@Jane: Yeah, but the thing is so many working class and women voting republican when it's not in their best interests. As for minorities and queers; I know people who detest bigotry and racism, who admire Doctor King and celebrated when Gay Marriage was announced, who grumble about schools being underfunded and wildernesses being exploited, who want billionaires to pay lots more taxes than they do; who still vote republican because of the abortion thing.
@Jane: Yeah, but the thing is all the working class and women voting republican when it's not in their best interests. As for minorities and queers; I know people who detest bigotry and racism, who admire Doctor King and celebrated when Gay Marriage was announced; who still vote republican because of the abortion thing.
ok but the thing is that celebrating when "Gay Marriage" was announced is totally meaningless if you're contributing to a system that is fighting tooth and nail to keep us down.
odradek could keep posting stupid pictures because is there really a lot of point in talking to someone who's going to vote for the billionaire (ok, they're all billionaires. the guy who's a billionaire and nothing else) because he's the underdog
Look, y'all know i'm not exactly pro-Republican, but if your belief is that abortion is literally murder, it's gotta be pretty counter-intuitive to be told, 'vote for the party that wants murder to be legal, because they will take other measures to reduce the number of murders'.
Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
I think it's tribalism; these people are my people no matter what they do. I understand that. I get really incensed when others talk shit about my people.
Aliroz, you clearly don't feel uncomfortable supporting your "tribe" in everything. I feel like one of these days you need to settle your allegiance once and for all.
I should vote for what I know is right. Not for who I want to spite, or who I want to oppose or agree with. Not for a sense of community. Not for manipulation.
If I vote republican, it should be because I choose to, and I want to, and because it is MY choice.
IF I vote democrat, it should be because I choose to, and I want to, and because it is MY choice.
I don't need to justify my vote to anybody but myself, that's the point of voting.
I should vote for what I know is right. Not for who I want to spite, or who I want to oppose or agree with. Not for a sense of community. Not for manipulation.
If I vote republican, it should be because I choose to, and I want to, and because it is MY choice.
IF I vote democrat, it should be because I choose to, and I want to, and because it is MY choice.
I don't need to justify my vote to anybody but myself, that's the point of voting.
Look, y'all know i'm not exactly pro-Republican, but if your belief is that abortion is literally murder, it's gotta be pretty counter-intuitive to be told, 'vote for the party that wants murder to be legal, because they will take other measures to reduce the number of murders'.
odradek could keep posting stupid pictures because is there really a lot of point in talking to someone who's going to vote for the billionaire (ok, they're all billionaires. the guy who's a billionaire and nothing else) because he's the underdog
i wasn't ragging on Aliroz. Aliroz can vote for whoever, that's fine. Not my business to tell anyone how to vote, least of all in America (or any other foreign country).
@Klinotaxis: I'd like to say that it was about sticking up for an underdog; but it was a lot less magnanimous and more petty and spiteful than that. IT was about getting to annoy people for perceived slights (either on me, or on anything related to my tribe). Not at all the way to choose a ruler. Not at all a way to live a life. Not the way an adult thinks. Not a healthy way.
I should vote for what I know is right. Not for who I want to spite, or who I want to oppose or agree with. Not for a sense of community. Not for manipulation.
If I vote republican, it should be because I choose to, and I want to, and because it is MY choice.
IF I vote democrat, it should be because I choose to, and I want to, and because it is MY choice.
I don't need to justify my vote to anybody but myself, that's the point of voting.
-nods judiciously-
You're doing a good thing, Ali. You're not the only person who feels like this, and once the Republican party realizes that their stance on abortion isn't enough to satisfy people like you, they'll have to wise up and become a party worth voting for.
@Klinotaxis: I'd like to say that it was about sticking up for an underdog; but it was a lot less magnanimous and more petty and spiteful than that. IT was about getting to annoy people for perceived slights (either on me, or on anything related to my tribe). Not at all the way to choose a ruler. Not at all a way to live a life. Not the way an adult thinks. Not a healthy way.
It shall not be my way.
At least, I'll try not to live that way.
thank you
but i'm afraid that you're wrong. my face is in fact stupid.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
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I should vote for what I know is right. Not for who I want to spite, or who I want to oppose or agree with. Not for a sense of community. Not for manipulation.
If I vote republican, it should be because I choose to, and I want to, and because it is MY choice.
IF I vote democrat, it should be because I choose to, and I want to, and because it is MY choice.
I don't need to justify my vote to anybody but myself, that's the point of voting.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
(That was a joke.)
RESURGAM.
(Thank you all for this talk. It has been illuminating. Good night.)
Take it from me! I love you!
but i'm afraid that you're wrong. my face is in fact stupid.
I concur
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead