So because worse things exist people can ' t get mad about this ? That ' s really poor logic . ' Sorry sir you ' ve got cancer , but you ' re not dead so don ' t get upset about it . ' Spez is a cancer , and he must be removed . <| sep |> Yes . I don ' t think it would be too much to ask for him to say we will consult on this early next year and bring a bill to Parliament by the end of next year <| sep |> With new knowledge that admins can shadow edit I ' m not sure what to believe . <| sep |> I ' m thinking maybe something someone has created in planet coaster ? <| sep |> onlol . comstatseuwpeggasusnot true this guy has the most hours clocked up and is still bronze <| sep |> This viewpoint rubs me the wrong way because it is incredibly narcissistic . At the end of the day , we are picking someone to do a very specific job , not to be our personal emblem . It is also lazy . People talk about my vote as if its this amazing resource that they give to society , perhaps because they think of it as the beginning and end of their political responsibility . Actually , its much worse than that they think of themselves as consumers . Politicians must earn my vote . This is all wrong . Voting is just lowlevel participation . It ' s a thing you ' re supposed to do even if no one really does it for you . Idealism and a desire to see those ideas spread requires activism , not voting . You volunteer for public opinion campaigns . You donate to foundations that effect the kinds of changes you want to see . You show up for protests and rallies you believe in . You take a stand when it matters . Voting has nothing to do with that . On the streets , your idealism matters . In the voting booth your idealism doesn ' t fucking matter at all . There are no cameras or picket signs . You dont get to try to convince anyone else . You are participating in a strict mathematical game with millions of other people a game with very real consequences . You just go in , and among the choices with a realistic shot to win , whether that ' s two or three or whatever , you pick the best one . If you dont know which one is better , then either they ' re the exact same person , or you simply havent learned enough , or you havent weighed the information enough . And before anyone chimes in with but then we ' ll never break the two party stranglehold . you ' re right , we won ' t . The two party system is an inevitable result of the mathematical properties of the game . Those properties however can be changed . But it requires activism .