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- What will you do after election day? When there’s no longer any horserace to follow? You’ll have to go back to posting pictures of cats on your Facebook page.
- Elections have become the World Cup. Only soccer and politics have hooligans.
- Isn’t a system in which half the country is depressed after an election fundamentally wrong? An election shouldn’t be like watching your favorite team lose.
- The laws of probability say: your vote doesn’t matter, especially if you live in California or New York.
- It’s a problem that we hold elections in which individual votes have no real power, even symbolically.
- It seems like the only people whose votes even matter symbolically are celebrities.
- Fuck state’s rights — neighborhoods, street blocks, should have more autonomy. The most important vote of your life should be for someone you know. Of course, that will never be the case.
- Big government vs small government is a totally false dichotomy. The real philosophical choice is people self-government or overlordership.
- People get so excited to pretend that they’re making a difference when they vote, but what they’re really doing is narrativizing their own feckless participation in passively totalitarian oligarchy of money.
- Better to be lucid and unhappy, then happily asleep.
