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In reply to the discussion: Fuck them. [View all]Cary
(11,746 posts)77. You don't get it.
It's very simple. If we don't vote, we have no power versus oligarchs. The oligarchs know this which is why they invest in strategies to get us not to vote.
If we vote we outnumber them by a wide margin. If we vote they can't fix the elections. Then if we vote, the politicians have to listen to us if they want us to vote for them again.
There is no other way and it's ideas like yours that actually divided and disempower us. Vote first. Then work for change because the oligarchs aren't working for us.
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When he walked into that room that night to tell his lies, I knew before he opened his fucking
NoJusticeNoPeace
Dec 2014
#30
And FUCK the Medical Examiner's report where he says the head shots, the KILL shots
NoJusticeNoPeace
Dec 2014
#28
No one needs to be tolerant of Your propping up racists, racist institutions, or badge taint licking
TheKentuckian
Dec 2014
#42
The 1% keeps us warring amongst ourselves, so we're too preoccupied/too tired to notice the 1%
blkmusclmachine
Dec 2014
#48
Fuck them too, along with the racist cops and their sniveling gun humping lackeys.
hunter
Dec 2014
#60
Fuck all the arrogant, know-it-all, I'm-right 24/7, small-minded conservative jerks!
Dont call me Shirley
Dec 2014
#50
Voter turn out isn't the only problem we need to solve. We need candidates that don't work for
rhett o rick
Dec 2014
#74
It isn't as simple as you would like. How does voting in machines controlled
rhett o rick
Dec 2014
#78
Let's try a different approach. In a lot of dictatorial countries they all vote.
rhett o rick
Dec 2014
#84
Fuck the Kochs, Screw the Cruz, Shag the 'Bags, and a Pox on Fox 'news.'
Special Prosciuto
Dec 2014
#81