Are you going to go vote today?
I'm not even from the UK, but voting is important!
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It's extremely disturbing to see that half the people voted (pun not intended) for not bothering to vote. In the case of a marginal winner, down to 25% of the population could be ruling over the remaining 75%.
Get your shit together and get going. The world is already in enough shambles as it is, and people forfeiting their democratic rights are not going to help that. If you truly believe no established party is trustworthy, then find a minor one that is, or hand in a blank. What matters is that you do something.
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I don't live in the UK, but if I did I'd vote whatever way it took to get Theresa May removed from office. She seems to want to turn the UK into a dictatorship / police state, complete with total government regulation of all information on the internet.
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Theresa May is awful. She thinks foreign uni students who are spending thousands of pounds to study in the UK are "Economic migrants" that are harming it. I've never heard of anything more narrow-minded. Even bigots tend to recognize that highly skilled(uni-trained) labor that pours thousands of dollars into the country are the most beneficial, least harmful kind of immigration, but she seems to just rigidly hate anything not british(and a lot of what is British, to be fair).
I mean, just read this.
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The English are awful, self-interested arseholes who vote for awful, self-interested arseholes. We get what we deserve sadly.
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Tbh, that election is rigged like most elections. Your vote doesn't and never will matter.
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I don't get what makes people believe the other way around. Most people won't trust anyone in any other thing but they want to believe the state always tells the truth?
Anyway democracy is a lie, if anyone is interested I'll link an interview with the author Daniele Ganser, the interview itself is in English
If you think it is too much for you to handle, just ignore this comment :)
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Just quoting someone:
"At this point we're just picking the brand of lube we want to get assraped with"
^ how precise is that on a scale of 1 to potato (100) ?
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Generally for the last twenty odd years its been fairly precise. For once there's actually a choice though, which makes the cynicism all the sadder.
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I advise all Brits to watch the show !!!
From Trevor Noah: Afraid of the Dark
:P
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Seeing as people seem interested in non-voters, I'll chime in here with my own stuff.
I'm dealing with an ongoing personal issue which eats up most of my focus on any given day, and trying to delve into politics is depressing as fuck. Any given source of information is likely saturated with bias and spin, and understanding the true impact of any given candidate getting into power seems too tricky to ever get a good grip on. Politicians have the distinct skillset of needing to cover their asses and justify even their biggest mistakes, and no matter how loudly anybody may shout about what they plan to do, there is no guarantee they will actually follow through on those promises. Look at the house of parliament, which functions practically like a governmental version of a lunchtime talkshow where quality discourse or hard information is rare, whereas poisonous character assassination, mockery and humor are frequently weaponised. I used to vote based on personal interests or topical points brought up in the news in any given year (NHS, benefits, etc), but I stopped that. A half-educated vote is as bad as an uneducated vote; guesswork based on headlines, snippets in the social exchange or the soapbox speech pieces of others are doomed to overlook the realities of any given candidate. A well-meaning vote without absolute and perfect clarity can easily be a hidden +1 to helping a destructive individual or party into influence. Hell, even an educated vote can have that effect due to the mere effect of opinion or misfortune in researching the facts.
I simply lack the energy and focus to weed out the realistic and accurate information from the garbage and spin, and cannot in good conscience vote without confidently believing who I pick will have a positive effect. Consider Brexit and how many people voted based on information from bad sources, or who bought into valid(-seeming?) scares, or were overly influenced by information that seemed trustworthy due to which peers they were most exposed to (trust by proxy). Despite living in an information age, the effect of information pollution is still quite severe, and depending on which bubble of the social spheres of internet you are most exposed to can drastically alter the volume (and quality) of info that is easily accessible to you.
I just don't have the energy or will to dig deep enough to make an informed choice, and abstain as a mindful gesture against accidentally assisting a harmful agent. I rarely watch the news or read newspapers, and I do my best to dodge most social media too due to the sheer volume of view/reader-grabbing awfulising stories and snippets that are always circulated. There is no easy means for me to delve into matters without sacrificing a slice of my mental health, and do not feel confident enough in navigating the criss-crossing rivers of bullshit to actually do any good. Instead, I would rather avoid assisting harm.
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The machine rumbles on regardless. Leave/remain, Corbyn/May, Trump/Clinton, the wheels'll keep on turning.
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Honestly, I wish I could be like ya. I've always been into politics, and I've actually been all over the spectrum - from the extreme right to the extreme left and passing by everything in between(now back to center-left I think, but I flip flop too much to know), and it's never brought me anything but misery.
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would probably give in a blank vote if i was british
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Heh, looks like the torys managed to shoot themselves in the foot big time.
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Vote! Vote! Vote!
Please don't vote for the party you think is going to win, just because you've resigned yourself to the fact that they are likely going to win....vote for the party you think will do best for you and yours.
Every vote counts, even if it feels like it doesn't.
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