[ExI] Who has a vote that counts?

[William Flynn Wallace]

 If I could cast a thousand votes for Trump in the closest state race, I
would.

Rafal
Trump is the most vile person I know of and the biggest liar.
Fact-checking showed that only one of six things he said during the
campaign was true.  Birds of a feather, Rafal?


On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 10:36 PM Rafal Smigrodzki via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 3:54 PM Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 3:53 AM Rafal Smigrodzki via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 5:30 AM Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> What is the justification for not voting, beyond the fact that a single
>>>> vote does not count much?
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>> ### I want to avoid legitimizing the system. If I never voted for it,
>>> you can't blame me.
>>>
>>
>> We can totally blame you for neglecting to do your civic duty.  It
>> doesn't matter if you never asked for it; just by being an adult citizen of
>> the United States of America, your choices are to have that duty (though it
>> is possible to shirk the duty) or to renounce your citizenship (which
>> usually requires leaving the country).
>>
>
> ### No, we are Americans, we are a free people, at least for now, we don't
> have a duty to brown-nose the Leviathan by casting usually
> meaningless votes. It's only in the Communist Poland that I was forced to
> vote in municipal elections, on pain of being investigated by the police
> for being an enemy of the state if I didn't show up.
>
>
>>
>> Certain people not voting was part of how Trump got into office.
>>
>
> ### If I could cast a thousand votes for Trump in the closest state race,
> I would.
>
> Rafal
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