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I hear in Australia that you get a fine if you don't vote. You also get a fine if you put Jedi as your religion.
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What if you write in "Fuck Jesus" as your religion instead? I'm guessing "BIIIG fine" is what you'd get.
Where the hell do they get off even asking that question anyway? Wouldn't that lead to discrimination against non-christians (or whatever the ruling party's preference is)?
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Ah. I thought it was in your voter registration or something. It occurs to me that fining people taking the census is a great way to deter participation in the census.
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I may not vote at all this year. Both canidates suck. I am not happy with McCain and his new running mate. If they end up running this country we are all fucked and they will probably legalize teenage pregnency, look at his running mate and her daughter- go figure.
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Not taking a stand - generation "Y-Me?". If mccain wins, y'all know who to blame. :.)
The theory of lesser evils works. In an election system where the only people able to be serious candidates has to be rich as fuck to compete, they'll all be more or less dirty, because the richest usually are, so you go for the lesser bad.
Shit, in sweden we don't have close to the same "cults of personality" in our parties as in the US, we vote for the party itself. The candidates for prime minister do travel around the country and do a lot of shit, but not in the seven-digit budget area. We got stuck with a conservative party puke last time, simply because the liberal democrats have declined in quality and political will just like their american, english, german and french counterparts (or simply because the global right-wing has gotten so much steam during these past 7 years). I have hopes that the global tide will turn in about 3-4 years, time enough for even our country to get someone worthwhile into office again.
But for fuck's sake vote, just because you can. I do it, with all the disillusioned cynicism of the time I live in, but also because the alternative of giving it up is damn weak. No matter how cliché that may sound, it is a cliché for a fucking reason.
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Also, not voting because it's tiring and tedious to stand in line to the booths is one thing (too bad but understandable...if you're over 75), but skipping because that's what the cool, alternativey guys in school/work/tabernacle do and one wants to sound as smart and rebel as them when asked about it, that's distilled, casked douchebag material. Neat, no ice, best enjoyed with smoked meats, a strong cheese or a dvd-box of "Dirty Sanchez".
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Screw that- I'm voting like twelve times for Obama. The republicans and their churchy psycho evangelicals can fuck themselves, repent, be born again and fuck themselves all over again.
Even if half of what Obama says is bullshit, he'll be a better president than McCain and his cronies.
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quote:I may not vote at all this year. Both canidates suck. I am not happy with McCain and his new running mate. If they end up running this country we are all fucked
Then VOTE FOR SOMEONE ELSE! That's the point of this thread, you have options! Bob Barr is running over 6% in national polls, 11% in some states, and that's with the media and major parties doing everything they can to get him ignored and disqualified. Nader's not doing badly either, and if you don't like them, there's Chuck Baldwin for the Constitution Party and Cynthia McKinney for the Green Party. All of them are on enough state ballots that they can mathematically win, and if that doesn't matter to you, there are probably countless local parties and independents to vote for. If your teen pregnancy comment was serious, I suspect you might like the Constitution party. But look at them all!
If you can't support one of the major candidates, you can still vote! Do it!
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"Then VOTE FOR SOMEONE ELSE! That's the point of this thread, you have options!"
Not real ones, of course, but it can be fun to pretend. (Wait, I think we've covered this...)
"I may not vote at all this year. Both canidates suck. I am not happy with McCain and his new running mate. If they end up running this country we are all fucked and they will probably legalize teenage pregnency, look at his running mate and her daughter- go figure."
Please tell me this is just some sort of bizarre trolling that I don't understand?
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Tim, they may not win this year, but if you say "we can't do something NOW so why bother?", well, you'll never get anywhere. No, I don't expect Bob Barr to win. But I'll vote for him anyway, because the more votes he gets this time, the more trouble the powers that be will have keeping him out of the public eye.
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Voting to change the system is like trying to take off your underwear while still wearing your pants--doesn't work.
Long live neotribalist rational anarchism.
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