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minus-squareTheBananaKing@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·7 months agoWhat choice? Choosing between ketchup or mustard on your shit sandwich does you no good, if you don’t want a shit sandwich in the first place. If you’re not giving me a no-shit-sandwich option, why the hell should I reward you with my support?
minus-squareMastengwe@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-27 months agoThen you’re choosing to allow others to decide for you. No matter how you look at it- you’re making a decision on who runs America- and your choices are: Democracy, or End Of Democracy. Vote to pick one, or don’t vote and one is picked for you. Either way- “neither” isn’t an option.
minus-squarewildcherry@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down11·7 months agoYeah that is another way. The wrong one.
minus-squareLeviathan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·7 months agoIt might be incorrect, because they don’t know your motives, but that’s the whole point of voting - showing your motives. In a voting democracy abstinence is begrudging consent to either candidate. The two party system forces this reality.
minus-squareTokenBoomer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down6·7 months agoGeorge Carlin doesn’t vote
minus-squareSchmoo@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·7 months agoGeorge Carlin is dead, and I would probably laugh my ass off at the jokes he would make if he knew people were treating him like some kind of prophet.
minus-squareMastengwe@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·7 months agoROFL. Invoking a long dead COMEDIAN to illustrate a very current and very serious issue. If that’s not a perfect example of a schoolyard gotcha! I don’t know what is.
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What choice?
Choosing between ketchup or mustard on your shit sandwich does you no good, if you don’t want a shit sandwich in the first place.
If you’re not giving me a no-shit-sandwich option, why the hell should I reward you with my support?
Then you’re choosing to allow others to decide for you.
No matter how you look at it- you’re making a decision on who runs America- and your choices are:
Democracy, or End Of Democracy.
Vote to pick one, or don’t vote and one is picked for you. Either way- “neither” isn’t an option.
Yeah that is another way. The wrong one.
It might be incorrect, because they don’t know your motives, but that’s the whole point of voting - showing your motives. In a voting democracy abstinence is begrudging consent to either candidate. The two party system forces this reality.
George Carlin doesn’t vote
George Carlin is dead, and I would probably laugh my ass off at the jokes he would make if he knew people were treating him like some kind of prophet.
Well said!
ROFL. Invoking a long dead COMEDIAN to illustrate a very current and very serious issue.
If that’s not a perfect example of a schoolyard gotcha!
I don’t know what is.