It’s a factor. I’m aware my political opinions are in the minority and unlikely to be implemented. Being able to demonstrate that I tried to do something gives legitimacy to my criticism.

Which one is which that’s the big question

Because they won’t do it randomly. Being forced to participate will make people think: “If I have to do it I might as well choose X”. If you ever participated in a mandatory school activity you might know the feeling. You might not have chosen to do it of your own free will, but now that you’re there let’s think what to make of it.

Also politics is not just voting. Politics is almost every choice you make every day. If I have to drag someone kicking and screaming until they understand it so be it.

Also also, voting randomly is not useless. Keeping the political system functional is preferable to forever pining for a perfect candidate. A “perfect glorious leader” doesn’t exist, random votes make those emotionally swayed by charismatic leaders less likely to gain a majority.

1. They don’t get to complain because they refused to do the bare minimum.
2. Contribute to the many reasons I had to leave my home country. Not sure it would be different otherwise, but going immigrant without a fallback plan wasn’t pleasant.
3. Mandatory voting - I’m for it as long as it’s Australian style - no severe punishment, just light fines. Enough to quietly annoy people into voting.

Mexico is formally named Estados Unidos Mexicanos, meaning Unites States of Mexico. How about renaming that to Unites States of America

Unitedstatesian Gulf

Oh you snorted mummy dust mixed with cocaine and went on a murder spree? Not very becoming of a gentleman. Good thing you only killed the poors, God knows there’s too many lazy rabble around.

The perks of being rich in the victorian period - you could do pretty much whatever you wanted, at the worst you’d be described as “somewhat queer”

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Usually I delete them immediately after posting while still drunk. There’s something about clicking post that makes me immediately feel self-cringe.

I’m using their optimized x64v4 repos on an otherwise plain Arch. No idea about any performance difference, I just want to make sure all the CPU progress in recent years doesn’t go to waste.

About to insult all of Italy - Spaghetti.
Inconvenient to eat and doesn’t hold the sauce well.

Not everything is awful in the US.

Lately I’ve heard a lot of Americans talk like their country is the worst place in the world. While you do have problems, being grateful for the positive things is also important.

I thought this falls under the general umbrella of “narcissist”? Some narcissists are good at reading other people’s emotions in order to manipulate them.