• Doom@ttrpg.network
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    2 days ago

    No I’m just saying people who think protest voting or throwing your vote away is ever smart, this is proof it isn’t.

    This really entirely could’ve been avoided and this was one of the steps in a stairwell of bullshit that could’ve stopped it all

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      1 day ago

      The fundamental idea of democracy is that you have your say. Even if the outcome isn’t your’s, your vote showed how much people wanted the other things, this influencing the group that got it.

      Your thinking anti-democratically. You are chastising individual voices in the system for not doing what you wanted for your outcome. That’s literally how authoritarianism starts. Check yourself.

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        21 hours ago

        Lol no it absolutely isn’t.

        The fundamental aspect of democracy isn’t just that you get a say, it’s that I get to say your say is stupid especially if I can show reasons why it’s dumb

        Voting against your own interest, choosing not to represent yourself and opting to “punish” your representatives by not voting for them isn’t smart and there is proof in the pudding.

        Check yourself, running around like you’re the democracy police. Please

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          Go watch a documentary on democracy.

          You are locked in a two party system, so you seem to have this idea that you have to choose blue to prevent red.

          That notion of thought is literally anti-democratic. It is against the voice of the people. It stifles the people and presents two shit options instead of listening or having the people in power. Your voice is taken away and you are in support of that. You are literally trying to explain democracy to me throigh anti-democratic notions.

          With such an understanding of democracy, I can only assume you have a US education.