Gon be honest here I don't really get why there's such social pressure to vote
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"All Rituals require a sacrifice. The default one is time."
I think a quote from
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It is part of the bourgeois ideology. It’s the way the oligarchy encourages the peasants to think they have power. If you can’t differentiate the candidates, the only rational thing is to not vote.
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The only legitimate angle I've ever gotten on the topic is that it's something people in other countries would die for, so we should value it.
Most of the time, people disguise it with patriotism or an appeal to civic duty, but really they just want more numbers for their guy.
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It's because it gives the average jabroni the illusion that they're making a difference. But as one of my wisest friends has always said "If voting actually made a difference, they'd make it illegal"
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everyone has incentive to social pressure their own in-group to vote since "people like me voting more = more likely chance of outcome I like"
groups that don't do this get inevitably get outcompeted
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