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For those who don't vote

  • 16-04-2009 11:40AM
    #1
    BennyLava
    Closed Accounts Posts: 205 ✭✭


    Shut the F@#k up

    I'm sick of listening to people give out about the state of the country, who when asked tell you they don't/ have never voted.

    Your not entitled to an opinion, shut up:mad:

    I have voted in every election local/national/EU and every referendum in the last 15 years since I got the vote. I have never given FF a first preference, and probably never will, and that's because I dislike their style of politics.

    The corruption has been there for a long time for those who care to see

    I have a right to an opinion, if you don't vote you don't


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Comments

  • #2
    petes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,382 ✭✭✭petes


    I don't vote. Fcukin countrys in a mess though. I blame the politicians!


  • #3
    Local-womanizer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,798 ✭✭✭Local-womanizer


    We leave the voting to all yous and look at what yous have done:mad:


  • #4
    m@cc@
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭m@cc@


    Ranting and Raving => http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1193


  • #5
    Mr.Lizard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,476 ✭✭✭Mr.Lizard


    You do realise that all these people who 'don't vote' are actually closet Fianna Fail voters? That's how they win everytime despite no-one seemingly supporting them.


  • #6
    holly1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,700 ✭✭✭✭holly1


    What would happen if nobody voted???


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  • #7
    Iang87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭Iang87


    holly1 wrote: »
    What would happen if nobody voted???

    i'd win, don't vote

    although there'd be one funny ****er right as the stations are about to close who'd run in and decide everything


  • #8
    monkey9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,337 ✭✭✭✭monkey9


    BennyLava wrote: »
    Shut the F@#k up

    I'm sick of listening to people give out about the state of the country, who when asked tell you they don't/ have never voted.

    Your not entitled to an opinion, shut up:mad:

    I have voted in every election local/national/EU and every referendum in the last 15 years since I got the vote. I have never given FF a first preference, and probably never will, and that's because I dislike their style of politics.

    The corruption has been there for a long time for those who care to see

    I have a right to an opinion, if you don't vote you don't

    No, you shut up!!


  • #9
    meditraitor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,207 ✭✭✭meditraitor


    I vote but I do not see how anyones choice not to vote reduces the value of their opinion!

    Corruption is not a purely politics based solution to greed, its across the spectrum.
    It is part of human nature that some will try to profit at the hands of others and the utopian ideals of those who have formed ethics and morals which are anti corruption might not even be true human nature so who is to say it is wrong to profit at a cost to another.
    We are animals after all and providing for yourself and your family takes presidence.

    PS
    Fianna Fail are cnuts.<


  • #10
    javaboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    meditraitor wrote: »
    I vote but I do not see how anyones choice not to vote reduces the value of their opinion!

    You're obviously not a politician so.


  • #11
    Mr.Lizard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,476 ✭✭✭Mr.Lizard


    Voting is mandatory in Australia yet they still had to suffer John Howard for 11 years.


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  • #12
    Riddle101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,669 ✭✭✭Riddle101


    Everyone has a right to their opinion reguardless of whether they vote or not, they are entitled to express how angry they are. Not to mention maybe there's a reason for someone not voting, maybe some people have become so disilusioned by Irish poltics in general that they feel there is no point in voting because their is no good outcome. There have been times when i felt that way simply because I'm unhappy with the candidates we have to vote for.


  • #13
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,773 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    I don't care what your post says OP because it is obvious your vote/opinion doesn't count


  • #14
    gurramok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭gurramok


    People will vote when it suits their pockets.

    Expect a large turnout at the next election as they realise they are losing money by not voting.


  • #15
    m@cc@
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭m@cc@


    Does this also apply for say...for instance, Zimbabwe? I'm fairly sure I know a few people who have an opinion on that.


  • #16
    Hephaestus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 293 ✭✭Hephaestus


    FG, Irelands second largest political party has almost identical policies to FF.

    It would have made f**k all difference if FG or any other party had control of government because all the parties are concerned about is winning elections & then staying in power by any means necessary.

    What we need is an overhall of the entire political system.

    IMHO there's no point in venting your fury at non voters - save it for the FF brigade when they knock on your door lookin for votes ;)


  • #17
    handsomecake
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,783 ✭✭✭handsomecake


    ive never voted because none of any of the parties pre election mandates impressed me. no party instilled me with confidence etc.

    people voted fianna fail in the last election with the general consensus being "better the devil you know" so ff were voted in again.
    but cowan is just a boil on the same arsehole.


    why should you side with someone if your not fully happy with them.


  • #18
    javaboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    handsomecake wrote: »
    ive never voted because none of any of the parties pre election mandates impressed me. no party instilled me with confidence etc.

    I wasn't exactly blown away by any of the manifestos either but would you not at least vote for the least unimpressive one? I mean they can't all be equally bad. So why not use your vote to at least keep the worst party out?


  • #19
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,787 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    I go in and vote for the independent or one of the smaller parties usually SF. Do vote, just vote any body but FF or FG their just as bad.


  • #20
    handsomecake
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,783 ✭✭✭handsomecake


    javaboy wrote: »
    I wasn't exactly blown away by any of the manifestos either but would you not at least vote for the least unimpressive one? I mean they can't all be equally bad. So why not use your vote to at least keep the worst party out?
    your post is indicative of whats wrong with the country. you settling for least worst rather then the best.
    we should be more like the french ,burn cars out and riot when we dont get what we want.

    i dont want to pay more tax,i spent 14 hours in a+e with a broken thumb recently. this should be routine,in and out in an hour. i pay over 1000 euros a year to use the m50 on my way to work. there is no alternative viable route from naas to the airport.i bought a dulux paint pod in b&q in newry for 20 english pounds,its 52 euro in b&q in naas a mile from my house.i cant get a loan from the bank but my tax has to pay for keeping them in business( and i dont even own a house or have a chance of getting one now because of the sins of others even though im on 60k). my grandparents medical card was means tested after donkeys years of paying tax.we pay the highest mobile phone tariffs in europe. this country is not serving me at all. it is cheaper to own a car then use public transport,cheaper to fly to cork then get the train, i could go on and on.

    this country is broken,the government dont serve me satisfactorily,and you want me to settle for it as it is the lesser of two evils. **** that


  • #21
    regob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭regob


    BennyLava wrote: »
    Shut the F@#k up

    I'm sick of listening to people give out about the state of the country, who when asked tell you they don't/ have never voted.

    Your not entitled to an opinion, shut up:mad:

    I have voted in every election local/national/EU and every referendum in the last 15 years since I got the vote. I have never given FF a first preference, and probably never will, and that's because I dislike their style of politics.

    The corruption has been there for a long time for those who care to see

    I have a right to an opinion, if you don't vote you don't

    thank god someone speaks sense


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  • #22
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,773 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    handsomecake wrote: »
    i pay over 1000 euros a year to use the m50 on my way to work. there is no alternative viable route from naas to the airport


    The toll is optional and is not a monopoly

    click here for alternate route


  • #23
    luckylucky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,437 ✭✭✭luckylucky


    regob wrote: »
    thank god someone speaks sense

    As in speaking sense that one shoe fits all. So tell me if you are from the 'country' struggling and/or unemployed, living in flatland in Dublin and moving around between flats - so there's little or no point in having your vote transferred, and can't afford to go home to vote - should you shut da fcuk up too!


  • #24
    toiletduck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭toiletduck


    BennyLava wrote: »
    I have a right to an opinion, if you don't vote you don't

    I've never agreed with this. So because someone decides not to vote for any of the local gombeens and exercise their right not to vote, they should keep quiet? Personally I think the right not to vote and spoil a ballot paper are important.


  • #25
    ManFromAtlantis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,483 ✭✭✭ManFromAtlantis


    BennyLava wrote: »
    Shut the F@#k up

    I'm sick of listening to people give out about the state of the country, who when asked tell you they don't/ have never voted.

    Your not entitled to an opinion, shut up:mad:

    I have voted in every election local/national/EU and every referendum in the last 15 years since I got the vote. I have never given FF a first preference, and probably never will, and that's because I dislike their style of politics.

    The corruption has been there for a long time for those who care to see

    I have a right to an opinion, if you don't vote you don't

    in your opinion : does one have the right to vote ? or have to vote ?


  • #26
    Mr.David
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,703 ✭✭✭Mr.David


    handsomecake wrote: »
    you settling for least worst rather then the best.
    we should be more like the french ,burn cars out and riot when we dont get what we want.

    i dont want to pay more tax,i spent 14 hours in a+e with a broken thumb recently. this should be routine,in and out in an hour. i pay over 1000 euros a year to use the m50 on my way to work. there is no alternative viable route from naas to the airport.i bought a dulux paint pod in b&q in newry for 20 english pounds,its 52 euro in b&q in naas a mile from my house.i cant get a loan from the bank but my tax has to pay for keeping them in business( and i dont even own a house or have a chance of getting one now because of the sins of others even though im on 60k). my grandparents medical card was means tested after donkeys years of paying tax.we pay the highest mobile phone tariffs in europe. this country is not serving me at all. it is cheaper to own a car then use public transport,cheaper to fly to cork then get the train, i could go on and on.

    this country is broken,the government dont serve me satisfactorily,and you want me to settle for it as it is the lesser of two evils. **** that

    Eh....the "least worst" is the best.....

    If you want to burn out a car, start with your own, then you wont have to pay 1000euro a year for the m50. Why not even stay in the car whilst it burns?

    You could be a burning ember of hope for the country, a modern Bobby Sands laying down your life to better your country.

    Oh wait, you dont vote......


  • #27
    regob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭regob


    luckylucky wrote: »
    As in speaking sense that one shoe fits all. So tell me if you are from the 'country' struggling and/or unemployed, living in flatland in Dublin and moving around between flats - so there's little or no point in having your vote transferred, and can't afford to go home to vote - should you shut da fcuk up too!

    yes


  • #28
    Turd Ferguson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,193 ✭✭✭Turd Ferguson


    Voting is pointless. It would have made no difference who was in charge of the country, they would still fuck it up. All Irish politicians are thieving cunts that care more about their own wages and their own positions than the welfare of the country.


  • #29
    javaboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    handsomecake wrote: »
    your post is indicative of whats wrong with the country. you settling for least worst rather then the best.

    Think of it like evolution. If party A is crap, party B is crappier and party C is crappiest, I will vote for party A.

    Here's why:
    Parties B and C are worse than party A so even though I don't like party A all that much, they're still better than the alternative.
    If parties B and C realise that the way to get elected is to be less crappy like A, they might just try a little harder. Survival of the fittest and all that jazz. So A, B and C will all compete to be less crappy until eventually they cross over into the realm of "good".

    Your attitude is what's wrong with this country. Your attitude to voting will never change things. Ever.
    we should be more like the french ,burn cars out and riot when we dont get what we want.

    But we have got what we want. We as a country wanted FF for years. Burning cars and rioting now is just childish. If the majority wanted a different party in power, they were free to vote them in at any of the elections.

    If it's only a minority that wanted FF out, then tough. Welcome to democracy.


  • #30
    luckylucky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,437 ✭✭✭luckylucky


    regob wrote: »
    yes

    No.

    We can all do retarded one line answers. :rolleyes:

    Someone in that situation has got more important things in their mind like their very survival.


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  • #31
    regob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭regob


    luckylucky wrote: »
    No.

    We can all do retarded one line answers. :rolleyes:

    Someone in that situation has got more important things in their mind like their very survival.

    and who can help them in there survival? what is needed for nthis help to be provided? how can we ensure the best people are put into the position of helping these people?


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