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Clown, I'm speaking of voting for a president; this is what dude in the OP is talking about.Dumbass you know you vote for local officials on the same ballot you get for voting on president right?

Clown, I'm speaking of voting for a president; this is what dude in the OP is talking about.Dumbass you know you vote for local officials on the same ballot you get for voting on president right?

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.
Tariq actually has a point, withholding blind support will actually get people to do shyt for you.
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!
Man stay having me
He ain't lying tho..![]()
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
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"..... ?![]()
With hold your vote and complain when trump is president, brehs
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
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 isbeyond 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?![]()
The people of Fergurson didn't vote either...
Yes but this isn't a vote on a state official
So the fact you can lose a state by 1 vote and all those votes are nullified towards the totality of electing the leader of a country makes voting pointless
and you neglect that fact that certain states HAVE MORE VOTES THAN OTHERS
So you can get blown out in the popular vote and still win the electoral college
voting for president is irrelevant unless you live in like 9 states.
i don't support not voting locally. they won't address your needs if you withhold voting for any of them. they will just address the needs of the electorate.
it's only happened twice that a president lost the popular vote and won the electoral college... . voting does matter... i agree with tariq that it needs to be strategic... but using your example, if the republicans won california by 1 vote thus winning the electoral college, the majority of republican voters in california made the difference.. .therefore voting did matter in that instance... however, there is a reason why republicans are not relying on a strategy of barely winning california to win the presidential election.... my point against tariq was not so much whether the electoral college matters or not, it's that the vast majority of the time whoever wins the state's popular vote normally gets the electoral votes.... voting matters!
Jesus christ why don't you actually listen
Every American vote should count
If you lose a state by 1 vote, all the votes you got in that state should tally with the other votes, that is what makes sense and what is fair
I didn't say the republicans were using it as a strategy it was just an EXAMPLE of how pointless voting is and how it can be easily rigged to get whoever you want in
it's a joke, politics in this country is nothing but theater
George Bush stole an election right before the people's eye and no one did anything lol, so if they can't socially engineer it they will just flat out do what they want anway
I never heard of him until the coli and never hear anyone talk about him off of the coli.
What exactly has voting Democrat done for blacks? Bill Clinton has locked up more blacks than anyone. If you look, most of those liberal cities are some of the most gentrified and they continually run blacks out. Even in Texas, Austin, which is the liberal capital of Texas, ha a minuscule black population. All these Democrats have to do is hit the Nae Nae on tv and promise some of that government dope, aka some benefits that you will likely never receive, and you'll have blacks rushing to the ballot box to put in their votes for Democratic Daddy, ignoring the fact that blacks are actually worse off under Obama than even Bush. Republicans are the gorilla pimps. You know they don't like you and they will make that obvious. Democrats are smooth, polished players selling blacks dreams, and those dreams get eaten up. They are so smooth that they even have blacks believing that aborting their own babies is bringing wealth and prosperity to the black community. Look at how blacks are getting marginalized once the Democrats found their new hoes, aka Latinos, homosexuals and white women. "Say baby, play the background and don't say nothing. I'll promise I'll get around to you eventually."
Al Gore actually goes on record on how the fertility of Africa needs to be 'managed' and yet people still won't wake up. Your votes should never be automatic. Make these parties WORK for your vote.
Clown, I'm speaking of voting for a president; this is what dude in the OP is talking about.![]()
But whats the REAL difference if Hillary/Bernie wont address our issues?With hold your vote and complain when trump is president, brehs

The people of Fergurson didn't vote either...
Ferguson had a Democratic District Attorney
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So did Cleveland
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And both of these Democrats went out of their way to make sure the white cops who murdered Mike Brown and Tamir Rice walked free. I don't know why the hell y'all keep thinking Democrats are somehow a better choice for black people. Like Malcolm X said one will oppress you with a scowl and the other will oppress you with a smile but you'll still be oppressed.
and so did Chicago The horrifying behavior of Anita Alvarez, Chicago's head prosecutor
by the way every needs to support About <strong>Kim</strong>
and donate I just gave to Kimberly Foxx.

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!
but this is literally the stupidest shyt ive heard him say So then negotiate for politicians to give you something for your vote. Dont just give up your voice in govt for no fcking reason.Tariq actually has a point, withholding blind support will actually get people to do shyt for you.
it doesn't work like that.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?