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I'm Voting For An Outsider As A Protest Against The System!!! | |
| Saddletramp
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| Saddletramp
(OP) User ID: 68373023 United States03/10/2016 07:07 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | That's probably the only genuine form of protest vote... But what if you fuckin' won?!?!?  "And how can a man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods..." ~ Horatius "Because he told the truth, and once you've heard the truth, everything else is just cheap whiskey..." "We don't rent pigs!" |
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Bodiless
Forum Administrator User ID: 70503725 United States03/10/2016 07:12 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I understand your discontent ST. I don't agree with it. Do you really feel that the end of that rope has been reached? Respect for voicing your thoughts man, one way or another. “We have assembled the most extensive and inclusive Voter Fraud Organization in the history of America”—Joe “SippyCup” Biden Joe Biden will never be the man Michelle Obama is The worst thing about dying is that you become a democratic voter for eternity |
| Larry D. Croc
User ID: 70736097 United States03/10/2016 07:13 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | An interesting take on the subject. I hope it generates discussion as opposed to the alternative... "Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell, where they already have it." Ronald Reagan The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so." Ronald Reagan |
| Saddletramp
(OP) User ID: 68373023 United States03/10/2016 07:17 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I understand your discontent ST. I don't agree with it. Quoting: Bodiless Do you really feel that the end of that rope has been reached? Respect for voicing your thoughts man, one way or another. Discontent, well yeah in a way. Actually it's sort of like watching a slow motion train wreck on a loop, it's more like Amazed Disgust... Every 8 years now, another "Protest" vote, and about a year after that everyone figures out; hey I didn't know he was going to do THAT while he was in office. I didn't vote for THAT!!! No, actually you did vote for that, you were just so mad you didn't look at who you were voting for... Loop that train wreck footage again... Last Edited by Saddletramp on 03/10/2016 07:18 PM "And how can a man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods..." ~ Horatius "Because he told the truth, and once you've heard the truth, everything else is just cheap whiskey..." "We don't rent pigs!" |
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| Saddletramp
(OP) User ID: 68373023 United States03/10/2016 07:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I understand your discontent ST. I don't agree with it. Quoting: Bodiless Do you really feel that the end of that rope has been reached? Respect for voicing your thoughts man, one way or another. I'm not saying it's time for a Revolution, I'm saying it's time to start using the ballot box for what it was intended for... "And how can a man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods..." ~ Horatius "Because he told the truth, and once you've heard the truth, everything else is just cheap whiskey..." "We don't rent pigs!" |
| Saddletramp
(OP) User ID: 68373023 United States03/10/2016 07:20 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Do shut up or well put more red sticker in your mailbox and pist gps coordinates to your bunker. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 71105989 :damnedbig: "And how can a man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods..." ~ Horatius "Because he told the truth, and once you've heard the truth, everything else is just cheap whiskey..." "We don't rent pigs!" |
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| Saddletramp
(OP) User ID: 68373023 United States03/10/2016 07:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | One thing our forefather's surely knew, Revolution and voting have nothing at all to do with each other. "And how can a man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods..." ~ Horatius "Because he told the truth, and once you've heard the truth, everything else is just cheap whiskey..." "We don't rent pigs!" |
| DARTH SILIOUS
Abrasive Fuck User ID: 70574113 United States03/10/2016 07:21 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I understand your discontent ST. I don't agree with it. Quoting: Bodiless Do you really feel that the end of that rope has been reached? Respect for voicing your thoughts man, one way or another. Discontent, well yeah in a way. Actually it's sort of like watching a slow motion train wreck on a loop, it's more like Amazed Disgust... Every 8 years now, another "Protest" vote, and about a year after that everyone figures out; hey I didn't know he was going to do THAT while he was in office. I didn't vote for THAT!!! No, actually you did vote for that, you were just so mad you didn't look at who you were voting for... Loop that train wreck footage again... The only true protest vote we've seen that had any strength was Perot in '92. Bush was never an outsider Clinton was never an outsider Bush was never an outsider Bammy not an outsider... So I'm not sure exactly what you're getting at? Peace is a lie, there is only passion. Through passion, I gain strength. Through strength, I gain power. Through power, I gain victory. Through victory, my chains are broken. The Force shall free me. Or something |
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| Saddletramp
(OP) User ID: 68373023 United States03/10/2016 07:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Can you imagine that campaign?!?!? "And how can a man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods..." ~ Horatius "Because he told the truth, and once you've heard the truth, everything else is just cheap whiskey..." "We don't rent pigs!" |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 44813100 United States03/10/2016 07:23 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Protest votes! Gotta love them. But are ballot boxes really the place to protest, or are they the place to try and forward your ideology? Quoting: Saddletramp I ask this genuinely, because Protest votes have historically elected the worst Leaders and Tyrants possible. And every time the USA has one of these "Protest" votes we seem to get dragged deeper into the hole. You see the problem is you go to the ballot box to use the system, to protest against the system, by making an outsider, an insider... Let me explain. Some of us probably remember 1994, huge influx of new Freshmen Congressmen all elected by Republicans to institute "Term Limits". 22 Years later we don't have Term Limits, but we still have some of those Congressmen who were elected to institute those Term Limits. You see there's a reason those Term Limits never quite got done; because those "Outsiders", are now the "Insiders" we're bitching about. Now we want to protest that exact sort of thing by doing the exact same thing we did in 1994. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. You cannot vote in a Rebellion! Because you cannot use the system to destroy the system. And an outsider is only an outsider until he's sworn in... The Ballot Box is no place to protest the system, hell it's practically a shrine to the System! The Ballot Box is where we compare our ideologies, then the people choose which Ideology is the best to take this country forward. That's why issues matter. Nobody is going to tear down a building while they're standing inside it... And don't tell me about Sampson, because he died in the end, and I haven't seen a Candidate out there yet that I think is willing to die for us, and history has shown that's the level of commitment it takes to try and take on this system from the inside. So here's to November 8, 2016. That day we will all flock to that ultimate shrine of our democratic republic, The Ballot Box, and use democracy to protest democracy... What you say is True! The only way to change it is to not participate! Voting at all legitimizes their system. Withdraw concent. Starve the beast. |
| Michael Deschain
User ID: 69061168 United States03/10/2016 07:24 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | So you're still going to vote op, or will you actually disregard the system and stay home? Last Edited by Michael Deschain on 03/10/2016 07:24 PM :Cthulhu2016: :SCCSA: The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. - HPL |
| Saddletramp
(OP) User ID: 68373023 United States03/10/2016 07:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The primarys pretty much over, you get either the greater of 2 evils or the lesser. Perfection never shows up. Thats life, deal with it or choke yourself and get out of the way. What? No, the Primary would USUALLY be about over. But out of about 2500 delegates, a little over 1000 have been awarded. "And how can a man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods..." ~ Horatius "Because he told the truth, and once you've heard the truth, everything else is just cheap whiskey..." "We don't rent pigs!" |
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| Saddletramp
(OP) User ID: 68373023 United States03/10/2016 07:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | So you're still going to vote op, or will you actually disregard the system and stay home? Quoting: Michael Deschain I already voted in my Primary, and I always vote my conscience, I try to never let fear dictate my vote as an Opposition vote. That's like casting an Anti-Vote... "And how can a man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods..." ~ Horatius "Because he told the truth, and once you've heard the truth, everything else is just cheap whiskey..." "We don't rent pigs!" |
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| Saddletramp
(OP) User ID: 68373023 United States03/10/2016 07:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | What? Are they running out of spaces for Trump threads...OMG!!!  Last Edited by Saddletramp on 03/10/2016 07:28 PM "And how can a man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods..." ~ Horatius "Because he told the truth, and once you've heard the truth, everything else is just cheap whiskey..." "We don't rent pigs!" |
| Michael Deschain
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| Saddletramp
(OP) User ID: 68373023 United States03/10/2016 07:30 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I don't see how it helps anything. That's like asking do you care if I become a Nihilist? "And how can a man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods..." ~ Horatius "Because he told the truth, and once you've heard the truth, everything else is just cheap whiskey..." "We don't rent pigs!" |
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| puredreaming
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| The Comedian :D
User ID: 12971879 United States03/10/2016 07:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I write you in too. On the men's room wall. Saint Comedian, Patron Saint of Bringing the Butthurt to Dipshits ‘There are some assholes in the world that just need to be shot.’ - General Mattis, USMC, Secretary of Defense [link to www.godlikeproductions.com] "Subterfuge and social pressure are the wheel and fire of the 21st century" - Some asshole Legal Disclaimer: All comments are intended as humor and/or fiction and not advice, and not to be confused with any event or person, living or dead. |
| Saddletramp
(OP) User ID: 68373023 United States03/10/2016 07:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | We had a member that was running for Congress a couple of years back if I remember. I don't think he won...go figure. "And how can a man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods..." ~ Horatius "Because he told the truth, and once you've heard the truth, everything else is just cheap whiskey..." "We don't rent pigs!" |
| The Comedian :D
User ID: 12971879 United States03/10/2016 07:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I would never accept the cut in pay, self-respect, and influence.  Saint Comedian, Patron Saint of Bringing the Butthurt to Dipshits ‘There are some assholes in the world that just need to be shot.’ - General Mattis, USMC, Secretary of Defense [link to www.godlikeproductions.com] "Subterfuge and social pressure are the wheel and fire of the 21st century" - Some asshole Legal Disclaimer: All comments are intended as humor and/or fiction and not advice, and not to be confused with any event or person, living or dead. |
you gutsy poster you.