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@lain @zleap ok I agree that many times voting isn’t a rational idea. But when enough people stop believing this idea, voting changes to rational. Your vote then becomes necessary to add to the group to have enough power to change outcomes. Here: if an election could be decided by 1000 votes, 1 vote is useless. But if a group of No voters are willing to pause that belief and vote together, you might have power now. You could be the final vote to empower them at 1001 and cause a new victory.

@lain @zleap like I said, in the end it’s your choice. My motivations are driven by guilt, spite, and avoiding negative situations rather than shared beliefs and positive feelings. I just hope to someday soon vote for a candidate that represents me instead of just against the worser one

@lain @zleap 2 things. 1. If you would vote left but stay home, make someone else who was going to vote for the right also stay home. Same as if you both voted.
2. It’s probably not sensible for a single voter. But the problem is it’s not just a single voter with that belief. It’s many individuals and the group makes it sensible if they share support. Like when employees at a company unionized. Individual workers had almost no power for influence. But now they can join others and create power

@lain @zleap you can do whatever you want though. I understand your mentality and have been in similar places. I just know what motivates me. I want a say in what politics affect my future. I don’t want old people deciding my future. And if voting didn’t matter, my political opponents wouldn’t fight so hard to prevent me from doing it. There’s also a little guilt for not using it when others have had that right taken away and would do anything to get it back.

@lain @zleap there actually are more localized elections where the winner is decided by 1-10 votes. And the problem with assuming your vote doesn’t matter is that if only 1 person skips. it probably doesn’t matter much. But there’s quite a few people who share that belief and now it can actually effect outcomes. Local elections have issues that directly affect you daily and with less voters, your vote actually has more power than fed elections. I want a say in my future though.

@lain @zleap sometimes the only thing that motivates me to vote is the fact that people who are against everything I believe in are trying extremely hard to prevent me from voting. If they didn’t cheat and fight so dirty, I probably would’ve just stayed home,