begging people to understand what I once thought was obvious: your vote holds no power unless it's backed by a credible threat to withdraw it

Power without responsibility is always a recipe for abuse and spiralling into failure

There's also this. An earnest not-very-skilled beginner posting his work got half the fucking internet engaging in joyful collaborative celebration of his effort.

And have you ever read One Punch Man or Mob Psycho 100 - the ORIGINAL comics by ONE?

The part of Bob's advice that's bad is "post it on the internet." The part of Alice's motivation that is bad is "I want praise and clout and affirmation without doing the work to acquire a skill."

For another, you can just do art and not post it. I do that all the fucking time. I make doodles for my tabletop game, I draw my little avatar guy. Art can be just for you and like four of your weirdest friends.

The purpose of human expression is not Posting.

And it's that underlying assumption, that the purpose of doing art is to post it online for clout and engagement, that makes this such a weird fucking take.

For one thing, you'll get WAY more shit for posting AI garbage and claiming it as you own work. Literally nobody will respect that.

fellas, is it authoritarian to express discontent with a political party

And emails about being a creep. How much evidence do we have of Bill Clinton being a creep for literally decades.