So you are the arbiter of who’s punk now?

Amen. I just really get pissed when people try to pass off their privileged disengagement with systems of institutional power as somehow being smarter than the game. It’s lazy and reductive.

I can’t see myself voting Republican because their brand is anti-worker, anti-minority, anti-environment, anti-regulation, etc. Just look at the last Supreme Court term, at all the 5-4 decisions that went the conservatives’ way.

It’s cute how you assume not-cast votes would have gone in the direction you wanted them to be cast.

He is living the privilege of being politically disengaged because (at least as far as he’s concerned), come what may, nothing is going to affect him personally. That’s a privilege—the privilege of being able to not pay attention without seeming repercussion.

Even if that were true (which I say because I think he’s wrong), it’s categorically shitty to take the position that because you are not going to affected any which way, that it’s not worth his time to do something free and easy to help other people who desperately need the help.

I don’t think that’s responsive to me question. I understand your position is, generally, that it doesn’t matter who is in power.

Capitulating to authority by giving up, so they can build their cookie-cutter, oppressive dystopia without undesirables... this is a punk attitude?

Touché.

LoL, yeah, let those jerks in West Palm deal with this dude!

So it is your position that there are no marginalized or vulnerable communities that would benefit more from Democratic policies than Republican policies?

Counterpoint: Goretooth doesn’t owe you crap.

So voting (one of the most basic and anodyne of civic duties) is tantamount to extreme partisanship?

I understand perfectly well what he is saying—he’s saying that he has no dog in this fight because it’s all the same to him. In other words, this is a guy who, faced with a version of the trolley problem in which the trolley can be diverted onto a track that harms no one, wouldn’t bother to flip the switch because…

If his worldview is that he doesn’t vote because his life and lifestyle are beyond the reach of politics (regardless of whether that is accurate), he’s basically saying that the undeniably suffering of marginalized communities under Republican rule is meaningless to him. I don’t have time for someone that can’t take a…

I’m in Miami... please no more dumbasses. We have plenty as it is.

It is ignorance that leads him to believe that he’s insulated/unaffected, but his position that he doesn’t need to do anything because he’s insulated/unaffected (accurate or not) is absolutely privilege.

Is Amy Schumer supposed to be plus-size? I feel like by Hollywood standards damn near everyone is plus-size, but Schumer makes it this huge part of her act, and she’s definitely been at the head of at least one rom-com. Is there some commonly understood threshold that Wilson meets or exceeds that Schumer does not?

What at total piece of fucking shit. This is what privilege looks like: not voting because you’re reasonably certain you’ll be unaffected regardless of who wins—everyone else be damned.

Let’s all just pray to the sweet baby Jesus that Kim Jong-un dies in an auto-erotic asphyxiation accident this blessed holiday season.