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fkusumot said:


Social Darwinism at its best.

 

Oh God!

Lol!



 

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DMeisterJ said:
Nope. i'm no t.

So very, very sad.



I'm not an US citizen but there are regional elections on Venezuela on the 23rd and I'm going to vote for sure



Not caring is cool! Or something.

 



We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

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I'm gonna try my hardest to vote this year



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steven787 said:
Twesterm, what do you care about? You plan on having children? Care how they get educated or treated by your health insurance if, god forbid, one has a rare or expensive disease? Drive a car, want better roads? Wanna get drafted? Want your taxes to go up or down?

Not trying to harass you, but I don't really comprehend how no issue can inspire certain people to vote.

(I already voted. I don't think many non-voters are going to respond much, because if they don't care, they don't care. If they do respond, then they are just non-conformers conforming.)

 

I don't know, I guess it's two things really:

  1. I haven't really cared enough to keep up with the two candidates.  Back in 2000 when I could vote for the first time I really kept up on things because it was new I guess but the last two elections I just stopped caring.  I don't think I really like either candidate anyways.
  2. In the end it always seems a little futile to me.  For all those things I'm going to spend money anyways and I'm sure it's going to stay about the same either way.  I really don't care about roads considering I grew up in the country where dirt or gravel roads were the norm so anything in the city is awesome.  I already have awesome health care through work.  I've already experienced an expensive disease (see my thumb thread, which sucked) and that put me back a total of about $200 because of all the different medicines (about $75) and a trip to the emergency room ($100).  I'm really not worried about being drafted.

And I realize by not voting I can't bitch but one of the wonderful things about not caring is that I really don't want to bitch.

 



im voting why wouldnt you vote dude?



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Look up your local and statewide ballots. In California I get to vote for a high speed rail from San Diego to Sacramento, I get to vote to defend equal marriage rights, I get to vote on abortion notifications (again), I get to vote on renewable energy, caged or uncaged animals at farms, money for teachers, money for cops, and a bunch of other shit.



People died for the right to vote, and you can't be bothered? It's almost sickening.

Reminds me of that quote, goes something like "It's interesting how an American would go half way around the world to fight and kill in the name of democracy, yet they won't even go across the street to vote."



SamuelRSmith said:
People died for the right to vote, and you can't be bothered? It's almost sickening.

Reminds me of that quote, goes something like "It's interesting how an American would go half way around the world to fight and kill in the name of democracy, yet they won't even go across the street to vote."

 

Would you rather I just randomly pick a candidate or pick one that someone else told me to vote for?  Are either of those really any better? 

People also died for my right not to vote.