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kittencurriosity

That’s amazing! Congrats! Hard to accomplish while knowing part of that was in quarantine.

#this will make no sense to those not seeing the original post #lol

ndiecity-deactivated20241101

How can someone identify as he/him and also be lesbian

Pronouns are just words we made up. Hope this helps

ladygagalion

Words we made up based on biological facts. Hope that helps. 😜

ndiecity-deactivated20241101

People use she/her for boats you dumbass but please educate me on how pronouns are biological LOL

kittencurriosity

My blankets are both boys and girls. Also, so are my plants. And my car’s name is Lucy. She has her own apartment. Shh. It’s the garage but we don’t tell her that. 🚗

afeelgoodblog

The kid will cherish this for their whole life. If they remember it.

theroseandthebeast

ithelpstodream

jonpertwee

I feel like this would be a slippery slope towards making it illegal for people to choose to not vote.

hamfistedbunvendor

that’s already how it is in australia

jonpertwee

That’s just so fucked up. :( Do certain medical conditions exempt you?

sapphicdalliances

?????? why is it be fucked up to have compulsory voting? that’s the way it is in most democratic countries? it’s a part of being a citizen, like paying taxes and obeying speed limits? the fine for not voting is only like $50 and because of the compulsory voting law, our country bends over backwards to make it accessible: it’s always on a weekend, lasts most of the day, and is set up at schools and community centers so there’s one within easy reach of almost everybody. you can also mail your ballot or vote early if you’ll be out of the country on the day. like, IT’S EASY TO VOTE, and the penalty isn’t even that ridiculous. i don’t understand why the usa doesn’t have this, except obviously it would make it harder to literally stop minorities from voting.

salparadisewasright-deactivated

I think we Americans tend to forget that a lot of other countries don’t actively work to make it harder to vote.

thisdiscontentedwinter

Adding to this here, in Australia you don’t have to vote. Or, more precisely, there’s no way they can tell if you ruined your ballot. You have to turn up, get your name marked off, but you can put a line through the ballot if you don’t think any of the candidates are worth voting for. Or do this:

Or this:

You have get your name crossed off (if you don’t want to wear the fine), but you don’t have to make your vote counted if you’re opposed to it.

And it is so, so easy to vote. Stuck at work or on holidays? That’s fine. Do a postal vote. Stuck in hospital? That’s fine. They’ll go to you. Stuck in an old people’s home and can’t get around? Again, they’ll go to you. It’s amazing to me that it’s so hard for so many Americans to actually vote. If you make it compulsory, than at least the government is obligated to provide you with the means to vote.

And look, I get it. Sometimes I don’t want to vote either. But I suck it up, I walk three minutes down the street, and I hope that this year they’re selling lamingtons again. Oh, and I buy a democracy sausage, which, even if all the candidates suck, makes the effort of turning up pretty worthwhile.

julad

ALSO, you can see even on the fucked up ballots that you NUMBER CANDIDATES IN ORDER OF PREFERENCE. There’s no need to calculate whether I would be throwing away my vote on the candidate that I most agree with if they’re not from a major party. I can say, I want that independent person to get in, but if not them, give me Big Party A, and if not them, that minor party person is still better that Big Party B, and I’m not giving any preference to the Lunatic Fringe Party.

Our system certainly has some issues still, but I can show up to somewhere nearby, line up for a few minutes (if at all), vote exactly in line with my values (on paper, leaving a paper trail that can be recounted), and then buy a sausage and some home made cupcakes on my way out.

A country’s voting system matters a hell of a lot and every citizen deserves one that makes it easy to vote and results in a government that is representational and accountable.

And by the way, one time I had a bad asthma flare-up on Election Day and didn’t make it to my polling station. I got my fine in the mail, I filled out the form explaining why I couldn’t vote, no more fine. I would rather have, you know, expressed my preference for who should run my country, but they were cool with the fact that I couldn’t do it that day.

batmanisagatewaydrug-deactivate

“oh no, what if people actually have to participate in picking the government officials who will impact their lives” jesus christ

christophoronomicon

For the last time, for everyone who still doesn’t understand: not voting is not a tool of resistance, it’s a tool of surrender.

oni-with-an-iron-club

Of all the slippery slopes to fear….. How does that work? “Oh fuck, if we are registered to have a hand in electing a government, someday we might actually have to participate in electing a government. Fuck that, man!”

And you cannot even get our government to agree on making it easier for people to vote, so the government forcing people to vote would really be more like the equivalent of a slippery incline.

And @christophoronomicon is 100% correct. Not voting as a protest is foolish to the nth degree. It’s like being pissed that you didn’t get picked first down at the hoops court and then saying “I’m not playing, and I’m taking my ball with me.” Except there are like tons of other people saying “I’ll play, and I brought a ball.” So no one gives a fuck about you, or your ball.

kittencurriosity

I like…but I wonder how this works for all those small voting things I sometimes miss like school board elections because I don’t have kids in the district I live in.

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