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beetle bailey

Just a bug with progressive values, opinions, and Interwebz. Black, atheist, AuDHD, Âû. A-awesome. PROUDLY a transmasc coleoptera. Be warned: I clap back.

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Cake or Death

6 min readMay 13, 2022

Or, “Thoughts On Why Some Folks Might Want to Shut That Bitch-Ass Mouth About Voting … Respectfully.”

Well. Maybe not so respectfully.

I stumbled across this series of posts in my Tumblr-dash (names redacted to protect the ig’nant):

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Typical privileged, neo-lib bullshky … likely, all mayo-flavored, of course.

Sigh. Twice.

I’m sorry — other folks have days that are NOT like that???

Your strident, dirty commie-bug’s dashed off — and thus, less wordy and overblown — response was as follows:

I understand the point being made against accelerationism, but if the people for whom we vote to protect our rights REFUSE TO — refuse to even protect our RIGHT TO VOTE FOR THEM, and those who guide this country … that, too, is voter suppression. It suppresses the votes of the poor and any poorer minority, when they have to lose a day of work to travel and vote for some feckless neo-lib who won’t help [them] if they win and if they lose, will continue to raise money off…

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beetle bailey
beetle bailey

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Just a bug with progressive values, opinions, and Interwebz. Black, atheist, AuDHD, Âû. A-awesome. PROUDLY a transmasc coleoptera. Be warned: I clap back.