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    23 days ago

    Can you point out where the comic suggests that you shouldn’t bother voting? Because I must have missed that part.

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          17 hours ago

          Tell me you don’t understand how FPTP voting systems guide voting choices to only have two ineffective candidates.

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            16 hours ago

            Wow! Its almost like the argument that voting for democrats results in anything meaningfully different from voting for republicans rests on a faulty premise! And its almost as if the logic underlying the argument that a vote for democrats is in any way meaningful demands the conclusion that a vote for a third party would then be more meaningful, but the whole argument itself rests on the faulty assumption that the USA is a democracy, when it actually is a capitalist oligarchy, wherein the two prominent political parties do the same horrible shit! And they maintain a grasp on power and a propensity for doing horrible shit no matter how you vote! Wow! Wish someone would have said that! Wow!

            Anyway tell me you have a toddlers grasp on politics and the memory of a goldfish without telling me: [write whatever you wrote and then whatever your response to this will be]

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              16 hours ago

              You definitely have poor understanding of how to get others to follow your opinions, I mean your username please!

              Pol is about getting others to follow you if you can’t even fathom that you might as well be an angry vegan with no friends.

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                16 hours ago

                Classic, act like a dickhead, get treated in kind and then retreat to cry about civility. You’re like an ill-behaved child.

                You definitely have poor understanding of how to get others to follow your opinions, I mean your username please!

                Lmao. Sad that you approach every interaction with the mindset of convincing the other. Even sadder that you suck so much at it you dont understand how convincing others function in a public forum.

                Pol is about getting others to follow you if you can’t even fathom that you might as well be an angry vegan with no friends.

                Weird non-sequitor. Incidentally I’ve met way less insufferable vegans than I’ve met insufferable people who complain about vegans.

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                    16 hours ago

                    Yeah, its almost like Im aware of that and thus behave differently? Wow! What a concept! Behaving differently depending on the social context in which one finds themselves! Wow!

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            22 days ago

            Alright, so you can vote for someone other than the orphan crushers. Weird how you pretended like that wasn’t a possibility.

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              22 days ago

              It has proven to be less effective at stopping the orphan crushing machine than voting for democrats. It is possible that in the long run it could be more effective, though that has not yet been proven.

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                22 days ago

                Doing something that hasnt been done has not been proven to do anything because it hasnt been done. Voting democrat has only accelerated the orphan-killer, so I struggle to see how legitimising the people who want to kill orphans could in any way be a more effective way to stop them than doing the bare minimum of not legitimising them.

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                  22 days ago

                  I don’t believe terms like “legitimising” have any practical purpose when used in this context. People vote democrat because they think it’s the most effective way to minimise harm, not because they want to signal allegiance or agreement with any one particular policy.

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                    22 days ago

                    Okay? In that case I declare I dont really believe it matters whether you vote for a democrat or a republican since they’re the same. There we go, I win, thats that discussion.

                    I dont really care what you believe, especially when the observable reality is one that differs from what you’d like it to be. It matters to politicians whether or not people vote for them and they use it to determine how much appeasement to capital they can get away with. Politicians do not walk around and ask voters whether they got the vote in spite of a policy or not. They win and, correctly, assume that the course they’ve kept is one they can continue on.

                    On top of that they use the amount of votes they receive as legitimising their rule. They quote it in speeches, they use it in their retrospectives, it is the foundation on which they rest their claim of experience when they train new generations and when they try to push legislation through. Voting for a politician signals you support them and their policy, thats what a vote is.

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                    22 days ago

                    People vote democrat because they think it’s the most effective way to minimise harm,

                    if you want to minimize harm, then having an incompetent leader like Trump steer the imperial ship and sinking it. Rather than a competent one. As the imperial ship harms way, way more people than every person living in Amerika.

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                22 days ago

                It has proven to be less effective at stopping the orphan crushing machine than voting for democrats.

                Has it? Did the orphan crushing machine even slow down a little bit when democrats were in power? Because I’m pretty sure that it didn’t.

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                  21 days ago

                  Democrats tend to produce meaningfully different results within the US. I would say this is true even outside of it. At least they weren’t blowing up random ships outside Argentina and were able to make and keep deals and treaties with other countries.

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                    21 days ago

                    What meaningfully different results? Biden fast tracked money for the border wall. Stole from the working class to give handouts to his rich friends. Increased ICE, Police, Pentagon, and war funding. Deported immigrants, and sent them to torture prisons.

                    The Democrats were blowing up kids in syria. They were supporting genocide. They did more deportations than Trump’s first term. Lets look at the treaties and deals that they made: Dictators, Slave-Owners, Racists, Genocidists.

                    Wow, what “meaningfully different results”.

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        22 days ago

        Are you? Can you at least try to be a little articulate? Or is that beyond your obviously limited capabilities?