Splitter!Jeremiah wrote:What about the Popular Front of Judaea?
What do Sisters fans vote?
I didn't vote in this election because I refuse to be forced into voting against my (working) class for the least of three or more evils.
But Socialist definately although my best friend will not consider anything less than the total overthrowing of the capitalist state.
But Socialist definately although my best friend will not consider anything less than the total overthrowing of the capitalist state.
Om began to feel the acute depression that steals over every realist in the presence of an optimist.
- James Blast
- Banned
- Posts: 24699
- Joined: 11 Jun 2003, 18:58
- Location: back from some place else
you should vote, really
"And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God. For me, it's a frightening thought to go nowhere".
~ Peter Steele
~ Peter Steele
- weebleswobble
- Underneath the Rock
- Posts: 5875
- Joined: 09 Feb 2006, 06:57
- Location: The Bat-Milk Cave
- Contact:
If you don't vote shut.the.f**k.up.
simples
simples
‎"We will wear some very loud shirts. We will wear some very wrong trousers."
- James Blast
- Banned
- Posts: 24699
- Joined: 11 Jun 2003, 18:58
- Location: back from some place else
I agree, completely - people fought and died to get you a vote, you cannot be a socialist and say "I didn't vote"
get serious you dick!
get serious you dick!
"And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God. For me, it's a frightening thought to go nowhere".
~ Peter Steele
~ Peter Steele
- MadameButterfly
- HL's mystical safekeeper
- Posts: 6940
- Joined: 12 Jul 2005, 09:29
- Location: in my own galaxy
whoohoo to weebs & James!
you agree on one point in life! my day is made.
you agree on one point in life! my day is made.
it's all about circles and spirals
that ongoing eternity
that ongoing eternity
- BaroqueHyena
- Road Kill
- Posts: 90
- Joined: 28 Mar 2010, 22:31
- Location: Bumfuck, USA
Even if I were old enough to vote, I'd end up not feeling knowledgable enough about politics to vote. I like to call myself "moderate," but my views change from day to day. Ehh.
"No, you can't have that. Have some hot metal and methedrine."
- MadameButterfly
- HL's mystical safekeeper
- Posts: 6940
- Joined: 12 Jul 2005, 09:29
- Location: in my own galaxy
Aww bless, it's not an age thingy. You can learn politics & of course your points of view with change day to day, you are still young so let your mind feed you knowledge. Learn and grow and learn and grow.
it's all about circles and spirals
that ongoing eternity
that ongoing eternity
- emilystrange
- Above the Chemist
- Posts: 9031
- Joined: 03 Nov 2003, 20:26
- Location: Lady Strange's boudoir.
the answer is to educate yourself in run up to election then.
VOTE. there's no good enough excuse for not voting.
VOTE. there's no good enough excuse for not voting.
I don't wanna live like I don't mind
- weebleswobble
- Underneath the Rock
- Posts: 5875
- Joined: 09 Feb 2006, 06:57
- Location: The Bat-Milk Cave
- Contact:
If you were old enough to vote LEARN about your world/country/politics, being young isn't an excuse to be ignorant.BaroqueHyena wrote:Even if I were old enough to vote, I'd end up not feeling knowledgable enough about politics to vote. I like to call myself "moderate," but my views change from day to day. Ehh.
EDIT: Politikal Bunch ain't we
Last edited by weebleswobble on 06 May 2010, 21:31, edited 1 time in total.
‎"We will wear some very loud shirts. We will wear some very wrong trousers."
- James Blast
- Banned
- Posts: 24699
- Joined: 11 Jun 2003, 18:58
- Location: back from some place else
just fuckin' vote, to repeat myself - people fought for this right
"And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God. For me, it's a frightening thought to go nowhere".
~ Peter Steele
~ Peter Steele
- BaroqueHyena
- Road Kill
- Posts: 90
- Joined: 28 Mar 2010, 22:31
- Location: Bumfuck, USA
Yeah, I don't plan on sitting out on politics, when the time for me to cast my vote comes around-- It'll just come with time, I guess. Time, and actually being involved with the real world. :/
"No, you can't have that. Have some hot metal and methedrine."
- James Blast
- Banned
- Posts: 24699
- Joined: 11 Jun 2003, 18:58
- Location: back from some place else
oh shit, another fecked Amerikan up kid
this is why I prophesy disaster
this is why I prophesy disaster
"And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God. For me, it's a frightening thought to go nowhere".
~ Peter Steele
~ Peter Steele
- BaroqueHyena
- Road Kill
- Posts: 90
- Joined: 28 Mar 2010, 22:31
- Location: Bumfuck, USA
I don't think you're too far off.
"No, you can't have that. Have some hot metal and methedrine."
The excuse is...my choice not to vote. My choice.
There is no difference between the three main parties on the issues that I think are important, that I want to change.
Again I do not see why I should vote for a party I absolutely do not believe in.
There is no difference between the three main parties on the issues that I think are important, that I want to change.
Again I do not see why I should vote for a party I absolutely do not believe in.
Om began to feel the acute depression that steals over every realist in the presence of an optimist.
- emilystrange
- Above the Chemist
- Posts: 9031
- Joined: 03 Nov 2003, 20:26
- Location: Lady Strange's boudoir.
europa, there are more than three parties.
I don't wanna live like I don't mind
- James Blast
- Banned
- Posts: 24699
- Joined: 11 Jun 2003, 18:58
- Location: back from some place else
the polls are closed, I just pray I don't wake up blue thi morra
I like you Europa but not voting is a no-no in my book
I like you Europa but not voting is a no-no in my book
"And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God. For me, it's a frightening thought to go nowhere".
~ Peter Steele
~ Peter Steele
- boudicca
- Sister Midnight
- Posts: 7427
- Joined: 15 Sep 2004, 16:15
- Location: embrace the margin
- Contact:
I'm about to go down and watch the results, and have the kind of feeling I imagine must overtake someone when they're sitting in the dentist's waiting room, about to undergo some root canal work. However, I still cling desperately to a sliver of hope, due to the fact that I do not know ANYONE who is voting Tory (to my knowledge). But I think that's just the company I keep, plus the Scottish factor.
We shall see.
We shall see.
There's a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Millets
An earnest post James I've gone all dizzy.
I am not politically apathetic. I really do care about politics and that is why I would not vote for what is on offer. One of things that most depresses me is listening to people around me genuinely debate such and such's policies knowing that the only thing that will matter tomorrow and the day after is protecting big business and it's friends at the expense of working people, their public services and their education. While of course the blame is always at our door for eating to much, smoking to much, drinking to much and going aray on a life of crime. Who sells glossy and expensve mtv lifestyles to teenagers on council estates brought up with no wider view of life then their own family who in turn had no wider knowledge of life? Oh Rupert Murdoch and his ilk. Keep them dreaming and hypnotised by the tv we can always buy a nice expensive home security system.
Grew up in and run away from council estates and now sick, and I mean sick to death of watching some smug middle class pr**k using the ills they helped create there as a reason that they should be in power because of there latest ideology free 'scheme'.
When and how we can get to real issues being addressed in the political system is something I think about a lot but certainly do not have the confidence to think out loud on here.
I know I've articulated myself really badly and know doubt you'll point out all the holes in my opinion. But (and not to deflect your anger, feel free) it is really difficult (for me anyway) to debate politics (especially in print) without the confidence or knowledge that a full education gives you. Something that as an adult I am working hard to correct.
Anyway that's what I think.
I am not politically apathetic. I really do care about politics and that is why I would not vote for what is on offer. One of things that most depresses me is listening to people around me genuinely debate such and such's policies knowing that the only thing that will matter tomorrow and the day after is protecting big business and it's friends at the expense of working people, their public services and their education. While of course the blame is always at our door for eating to much, smoking to much, drinking to much and going aray on a life of crime. Who sells glossy and expensve mtv lifestyles to teenagers on council estates brought up with no wider view of life then their own family who in turn had no wider knowledge of life? Oh Rupert Murdoch and his ilk. Keep them dreaming and hypnotised by the tv we can always buy a nice expensive home security system.
Grew up in and run away from council estates and now sick, and I mean sick to death of watching some smug middle class pr**k using the ills they helped create there as a reason that they should be in power because of there latest ideology free 'scheme'.
When and how we can get to real issues being addressed in the political system is something I think about a lot but certainly do not have the confidence to think out loud on here.
I know I've articulated myself really badly and know doubt you'll point out all the holes in my opinion. But (and not to deflect your anger, feel free) it is really difficult (for me anyway) to debate politics (especially in print) without the confidence or knowledge that a full education gives you. Something that as an adult I am working hard to correct.
Anyway that's what I think.
Om began to feel the acute depression that steals over every realist in the presence of an optimist.
- sultan2075
- Overbomber
- Posts: 2379
- Joined: 04 Mar 2005, 19:17
- Location: Washington, D. C.
- Contact:
Oh, I disagree. I'd prefer that the ignorant don't vote. In fact, I'd be in favor of requiring a test of some sort. Maybe proof of some kind that the prospective voter actually understands the law of the land (something like a brief exam on the US Constitution for American voters, for example).Erudite wrote:I'm glad so many of you appear to have heeded my call to vote several weeks ago.
As to the rest - ignorance and apathy are no excuse!
--
The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
WORD!James Blast wrote:just fuckin' vote, to repeat myself - people fought for this right
Managed to drag Luke out to vote with the 'People died so you can do this' line:
'Even if you just write BOLLOCKS on the paper, you've taken the hard fought for opportunity to express your opinion'.
I suspect he voted BNP, but that's his right. They do have the best uniforms after all.
And you know that she's half crazy but that's why you want to be there.
- markfiend
- goriller of form 3b
- Posts: 21181
- Joined: 11 Nov 2003, 10:55
- Location: st custards
- Contact:
Word.Europa wrote:I really do care about politics and that is why I would not vote for what is on offer. One of things that most depresses me is listening to people around me genuinely debate such and such's policies knowing that the only thing that will matter tomorrow and the day after is protecting big business and it's friends at the expense of working people, their public services and their education. While of course the blame is always at our door for eating to much, smoking to much, drinking to much and going aray on a life of crime. Who sells glossy and expensve mtv lifestyles to teenagers on council estates brought up with no wider view of life then their own family who in turn had no wider knowledge of life? Oh Rupert Murdoch and his ilk. Keep them dreaming and hypnotised by the tv we can always buy a nice expensive home security system.
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
—Bertrand Russell
—Bertrand Russell
- weebleswobble
- Underneath the Rock
- Posts: 5875
- Joined: 09 Feb 2006, 06:57
- Location: The Bat-Milk Cave
- Contact:
Bollocksmarkfiend wrote:Word.Europa wrote:I really do care about politics and that is why I would not vote for what is on offer. One of things that most depresses me is listening to people around me genuinely debate such and such's policies knowing that the only thing that will matter tomorrow and the day after is protecting big business and it's friends at the expense of working people, their public services and their education. While of course the blame is always at our door for eating to much, smoking to much, drinking to much and going aray on a life of crime. Who sells glossy and expensve mtv lifestyles to teenagers on council estates brought up with no wider view of life then their own family who in turn had no wider knowledge of life? Oh Rupert Murdoch and his ilk. Keep them dreaming and hypnotised by the tv we can always buy a nice expensive home security system.
It's not perfect-deal.
Not voting is just wank, it's got f**k and all to do with Murdoch, ilk or otherwise.
Your attempt to sum everything up as an 'us and them' is patronising (least to me).
I'd still buy you a pint mind.
‎"We will wear some very loud shirts. We will wear some very wrong trousers."