{"id":51614,"date":"2026-10-25T13:49:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T18:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=51614"},"modified":"2026-10-25T13:49:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T18:49:22","slug":"glad-i-avoided-that-gross-bullet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=51614","title":{"rendered":"Glad I avoided that gross bullet"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I did my civic duty today and voted.\u00a0 Honestly, I don\u2019t like a lot of the candidates that were available to me, but at the same time there are a bunch that I didn\u2019t even know who they were much less know their platforms.\u00a0 A lot of voting simply based on party and weak hopes and dreams that change might occur.<\/span><\/p>\n

But anyway, the point of this post isn\u2019t the fact that I had voted, it\u2019s based on the fact that mercifully, I was spared being given the new I Voted<\/a> sticker that rolled out in Georgia this year, and was instead given one of the \u201cold\u201d stickers.\u00a0 I actually had this post in mind, should I have gotten the new sticker, but even after getting the old one, I didn\u2019t want this train of thought to go to waste, and here we are.<\/span><\/p>\n

My knee-jerk reaction upon seeing it was that of feeling kind of skeeved out.\u00a0 For the last decade or so, for fairly obvious reasons, there\u2019s something about a lot of American symbolism that has turned kind of passively hostile, and almost threatening, like it\u2019s been weaponized.\u00a0 And I know that the flag in the sticker is a Georgia state flag, and that it\u2019s the State Capitol and not Washington D.C., but there just something about the sticker as a whole that seems more agenda-led versus being a badge of honor of doing our civic duty.<\/span><\/p>\n

A little bit of cursory research reveals that the new sticker\u2019s design was done by a pretty renown painter; I don\u2019t like to actually write out their name, because I don\u2019t want to give satisfaction of acknowledgement to people I don\u2019t appreciate, but the thing is, most people have probably seen their artwork before.\u00a0 They are kind of a go-to artist for political artwork, and to their credit, they have done a lot of good paintings throughout history, and there is definite talent in their hands.<\/span><\/p>\n

I learned that the artist actually lives in Georgia, which explains the connection to why they could be tasked to do such a project like Georgia\u2019s voting sticker, but it doesn\u2019t change the fact that I still get this sense of skeeviness when I look at it, and I\u2019m relieved I didn\u2019t get one, because not only would I not wear it, I was premediating what disparaging places I could put it instead of wearing it, like inside the urinal at a QT or something, even if it would be a dick move to force someone to potentially have to clean it up later, but it\u2019s a moot point because I thankfully didn\u2019t get one.<\/span><\/p>\n

But back to the artist, as stated, they are basically a go-to artist for the Republican party, and that\u2019s where I realized where I\u2019d seen some of their artwork before.\u00a0 It didn\u2019t take much longer to realize where this person stood on the political spectrum, but at the same time it wasn\u2019t the least bit surprising, and in a way, kind of interesting to how it was so obvious from nothing but a 1.5\u201d circumference sticker.<\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019ve gotten to the point of society, where such lines are drawn so hard, the division is so staunch, and people are so clouded by solely political affiliation, that imagery, symbolism and visual associations have become very prevalent and are easy indicators for sides just from quick glances.<\/span><\/p>\n

I know Georgia is technically considered a battleground state, but living here and seeing what I\u2019ve seen over 23 years of living here, any shades of blue never seem present until election time, and regardless of result, always seems to shy away and always seem to be in the disadvantageous position in any sort of competitive arena.\u00a0 I hope I\u2019m wrong about it upon the passing of actual Election Day, but at the same time I wouldn\u2019t be surprised to be left feeling disappointed by the night\u2019s results.<\/span><\/p>\n

Although I was fortunate this go-around, I think it\u2019s inevitable in future voting days that this sticker will become the only option for the foreseeable future, or at least until the supply runs out, and hopefully they go back to something a little more basic and a little more neutral afterward; although I wouldn\u2019t bet on it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I did my civic duty today and voted.\u00a0 Honestly, I don\u2019t like a lot of the candidates that were available to me, but at the same time there are a bunch that I didn\u2019t even know who they were much less know their platforms.\u00a0 A lot of voting simply based on party and weak hopes … Continue reading Glad I avoided that gross bullet<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[130,131,100,45,83,143,8,165,89,190,49],"class_list":["post-51614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-art","tag-branding","tag-comparison","tag-fail","tag-observations","tag-ohatlanta","tag-ohgeorgia","tag-politics","tag-racism","tag-white-people","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51617,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51614\/revisions\/51617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}