[ExI] Who has a vote that counts?

[SR Ballard]

I don’t know that personal attacks are really warranted, especially in regards to politics. I agree with Mod in that regard.

SR Ballard

> On Aug 12, 2020, at 8:30 AM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>  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:
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>> 
>>> 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).
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>> ### 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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