Bridge: swing and bash. You shield bash your good. armor pack all the time. You are a god. You can’t be stopped You’ll be surprised how tanky you are.