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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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of people feeling like their vote doesn't matter, isn't a feeling or propaganda, but has been true. Many voters who are suburban and white have never experienced this or a voting line where they had to stand in the hot sun where they cannot access water all day to cast a vote.
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Oh I realize that, it actually makes the news over here. But I also think there’s an element (and it’s in Ireland too), that believes because the votes mass around the centre, that there’s something wrong with the system, when it’s just a fact that many people just aren’t very progressive.