touch foxglove NOW 
It's because you are LAZY. That's it. That's the reason. 
"Nooooo yuo don't get it... voting has a tiny effect...... why even bother......"
right! and voting also requires a tiny effort!
"Nooooo...... I live in a (red/blue) state....... my vote doesn't matter.... foregone conclusion...."
WRONG. The only thing that makes a red/blue state a red/blue state is the people that vote in the elections. That means YOU (or, more accurately, NOT YOU). During the 2020 election, two deep red states (Arizona and Georgia) switched from Red to Blue. Also, in our lifetimes, many traditionally red states have begun drifting blue in matters of state politics. Kansas, a deep red state, for instance, has a Democrat governor and congresspeople.
"they'll just change the vote........... or cheat....... anything to keep the powers that be in office............ forever........"
source: trust me bro
Trump had every opportunity to prove that there was voter fraud. I'll admit, folks, for a bit I thought there was some sus shit going on! I kept hearing about bags of votes being found on the internet! but for months and months NOTHING. Nada. Zilch. This was after millions of dollars requesting recounts in swing states, and Trump swinging his presidential peepee as hard as he could (prolly harder than he should've 
)
folks, there isn't some big conspiracy. if it was real, Trump woulda found it. but he didn't. He keeps claiming he did, but fellas, he didn't, lol.
bro they stole the election. trust me bro.
okay, how and where's the proof
dude... they just did, okay???
"heh... democracy doesn't even work..."
You are an actual r-slur if you think this. Not like the cool and funny r-slurs that everybody gets along with, I am talking boomerpilled grannymaxxers who fall for sexy Indian dudes telling them their computer is full of viruses.
ok, ok, ill take you seriously for a second. what system would work better than democracy? hmmmb... i know.... authoritarianism. if we were just controlled by badass dictators, everything would be better... oh wait oh shit oh frick, you're telling me that the unelected dictator is MORE CORRUPT than an elected official??? well darnnnn we better vote him out - oh wait you can't 
Conclusion: you are lazy and probably fat
I know I am going to get people in the comments being like "didn't read; still not voting 
" yeah I know bub, did you think I wrote this thinking I would actually change your mind? I just wrote this for @Impassionata's little essay contest. You guys are like a fat positivity forum and I'm like the guy that is trying, futily, to convince you to hit the gym instead of bitching about how you're treated.
I am hereby proposing the "Touch Ballot" award, requiring a person to submit proof that they voted in an election. Yes this would exclude non-US people but I don't care 
seethe harder democracy haters
🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽 NON-VOTER SEETHE BELOW 🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽 
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I voted when I was in a swing state but it's super blue here and my vote doesn't matter
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You're lucky then because there always the good side wins, while I have do deal with the evil side always winning here, which I really hate.
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THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION IN HISTORY IF MY SI...THE GOOD SIDE DOESN'T WIN IT WILL LITERALLY BE THE END OF DEMOCRACY AND AMERICA AS WE KNOW IT!
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I never understand people who really believe that but then don't actually do anything about it, like if you really think a particular candidate is the second coming of Hitler, wouldn't you be willing to get life in prison to stop the next holocaust?
They are either so full of shit their eyes are farting or they are absolute cowards.
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Nah lol why would I want to spend my life in prison for any reason
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Quad is Hungarian
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well maybe he should get a sandwich or something
HAAHAHAHAHHAAH GET IT GET IT
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I get it
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- Floridaman
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Was it evil to not have a bunch of people chanting gas the Jews, in retrospect?
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How could you vote for the party that oppresses women?
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S&M
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jfc it's like the easiest thing ever here and there's plenty of down-ballot stuff
it's one thing when my friends who literally don't care about and never talk about politics don't vote but I know you care about some of this stuff
https://chicagoelections.gov/en/vote-by-mail.html
you go here, type in your address, and they mail you the ballot, that's it. new "applications" (I can't stress this enough you literally just type your address and name in) start being accepted Dec 20 but you can also fill out the permanent vote by mail thing and they'll automatically mail you every ballot forever (until you move)
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It still doesn't matter how easy it is to vote when the outcome is already a foregone conclusion
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We've got city council races that are decided with less than 1000 votes on like a 15-20% turnout lmao. Unironically if any political party got their followers to actually vote they'd literally win every single race. Turnout is abysmal.
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80-85% nonvoters
Nonvoters stay #winning
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yeah as far as the president goes voting in the republican primary is the only way i have any say in the matter, the repub nom will win here every single time
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I don't necessarily mind it at all, just saying it's how it is. I did say I was a registered republican after all lmao
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Some states have open primaries, registration is not necessarily implied.
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Neighbor you know they have elections in some other countries too, right?
We should make a Democracy Award where you only get to vote in polls if you can prove you voted in a real election (not some Nork/Russia shit).
Only engaged citizens are the vox populi.
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It might actually be illegal to require proof of voting in the US. I mean yeah the gov probably isn't gonna crack down on this place and it's easy to say "who cares?" but they did just 86 the movie night presumably due to US copyright law.
I like the concept, though. People who don't vote deserve the be shamed.
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I'm so happy in the Congomerry_tempmas 1yr ago #5414404 spent 0 currency on pingsI doubt aevann will get extradited for recording publically available information. Counties publish this info
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I'm done with democracy, dictatorship now
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Just start voting for the INC, then. Then they'll lose.
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TMC and
Thanks to the demographics in my constituency BJP didn't even campaign last time lol.
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TMC? Is that one of the local ethnic parties?
I thought you were in Delhi.
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I've lived most of my life in Bengal, its a regional party yeah. My voter ID is still in Bengal so I probably won't vote next year.
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So that's that Trinamool Congress one, I assume?
Also why don't you just register in Delhi?
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Yeah.
Long process, I'd have to have my address verified and stuff and IDK if I'm living here long term, depends on what jobs I get.
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zoz
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Russia does actually have multiparty elections. They're just probably rigged.
(Putin does have a high approval rating FWIW, boomers that compare him to Gorbachev and Yeltsin will do that to an aging country.)
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Um I'm spreading awareness which is actually more important than anything else
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I vote opposite of my wife secretly so her vote doesn't count. Takes me back to simpler times
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Devilish
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Nihilists can't stand people who still believe their actions have meaning.
!chuds !nonchuds !grillers I always like to vote for the third party/independent candidate. I'm a registered Libertarian.
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!chuds !nonchuds wingcucks beware, us libertarians will win.
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blessed and goated meme
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Argentine has the equivalent of STV for their presidential elections just spread out over a long time, they can't waste their vote.
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Black lives matter
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Why would
Argentina 
have commie 
red on their vote box?
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Idk
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The ballot was confusing
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Yo, Ya comment got automatically removed cuz ya forgot ta include
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I'M GONNA VOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTE
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NONVOTER SEETHE DETECTED
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Nice try Rabbi! Total Non-voter Turnout!
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In high school, the english class teacher gave us an assignment to make a poster supporting our preferred candidate to be hung up on the walls around the school.... like everything else in that bullshit class, the assignment had nothing to do with the english language, and it seemed inappropriate and distasteful to force a class of literal children who got all their opinions from the daily show to participate in the political system. So i made a "dont vote" poster. It was one of the few assignments i actually completed in that class, but it didn't make it up on the wall... so i made a promise to myself that i would never vote in any kind of election ever
Also i just don't like the whole democracy thing. At least in north korea they get big beautiful statues of dear leader. Here we get shitty little signs poking out of every available median strip and littering everyones front lawns. I don't understand what people think they are accomplishing with those signs. No one will ever see a "vote yes on ____" sign and go "shit, i was gonna vote no but i guess ill vote yes now". They are just an eyesore. Its like everything surrounding the democratic process. People think they have some kind of say in how things turn out and get really annoying about it. Worse, they think other people have a say too, so some dude in a MAGA hat is an existential threat to your way of life, instead of just some idiot with a hat
Also im fat and lazy and i don't feel like it
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!nonchuds this nonvoter is still seething about how his based teacher dabbed on him in high school
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Im not seething. But i made a promise to myself. Can't go back on that
And yeah im probably seething a little bit
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Yea you can it's called maturing. I can't imagine living a life where your teenage brain runs you
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Mommy is soooo proud of you, sweaty. Let's put this sperg out up on the fridge with all your other failures.
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I too fricking hate lawn signs, unironically I want to get an environmental lobby movement against them because they are single use disposables in the end
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I used to vote by mail but I was too lazy to update my signature so they cancelled it.
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Voting
in a bourgeois 
dictatorship is worthless.
Upmarseys/Downmarseys on RDrama
have a more visible effect on people's lives 
and behaviors
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?????
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All governments are a dictatorship of one class over others. In a bourgeois
dictatorship the bourgeoisie 
hold all the influence and power 
and thus make/dictate the laws to the proletariat 
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You do realize classes collaborate in a society, right? That "proletarians" are the vast majority of the electorate, and that this process revolves around "bourgeoisie" convincing proles to support them over other "bourgeoisie" - that both parties are high-low coalitions?
Far from a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.
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No they don't if you even were 1% familiar with Marx you'd know that !commies I'm busy Downmarseys this fool
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Marx is not gospel, just because he said it doesn't mean it's true.
!nonchuds
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Not gospel sure, but it's far more likely to be accurate than the ‘political philosophers' who pretend that class isn't important and make it all about manners and administration.
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Its time for you and me to rise up and strike back
Don't stop until we dominate
Won't you feel great when we exterminate
All organic life!
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Class is 100% a thing, but Marx (or at least his followers) tend to make an incorrect assumption of prepetual conflict of interest between classes as an absolute given.
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You also ignore
that most elected officials are bourgeoisie 
so all the power 
to do anything 
rests in their hands, it doesn't matter 
what the electorate wants ultimately because the bourgeois 
class will create all sorts of procedural reasons and means to stop the electorate's will
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I literally said it was bourgeois competing for proletarian votes. The classes have different roles that make up a system. The electorate has more power regardless.
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You are literally
exposing fascist 
class collaboration mythology 
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Yes but its clear you don't even know what his analysis is because he addresses the point
you made and you're just saying "but you vote so so it's not dictatorship" ignoring all the subterranean systems and corruption that facilitate actual change and project 
power 
through the system 
as a whole
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Dictatorship implies the total and open rule of one man (or in this case, a class), a Dictator. This does not match that.
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It
If you don't see that in the U.S. you need to wake up brother
and get with the program 
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Marx gets proven right about class conflict and capitalism's internal contradictions multiple times per century, he is literally a better prophet than any other prophet in history
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Marxism is an r-slured science for r-slurred people
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You're a dumb BIPOC
keep yourself safe
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I am the lord thy God!
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Honestly, i always vote as well, but from my perspective (im europoor) i literally dont have faith in the system due to some of their decisions. But i am also not saying democracy doesnt work.
Im not from there but lets say when germany now decided they will bring gaza refugees (might be fake news but humor me), where could a german vote for this?
There was no vote, the Germans swung full chud and are polling in favor for the far right because they have enough, the current government is shocked, what do they do? Invite more refugees before elections. Imo if they are going to make decisions that will detrimentally affect people's lives for a better economy or virtue signal to the UN, then put it up for vote. They won't though because they know it wouldn't pass.
I still believe democracy is the only system that works, but id like the ability to trigger referendums if say you gather enough signatures.
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Germans voted for the SPD (and the Greens, and the Left, and the FDP...), and the SPD are the ones making that call.
Maybe you should have voted AfD if you hate and/or fear refugees that much.
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I'm speaking theoretically as im not kraut, but your response is as dismissive as "oh you're poor? Maybe you should get a better job" since voting for a fringe party rarely does any good (im aware afd is gaining traction now)
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If every decision was put up for a vote we'd just have the most radical nuts that show up every week decide every policy. There's a reason we elect representatives.
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That's also true yeah
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I think he means democracy is captive to elite interest groups (which is true)
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HeyMoon W.
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ALL OF MY POSTS ARE HEYMOON Ws
!followers commiserate
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HeyWoon
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