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Re:Payments Crisis of 2025: Doge Have "Read-Write" Access to... by Blackthorn on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @10:30AM (#42933609)
If you don't vote, you effectively vote for the winner.

When the 49ers lost the 2024 Super Bowl, the second and third string players didn't go around saying they didn't really lose because they never hit the field. No, they lost.

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Re:Payments Crisis of 2025: Doge Have "Read-Write" Access to... by taylodl on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @12:09PM (#42935327)
Excellent analogy!
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Re:Payments Crisis of 2025: Doge Have "Read-Write" Access to... by subsection1h on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @01:35PM (#42936664)
> If you don't vote, you effectively vote for the winner.

Yes, if the Electoral College wasn't a thing.

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Re:Payments Crisis of 2025: Doge Have "Read-Write" Access to... by johnnyanmac on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @04:36AM (#42946160)
If you didn't vote in a swing state, I don't even know what to say.

But you'd also be surprised how many non-swings could swing if they had enough non-voters vote.

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