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I've been seeing a lot of anti-voting sentiment going around. Can't believe I have to say this, but you need to vote. Not only is there more to the election than just the president. (State policy, Senate, house), but not voting is not an act of protest. C'mon guys

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[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Americans: do what you want in the primaries. Vote for Biden in the general, because he will be the nominee. I am not stoked about that, but that’s the choice our system gives us.

Non-Americans: please, please do a bit of research on how weird and fucked up and fractious our electoral system is before going off on someone for voting “undecided” in the primaries, which is how I voted myself. Compared to the nationally-organized stuff you guys seem to mostly rely on, ours could charitably be described as “intentionally byzantine”.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it's almost like the US is running a software written in the 1700s and that stopped receiving regular updates around the 1960s

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

That’s… actually not a bad way to describe it.

Also note that we stopped updating our BIOS in 1929, which is the direct cause of this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The worst part is that your country isn't even as cool as ancient Byzantium...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

i approve this message 🥰