Interesting to watch everyone in line — no cell phone usage policy forced everyone to wait patiently while making uneasy eye contact. Once everyone sized each other up, it was quickly realized this community is homogeneous, seemingly politically aligned, and while the line was comprised of mostly older retired folk familiar with one another, it is frequently observed in communal gatherings that we are also sufficiently inundated with young parents and children and that at least here is a chance to push back against the degenerate hordes for one more generation.
Even if voting means nothing, and I’ve suspected for a while that appears the case, our people mean everything.
I am lucky to live comfortably amongst amiable families and fearsome, respectable men. There is a subversive element, somewhere here, for they exist everywhere, but this place has enough men and women unafraid to stare a stranger down enough to know they are not only not a threat, but closely enough related biologically to avoid feigning the lie of forced altruism — for now, this is a place where one earns their place in line
Don't stop voting after election night. Vote every day in every way with your thoughts, words, and actions.
Vote with your feet and with your wallet in every transaction and every decision. See something you like? Vote for it. See something you dont like? Vote against it. Not voting is voting. We have more power 364 days of the year deciding everything about the future than we do on the ritualistic election day, where we actually decide very little about the future.
Voting is a posture, an implicit threat of violence. It lets the demons that rule over your society know how likely a certain course of action is to cause unrest and or rebellion.
It does not matter if you never see the true numbers, because they do.
Yes, I appreciate the gravity of your response. My post wasn’t meant to demoralize so much as it was to inspire faith that the machinations of society matter less than the people of the society itself. Democratic processes of leadership selection are important enough to have merit on their own and should be exercised so long as they exist as an option we allow
No they don't. They're far too lazy and incompetent. They just login remotely and make the results 51/49 for whichever of the two world economic forum satanic pedophiles is on the ballot that they want.
I seriously doubt they even tabulate our actual votes.
It's less about elections, and more about voting for new laws. For example, if nearly everyone in Oregon votes against the gun laws they are trying to push, it is unlikely they will try to bullshit them through, for fear of rebellion.
[ - ] x0x7 1 point 2.6 yearsNov 2, 2022 22:31:06 ago (+1/-0)
Despite what people say, voting doesn't do nothing. It just doesn't do everything. Not even close.
But you have to vote to make the statistics harder to fudge. If you don't vote they can take what they want without a fuss.
If you do vote they will take it with a fuss, cheating every way and even potentially getting violent. But in the conflict that voting forces there is hope for us. No vote equals no conflict equals they get what they want for free.
Voting will not get us out of this, but not voting will get us to game over way sooner.
I agree and want to clarify that making the effort of voting is worth it for the opportunistic observation of my peers in a lawful and civil setting, even if the results themselves lately reveal despicable corruption.
The height of empires encompassed kinship amongst the rulers and the ruled, however brief. A golden age must decay — SPQR is real until it is farce
[ + ] observation1
[ - ] observation1 2 points 2.6 yearsNov 3, 2022 02:31:01 ago (+2/-0)
Vote with your feet and with your wallet in every transaction and every decision. See something you like? Vote for it. See something you dont like? Vote against it. Not voting is voting. We have more power 364 days of the year deciding everything about the future than we do on the ritualistic election day, where we actually decide very little about the future.
[ + ] Battlefat
[ - ] Battlefat [op] 1 point 2.6 yearsNov 3, 2022 08:14:49 ago (+1/-0)
[ + ] s23erdctfvyg
[ - ] s23erdctfvyg 2 points 2.6 yearsNov 3, 2022 01:26:40 ago (+2/-0)
It does not matter if you never see the true numbers, because they do.
[ + ] Battlefat
[ - ] Battlefat [op] 0 points 2.6 yearsNov 3, 2022 08:10:27 ago (+0/-0)
[ + ] rhy
[ - ] rhy 0 points 2.6 yearsNov 3, 2022 09:25:34 ago (+0/-0)
I seriously doubt they even tabulate our actual votes.
[ + ] s23erdctfvyg
[ - ] s23erdctfvyg 0 points 2.6 yearsNov 3, 2022 12:23:23 ago (+0/-0)
[ + ] x0x7
[ - ] x0x7 1 point 2.6 yearsNov 2, 2022 22:31:06 ago (+1/-0)
But you have to vote to make the statistics harder to fudge. If you don't vote they can take what they want without a fuss.
If you do vote they will take it with a fuss, cheating every way and even potentially getting violent. But in the conflict that voting forces there is hope for us. No vote equals no conflict equals they get what they want for free.
Voting will not get us out of this, but not voting will get us to game over way sooner.
[ + ] Battlefat
[ - ] Battlefat [op] 0 points 2.6 yearsNov 2, 2022 22:47:47 ago (+0/-0)
The height of empires encompassed kinship amongst the rulers and the ruled, however brief. A golden age must decay — SPQR is real until it is farce
[ + ] Sector7
[ - ] Sector7 0 points 2.6 yearsNov 3, 2022 08:39:21 ago (+0/-0)
The sooner the better.