J. Sam Drolet

Community Systems Program Manager @Ancpublichealth. HUD grants, planning / housing / homelessness. Previously many other things. He/him. Personal account.

[J. Sam Drolet @jsamdrolet]

Lots of people I know from here have made the switch already, but not all of them.

[J. Sam Drolet @jsamdrolet]

Yeah, definitely switching to Bluesky, which is way better than here. Follow me over there (same @). I'm going to leave this account up because I don't see any strong reason to delete but I won't post anymore.

[J. Sam Drolet @jsamdrolet]

I'm going to take a break from this place for a while. Maybe permanently. I'll be on Bluesky (same @) but spending less time there too. Social media hasn't felt great for me for a while and I just need to do less of it.

[Organizermemes @OrganizerMemes]

There is no state where 3rd party votes came close to the margin we needed. We lost to right wing voters and center voters who broke right

[J. Sam Drolet @jsamdrolet]

@SAMOYEDCORE What's your basis for that determination?

[J. Sam Drolet @jsamdrolet]

Man, what is up with this kind of gloating? I'm totally baffled by the appeal. We'll all suffer from Harris's loss, including her. That seems like an unalloyed bad result to me.

[ÐEATHCỘRE ĐOGGY (Raccoon) @SAMOYEDCORE]

i think the degree to which i am said to suffer under this coming administration more than fully entitles me to say that it's objectively very funny that kamala will never get to be the president and will have to remember that and think about it every day for the rest of her life

[J. Sam Drolet @jsamdrolet]

@SAMOYEDCORE Am I evil?

[J. Sam Drolet @jsamdrolet]

I followed the 2004 election in the comments on DailyKos. This is nothing.

[J. Sam Drolet @jsamdrolet]

@SAMOYEDCORE Are you evil?

[J. Sam Drolet @jsamdrolet]

Life is just one damn thing after another. There's no cathartic climax. (Inspired by the election, but not limited to it.)

[J. Sam Drolet @jsamdrolet]

@SAMOYEDCORE I just can't identify with that kind of lack of empathy, sorry. Everyone's suffering is analogous to everyone else's. I don't think "evil" is really a meaningful concept since I don't believe in God, but to the extent it is I think it applies to everyone equally.

[J. Sam Drolet @jsamdrolet]

@AsadFromNYC I think it would have helped but probably wouldn't have overcome the other factors.

[J. Sam Drolet @jsamdrolet]

People were the same way about Clinton in 2016, of course, and look how that turned out. Who is on which side here?

[J. Sam Drolet @jsamdrolet]

@slyride Yes, that too.

[J. Sam Drolet @jsamdrolet]

I don't blame the Harris campaign, which I think did the best they could under the circumstances. But this is a spectacular failure of the American democratic project and it's going to take a lot of work to come back from it, if that's possible at all.

[Moshik Temkin @moshik_temkin]

The conditions in America that led Trump to win in 2016 are all still there. Nothing has really changed, and four years of Biden-Harris was characterized by a total refusal to touch anything structural. And so he’s back.

[J. Sam Drolet @jsamdrolet]

The point I want to make for those of you who are younger is that this is a lifetime project, whether you want it to be or not. It sucks, but it is what it is. There's no point at which you can declare victory and go home.

[J. Sam Drolet @jsamdrolet]

(Maybe eight, or twelve. I've been in this for twenty already. What's a few more?)

[J. Sam Drolet @jsamdrolet]

@un_a_valeable Yep.

[J. Sam Drolet @jsamdrolet]

@heyguysitsmecg @vanillaopinions This, definitely.