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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Are you pooping at work? Politics that force companies to allow you to have bathroom breaks can be thanked.

    Is there a sidewalk when you walk or ride a bike? Thank your taxes and the people that pushed city politicians to install those pathways.

    Like being able to take public transit? Then be glad regulations and ordinances in your city encouraged those services to be available.

    Your political opinions and your thoughts on how your community and city are run, will most certainly change with regularity if you are putting in the effort to understand what can be done to improve things. And most people start with the things that affect them on the daily.


  • It’s naive at best, but either willful ignorance or poorly reasoned resistance at worst. You can’t change things by not participating.

    And pretending you have any high ground, when you don’t vote because of a singular issue being a problem, is foolish to the extreme.

    Some people think they will improve things by not participating because the candidates don’t line up perfectly with their principals. All you get then is the direction others pick for you. You’ve solved nothing, but potentially made things worse.

    There is no upside to not participating if you are seeking to improve things. If you are a shitty person and fear other people because of melanated reasons, by all means, allow other more reasonable people handle the voting. But otherwise, look at all the issues and vote for the one that does the most good or the least damage.









  • Nothing incorrectly perceived about it. You willfully choose to be ignorant. The world moves on with you whether you choose to participate in it or not.

    You want to try to hide behind this singular position as if abstaining from voting solves or improves anything. It doesn’t. You choose to live in a fantasy whereby your abstinence leaves you without blame. If anything, you and others like you become just as callused and evil as those in power. You all helped put them there because you all did nothing to stop it. You saw a bad option and a horrendous option and behaved childishly and gave up.

    You don’t care what actually happens to anyone. You don’t actually care if anyone lives or dies, because if you did, you’d have done something to slow or stop the current administration/regime from gaining any power at all.