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yay, another election is on the horizon. Fuck it, I’m not voting this time. I’m tired of it. Really, who is there to vote for? Honesty, integrity, promises… what a load of horse shit.
—sore
This article appears in Apr 30 – May 6, 2009.
27 Comments
If you don’t vode, don’t bitch.
Exactly Mike, As much as it is bullshit, by not voting, you are essentially giving up your right to bitch about anything the government has to do or say.
whoever looks at these comments before posting them, how about this: print the whole fucking comment, or none of it. why you decided to post HALF of the message is beyond me.
Uh oh Tim: Sounds like you’re being called out!
more $$ down the crapper.
Don’t Vote? Then dont complain. Whether you vote or not, the politicians are still gonna pack your fudge. At worst, spoil your ballot, but please dont ‘not vote’. A none-voter is essentially agreeing with the staus-quo, which only emboldens politicians to push that stool even deeper.
At least go and spoil your ballot. You still get counted as having voted and you send a message to politicians that you don’t think any of them are worth your time. You should also let each and every candidate know why you spoiled your ballot too.
I’m fully in agreement with Walter and Miles on this one. Disliking the current political options is no reason for apathy or inaction. If everyone who doesn’t vote because they feel there are no legitimate choices went to the polls and spoiled their ballots, it would actually be a near-revolutionary action. Over one third of eligible Canadians don’t vote. Can you imagine the commentary it would make on our current political system, the message it would send to politicians, if that many people spoiled their ballots? Perhaps something worthwhile for voters and non-voters alike to ponder on…..
oops, sorry to be repetitive there walter. sometimes I take too long to write my comments and end up missing a post or two before i press submit.
It’s attitudes like this that get the bloody Conservatives in power.
sore/OP,
if you don’t like who’s running, how about doing it yourself?
A vote for a minority candidate is much better than a spoiled ballot. …then people can tell what some of your opinions are.
You would rather NDP?
sure. why not? someone fresh may have a decent idea or two. And yes, Ontario way back when and blah blah blah…
run into the ground and yadda yadda yadda.
aren’t you supposed to learn from past mistakes?
Vote or Die…haha
actually,I would rather the whole comment was posted… or none of it. but certainly not half of the damned thing. kinda makes me wonder how loose the coast is with the rest of it’s quotes/stories etc… the idea behind the original bitch (which was obviously lost do the the imcompetence of the nutbag that checks the posts before posting them) was this: If you follow the news you might just come to realize that most of our politicians aren’t in it for us, the people. They’re in it for themselves. I’ve voted for most of my adult life but until we have a politician with the balls/box to fight for us instead of him/herself, i aint’ voting. Miles said go and spoil the ballot, if only to show them they’re not worth our time. Voting for people i don’t believe in or trust.. that’s not worth my time. this election in particular could have been avoided, but they all seem horny for two things: destroying the other party, and getting all the power for themselves, whatever the cost. Throw in a few empty promises and voila: it’s the same ole shit. Whether or not you vote, it’s a sure thing you’ll end up bitching anyway. the only difference is I’ll have spent my time doing something that isn’t an complete waste of my time. give me a politician i can believe in (at least a little), and I’ll be the first one marching back to the polls.
Did you violate any of the Coast’s bitching rules?
The point of spoiling your ballot is NOT voting for someone. You can write your manifesto on the ballot. Or write in a person you think would do a good job. Or just leave it blank. By showing up at the polls you are a registered voter who voted for noone. Your vote becomes part of the election statistics. Those statistics are used by the parties when developing their platforms. They want your vote and you have the power to dictate what they need to do to get it.
If you don’t want to go to the polls and “waste your time” then call the campaign offices or write a letter or e-mail and say why you are not voting. Again, you become a statistic and if enough people think like you, party policy will change to try and get your vote.
Both of those things are doing SOMETHING to change the problematic system you hate.
What are you doing otherwise? Waiting for it to change on it’s own?
Democracy actually works. Politicians have to serve the masses unless the masses remain silent. Elections are our best chance to speak up, but there are other ways. Unfortunately these ways involve becoming involved in the process, not sitting around bitching about it.
I think one should research what party best fits what they want, and vote for that. If nothing looks good, bring back the ballot eater’s society. Either way, show up at the polls, even if spoilage is your vote.
yeah but if you don’t vote nothing changes….oh….wait….I love politicians and their shit covered eclairs….everyone is honest….everyone is going to keep their promises….a chicken in every pot and a kiss for every baby….voting is a joke and democarcy is an illusion…..so suck it up
You don’t have to trust a politician to make them work for you. Politics is business, not family..trust isn’t as important or necessary as you may think. Voters still hold the power in this country, but you have to work for change. If you have the numbers and/or the publicity, you can make politicians bend to your will.
I like the idea of not checking a box… or writing “this is useless” on it.
don’t know why I didn’t think of that.
The biggest problem is that they make the ballots all black, with white boxes to check, so there really is no space to write much of a manifesto. I planned to do that once, and was very disappointed. I still spoiled my ballot, but with much less enthusiasm.
I have some standards, and they’re all mine. One of the highest: prison rape is not funny, any more than the rape of a woman walking down the street is funny. I won’t allow such joking on any site I control.
WOW Tim, that was way out in left field. I’m going to assume that that was part of the cropped post OP was complaining about.
OP/sore if you want to put a message on the ballot. prewrite it on a sticky note and attach that to your spoiled ballot. not saying it will get read but it would get looked at by the reps (which ever party wants to see the ballots counted).
That’s right. I don’t like censoring bitches, and I let a lot of shit go by, but I’m not about to let you all casually joke about rape.
Given the subject matter, the title makes sense now.
I think most of us here will support Tim in any decisions he makes about what to post and what not to post. Everyone else can fuck right off.
And I have to assume not a lot is getting censored as there’s a lot of filthy shit on this board. I once had a coment deleted from another board and all I said was that another poster had the IQ of a grape because they didn’t understand a joke. That was the last time I posted on that site.
How you get prison rape from election cycles is beyond me.