Thought of the day
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In Asia they use elections to make babies :)
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I may never step in a polling booth again... X|
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WRONG! It does make a difference. Even if every incumbent keeps his or her seat, if the vote against them goes up they worry, they really do. Every. Single. Vote. Counts. I don't care for other's politics\*, but I do care that people exercise their right to vote. \* Except for UKIP, those wuckfits can go stick their heads in a blender.
veni bibi saltavi
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I voted this morning. As did Herself. Won't make a blind bit of difference, but if you don't vote, you can't complain about the government you do get...
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OriginalGriff wrote:
but if you don't vote, you can't complain about the government you do get...
Of course you can. Whether I vote or not we'll still get the same exact government. My one vote won't change the outcome, therefore even if you don't vote of course you have the right to complain. But I do get what you are saying. You certainly should try and do something about it and voting, although near useless, is doing something.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I think we should be able to vote *against* someone without voting *for* someone. Then the one with the most negative votes should be thrown off a cliff.
Brilliant! I'll make a petition for a referendum to introduce this into electoral law :laugh:
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I voted this morning. As did Herself. Won't make a blind bit of difference, but if you don't vote, you can't complain about the government you do get...
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Agreed, You don't vote. You have no right to complain. I vote so I get to complain and loudly. :) I do so alot. Those that can do, those who can't do teach, those who can't teach clean, those who can't clean sell, those who can't sell lawyer, those who can't lawyer legislate, those who can't legislate well lets just stop there before we start digging a hole
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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You under estimate the amount of graft in politics. They've all got at least one person yanking their chain, though more often it's several in different directions. And they like it!
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Sure they like it, because they can play the "yankers" off against each other for profit. It used to be that any politician caught out as not being completely above reproach was forced to resign (presumably primarily for the sin of getting caught, and making the unwashed masses look in directions that no politician wants them to look in), but nowadays they all but give them medals for being self-serving, immoral scum.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote:
Every. Single. Vote. Counts.
Not at all. 1 less vote won't make any difference whatsoever.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RyanDev wrote:
Not at all. 1 less vote won't make any difference whatsoever.
Wrong. One vote can be the winning margin.
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I think we should be able to vote *against* someone without voting *for* someone. Then the one with the most negative votes should be thrown off a cliff.
But why killing?Isn't defeating them enough.
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But why killing?Isn't defeating them enough.
Who said killing? It's a small cliff, they're only maimed.
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Do elections only serve to make the future moron-certain?
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Quite possibly, and viewing the matter from a geopolitical standpoint, it may be that "relations" between China and the U.S. are strained because China calls elections "erections" and vice versa.
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k5054 wrote:
One vote can be the winning margin.
It'd be interesting to see how many times, if ever, that has happened.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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at least once, recently: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/05/06/rare-tie-vote-in-calgary-_n_7223920.html[^]
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Who said killing? It's a small cliff, they're only maimed.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
No, no really - big cliff. They should be removed from the gene pool. If they can't generate enough votes to be at least minimally popular, there is no reason for them to be running around.
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No, no really - big cliff. They should be removed from the gene pool. If they can't generate enough votes to be at least minimally popular, there is no reason for them to be running around.
But the suffering part is way too short.
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I think we should be able to vote *against* someone without voting *for* someone. Then the one with the most negative votes should be thrown off a cliff.
Additionally, if the elected does not do what he said, he should be thrown off a cliff :-\
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k5054 wrote:
One vote can be the winning margin.
It'd be interesting to see how many times, if ever, that has happened.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
It happened here in New Zealand. The winning margin in one of the MP electoral races was 6 votes. We had to wait for the special votes to be counted before we discovered who won. I've heard of similar close elections at various places in the United States.
The difficult may take time, the impossible a little longer.
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I think we should be able to vote *against* someone without voting *for* someone. Then the one with the most negative votes should be thrown off a cliff.
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It happened here in New Zealand. The winning margin in one of the MP electoral races was 6 votes. We had to wait for the special votes to be counted before we discovered who won. I've heard of similar close elections at various places in the United States.
The difficult may take time, the impossible a little longer.
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Do elections only serve to make the future moron-certain?
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Somewhere in my vast collection of lapel buttons I have one that says: Nobody can fix the economy. Nobody can be trusted with his finger on the button. Nobody's Perfect. VOTE FOR NOBODY! At times such as these, the sentiment acquires extra resonance.
