Why would they waste time trying to explain? The problem lies with your understanding, not their actions.
But look, I've voted third party a lot, and I could tell you what other activities I do to make the world a better place. If I did, would you stop saying this kind of thing in the future? Do you promise?
Just like you, right? Just like all of us who are posting instead of campaigning.
For people who are worried about what their family members would think, probably they're not donating or signing up for newsletters, so their postal mail is not going to give you much information.
The cops are not good at protecting you, wherever they are, but sometimes they're good at protecting themselves.
I agree that going to the cops probably wouldn't keep OP safe. But it would give the cops a starting point if a dead body turned up. They would know exactly where to start looking, and they probably would do so. But couldn't lead to more harm than it is likely to prevent? Yes, possibly. It's hard to make that determination without knowing more details about the city.
Sometimes you just don't talk about politics, to avoid fighting with in-laws. That has always been true, and it will always be true.
But I hope you don't "go back to normal", because hundreds of millions of Americans acting "normal" had the power to prevent this kind of scenario from occurring in the first place. Of course there's a ton of corruption, and shady corporations and billionaires (all of them) are major culprits in the badness, but also we the people have a lot of power to fix problems if we can get ourselves organized and motivated. So let's do that.
I've had two Lodge fry pans for twenty years. Zero issues. $20 each.
The shape of my body.
Many years ago I got to the bar early, before my friends, and while waiting I applied for a job using their Wi-Fi. And I got the job. The job looked good on paper but my new boss f***** me by wage theft and pocketing pension contributions. It was fun, but it would have been more fun if I had been paid according to the law.
I disagree about the value of commenting and posting. If I don't have anything to actively contribute, and I know it, I'm doing you a favor by STFU. Entertainment and disengagement have nothing to do with it.
If I'm using this platform as a news aggregator, that's 100% passive and legitimate and respectable.
It's the way you opened your post. You felt that perhaps Lemmy is largely communist, and some of us just don't see that trend at all. That means either you're ignoring many users, or you haven't spent a reasonable amount of time browsing, which in turn makes it a waste of time for us to answer your question.
That being said, I can only speak to my motivation. Presumably some other people downvoted for similar reasons.
My cats treat me like a big cat. That's why they brush up against my leg, for example. Or wake me up at 6AM on Sundays.
I'm not the master. But they don't want to disrupt the harmony, and I'm the biggest, so they usually avoid doing things that irritate me, if I'm there to see it happening.
Even if everything you wrote is true, none of it applies to the United States because we have the electoral college. Sorry, but it's not Europe, and we have our own weird system.