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Re:The world needs at least 600M new jobs in the next decade... by ergothus on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @04:20PM (#10383188)
At a minimum, vote AGAINST the corrupt. If that means your vote gets wasted, so be it - if you're worried about legitimizing it, instead legitimize your opposition. If there becomes a sizable (and measured!) block of disaffected votes that politicians can try to grab, maybe they'll just do that.

Not voting just legitimizes the view that you complain but don't act.

(And if you're sick of your options being so bad, start trying to get different voting methods in place locally in the interest of getting them in place on a larger scale. First Past the Post is a terrible voting system)

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Re:The world needs at least 600M new jobs in the next decade... by nosuchthing on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @04:55PM (#10383413)
Preferential voting, or "how to vote for your real choices and not throw away your vote"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulze_method#Comparison_tabl...

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Re:The world needs at least 600M new jobs in the next decade... by chillwaves on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @06:46PM (#10383992)
This is a good example of a common sense reform that strengthens every ideal that we are supposed to hold dear in this country, but that threatens the establishment powers therefore stands zero chance of happening.
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Re:The world needs at least 600M new jobs in the next decade... by nosuchthing on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @07:14PM (#10384097)
..uh well with a defeatist attitude you've just validated a self fulfilling prophecy without even trying.
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