[davidw]

If it didn't matter they wouldn't get so upset about you doing it.

Never listen to anyone telling you that your voice doesn't matter.

Like... here's a story about me getting a kind of boring corporate law (related to limited liability companies) changed in Italy. Tons of people rolled their eyes at me and said it'd never happen, but I kept poking away at it, and it did happen:

https://blog.therealitaly.com/2015/04/16/fixing-italy-a-litt...

Also, local politics matter a bunch in the US. There is a ton of good you can do in your community with just a handful of people.

[raw_anon_1111]

If anything, I get upset at how naive the left is, how they think that “this isn’t who we are”, and how out of touch they are. They try to play fair - the right plays to win.

Right now, the governor of California is trying to meet Texas gerrymandering with its own. But liberals are clutching their pearls with “two wrongs don’t make a right” and arguing about things like this in their committees

The rules specify that when we have a gender-nonbinary candidate or officer, the nonbinary individual is counted as neither male nor female, and the remaining six officers must be gender balanced.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/02/dnc-mee...