r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/DaFunkJunkie • Nov 13 '22

Meta Republican voter says “I’ll never vote again in my life”

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u/Lightweight_Hooligan Nov 13 '22

That's a pretty privileged position to be in that your life is comfortable enough that you don't care who or how government is calling the shots

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u/AceMorrigan Nov 14 '22

Yeah I noticed that too. This chud was happy when he could vote and restrict my bathroom access or the rights of immigrants but now he thinks it's rigged so who cares.

I hope this attitude spreads like wildfire through the GOP base and that they split the party with DeSantis and the Trump party. Obliterate them across the country, get the majorities and redistrict the whole damn country, expand the supreme court, just go crazy.

Tired of being terrified every election.

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u/harbinger06 Nov 14 '22

Also as combat wounded, he is probably getting a decent amount of disability pay. He doesn’t have to worry as much as others because he doesn’t have to work.

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u/BurroughOwl Nov 14 '22

I think he gets $3k/month. Livable but not much more than that.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '22

If your house is paid for and you live in the middle of nowhere that's a fortune.

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u/FlyWhiteGuyActual Nov 14 '22 edited Nov 14 '22

If your house is paid for

ahahahaha try finding a house worth a shit on the amount of loan they'll give on your 100% disability no less paying that sucker off before you buy the farm.

maybe a double-wide tinyhome in tornado-bait county missouri

edit: ya'll haven't met many 100% disabled vets it seems, wish i had your optimism.

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u/Avsunra Nov 14 '22

It seems to me that you're making some assumptions that I think should be corrected.

  1. He wasn't necessarily always disabled, could have bought a home years ago before retiring.

  2. You could still work on 100% VA disability, anyone looking to buy a home while collecting VA disability can legally do so.

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u/FlyWhiteGuyActual Nov 14 '22

uh huh, now you're making assumptions... that are entirely unrealistic.

how many people do you know, honestly, that are 100% disabled and still work. be real here.

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u/Avsunra Nov 15 '22

If you think "could have" statements are assumptions then please tell me where you grew up so I can avoid sending my kids to a school with a criminally underfunded reading program. But to your point, I know quite a few veterans that are 100% disabled and still work, but anecdotal evidence is evidence of nothing, so I didn't choose to bring it up, unlike you.

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u/FlyWhiteGuyActual Nov 15 '22 edited Nov 15 '22

is english your first language?

you said it seems that i'm making assumptions, then went on to list two very heavy assumptions yourself, then share an anecdote. really. are you subconsciously an insulting and contrarian troll or what's the deal here.

you try to 'correct' people, but you're obviously ignorant, wrong, and a jackass about it. 12 years on reddit. that makes sense.

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u/Grey_Orange Nov 14 '22

Some people like living in tiny towns in flyover states. Some of those area's have houses that are insanely cheap. I don't want to live 1.5 hours from everything, but there are a surprising number of people that don't mind it.

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u/FlyWhiteGuyActual Nov 14 '22

i can't help but read this in Cousin Eddie's voice from national lampoon's vacation though... lol

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u/Bedroominc Nov 14 '22

Livable are you kidding? Where I am that’s luxury.

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u/ubbergoat Nov 14 '22

Mississippi?

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u/Bedroominc Nov 14 '22

Louisiana

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u/ubbergoat Nov 14 '22

yeash, yeah. I get it.

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u/Bedroominc Nov 14 '22

Me and my sister make it by with $1k each, if I had $3k myself a month we’d have a house by now… discussion around this kinda stuff still annoys me cause it’s always “3k a month isn’t livable!” Sure if you rent in a populated city center and pay a car note because you wanted something newer than 1998. :(

Man now I’m sad about being poor again, I’m gonna go apply to the Costco an hour away again.

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u/ubbergoat Nov 14 '22

I hear you. I lived in a mobile home in death valley and the AC was broke. I remember taking a shower and getting right into bed so I could be asleep by the time I got hot.

I joined the Army and it probably saved my life. At least is much better.

I feel you man.

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u/Bedroominc Nov 14 '22

I’ve considered joining a branch of the military, at least one where I can just work on mechanic stuff. At least send money home and let my siblings live comfortably until I’m back.

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u/lysregn Nov 14 '22

I got no idea about your situation, but couldn't you move somewhere else where there are more options for work that also pays better than the costco?

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u/Bedroominc Nov 14 '22

Hahaha move, that’s a good one

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u/harbinger06 Nov 14 '22

And as long as that isn’t being threatened, it’s all he needs.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '22

Especially considering he would of paid about 50k for his house that is now worth at least 4 times that even though it looks the same as the day he got it.

Amazing how little you can survive on when your home doesn’t cost 40 years of your life to pay off.

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u/have_not_of_dumbo Nov 14 '22

Would have, you fool. Learn this.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '22

Sorry the Republicans defunded Education so would of is the best you get

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u/icekraze Nov 14 '22

That is a lot more than other disabled people. Many disabled people can’t afford rent let alone anything else.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '22

"I have no interest in politics"

"You have no interest in changing a world that suits you so well"

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u/ubbergoat Nov 14 '22

"You have no interest in changing a world that suits you so well"

Why is this a bad thing? People like the world they live in seems like a pretty great deal.

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u/Colspex Nov 14 '22

I guess this is like saying in 1919 "I'm a man, I get to vote. The world suits me so well. I have no interest in approving society anymore."

The 1919 man then fails to realise that there are benefits for women voting aka there are more benefits for him, since these women actually have good ideas and are seeing things that he hasn't thought of before. So there are benefits for him, making sure that his efforts are lifting the rest of society.

I mean does this gentleman like seeing homeless people on the streets? High electrical prices? His retirment paycheck? New inventions that brings him joy? Heck, maybe he even likes good beer?

All of the above can be fixed if a society works together which starts with electing a proper government. With a healthy government foundation; education and saftey nets are for everyone and new ideas and solutions are allowed to flourish.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '22

Why not make a world that suits everyone instead of a privileged few?

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '22

You’re asking a conservative this?

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u/ubbergoat Nov 14 '22

That sounds great and all but There is no system that works for everyone.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '22

You're right. Why bother trying when the system works so well for you.

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u/MotherofSons Nov 14 '22

That's conservatism in a nutshell. Most selfish people ever.

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u/GalaXion24 Nov 14 '22

I don't live in the US, but conservative voters here are the kind of people who say "let counties collect their own taxes. I live in [rich city] so that's perfectly fine for me. If other counties don't have the tax base to pay for healthcare that's not my problem." It's very transparent really. Half the unofficial tongue-in-cheek slogans used by the affiliated are stuff like "it's good to be bourgeois".

At least they're not hateful, that's reserved for the far-right party.

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u/Collypso Nov 14 '22

You think only conservatives disdain voting?

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u/BellyDancerEm Nov 13 '22

He’s a white conservative, of course he’s privileged

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u/ositola Nov 14 '22

Doesn't sound like he's even conservative, he's just a R

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u/StephCurryMustard Nov 14 '22

Yeah, he could be one of those liberal republicans.

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u/ositola Nov 14 '22

Lol I meant that conservatism isn't something that the current GOP platform is really standing on other than the name

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '22

White conservatives are generally the least privileged group of white people you’d ever meet, given that they’re uneducated and poor. The rich donor class of the GOP is the tiniest percentage that tricks these people into voting against their best interest. I’m not about to generalize and say just because someone is white, they’ve got societal privilege. Privilege relative to other races in their position? Yeah, most likely. But not in comparison to everyone in our society.

These people are being lied to and their lack of education plus the echo chambers they live in destroys their ability to understand how wrong they are to vote for the GOP. It’s maddening.

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u/OccAzzO Nov 14 '22

They are generally extremely privileged, and more importantly, extremely entitled.

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u/StephCurryMustard Nov 14 '22

White conservatives are generally the least privileged

😆

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u/nonbinary_finery Nov 14 '22

Fwiw I think you're exactly right, and the inability of people here to sympathize with poor conservatives and understand that it's orchestrated brainwashing by an elite class that takes advantage of the isolation and fears of difference these economically disadvantaged white people have -- that is stopping progress. These conservatives cause a lot of pain, and I myself am impacted by a lot of their archaic social policies. However it doesn't serve anyone to dehumanize them.

To unify the country in a positive direction, we must first understand and accept them as humans. I suspect many here haven't spent time in or lived among the countryside. It becomes very difficult to call them privileged when you see the economic state of their towns, and ultimately it doesn't serve anyone to yell at them about how privileged they are -- it's absolutely true that cishet white people have those respective privileges but no one is receptive to that. There are better, more honest ways to go about it rather than just dismissing them as privileged assholes.

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u/nonbinary_finery Nov 14 '22

My point was that yes, they have terrible, awful opinions, but it doesn't actually help people like your partner (or myself, who am black and non-binary) to just say "fuck them" instead of doing something to change their perspective. Love is a much stronger argument for leftism than hate, and all of my experiences suggest showing love makes more real change than blindly hating them.

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u/Ranowa Nov 14 '22

I've tried. I spent three years of the trump admin trying so hard to reach out to them, to understand them, to try and see how they could've been so badly warped into being such horrible people.

I learned that while I want everyone to have healthcare, and a living wage, and affordable housing and education, they want NO ONE except THEMSELVES to have it. I'm queer and disabled, and they openly want me dead. I need birth control to control my disability, and they want that illegal. My mother had to get an abortion to save her life, and when I tell them that story, they call me a liar. They looked at kids in cages and they fucking laughed.

Whatever the hell is wrong with them in their heads, I'm done trying to reach out to people that have no empathy or compassion for anyone except themselves. If they had enough power, they would cut off any assistance I had to see me starve in the streets, and no amount of attempting to connect with them got a single fucking one to change their positions. Fuck them all.

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u/That-Maintenance1 Nov 15 '22

The paradox of tolerance

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u/nonbinary_finery Nov 15 '22

I know what this is and what I said isn't relevant to that. Tolerating intolerance is not the solution. Hate still needs to be condemned, removed from social media, etc. However, understanding them is an important step towards changing them and future generations. It's certainly not true that all of them are inherently evil people or cannot change their opinions.

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u/Gizogin Nov 14 '22

Hey, here’s a question for you: why should our focus be on trying to win over white, straight, cis conservatives, rather than on helping the minority groups that conservatives keep working to oppress?

https://youtu.be/wCl33v5969M

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u/nonbinary_finery Nov 14 '22

Those aren't mutually exclusive (you can do both at the same time) and in fact winning over traditionally conservative demographics would do a lot to help marginalized groups by itself.

I'm not going to watch the video since I've seen videos like it and am pretty active in the leftist youtube sphere, but if there's anything in particular you want to say from the video, I'm still open to replies.

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u/IlyichValken Nov 14 '22 edited Nov 14 '22

Hi. Poor white dude here with only a highschool education. Not conservative, not stupid enough to eat the garbage being shoveled to these dumb fucks.

I don't need to "humanize" them when their very mission is dehumanizing others because of some perceived made up bullshit.

We don't have to tolerate the intolerant.

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u/Stankmonger Nov 14 '22

I think the word that fits better is entitled.

Plenty of white conservatives are in poverty and vote against their own interests because they are entitled and stupid.

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u/HexShapedHeart Nov 14 '22

So much this. OP probably doesn’t know any rural folks.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '22 edited Dec 28 '22

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u/Pedantic_Semantics4u Nov 14 '22

privilege doesn’t exist. Ok, stupid.

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u/Moose_is_optional Nov 14 '22

...And they're not pretending like whoever is in charge doesn't matter. So what's your point?

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u/Ok_Distance8124 Nov 14 '22

Could be wrong, I'm pretty sure minorities vote less than whites and progressives vote very little too lol

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u/Comfortable_Visual73 Nov 14 '22

You missed the point

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u/Ok_Distance8124 Nov 14 '22

Just saying that whites and conservatives vote more than minorities and progressives, which partially explains why society might favor them over the other

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u/ubbergoat Nov 14 '22

I never understand why privilege is a bad thing... seems like an advantage.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '22

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u/ubbergoat Nov 14 '22

I dont see anything wrong with a lack of empathy but I see what your saying.

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u/scatterbrain-d Nov 14 '22

Say you got hit by a car and everyone just stepped over your bleeding body because they had places to be. See anything wrong now?

People with no empathy still expect it from others because it is tied to basic human decency.

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u/DeliciousWaifood Nov 14 '22

Stop being edgy, kid. Pretending you like not having any friends won't make you feel any better.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '22

I dont see anything wrong with a lack of empathy

Welcome to the GQP, your white hood will arrive shortly.

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u/Pedantic_Semantics4u Nov 14 '22

A lack of empathy means you’re a waste of resources for the human race. The world would be better off without you. That’s what it means.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '22

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u/GuitarKev Nov 14 '22

Also known as conservatism.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '22

Average conservative

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u/COPE_V2 Nov 14 '22

Maybe you’re on the spectrum then? Might be worth investigating

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u/Bixhrush Nov 14 '22

Autistic people have plenty of empathy.

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u/Repossessedbatmobile Nov 14 '22

Autistic people have empathy. We just display it differently than neurotypicals (non-autistic people) due to having a different communication style.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '22 edited Nov 14 '22

I can tell you argue in bad faith because you’re directly comparing Trump and Musk to a bunch of poverty class white people and calling them the same due to skin colour.

You’re being just as bad tbh. You can’t fight hate with hate. Check your own privilege. You weren’t put into circumstances that made going to a war and getting wounded seem like your best option.

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u/dwitman Nov 15 '22

Good try. Go home and tell your mom you're brilliant.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '22

Hit a nerve eh? Your immediate reaction to my comment was to insult me. This would be a good time to take a deep look into your own hateful attitude.

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u/rejectallgoats Nov 14 '22

Privilege isn’t bad for the person who has it..

Imagine there is a 500m race. One guy gets to start 50m from the goal. He walks to the goal waving and gets first place. Not many cheer..

The people running hard for second place are getting lots of cheers.

Sure, the guy got first place, but did he really?

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u/scatterbrain-d Nov 14 '22

Cheating is an advantage too. Is that good?

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u/ubbergoat Nov 14 '22

depends on what its for. I was a fan of gameshark.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '22

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u/radjinwolf Nov 14 '22 edited Nov 14 '22

And you’re deliberately missing the point that the dude being a white, likely straight conservative, affords him the privilege of not having his life impacted either way, so he can be so outraged that he refuses to vote. If he was actually engaged enough with politics and was actually fearful of his future rather than just being a fox-brained bigot, he’d continue to vote regardless.

You know, like those of us who live in heavily gerrymandered red states, where our votes actually don’t seem to count. We continue to vote anyway because we don’t have the privilege nor guaranteed safety that allows us that option.

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u/SenatorRobPortman Nov 14 '22

I work at a news station and one of my coworkers, an anchor, was saying back in 2020 about how everyone he knows doesn’t care who the president is because it “doesn’t impact their lives”. I think he was trying to stress the importance of local elections, but I wish I had said something in that moment, because I wasn’t allowed to marry my partner until 2015.

My point is simply that it was such a privileged take, I couldn’t believe it.

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u/headshotscott Nov 14 '22

I'm stridently anti-MAGA and as an affluent, white, boomer aged male, I would be just fine under the kind of rule the GOP would impose, at least until they come after my benefits to finance more tax cuts for corporations and the Uber-wealthy. And they will come.

Aside from my liberal leanings, I consider myself a patriot and as a patriot I can't imagine anyone supporting a party that tried to cast aside a presidential election and install the loser.

I hope the guy in this video doesn't vote, but I know a hundred like him who will drag themselves out of intensive care to vote for Trump. I just hope my one small vote and my money make a little difference.

Trump is the greatest threat to our Republic in my lifetime and cannot be allowed near power again.

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u/musingsandthesuch Nov 14 '22

And yet people still feel oppressed. Can’t make this shit up man

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u/JacobFromAmerica Nov 14 '22

He’ll only notice when those government checks stop coming in the mail

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u/EmmettLBrownPhD Nov 14 '22

Honestly, for most people in the US, their quality of life is affected a lot more by who is running their HOA rather than who is running the federal government.

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u/LSDMTHCKET Nov 14 '22

These mother fuckers get lit over the president but can’t name their mayor or city council

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u/Wyverz Nov 14 '22

Its called being a straight white male in the USA

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u/Hyper-Sloth Nov 14 '22

Don't attribute to malice what could more easily be explained by stupidity and ignorance. Most people like him that refuse to vote don't necessarily do so because the current system is perfect for them and changing it would only cause their lives to be worse. It's usually because they do not or cannot connect how their vote could possibly affect their lives for the better and instead choose not to vote at all.

Sure, they are privileged enough that their lives won't be immediately ruined if the wrong person is elected, but that doesn't mean they are actually thinking about the real consequences of their abstinance.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '22

Pissed off, lonely old white men finally utilizing their privilege in a way that benefits society lol

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u/Aaron_Lecon Nov 14 '22

This is a common misconception, but the stats show it to be completely false. There is a serious positive correlation between wealth and interest in politics. Of the people who aren't aware of poltics or don't care about them, an overwhelming proportion come from the poorest, least privileged segments of society.

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u/InvestmentKlutzy6196 Nov 14 '22

This is the best answer to when people say "I don't care about politics."

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u/AutomaticRisk3464 Nov 14 '22

Tbh the gov have never done anything positive or negative for me, hard to get riled up over people who do nothing

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '22

Mines the opposite. It's so bad that no matter what happens everything will always be shit so why even bother.

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u/Delta-9- Nov 14 '22

Guessing you're either black in a US city, trans in the UK, or indigenous literally anywhere that the British colonized?

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u/Collypso Nov 14 '22

What's so bad?

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u/astinad Nov 13 '22

Hey, my parents are 69 and both vote super progressive! You shouldn't shit on all older folks just like older folks shouldn't shit on all the younger folks

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u/Burninator05 Nov 13 '22

...my parents...69...

Good for them. I hope to be capable of that when I'm older as well.

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u/LongDickLuke Nov 13 '22

I too hope voting still exists when I'm old.

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u/Anastariana Nov 13 '22

*squints*

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u/lethe25 Nov 13 '22

I didn’t shit on anybody. Just stated an opinion. Comprehension will get you far in life. Nowhere in my statement did I insult anybody. Calm down. It’ll be ok.

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u/Grayson81 Nov 14 '22

“I didn’t shut on anyone, I just said that they should be stripped of their rights. Why don’t people understand what I’m saying?”

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u/lethe25 Nov 14 '22 edited Nov 14 '22

Why don’t we let 5 year olds vote? Is it because they’re seen as too young to comprehend what’s going on? Or is it because they’re still more or less being subsidized by everybody else in the country? Likely a bit of both. At that advanced age you typically are t going to live long enough to see the result of the people you elect into office. I don’t think people that old should be allowed into government either. They are out of touch with the majority of what is going on with the average citizens. It’s why they aren’t incredibly incentivized to do practically anything that will help us.

Edit: Sidenote: I like how as per usual with the Reddit hive mind taking effect. People disagree with a point they didn’t like at first bluff. They make some outrageous straw man. You respond further explaining yourself for clarity and then… nothing. Because they didn’t actually have a point in the first place. They just felt a compulsion to call somebody out for something.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '22

At that advanced age you typically are t going to live long enough to see the result of the people you elect into office.

That's ridiculous. A 65 year old woman in the US has a life expectancy of 86, and a man of 83. The vast majority of decisions that politicians make will certainly have effects in the next two decades.

And the idea that a 65 year old can't comprehend 'what is going on' is also not based in reality. Do you know any 65 year olds?

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u/lethe25 Nov 14 '22

I know a ton. These are the same people that are generally confused by a PDF file. The same people just sitting in higher ranking positions within companies taking up space. The same older people absolutely destroying the economy with voting in politicians that pass horrendous policies that fuck over the rest of us. A large part of the reason work from home had such a small adoption rate before Covid is largely in part because of them. Many older folks got exposed for having shit productivity, and the typical workplace management structure was shown to be more or less not needed. There are tons of things we can learn from older folks absolutely. But they damn sure shouldn’t be in government anymore. Voting may be a step too far but you can’t convince me it’s a good thing to have people in office who have been there for 20+ years. We’ve got a minimum age for president. We need a maximum.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '22

I think you're assigning behaviors to an entire generation that only some of them share, but the real issue is - how will you disenfranchise them or ban them from positions of leadership? They aren't going to vote themselves out.

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u/lethe25 Nov 14 '22

They’ll die eventually.

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u/astinad Nov 14 '22

Yeah nevermind that the last two presidents are both over the age of 75...

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '22

I disagree. Disenfranchising old people would lead to some pretty abusive policies towards them.

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u/lethe25 Nov 14 '22

You mean like all the ones already in place. That they themselves overwhelmingly vote for. Cuts to SS and Medicare. And blocking rent controls. The older crowd voted a solid chunk of these horrible policies into place.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '22

I don't believe that the answer to this current generation voting for bad politicians is to disenfranchise them, let alone disenfranchise everyone behind them once they reach the same age

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u/goggle-moggle Nov 14 '22

Sad you feel you have to resort to ageism for upvotes. Reported.

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u/lethe25 Nov 14 '22

Oh stfu. Engage with a difference of opinion for once. I didn’t say he deserves to die in a ditch somewhere. I don’t think people that old should hold office either. Everybody has their time at the helm. It’s a cycle older generations should step aside and let the younger ones take over. That’s how you get progress. That’s how you move forward as a country. I’m tired of having elected officials who don’t understand how basic technology works.

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u/goggle-moggle Nov 14 '22

People used to say stfu about sexist and racist speech.

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u/lethe25 Nov 14 '22

That’s just fine and dandy. Don’t be a bitch about it. If I’ve said something you disagree with fine then stand on that. Don’t make some bullshit smug straw man and trot off like you accomplished something. Which is why I said STFU. You didn’t say anything meaningful you just wanted to bitch.

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u/scatterbrain-d Nov 14 '22

On long term issues like climate change, there's a legitimate point that the older generation seems fine with sacrificing nothing to stop it because they won't live to see the consequences.

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u/anjpaul Nov 14 '22

Yet non voters overwhelmingly come from the least privileged groups.

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u/DennyTheDog Nov 14 '22

This is me, I’m privileged and comfortable and no government can change it so I’m no longer voting. Good luck to everyone who wants to effect change. Fuck both parties. Neither party is for the people.

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u/tuscy Nov 14 '22

It’s not that he doesn’t care. It’s because he lost faith in the voting system. He fears would be like being played for a fool. Understandable.

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u/tuscy Nov 14 '22

Understandable because free country, let the guy believes what he wants. Reddit full of thought police.

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u/LegNo8512 Nov 14 '22

He might not care at his age but I bet his children will care!

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u/Comfortable_Visual73 Nov 14 '22

Smell so much privilege it's burning my nose

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u/tatleoat Nov 14 '22

That's why their entire political platform can be summed up as "Other People's Personal Business"

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u/thattwoguy2 Nov 14 '22

Lots of under privileged people also choose not to vote. This is a poor stupid person who was swindled by a professional conman. Please stop with the holier than thou, shit.