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In response to "Sadly relevant tweet for people up here for a change. -- (link)" by Shaun

The beginning of Idiocracy is playing out in our world. Except it's not smart people avoiding having babies. It's smart people not voting. -- nm

Posted by Inigo (aka Inigo) Jun 8 '18, 06:46

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We do a lot of things wrong. Hell, most of them are wrong. But having elections on Sundays is something I think we do right. (NM) - Marlowe Jun 8, 06:55 7
- our polls were open for 12 hours. In theory to give everyone a chance to vote. Plus we have early voting which includes nights and weekends. If you - Andie Jun 8, 06:57 6
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    - The politics of immigrants is quite different here and there aren't as easily defined ethnic blocks here - Reagen Jun 8, 07:20 1
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    - laziness. (We had 2 people Decline ballots as well as a protest, which I am okay with. They show up and then protest.) -- nm - Andie Jun 8, 07:02 1
      - wait, decline was on the ballot up there? have things really gotten *that* bad? -- nm - prayformojo Jun 8, 07:10
  - Plus you are legally entitled to leave your job to go vote. -- nm - Shaun Jun 8, 06:58
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I think it's a little bit more "Boomers doing their level best to fuck things up on the way out the door". -- nm - Reagen Jun 8, 06:49 2
- Well, that's the other part of the Idiocracy comparison. - Inigo Jun 8, 06:57
- Fuckers can't die out soon enough -- nm - TWuG Jun 8, 06:57
Yup. -- nm - Shaun Jun 8, 06:49

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