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I like how you tried to reverse psychology and blame the boycott vote for the reason our quasidemocracy fails.
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i didn't use "reverse psychology" and you didn't like my answer. the current system has many flaws-- i don't blame all of them on the so-call "boycott vote" (whatever that means) but quitters are definitely a factor in the rule of special interests and wackos.
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Nope. Elections themselves are.rigged, flawed, and often fraudulent.
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they are not perfect. humans didin't evolve in enormous supertribes, and this cultural adaptation to demographic explosion is what we've managed to kludge together so far. it will continue to evolve as long as people exist & keep trying.
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Gerrymandering,
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done by state legislatures, which are voted in & out by the electorate
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"chad"s and other disqualifying factors,
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again performed/monitored by elected officials
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as well as just outright ignorong the votes
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ignorong indeed!
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nullifies all possibilities of effextive change hence boycotting.
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good luck with your effextive armed revolution
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Four presidents have been elected despite losing popular vote
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it's a republic, not a democracy. read the manual.
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and if folks were to even go through a highschool civics level exploration of the electoral college reveals its all smoke and mirrors.
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no smoke and/or mirrors if you read the manual.
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The referendum process is bought and sold by special interest,
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and further enabled by the self-disenfranchised who don't stand up to it
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upwards of 70% of legislative is verbatim written by lobbyists..
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again, the laws allow it. don't like them? get involved/change them/ vote in those that will repeal it
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and y'll honestly want to cast your lot with all that nonsense
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responsible adults have to truck with all manner of nonsense. tedious, but it's part of life.
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to.what, pretend your empowered
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to you it's all about the self, isn't it? this is where you project your limitations onto others.
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when in actuality your only further empowering the corruption..
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corruption has always existed with all forms of government. selassie was a massive fucking crook.
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when you play a rigged game you are by ontology supporting the rigging.
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mature people do the best they can with whatever they have and learn to accept that having it all is a childish dream and that social change is the work of ages.
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Fuck that. Vote for yourself. Boycott
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translation: "since i can't be king of the game i'm taking my toys with me". lololol. it's all about the self with you, isn't it? ha ha ha. such narcissism!
you live in a city with millions of people in a state that is in itself one of the largest economies in the world. no matter how special you try to paint yourself you're still a tiny speck. you can choose to join other tiny specks or you can choose to float alone but your wishes are not everybody else's command.