PerfectFlowingHair

I object to this poll. The term is actually God-Emperor.

Your men or your eggs?

Member when a President didn't actually want the office? Peppridge Farm remembers.

A working peaceful social model that can keep a society of roughly 7 billion people in check, happy with their lives, and needs taken care of without risk of wars. Failing that, terraforming other planets.

Well if you don't want the cold can I have dibs?

Outlashing at the media. At whatever brainchild in the establishment spawned "intersectional feminism" to divide women of different races. "Internalized sexism" to explain away women who claimed not to be oppressed. Every single major media outlet not named Fox News pushing these and other divisions {LOOKING AT YOU NPR}. Oh, and my personal favorites. Gloria Steinem implying I was just chasing guys by voting Bernie, and a couple feminists basically ordering me to fall in line behind Hillary because woman. Thanks for the suffrage, but it's MY vote.

Agreed.

How long til TIC starts spamming memes here?

I count two: Hillary and Bernie. Martin O'Malley dropped out early, and there weren't any other Democrat candidates I can recall. Who am I missing?

I hate the media. It's divisive, deliberately so. All of it, one-sided, shoveling shillbux so blatantly obviously into their chosen candidate, with naught but a single outlet for the controlled opposition. Then heckling and degrading the opposition. The citizenry? Virtually helpless, with the deluge of a single damned narrative. It's a wedge, and it needs to go. BREAK THE MEDIA!

Can't we put this to a vote?

Hey now. I like nuts. They're delicious. And polls just get in the way of discussion. I vote cashews.

I've actually seen/heard the second and third statements outright. No reading into necessary. And the "you voted for it so STFU" bit quite commonly. Honestly, though, it feels like the media {and, by extension, everyone bombarded by the media} puts so much exclusive emphasis on the vote that the arguments for and against each vote fall by the wayside. It's... frustrating. {Though your stance is refreshing. Vote, complain, vote, complain, rant, bitch, gripe, vote, whine. } Gawd, I was in Florida but too young to vote in 2000. I'm still pissed that Al Gore probably maybe had the state swiped from him. Hope-ful-ly the DNC and the Russians keep their collective hands off the voting process this time around.

I've seen it used in the following formats: 1. You didn't vote to stop X, so you don't deserve to complain about X. 2. You voted for X, so you have to put up with X and stop complaining about it. 3. You voted against X, but more people voted for X, so stop complaining about what the majority wants. Political action for the average citizen is corralled into "I check this box". It ignores the fact that (1) a vote can run into difficulties that prevent it from being counted, (2) X could have changed a thing and now you have reason to believe that X is bad, and (3) there's a fucking reason you voted against X. I hate the "vote or you have no voice" argument with a fiery passion because of this. {Yeah, I'm aware you only said "go vote", and didn't bring up 2 or 3. I've dealt with each of those scenarios from different people, though. And note I have like a hundred elections' less experience on this than you do >.>}

Unless all the options suck, or your voter registration failed to go through, or the registration deadline was months before the election for some reason {LOOKING AT YOU NEW YORK WHAT THE HELL}. I see "if you don't vote, you can't complain" as a grand silencer of dissent, paired with "well you voted for that bad thing, so you can't bitch about that bad thing". I'm looking at writing the winners of the presidential and Congressional contests to urge on some priorities -- and now that I think about it, I should've abstained from local elections and proposals since I'm an absentee voter and thus not directly affected. Like it or not, Presidential elections are what the masses in general notice, and we'll just trot out this same mess cycle after cycle. Embrace the suck.

Yep. Absolutely deplorable. Go jump in a basket.

... I created this monster, didn't I?

Celebrity endorsements instead of discussing issues? Yeesh. What a mess. {Hillary, not Gaga}

Let me show you mah boob.

BWAHAHAHA! *skips off cackling* Myname[/member] yay voting!

of Alicia Keys

It was aphrodisiac this time. If you were pure before, you certainly aren't pure now.

Mission success! Muahahaha!

Nope. They'll still make her fat. But she can order them to carry out hitjobs! StarPanda[/member] enjoy your mastery of danishes.

I count one undesirable. Two if we're counting Zeni. Who am I missing?