<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 3:53 AM Rafal Smigrodzki via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 5:30 AM Stathis Papaioannou <<a href="mailto:stathisp@gmail.com" target="_blank">stathisp@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto">What is the justification for not voting, beyond the fact that a single vote does not count much?</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div></div></div>
</blockquote></div></div><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>### I want to avoid legitimizing the system. If I never voted for it, you can't blame me.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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).</div><div><br></div><div>Certain people not voting was part of how Trump got into office.</div></div></div>