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[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Interesting. I always vote for 3rd parties like Green Party. True I wasnt planning on voting again, so I'm not overly concerned. I figure my vote is being stolen anyway. As long as they don't make it illegal NOT to vote. I liked they idea of being a non-voter again.

[–]deleted 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

You are literally throwing away your rights by not voting. May as well exercise them so you don't lose it.

[–]SpongySpiderLegs 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Given the fact that the Democrats rigged the 2020 election, and this calls into question all future elections, and furthermore calls into question all past elections, i have to ask...

What makes you think tour vote counts for anything anyway ? Whether you vote or not, the system can rig the election to come out whichever way it wants to. You don’t have a Democracy, you have owners, they own this country. They own everything. Your vote is just the illusion of choice; it means nothing.

Why bother voting at all ?

[–]deleted 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You're saying let's all just give up because it doesn't matter at all. Keep doing nothing because somehow that just might fix the problem. We will not accept that.

[–]SpongySpiderLegs 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Doing nothing won't fix the problem. But voting won't solve anything either.

The game is rigged, and you are advocating to continue playing, because maybe they will change the rules.

The owners who control everything are in it to continue their control; they won't let people change the system ... unless people build a new system and leave the old broken, corrupt AF system behind.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Esthetically it feels more "wild" not to vote. And there is the argument that often occurs to me of "randomness". I have to vote simply because I was born, a completely random event. If I died, my vote wouldnt count. So your election all depends on a very random structure of people being born who might be swayed this way or that. It's actually almost an insult to the "individual" that people are using the event of being born in this land or that in order to possibly get elected. Is that why only very elderly people become president in the United States? Because only one group of people is in charge continually propping themselves up on the "sucker born every minute" principle? And humans really die after a relatively short number of years. It would be better to give trees the right to vote. They are around longer. I'd rather let my dog vote for me. Why only humans get to decide leadership?