vass encapsulates the heartbreak of involvement in party politics

[rydra_wong]

It's like having a really intense horse racing hobby where you can either be rich enough to throw away money over and over on buying horses and watching them lose, or you can be a regular punter and spend money you can't afford losing bets, or you can volunteer as an unpaid stablehand even though you're allergic to hay and bending over sets off your back problems and you're not actually good at it, because there's no other job you have the relevant skills to help with and at least you're involved, and meanwhile everyone else in the barn with you seems to have been born knowing the pedigree of every horse and jockey and owner going back a century and also each othe

we interrupt this analogy with a breaking news bulletin: your horse is a TERF.

Context is reviewing disaster wizards.

Comments

[laurenthemself]

And here I absolutely thought this was about the Australian elections and Linda Gale.

[jjhunter]

This had me cackling in a half-despairing, half-electrified way: very apt, and now I am tempted to think of even more ways to extend the metaphor.

[vass]

Something something "jockeying for position".

[pauamma]

Currying favor.

[pauamma]

Also very applicable to involvement - even peripheral - with charities.

[rydra_wong]

Yyyyyyyyyup.