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Feel free to do something else about it.

(Sorry ,I misread that, thought you were being a jerk)

I wish they'd drink all the raw milk they can get their hands on.

Did you forget that the Republicans have control of all three branches of government?

sure you did.

Sure buddy, of course you did.

No it wouldn't have. You'd have fallen for some other propaganda designed to get you to stay home.

Well never know, she's not the president.

Trump, the guy you enabled, however, Is. And he's a fucking nightmare.

He wants to displace every Palestinian by force and hand their land to Israel.

Is that what you non-voted for? Take a plane to the Gaza Strip and preach that on a corner, see how well that works out for you.

Refusing to participate grants you zero benefit, and makes it easier for the system to continue.

This has nothing to do with political viewpoints, this is math. There's no way in hell you're going to tear it down from the outside so what's the plan? Sit there and feel smug that you did nothing while everyone suffers?

Checking the box is the bare minimum, and you couldn't even do that, because it made you feel icky.

Your protest vote, or non vote (same thing), holds negative value for the people of Palestine.

If I get to pick my personal AI demon, I pick Badgy.

She was never President, so we'll never know. Trump literally said he was going to "finish the problem" but you didn't see any problems with letting him take office. How do you defend that decision?

I'm glad you feel good about yourself. Your inaction is part of the problem.

Let's be real, the vast majority of the what, 70 ish million that stayed home probably didn't even know what day the election was.

To your point, yeah, a bunch of people wanted to bury their head in the sand to feel better about themselves. This reality is the result.

The only political act that was being asked of the millions who didn't vote was to vote. That's the only political act that matters in this contact. It's the lowest possible bar in a democracy. Show up, check a box. I get that it sucks, but this, what we have now, is going to be so much worse.

Just to sum up my point: The system is rigged hard against any kind of progressivism. The left might be able to influence a Democrat, it absolutely will not influence a Republican, and a third party has absolutely zero chance of getting elected.

If third parties want clout, they have to build it from the ground up, and that means money in a capitalist system. Where's all the third party money that's going to help defeat the established parties? It doesn't exist.

Again, I'm not celebrating his reality, I'm only pointing out that it's always been that way and opting out of having a voice isn't going to do shit to change it.

Not voting is hurting the people we care about, all for the sake of feeling better about yourself.

I regularly visit the Texas coast, and I don't think I've ever said the "of Mexico" part out loud in a conversation ever. (Everyone just says "The Gulf". But now I absolutely will. Especially when I'm calling around for quotes on a deep sea charter.

It's so much worse than cockroaches.

source control management software like git lets you see basically this, yes.

70+ million people decided to show up even though it made them feel bad. I'm going to blame the people who stayed home because voting made them uncomfortable.

I'm not defending the party, the movement, the history, the people or their choices. I'm pointing out that no one wanted to hold their nose to vote and now we're all swimming in shit.

Downvote me all you want. No amount of political theory will make the math go away. Every single person who decided to not vote, or to vote for catharsis, was a helping hand pushing Trump's ass into the oval office.

Yes, the Democrats pissed you off, yes you should have still voted for them.

Aaah that's cool as hell. Yeah, I think I remember they reformulated the explosive to be less heat sensitive and cook-offy

You have awoken the last few neurons that remember being terrified of those things. Now I gotta find that movie.