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I realize I'm the only one responsible for my life and that nobody owes me anything. If it gets bad I'll move but I've never been affected by any of this bs so I decided it was stupid to invest anymore time to learn something that won't benefit me at all.Well I vote. And then I try to help people when I can, including giving charity. Obviously I don't have all the time in the world on my hands due to work, but if I did I would gladly be more active in political activism.
And maybe authoritarian figures wouldn't be in the positions they were if more people came out to vote for someone better. There are statistics about that. The more people don't know about elections, the more chance the rich authoritarian figures get to be elected, because they have the money to get their name out. That's how Jeb Bush won as Governor in Florida. That's how Debbie Wasserman Shultz won the Congressional District seat, even after stepping down as DNC chair because emails leaked showing she help rig an election against Bernie.
And nobody knew who Tim Canova was.
So yeah, voting is important.
Not every politician is an authoritarian figure either. Just look at Bernie Sanders.
So why wasn't Jimmy Carter assassinated then? You know what happens when someone is assassinated? They become a martyr for the cause. Martin Luther King Jr. getting assassinated didn't stop the black movement against segregation. Lincoln getting assassinated didn't end the victory of the Union.
You can't choose not to play when you live in a society and are directly affected by it whether you like it or not. The economy affects your life, the food safety affects your life, the healthcare affects your life, and a thousand other things.
You just don't see it because you choose to believe it doesn't and you remain ignorant and make up excuses to continue that ignorance.
I looked around and realized I'm living a good life, that things aren't nearly as bad as painted by these drama queens in the media. I decided I could live my life to the fullest without this ever bothering me again and that's what I did. Now you can do whatever the hell you want, it won't matter to me one way or another but if it wasn't ridiculous enough that you're mostly kids, I thought if I could get these NB'ers to open their eyes about this. It could benefit them like it did for me.
I gave my reasons why you should abandon this kind of discussion but I understand you can't reason a person out of something they were never reasoned into.
I also understand that from objective feedback that this thread won't be effective in accomplishing what I set out to do so I'm going to lead by example and make it stop.
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