US People - Your Choice for 2008 Candidate

Silb · Post by **Silb** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 11:49 am

I love your posts, Usagi, but I have to say you're really like a shark.

Usagi · Post by **Usagi** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 12:27 pm

You're right; I can't help myself.

I like to believe I'm Tycho, but really I'm Gabe.

Or am I? Maybe I really am Tycho after all.

Anyway, glad you like my posts, even if it's just my Christmas present. Most people walk away before I even get close to finishing.

Grayswandir · Post by **Grayswandir** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 12:27 pm

Usagi...your posts make my eyes bleed because they're so hard to read...
...
Hey it rhymed! WHEE!!!
Seriously though, sometimes your posts are hard for me to follow...hence the random babbling I tend to do when I try to reply to what the popular opinions in my head think you're talking about.

zatoichi · Post by **zatoichi** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 1:19 pm

Even if politics has little or no effect on your life, it has life or death effects on thousands of other peoples. (As I'm sure you know) Isn't voting worth it for the miniscule chance that you could help those people?

Post by **Jeff** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 1:36 pm

Even if politics has little or no effect on your life, it has life or death effects on thousands of other peoples. (As I'm sure you know) Isn't voting worth it for the miniscule chance that you could help those people?

Do you buy lottery tickets in the hopes that with the winnings you could save literally hundreds of thousands of people in third world countries, however miniscule that chance is?

Kalexon · Post by **Kalexon** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 2:13 pm

Voting doesn't cost you anything.

Grayswandir · Post by **Grayswandir** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 3:29 pm

Kalexon wrote:Voting doesn't cost you anything.

It costs me time.

Kalexon · Post by **Kalexon** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 4:23 pm

It costs me time

A half-hour to go down to the local polling station?

Or five minutes to do one of the mail ballets?

It seems to me like the whole arguement against voting is "Why should I? It won't make any diffirence to the outcome" well, whatever you say, sure your single vote won't make much of a diffirence, but if enough people believe that (and it seems to me like a lot of this generation does indeed think that) then that group could mean a state or states becoming the color of the party that has a history of screwing the american people over, which in turn could mean the president could be voted into office.

This is just my opinion, I could be wrong. But I think just because your own individual vote will not change the ultimate outcome it's not a reason not to vote.

Post by **Jeff** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 5:19 pm

If enough people stopped voting, then my vote would make a difference, and I would vote. However, that is not the case.

zatoichi · Post by **zatoichi** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 5:59 pm

you don't know how many people are going to vote until several days after the election, so how would you know if your vote was going to count?

Post by **Jeff** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 6:12 pm

Because there would be widespread news coverage of whatever pandemic caused hundreds of millions of people not to vote suddenly.

zatoichi · Post by **zatoichi** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 6:26 pm

What if, like, the rapture happened, and god was a lot less choosy than people thought, and there were only a few thousand people left? You wouldn't know then, would you? Huh?

I'm gonna leave this debate to smarter people now.

Albab · Post by **Albab** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 10:52 pm

Cthuluhu 2008...
Why vote for the lesser of two evils?

Grayswandir · Post by **Grayswandir** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 1:32 pm

Albab wrote:
Cthuluhu 2008...
Why vote for the lesser of two evils?

All hail Cthulhu!!!
*Start chanting weird incatations*

zatoichi · Post by **zatoichi** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 6:40 pm

Cthulhu F'taghn!