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"Officer, I'm only this drunk because of the coming election, surely you understand"

My friends and comrades, please fill your lives with meaningful relationships and work, stop injecting the constant feed of "doomsday" news and conflict into your bloodstreams that is designed to unsettle you and keep you scrolling.

That isnt life.

will voters choose the candidate that will keep things depressingly the same, or will the choose the candidate that will make things depressingly worse?

either way, there is depression... and alcohol consumption.

If I don’t get the free pony that I was promised, I’m going deep into the bottle.

Turns out bipartisan detachment from reality can also result in refusal to engage in socio-political events which results in not experiencing the listed impacts other than dodging politics in non political venues.

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It is all a scam designed to divide and conquer.