The Wow I Can't Believe That News Story Thread

[OccultHawk]

I don't need democracy

Neither do I.

Who gives a **** if someone looks like this or that. I want your guys' gut feelings. Look at the inconsistencies. Look at the facts. What do YOU GUYS think happened? **** what the media says. Do your own research. Spill it!

I don't have or have any reason to have any "gut" feelings about this.

My gut tell me you're profoundly mentally ill, however.

[OccultHawk]

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/...e-conduct-code

A representative of the ACLU couldn't speak William and Mary.

****.

[Chula Vista]

Originally Posted by [MERIT]

You tell me.

You're the skeptic here, not me.

[Frownland]

Trump wants to take our guns!

[Paul Smeenus]

Originally Posted by Frownland

Trump wants to take our guns!

He's welcome to have mine, good luck finding 'em though...

[Janszoon]

Originally Posted by [MERIT]

I'm not asking you to trust me. I'm asking you to do your own research and form your own conclusion. And I should have been more specific, media = zionist-controlled mainstream media. My bad.

Where do the extraterrestrials fit in?

[Neapolitan]

Originally Posted by Janszoon

Where do the extraterrestrials fit in?

ETI's will be used as a false flag.

[djchameleon]

Originally Posted by elphenor

voting should be just one course of political action ideally but don't doubt its importance

I participate in the civic engagement club at my college, I register students to vote, and I think it's actually the most tangible thing I do for progressives

I've been slacking on that last week but I help register voters as well. Voter turnouts are so low on off years.

Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

This is how it looks to me, in the USA or anywhere else:-

After centuries of nonrepresentation, people died for the right to vote so that they could have some say in their governance. However ineffective that say may be, it's surely better than nothing?
voting = a gesture towards democracy
not voting = go ahead, take it away. I don't need democracy

This is the reason that I can't be bothered to hear out people's opinions/complaints if they can't even be bothered to vote in the first place. Even more so when it comes to local races that have such close margins. A friend of mines won his primary race by four votes and it was after they counted absentee ballots before those ballots he lost by 6 votes.

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by djchameleon

I've been slacking on that last week but I help register voters as well. Voter turnouts are so low on off years.


This is the reason that I can't be bothered to hear out people's opinions/complaints if they can't even be bothered to vote in the first place. Even more so when it comes to local races that have such close margins. A friend of mines won his primary race by four votes and it was after they counted absentee ballots before those ballots he lost by 6 votes.

When you consider how few people vote in those elections it really drives home just how pointless this democracy thing is. You're basically winning or losing based on the populace's indifference. Any gains you make are a cock smack to the face of what you really want to accomplish tbh. It's basically an oligarchy of some sort, except instead of the leaders being kings of industry or whatever, they're just the people who show up. It's only vaguely democratic tbh, since any decisions based on it are not in fact the will of any people, just the will of that infinitesimal group of people who can be bothered. Just shoot this government in the head and be done with it.

[djchameleon]

Originally Posted by The Batlord

When you consider how few people vote in those elections it really drives home just how pointless this democracy thing is. You're basically winning or losing based on the populace's indifference. Any gains you make are a cock smack to the face of what you really want to accomplish tbh. It's basically an oligarchy of some sort, except instead of the leaders being kings of industry or whatever, they're just the people who show up. It's only vaguely democratic tbh, since any decisions based on it are not in fact the will of any people, just the will of that infinitesimal group of people who can be bothered. Just shoot this government in the head and be done with it.

The will of the people that care enough to show up and exercise their right to vote should be the only ones that matter. The rest of the lemmings that don't get how important it is can go ahead drifting through life letting others make important decisions but just don't want to hear a single gripe out of their mouth.