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How the Elections work

  • 20-02-2016 2:34pm
    #1
    Mister Vain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,172 ✭✭✭


    Step 1.
    "BOO. SHOWER OF ****ES! WE HATE THE GOVERNMENT. VOTE THEM OUT. LESS TAXES! MORE PUBLIC SPENDING! BOOOO! DISGRACEFUL. THEY'RE KILLING THE ELDERLY AND IM PRETTY SURE I SAW THE TAOISEACH KICK A DOG."


    Step 2.
    New government elected. Everyone calms down slightly.


    Step 3.
    Passage of time.


    Step 4.
    Repeat Step 1


    What's the point in voting?


Comments

  • #2
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,592 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    [quote="Mist


    What's the point in voting?[/quote]




    Someone to complain about apparently.


  • #3
    maudgonner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    Mister Vain wrote: »

    What's the point in voting?

    For the free drugs.



    Oh, you don't get those in your polling station? Sucks to be you, eh.


  • #4
    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    Mister Vain wrote: »

    What's the point in voting?

    I get to wander around my old primary school. It's like being on the scaled-down set of a biopic of my childhood.


  • #5
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,763 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    To show your compliance in a system that treats you like ****.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #6
    Boskowski
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,361 ✭✭✭Boskowski


    That more or less.
    Basically you confirm that you sort of agree with 'the system'. You don't get to pick the candidates and all the parties involved are more or less the same, too. Any group that would bring actual change gets ridiculed and marginalised. What we learned in school about some romantic idea of democracy as in the people's will and all that and actual democracy are two very different things. There is no choice really.


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