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Re: I've never voted and I probably never will [Re: trees]
#26698212 - 05/26/20 11:08 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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trees said: I think voting is a waste of time and a silly way to lie to yourself and to be lied to. It almost annoys me when people try to say that voting is important and that i really should register to vote. Can you convince me otherwise? Am I retarded? Or am I too realistic in a way that is too truthful and brute fact for society to handle, that I don't want to participate in a supertisious ritual called voting?
Yeah sorry, but I vote retarded, like really retarded. If people didn't vote then we would still have segregation, illegal weed, 80 hour work weeks with no overtime pay, and so on.
Voting is important. I think the laws on voting should be changed though because a low IQ/retarded persons vote carries the same weight as my vote or a doctors vote and that is why we end up with bad candidates. Voting should be limited to people with average to high intelligence. The 2 party system and campaign funding laws really need to be changed too, but how do you change it without voting or violence?
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Re: I've never voted and I probably never will [Re: Jokeshopbeard] 1
#26698214 - 05/26/20 11:11 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Cjmckay said: Vote the bums out.
Does anybody really believe that we can 'vote the shit out'?
If one option is shit, and the other option is shit, how does playing along equate to anything other than shit?
You’re getting more radicalized
I like it
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Jailbird420
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Re: I've never voted and I probably never will [Re: TheFakeSunRa] 1
#26698233 - 05/26/20 11:26 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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nooneman said: Oh look, messages like this ahead of the election, right on schedule.
The people who sell shit like "don't vote" are always places like Russia, China, dystopian regimes that want people to not vote to undermine the legitimacy of elections and faith in democracy. That's the only reason messages like this exist. If you're not voting you're being used as a shill for foreign powers.
Not voting is fucking stupid.
^^^^^ this

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lifeiswhatyoumake said: IMO, yes, you are a lil retarded for not thinking your vote counts. You're giving up your right to something that millions, maybe billions, of people wish they had.
Electoral college ignores your votes on the reg look it up. You dont vote, they do. They have zero obligation to make their vote based on the people's so yes actually your vote does not count.
So why is there a concentrated effort by a particular party to suppress certain people's votes?
If none of it mattered they wouldn't care who voted.
Let them all mail in their votes since its no big deal right?
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TheFakeSunRa said: Democracy - no matter how were taught to love it - is destroying the planet.
Ummm, no.
Crony capitalism is destroying the planet, not democracy.
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Re: I've never voted and I probably never will [Re: Jailbird420]
#26698256 - 05/26/20 11:43 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Jailbird420 said:
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nooneman said: Oh look, messages like this ahead of the election, right on schedule.
The people who sell shit like "don't vote" are always places like Russia, China, dystopian regimes that want people to not vote to undermine the legitimacy of elections and faith in democracy. That's the only reason messages like this exist. If you're not voting you're being used as a shill for foreign powers.
Not voting is fucking stupid.
^^^^^ this

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ichugwindex said:
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lifeiswhatyoumake said: IMO, yes, you are a lil retarded for not thinking your vote counts. You're giving up your right to something that millions, maybe billions, of people wish they had.
Electoral college ignores your votes on the reg look it up. You dont vote, they do. They have zero obligation to make their vote based on the people's so yes actually your vote does not count.
So why is there a concentrated effort by a particular party to suppress certain people's votes?
If none of it mattered they wouldn't care who voted.
Let them all mail in their votes since its no big deal right?
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TheFakeSunRa said: Democracy - no matter how were taught to love it - is destroying the planet.
Ummm, no.
Crony capitalism is destroying the planet, not democracy.

Everyone wants to redefine democracy to fit their image of what it is.
Trump won. Trump or Biden will win.
Crony capitalism wins in democracies. It’s inconvenient for sure but the proof is in the pudding.
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Jailbird420
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Re: I've never voted and I probably never will [Re: TheFakeSunRa]
#26698335 - 05/27/20 12:39 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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TheFakeSunRa said: Everyone wants to redefine democracy to fit their image of what it is.
Not true.
Democracy is any governmental system where citizens get to vote for a candidate.
There are many, MANY forms of democracy.
Nobody here has tried to twist or change this definition.
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Trump won. Trump or Biden will win.
True, one or the other will be the next president.
This is an obvious fact that some people simply can't wrap their feeble little minds around. Until some major changes happen within our democracy we are stuck with the two-party system. A third-party candidate has no chance to win a presidential election at this time.
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Re: I've never voted and I probably never will [Re: trees]
#26698800 - 05/27/20 07:29 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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People still vote?
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Re: I've never voted and I probably never will [Re: Jailbird420] 1
#26698861 - 05/27/20 08:01 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Crony capitalism is destroying the planet
...and greedy fuckfaced assholes.
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Re: I've never voted and I probably never will [Re: tyrannicalrex]
#26698882 - 05/27/20 08:12 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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You guys should just get together and vote for some random. Imagine like, idk, Bill Burr as president. Or some random. The public needs to present their own candidates. Sure in places like Canada it would mean a minority government but those parties would fall in line once it's obvious that someone is there to expose them. It's exactly what these countries need and Donald Trump was precisely the big hats being ahead of us on it, and they bastardized it. They made the idea look stupid. And don't get me wrong it could be a horrible fucking idea. But voting for the same results over and over again is just as ridiculous. If people truly hate the system in place then a real curveball, taking a chance, is the only way something is going to happen. It never will though, because these governments use social acceptance as a means to garner confidence. Just look at all the plebs running around, even on this site, who are like "the government never said that so UR WRONG!" It's just like China
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Re: I've never voted and I probably never will [Re: tyrannicalrex]
#26698908 - 05/27/20 08:22 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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tyrannicalrex said: I have only voted once in my 37 years of being able to. I will vote this time. I know it seems futile and it's easy to get really depressed and all that shit, but it does count. Even for your own self satisfaction. So what if the reptilian baby eating Illuminati mind controllers from other dimensions are in control, you should still vote.
Voting here sure is different than back in Texas.
Colorado your votes matter.
Texas, not so much.
Texas does not have a legal system to vote in favor of cannabis like Colorado citizens did.
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Re: I've never voted and I probably never will [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
#26698989 - 05/27/20 08:59 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Jokeshopbeard said:
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Cjmckay said: Vote the bums out.
Does anybody really believe that we can 'vote the shit out'?
If one option is shit, and the other option is shit, how does playing along equate to anything other than shit?
We just have to keep searching for that corn kernel of enlightenment.
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Re: I've never voted and I probably never will [Re: Cjmckay]
#26699199 - 05/27/20 10:40 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Yeah, it's inside all of us, not in the world outside of us.
Am I missing the point?
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lifeiswhatyoumake
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Re: I've never voted and I probably never will [Re: Jailbird420]
#26699423 - 05/27/20 01:08 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Jailbird420 said: So why is there a concentrated effort by a particular party to suppress certain people's votes?
If none of it mattered they wouldn't care who voted.
DING DING DING, we have a winner! I have a feeling this important fact will be buried underneath baseless opinions. I will echo your point since it needs to be repeated:
if your vote doesn't matter, trees and others who believe that, then why is there such a concentrated effort by a particular party to suppress certain people's votes?
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Jokeshopbeard
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lifeiswhatyoumake said: if your vote doesn't matter, trees and others who believe that, then why is there such a concentrated effort by a particular party to suppress certain people's votes?
When one visits a theater, to watch a play on stage, why are there costumes and characters and backdrops and a storyline?
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Re: I've never voted and I probably never will [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
#26699574 - 05/27/20 01:59 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Why indeed.
No matter how I vote my state give the electoral vote to the red. My vote doesn’t matter.
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lifeiswhatyoumake said:
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Jailbird420 said: So why is there a concentrated effort by a particular party to suppress certain people's votes?
If none of it mattered they wouldn't care who voted.
DING DING DING, we have a winner! I have a feeling this important fact will be buried underneath baseless opinions. I will echo your point since it needs to be repeated:
if your vote doesn't matter, trees and others who believe that, then why is there such a concentrated effort by a particular party to suppress certain people's votes?
Anything that strengthens the public opinion "voting matters" means more people participating in a way that no longer has an effect; instead spending all their limited political free time that could be spent forcefully making the change they want to see.
In the current electoral college setting where we also have corporations in the highly influential positions that they have achieved (corporations are people/more than people) you need to make the change you want to see through free market. Telling someone else to do it isn't the way.
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Re: I've never voted and I probably never will [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
#26709897 - 05/31/20 07:35 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Jokeshopbeard said: Yeah, it's inside all of us, not in the world outside of us.
Am I missing the point?
Kinda. Shit and corn kernels.
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