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Voting is not democratic.

My preferred system is a combination of lottery-based representative governance, where the lottery is selected from a pool of potentials with enough support. Support is tallied via a liquid democracy. This system is relatively incorruptible and offers actual representation.

Is this a system you've ever heard of, or is it one used anywhere?

No?

Then I am not represented. I won't smear my head in shit because everyone else is. Your "democratic government" was destroyed well over 50 years ago when the business plot succeeded. Your "voting" is submission to tyranny. When a mechanism is corrupt and your options are invalidated, the only option is to stop using it.

How well has your voting gone? What about when democrats had control of all branches of government?

How many drone strikes stopped?

Did single payer healthcare get passed?

Was tax law actually enforced on billionaires?

What happened when the "good guys" in your mind won?

What will it take for you to realize where you are? You were never in a democracy.

Nonvoters are casting a vote. It is a vote out of a shit system that doesn't work. Pull your head out of your corporate captured ass. As soon as true rebellion is ablaze, those "nonvoters" will show you where their vote is.

But go ahead. Keep screaming into the void, just like your wasted vote. Blame the nonvoters. Hell, blame them MORE than those actively supporting fascism. That sure makes sense. Don't even think of blaming lobbyists, rigged voting machines, gerrymandering, judicial capture, media capture, analytical brainwashing, first-past-the-pole voting, and absolutely tiny representative pools (easier to bribe)....

No, don't blame that. Instead, put your energy into the people so disillusioned by the system they opt out. THAT'LL show them. Maybe it will get them to vote for your team? Yeah! Bully them until they vote!!

Yes, starlink giving poor communities in the Amazon access to the rest of the world is good.

Yes, starlink giving internet to rural people who have been duped, manipulated, lied to, and cheated about getting internet for decades is good.

Yea, starlink undercutting greedy, corrupt ISPs with a service they had deemed "technologically impossible" and "financially infeasible" is good.

Yes, innovation is good.

Yes, internet access is good.

I am sad that people with telescopes are slightly inconvenienced and have to add in dynamic filtering to correct for minor anomalies of satellites moving by every 10 minutes. It is so sad.

But hey, look on the bright side? For your minor inconvenience, millions more people are now connected. They can get help when something goes wrong. They can participate in the modern economy and get access to more food and medicine. They can share their culture and learn from other's. Remote workers can be among them and bolster their lifestyles.

So at the cost of a small inconvenience that can easily be corrected, the lives of millions are improved. I could write all day to this tune but if you can't see such an obvious thing, there is not much I can say to you. I can just hope any lurkers reading feel seen and heard, cause I am really tired reading the nonsense against such a powerful gift to humanity.

Fucked up the sky for all of us? Who is "all of us"? Most of "us" live in mega cities with so much light pollution it blots out the night sky. Everyone in these horrid concrete jungles has high speed internet and absolutely no connection to the stars. Many of these people have never even seen the stars.

The ones living outside of these cities are the minority, and now they have internet. An internet they have been promised to the tune of countless billions for a very long time. They see the stars every night. Starlink has not impacted their connection with the stars at all.

So I am genuinely curious. Who, exactly, is the "us" you refer to?

And why are you not rallying against the light pollution that has denied billions access to the stars for at least generations?

Chrono Trigger is the most legit RPG out there, no doubt.

OOT just hits different. Tugging some spirit strings.

The "real" world works however the people want it to.

As it stands, it works with laws that protect the rich and elite with superior rights.

Someday, maybe the people will decide on a more equitable system. Nature and mathematics might be heavy contributors to that system.

Do you know how BLM land works?

If you find a valuable resource on it, you can register it and you get exclusive access to mine it.

Look it up.

So they discovered faulty code and made some money?

Can anyone explain to me how this is illegal?

The code is a contract. If someone writes bad code and loses money, then write better code - just like if someone writes a bad legal contract and loses money.

The justice system is awful.

Did you really just link me to NBC news?

How are so many people still plugged in to this nonsense?

Do people really still believe that space age nations with access to AI, nuclear, and semiconductor technologies should follows the dramas of individual human leaders?

Does this primitive practice really, actually appeal to people? Are you people actually real? You actually care about the sayings and doings of clearly theatrical and phony leaders?

There is no such thing as a leader of 300 million people, you understand this, right?

The dog and pony show of elections is a theater of puppets orchestrated by a global elite that owns the US government and most governments of the world.

Do you know how easy it is to capture the soul of a single meat and bones, weak human entity with a family and a physical time and place?

Do you know how easy it is to capture 10,000 souls? How many representatives and senators do you have again?

ALL of them are captured.

Most with money.

The more stubborn ones, with blackmail. Some of them are so principled and stubborn they would rather die than compromise their values. But those ones have sons, daughters, husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, and while they won't compromise for their own lives, they do compromise for the lives of those they love.

You have no clue, do you, the reality of this world? You have no idea of the evil hidden in plain sight within the hearts of man?

Your "government" fell a very long time ago.

You realize that people can also go vote for Trump too, right? Do you understand that? Do you understand that "go vote" does not mean your man is the target?

Taking no action in a genocidal cult-for-a-government is better than taking action for what either side believes is the right side.

Back off of fascism for a second and respect people's autonomy. None of us asked for be a part of this half-baked, misguided mechanism, but we have a choice to stop using it. You have no right to say otherwise.

A no-vote IS a vote.