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RE: Protest Voting
October 15, 2020 at 8:40 am
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(October 15, 2020 at 8:35 am)onlinebiker Wrote: (October 15, 2020 at 8:05 am)ignoramus Wrote: The situation is so dire that anyone in the US who doesn't vote for Mao Ze Biden is sadly voting for Trump. That's how it works. Pick one. By not picking Biden, or not voting, you automatically endorse Trump.
By voting you are endorsing the whole sham that "your vote matters".
Nope. It doesn't.
These elections were bought and paid for years ago...
When your only options are dickead A and dickhead B - you are being screwed. Are you a Trumpy trying to disguise yourself as some kind of unbiased 3rd party? Your rhetoric is quite disturbing. In fact, it's well in line with that of a bot being paid for by the Kremlin.
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RE: Protest Voting
October 15, 2020 at 8:41 am
Our votes only seem to not matter when the EC elects the Republican who didn’t have the popular vote. Ever noticed how the EC never elected a Democrat against a Republican who had the popular vote?
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RE: Protest Voting
October 15, 2020 at 8:48 am
(October 15, 2020 at 8:40 am)Dingo Wrote: (October 15, 2020 at 8:35 am)onlinebiker Wrote: By voting you are endorsing the whole sham that "your vote matters".
Nope. It doesn't.
These elections were bought and paid for years ago...
When your only options are dickead A and dickhead B - you are being screwed. Are you a Trumpy trying to disguise yourself as some kind of unbiased 3rd party? Your rhetoric is quite disturbing. In fact, it's well in line with that of a bot being paid for by the Kremlin.
Are you a numb cunt trying to pass yourself off as a rational person? Stuff your toxic tribalism.
I did not vote in 2016. No decent choices.
I last voted in 2012. For President Obama.
Any other stupid questions?
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RE: Protest Voting
October 15, 2020 at 8:53 am
(October 15, 2020 at 8:48 am)onlinebiker Wrote: Any other stupid questions?
Some members aren't all over the forum like I am. I saw awhile back where you mentioned that you don't support Trump and that members on this forum don't seem to get it.
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RE: Protest Voting
October 15, 2020 at 8:57 am
(October 15, 2020 at 8:48 am)onlinebiker Wrote: (October 15, 2020 at 8:40 am)Dingo Wrote: Are you a Trumpy trying to disguise yourself as some kind of unbiased 3rd party? Your rhetoric is quite disturbing. In fact, it's well in line with that of a bot being paid for by the Kremlin.
Are you a numb cunt trying to pass yourself off as a rational person? Stuff your toxic tribalism.
I did not vote in 2016. No decent choices.
I last voted in 2012. For President Obama.
Any other stupid questions?
Fuck you jackcass
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RE: Protest Voting
October 15, 2020 at 8:58 am
We get it fine. Some people on the boards just won't let a dog be a dog.
So long as it keeps claiming to be a rooster, we have to respect it's lived truth, lol.
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RE: Protest Voting
October 15, 2020 at 9:00 am
(October 15, 2020 at 8:53 am)Eleven Wrote: (October 15, 2020 at 8:48 am)onlinebiker Wrote: Any other stupid questions?
Some members aren't all over the forum like I am. I saw awhile back where you mentioned that you don't support Trump and that members on this forum don't seem to get it.
Excuse me, but I just think it's quite odd someone can have the nerve to claim both people running are equally as bad. It's classic whatboutism and is frankly asinine. I don't love Biden by any stretch, but damn, I'd rather have him than the current sack of shit in office. Sorry, I'm just a bit annoyed at this point with people like OB. But whatever I guess.
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RE: Protest Voting
October 15, 2020 at 9:09 am
And I'm sick of tribalistic dweebs thinking I have to play their "yer with us or yer agin us" game.
I don't.
I find their game shallow and repugnant.
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RE: Protest Voting
October 15, 2020 at 9:10 am
(This post was last modified: October 15, 2020 at 9:12 am by The Grand Nudger.)
If you don't want to be seen as a trumpit, come up with shit that you don't like about the other guy that resolves to something other than trumpit propaganda. It's not like there's a shortage. It's not hard.
OLB is a case exmple of the american voting publics current inability to know itself (or, more cynically, to accept itself for what it is). Now, we can chalk it all up to a steady diet of fox and affiliated media in the types of places that OLB hails from - but there are other people from those same kinds of places that don't swallow the trumpit lines and still have reservations about our government.
If, otoh, you don't want to be seen as trumpit, but your every opinion establishes that you very much are...well..temet nosce.
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RE: Protest Voting
October 15, 2020 at 9:32 am
(October 15, 2020 at 8:05 am)ignoramus Wrote: The situation is so dire that anyone in the US who doesn't vote for Mao Ze Biden is sadly voting for Trump. That's how it works. Pick one. By not picking Biden, or not voting, you automatically endorse Trump.
Protest votes are a means to an end. The goal is to reform politics and change the status quo. But it's a long-term goal, and the value of working toward that goal needs to be weighed against any immediate need. I think there are arguments to be made for protest votes, but not in an election like this one.
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