# neolibs on blusky got called a dipshit today by some self-satisfied fart-smeller on 'social' > splitter! > ~ monty python i was in critiquing what i termed the apparently-democratic 'one-party-with-two-faces' voting system and the ultimate illusion of choice yet in doing so was apparently 'both-siding' (pseudo-debating clear issues that have already been settled in the non-existing 'marketplace of political debate') note that the _general_ principle - 'vote the nazi bastards out' isn't perfectly sound - but that wasn't my point at all yet this political 'authentocrat' was either so blindly unaware of the perfectly common (citation neeed) notion among citizens of _capitalist-run_ pseudo-democratic societies that 'the fix is in' - or is simply so utterly queer for (the myth of) holy democracy(r) they can't envision any other possible way to act in the world other than by ticking a flocking box ever couple of years so essentially we're left with the red tories or the blue tories - is that it? talk about a lack of imagination. one was reminded of blunt tool harry 'punisher' callihan in magnum bro force > i hate the damn system but until someone comes along with changes that make sense i'll stick with it > ~ dirty harry gee thanks harry i didn't know you had thought about it so much meanwhile the lizards in power just laugh at our left-right 'push-me-pull-you' bullshit when their top-bottom rule is where the real power lies / lies you can make me vote (which i do - friendo) but you may face difficulty convincing me it's not all for nothing since the house always wins what's that old scritti politti? "if 'politics' is the answer than you're asking the wrong flocking question" when i stare at non-places like bluesky part of me thinks neoliberal man o' whiteness has forked (red+blue) tongue indeed **example links** * https://www.natesilver.net/p/what-is-blueskyism? * https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2019/2/19/status-as-a-service * https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/20/yet-another-columnist-claims-bluesky-is-a-liberal-echo-chamber-because-its-users-keeping-kicking-nazis-out-of-the-bar/ question: if you can't stand politics per-se does that automatically make you right wing? what if you don't constantly signal your self-righteous left-wingness in public whatever that might entail next: does even asking such a question make one right wing - especially considering asking dumb bullshit pseudo-questions a standard tactic on the right related: why does _anyone_ still argue about terminally boring politics when "it's a people per-se issue" again and again and again it seems the only winning move is not to play // republic of bob