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Anyone who didn't vote last year can please quit whining.
Oh shut up already, voting systems all over the place have been messed up for ages (Electoral college? First past the post?), proper blank voting (obviously) denied or defanged, opportunities to create alternatives denied years ago, usually by existing parties which are often so entrenched and converging to the right anyway that simplifying to "you can't complain if you didn't vote" sounds like the moralising of a first year uni student discovering PolSci.
I vote against shitty candidates and in local elections. I'm under no illusion about its effect and fully respect election boycott and those who refuse to vote.
If you're not happy about the results of an election, the first to blame are those who voted for the shitty candidate and their policies, not those who said thanks, but none of the above.
Voting for government is not "who do you think should be in charge" it's "these are your options now". Your time to change those options is way way before the election.
Not voting is voting "ehh, just whoever everyone else thinks."
Abstaining isn't the big brain move you think it is.
Well thanks then. Have the day you voted for.
If people don’t give enough of a fuck to use their voice then why should I give a shit what they have to say?
Nothing isn't brave, it’s nothing. If someone decides that they don’t matter then I’m inclined to agree with them.
You're completely failing to see that people refusing to vote are not people who "don't give enough of a fuck". Sure, there are apathetic people out there, but it's a gross simplification to think only people who care vote. Or that people who vote care. For many, that's their one and only participation in participative democracy.
Would you argue that Alan Moore, who wrote Watchmen, V for Vendetta and other cult and politically relevant graphic novels, does not "give enough of a fuck to use his voice"?
Oh, Alan Moore, you mean the guy who recently realized he was playing into apathy causes and nihilism his entire fucking life and is now highly encouraging people to vote against the neocons of the modern age because he realized it’s the only political tool and voice for the proletariat? That guy?
Yeah, he has said as much about himself. Fictive idealized realities with fictive idealized outcomes are not a standard for building a worldview or plan.
OK, I think you missed all the points I made. Never mind.
No, I got what you’re saying, it’s not complex, I simply disagree.