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OccultHawk 10-09-2017 08:16 PM
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/...e-conduct-code

A representative of the ACLU couldn't speak William and Mary.

****.

Chula Vista 10-09-2017 08:43 PM
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Originally Posted by [MERIT] (Post 1881368)
You tell me.
You're the skeptic here, not me.

Frownland 10-09-2017 09:13 PM
Trump wants to take our guns!

Paul Smeenus 10-09-2017 09:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 1881403)
Trump wants to take our guns!
He's welcome to have mine, good luck finding 'em though...

Janszoon 10-09-2017 09:20 PM
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Originally Posted by [MERIT] (Post 1881359)
I'm not asking you to trust me. I'm asking you to do your own research and form your own conclusion. And I should have been more specific, media = zionist-controlled mainstream media. My bad.
Where do the extraterrestrials fit in?

Neapolitan 10-09-2017 09:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Janszoon (Post 1881406)
Where do the extraterrestrials fit in?
ETI's will be used as a false flag.

djchameleon 10-09-2017 10:03 PM
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Originally Posted by elphenor (Post 1881183)
voting should be just one course of political action ideally but don't doubt its importance

I participate in the civic engagement club at my college, I register students to vote, and I think it's actually the most tangible thing I do for progressives
:beer: I've been slacking on that last week but I help register voters as well. Voter turnouts are so low on off years.

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic (Post 1881362)
This is how it looks to me, in the USA or anywhere else:-

After centuries of nonrepresentation, people died for the right to vote so that they could have some say in their governance. However ineffective that say may be, it's surely better than nothing?
voting = a gesture towards democracy
not voting = go ahead, take it away. I don't need democracy
This is the reason that I can't be bothered to hear out people's opinions/complaints if they can't even be bothered to vote in the first place. Even more so when it comes to local races that have such close margins. A friend of mines won his primary race by four votes and it was after they counted absentee ballots before those ballots he lost by 6 votes.

The Batlord 10-10-2017 01:32 AM
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Originally Posted by djchameleon (Post 1881417)
:beer: I've been slacking on that last week but I help register voters as well. Voter turnouts are so low on off years.


This is the reason that I can't be bothered to hear out people's opinions/complaints if they can't even be bothered to vote in the first place. Even more so when it comes to local races that have such close margins. A friend of mines won his primary race by four votes and it was after they counted absentee ballots before those ballots he lost by 6 votes.
When you consider how few people vote in those elections it really drives home just how pointless this democracy thing is. You're basically winning or losing based on the populace's indifference. Any gains you make are a cock smack to the face of what you really want to accomplish tbh. It's basically an oligarchy of some sort, except instead of the leaders being kings of industry or whatever, they're just the people who show up. It's only vaguely democratic tbh, since any decisions based on it are not in fact the will of any people, just the will of that infinitesimal group of people who can be bothered. Just shoot this government in the head and be done with it.

djchameleon 10-10-2017 02:11 AM
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Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1881442)
When you consider how few people vote in those elections it really drives home just how pointless this democracy thing is. You're basically winning or losing based on the populace's indifference. Any gains you make are a cock smack to the face of what you really want to accomplish tbh. It's basically an oligarchy of some sort, except instead of the leaders being kings of industry or whatever, they're just the people who show up. It's only vaguely democratic tbh, since any decisions based on it are not in fact the will of any people, just the will of that infinitesimal group of people who can be bothered. Just shoot this government in the head and be done with it.
The will of the people that care enough to show up and exercise their right to vote should be the only ones that matter. The rest of the lemmings that don't get how important it is can go ahead drifting through life letting others make important decisions but just don't want to hear a single gripe out of their mouth.

OccultHawk 10-10-2017 03:57 AM
Not voting isn't apathetic. Voting is apathetic. Voting is not doing something.

Elph, you know that the people you're registering just vote for a neoliberal agenda thus entrenching your oppression more deeply. Progressive? lol. Also, if you registered voters, you definitely registered Trump voters. Why the **** would you want people to vote? That **** makes everything worse. Just stop. Please.


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