Oh my cod!

cut to the planet below, where there are three puddles of meat and clothes gurgling in pain and disappointment

Fourth graders are generally around 9-10 years old.

They did both misspell their band names.

Who do you feel you’re “showing” anything with a protest vote?

Protesting in the street works by showing the people in view that you’re there in protest of a thing. However the viewer feels about you, the issue, or the concept of protesting, the fact that you’re there doing it in that moment is public and undeniable. Protest votes, on the other hand, are a blip of mostly-invisible data that just get silently decoupled from the process and filed away once their irrelevance to the result is established. The election system, fucked and in need of reform as it is, has that built-in mechanism for quietly doing nothing in real life with your protest vote, and the system is certainly not going to be subverted or reformed at all by your having done it.

If that protest vote is the only means by which you’re hoping to accomplish anything on Election Day, I’m still not sure I understand why one would bother.

I’m asking you how, specifically, a protest vote and a strategic vote are any different in terms of perpetuating the shitty system currently in place.

This thread, specifically this comment, is telling you you should vote for alternative parties at state and local levels. The idea is to build up that third party’s actual presence in government from the ground up, which is a far superior strategy to splitting a critical presidential race and feeling like you’ve accomplished anything good.

How does a strategic practical vote within the current system perpetuate it any more or less than a throwaway protest vote?

You know that’s not how elections work, but if you’re genuinely interested here are some lists of third-party candidates in the US:

• Green Party
• Working Families Party
• Libertarian Party

You can find comparable lists on the sites of many more non-frivolous political third parties in which you may be interested, which can probably be found from their Wikipedia entries.

The fault lies with the system, not with me.

The fuckery inherent in the current system being not your fault does not absolve you from voting responsibly in context of the current system. If you are going to throw in a protest vote you are asserting your portion of responsibility for the practical end result of that vote.

McDonalds Sprite is its own meme.

“Al” to his friends.

Diced onions are for amateurs. Pyramided onions are where it’s at.

I’m a New Yorker and used to date a person from Chicago. We saw eye-to-eye on many things, but we had to be okay with the fact that this debate was not among them.

…Shaking more red pepper flakes onto your dollar slice?

We’d all still be drinking baby bottles.

I don’t really care and am distugested

Please don’t be distugested.

To quote the original writer of the post above, in the thread which continues from it:

And phones were sturdier because they were thicker because they had a headphone jack.

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If you prefer bluetooth, I hope you know that bluetooth still works on devices that have headphone jacks.

If you’re saying it’s good that they got rid of the headphone jack, you’re telling me good that we have one option instead of two.

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There’s little to no British content on BBC America.