Tariq Nasheed-The #DontVote Campaign
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i've always said, its your right to NOT VOTE. if you feel these politicians are not giving your group(rich, lgbt, latins, blacks, asians, women, poor, etc). if your group isnt being promised something from the politicians. then dont vote for them. its that simple.
Kilgore Trout
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Tariq actually has a point, withholding blind support will actually get people to do shyt for you.
Berniewood Hogan
IT'S BERNIE SANDERS WITH A STEEL CHAIR!
ON THE OTHER HAND, LOW VOTER TURNOUT GUARANTEES SWEEPING RIGHT WING VICTORY, BROTHER! YOU CAN WITHHOLD YOUR YOUTH AND MINORITY VOTES ALL YOU WANT, DUDE! BUT I CAN ASSURE YOU THAT OLD CACS WILL BE VOTING EARLY AND OFTEN, MEAN GENE!
soulfuljah
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Darth Nubian
I bought my first Ki from my baby momma brother
Tariq is out in California where this is plausible. California is fairly liberal and is already playing by its own rules when it comes to policy. This is a bad idea for those of us who live in the south especially this year. The end result would be mass down ticket victories for white nationalist who have ridden Trump's coattails. Our problem is that once the voting ends, we go back to our daily lives and don't remain engaged politically. We think our representatives will just do right by us. The conservative right made the same mistake. Their "leaders" aren't out here talking about not voting, they are going to vote en masse for Trump/Cruz and if they don't win, they are probably going to start shooting.
OK so you won't vote for someone because they aren't really addressing your needs. But on the other side you have a party that is addressing your situation and looking to make it much worse. So are you willing to make the conscious decision to allow the party who wants to destroy your life take control of every branch of government just to make a point to the other party?
You have to get your bread up so you can buy out politicians to get them to do what you want. Just voting is doing nothing
mc_brew
#NotMyPresident
tariq (and i like tariq -- but he rambled big time in this podcast) is not making any sense here.... in one breath he is saying don't vote for someone unless they promise something specific... then in the next breath he says they are not elected by votes anyway, they are selected by the electoral college.... so then it wouldn't matter who we voted for or if we voted at all if the electoral college decides.... (btw, i know how the electoral college works, i'm going by what tariq said)....
i partially agree with him... we do need to stop "automatically" giving our votes to democrats... local elections are extremely important... this "don't vote at all" nonsense is whatever....
btw, the og poster has gone from "split the vote" to "don't vote"..... ?
i partially agree with him... we do need to stop "automatically" giving our votes to democrats... local elections are extremely important... this "don't vote at all" nonsense is whatever....
btw, the og poster has gone from "split the vote" to "don't vote"..... ?
I was just about to type this. Don't listen to Tariq.
With hold your vote and complain when trump is president, brehs
theworldismine13
God Emperor of SOHH
tariq (and i like tariq -- but he rambled big time in this podcast) is not making any sense here.... in one breath he is saying don't vote for someone unless they promise something specific... then in the next breath he says they are not elected by votes anyway, they are selected by the electoral college.... so then it wouldn't matter who we voted for or if we voted at all if the electoral college decides.... (btw, i know how the electoral college works, i'm going by what tariq said)....
i partially agree with him... we do need to stop "automatically" giving our votes to democrats... local elections are extremely important... this "don't vote at all" nonsense is whatever....
btw, the og poster has gone from "split the vote" to "don't vote"..... ?
I wasn't cosigning it I'm just posting it cuz its a cuz it's a different POV
I think people should vote, period.
I think he rambled too, but he is basically saying don't vote for democrats or republicans, he does say if you vote then vote for independent (third parties) and he is also saying that you should vote locally
So I guess where #splitthevote and #dontvote disagree is on the issue of voting for the major parties
Imo for black people to maximize voting power we should vote for dems or rep, but by 50 50, but voting independents is a good idea too
But anyways it's movements like this that will ultimately cause Hillary to lose, there is no way she will get the black turnout she needs
Imo the main takeaway from this is its that its another nail in Hilary's coffin
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soulfuljah
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Well, me personally, I'm not voting because it isn't any candidate running "worthy" of my vote. Plus, I've spent majority of my life in Alabama and live in Texas now; I know what color my states are going to be. lol. If you aren't in a swing state........... 
Plus, real change happens at the local level.
Plus, real change happens at the local level.
tariq (and i like tariq -- but he rambled big time in this podcast) is not making any sense here.... in one breath he is saying don't vote for someone unless they promise something specific... then in the next breath he says they are not elected by votes anyway, they are selected by the electoral college.... so then it wouldn't matter who we voted for or if we voted at all if the electoral college decides.... (btw, i know how the electoral college works, i'm going by what tariq said)....
i partially agree with him... we do need to stop "automatically" giving our votes to democrats... local elections are extremely important... this "don't vote at all" nonsense is whatever....
btw, the og poster has gone from "split the vote" to "don't vote"..... ?
This is the problem with voters in general, you don't know even know how the process works and want to participate in it
Each state as a certain amount of electoral votes
List of State Electoral Votes
California has the most electoral votes since its a big state and the population.
So lets say the democrats lose the popular vote in california by a small margin, it doesn't matter how close it is the 55 electoral votes go to the Republicans
so at the end of the day the popular vote doesn't matter, you just have to win states that have a lot of electoral votes and you can win the election, this is the basic strategy
JahFocus CS
Get It How You Get It
It's sad that people listen to Tariq as if he has any useful political insight. There's some decent history in the Hidden Colors documentaries but dude is 
beyond that.
I'm not even someone who thinks that voting should be the key political tool, either. It's the most passive one. But when motherfukkers aren't bothering to do anything else?
beyond that.I'm not even someone who thinks that voting should be the key political tool, either. It's the most passive one. But when motherfukkers aren't bothering to do anything else?