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I'm not being a dick here I can also say with statistical certainty that certain heavy caliber guns with a spin chamber, when spun, will spin with the single bullet on the bottom, with three empty chambers before it. I'm still not playing Russian Roulette with that information.
I can say with statistical certainty that who I vote for at the presidential level will not change any political outcomes.
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I have to say, the efforts of the Republican Party in the US to convince left-wing voters that voting doesn’t matter have been astonishingly successful. The number of people on here who say their vote doesn’t make any difference . . . so autocracy it is, I guess?
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It's not just that, and I say that strongly for those outside the United States. We, in this country, have had historically AND TO THIS DAY a very very real problem with voter suppression. So much so that North Carolina has not been considered a democracy for over a decade I think. So the point
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So, now you're pointing at my state, and the only real rebuttal I have is: it's complicated. Yes, we're ridiculously gerrymandered to render every federal house race save 1 completely uncompetitive. The state legislature is even worse. For statewide races, we're still kinda purple-ish.
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Yeah I was speaking broadly but outside observers on democracy have said, etc.
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I know, and they're not entirely wrong. Our state is broken and the legislature is 100% to blame.