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glowing-fish
Feb 18, 2013

Keep grinding,
I hope you level up! :)
There is a thread right now where people can brag about illegal activities, so I decided we need a thread for admitting an even more shameful matter: voting Republican.

I am sure someone here has done it.

There are various reasons you might have voted Republican, for example:

1. You were raised in the deep south and until your junior year at Vanderbilt, when you took Sociology 101 and smoked weed/listened to Bob Marley in the same month, you never questioned the way you were raised.

2. You live in a place where positions like District Water Auditor are partisan even though they are just functionaries, so you figured that giving old Gary Brown another four years making sure people's septic systems weren't leaking is not actually an endorsement of fascism.

3. You were voting for your uncle.

4. You were voting for a state senator in a suburb of a west coast city where "Republican" just means you don't believe in making cars illegal.


So who is going to confess, and give an explanation?

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Beef Turret
Jul 9, 2009

by Lowtax
Every season I elect not to vote, OP

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


i was born in the south and i have never voted for a republican

Harald
Jul 10, 2009

LINKIN PARK


i vote for a republican to kiss my gay butt

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


there was some minor poo poo that was only republican and libertarian and i shamefully voted for libertarian

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


i will also never vote for a democrat again unless its bernie sanders or some other cool future commie dem

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

glowing-fish posted:

There is a thread right now where people can brag about illegal activities, so I decided we need a thread for admitting an even more shameful matter: voting Republican.

I am sure someone here has done it.

There are various reasons you might have voted Republican, for example:

1. You were raised in the deep south and until your junior year at Vanderbilt, when you took Sociology 101 and smoked weed/listened to Bob Marley in the same month, you never questioned the way you were raised.

2. You live in a place where positions like District Water Auditor are partisan even though they are just functionaries, so you figured that giving old Gary Brown another four years making sure people's septic systems weren't leaking is not actually an endorsement of fascism.

3. You were voting for your uncle.

4. You were voting for a state senator in a suburb of a west coast city where "Republican" just means you don't believe in making cars illegal.


So who is going to confess, and give an explanation?

im rich op

Tonsured
Jan 14, 2005

I came across mention of a Gnostic codex called The Unreal God and the Aspects of His Nonexistent Universe, an idea which reduced me to helpless laughter. What kind of person would write about something that he knows doesn't exist, and how can something that doesn't exist have aspects?
I once voted for bob dole in a class mock election, does that count?

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme
i voted for George W Bush

glowing-fish
Feb 18, 2013

Keep grinding,
I hope you level up! :)

Sheng-ji Yang posted:

there was some minor poo poo that was only republican and libertarian and i shamefully voted for libertarian

I voted for our Republican Sheriff over his libertarian challenger, who had recently shot his best friend over an argument of the costs of regravelling the private road they lived on.

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


glowing-fish posted:

I voted for our Republican Sheriff over his libertarian challenger, who had recently shot his best friend over an argument of the costs of regravelling the private road they lived on.

should have voted for the libertarian sounds cooler

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme
i voted for McCain

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme
I voted for Romney

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme
I will never vote for a black man

dee eight
Dec 18, 2002

The Spirit
of Maynard

:catdrugs:
I did once. The choice was a mildly evil republican county commissioner vs a totally whack-job baby eating lizardman libertarian county commissioner so I held my nose and voted for the lesser evil.

I didn't feel good about it, though.

Baba Ganoush
Oct 12, 2014
Dinosaur Gum
voting is a narcissistic activity and a sign of mental illness

glowing-fish
Feb 18, 2013

Keep grinding,
I hope you level up! :)

dee eight posted:

I did once. The choice was a mildly evil republican county commissioner vs a totally whack-job baby eating lizardman libertarian county commissioner so I held my nose and voted for the lesser evil.

I didn't feel good about it, though.

Haha, well, you also got to vote in the Republican Sheriff versus Libertarian gravelroad friendshooter election, right? (If you are in Ravalli, which I think you are)

Luvcow
Jul 1, 2007

One day nearer spring
So this thread is just for Americans?

Muttonchips
Jun 5, 2014

by Shine
Always have always will. What's your problem?

Pillow Clerk
Oct 18, 2008
no

dee eight
Dec 18, 2002

The Spirit
of Maynard

:catdrugs:

glowing-fish posted:

Haha, well, you also got to vote in the Republican Sheriff versus Libertarian gravelroad friendshooter election, right? (If you are in Ravalli, which I think you are)

nope, missoula. i pay higher property taxes than you do.

e: wait no i used to live in ravalli co. in the 90s. Do you recall a guy named Gouse running for sheriff on a write in campaign back then?
I went to high school with the guy and he was running on the guns and drugs platform. (if you grow your own weed, you need a full auto rifle)
my grandmother voted for him, too

dee eight fucked around with this message at 03:38 on Oct 29, 2014

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


Baba Ganoush posted:

voting is a narcissistic activity and a sign of mental illness

yeah its insanely stupid, voting is irrational. ill still probably vote for bernie though in the primaries if he hasnt dropped out by the time they get here (he'll have dropped out)

glowing-fish
Feb 18, 2013

Keep grinding,
I hope you level up! :)

Luvcow posted:

So this thread is just for Americans?

Yeah, basically. What do you call Republicans in New Zealand or Belgium or whatever?

Oh wait, in those countries you just have your leaders picked out for you by your royalty, right?

Luvcow
Jul 1, 2007

One day nearer spring
I voted for Nader

Windows 98
Nov 13, 2005

HTTP 400: Bad post
The only real reason for voting Republican is because you're a selfish piece of poo poo.

Pillow Clerk
Oct 18, 2008
if you don't just write in the socialist candidate in every election than lmao I don't know what to tell you

glowing-fish
Feb 18, 2013

Keep grinding,
I hope you level up! :)

dee eight posted:

nope, missoula. i pay higher property taxes than you do.

Someone here actually repeated what you said to me the other day "Sometimes I have to choose between the Old Guard Republican and the Nutjob Republican..."

CaptainSarcastic
Jul 6, 2013



Years ago, the Republicans had an open primary before the presidential election, and I cast a vote for Pat Robertson. I knew he had no chance against the leading candidate (it might have been Bush Senior, now that I think of it), but I figured any votes he got would be embarrassing. I could've cast that vote for David Duke (he was running that year), but I just couldn't bring myself to go quite that far.

glowing-fish
Feb 18, 2013

Keep grinding,
I hope you level up! :)

Luvcow posted:

I voted for Nader

Oh, okay, so you have voted Republican?

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Muttonchips posted:

Always have always will. What's your problem?

they say they are the economic responsibility party and then just give all the money to their friends (aka cronyism) and not that the Dems don't but the Dems at least aren't backwards on almost every social issue

they suck in other words

Hot Dog Day #82
Jul 5, 2003

Soiled Meat
When I was in high school I voted for Mitt Romney to be governor because I thought it was hilarious and edgy. Sad but true story.

CRIP EATIN BREAD
Jun 24, 2002

Hey stop worrying bout my acting bitch, and worry about your WACK ass music. In the mean time... Eat a hot bowl of Dicks! Ice T



Soiled Meat
i always vote extreme leftists or communist op

Leperflesh
May 17, 2007

I almost nearly voted for Arnold Schwarzenegger.

...but then I didn't.

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:

i always vote extreme leftists or communist op

theyre never on the ballot here :(

Luvcow
Jul 1, 2007

One day nearer spring

glowing-fish posted:

Oh, okay, so you have voted Republican?

Maybe a local election. Democrat or Independent for national elections.

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme
All public positions should be picked by lottery.

Then every six months every citizen should be able to press a button which activates a bomb attached to a randomly chosen elected official's head.

If enough people press the button that bomb explodes and another lottery is made for that position.

Luvcow
Jul 1, 2007

One day nearer spring
I wish there was a viable Republican candidate to vote for but unfortunately I have a conscience. :shrug:

Muttonchips
Jun 5, 2014

by Shine

Windows 98 posted:

The only real reason for voting Republican is because you're a selfish piece of poo poo.

Say what? No. Absolutely not. This is just an ignorant thing to do. There's no need to demonize people because they don't share your political views. Back off.

Moridin920 posted:

they say they are the economic responsibility party and then just give all the money to their friends (aka cronyism) and not that the Dems don't but the Dems at least aren't backwards on almost every social issue

they suck in other words

Dems do the same thing. I look at which issues are important to me and I vote accordingly. I don't get why liberals get so upset just because I don't share their views. Annoying.

Windows 98
Nov 13, 2005

HTTP 400: Bad post

Muttonchips posted:

Say what? No. Absolutely not. This is just an ignorant thing to do. There's no need to demonize people because they don't share your political views. Back off.

You are a selfish piece of poo poo

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Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Muttonchips posted:

Say what? No. Absolutely not. This is just an ignorant thing to do. There's no need to demonize people because they don't share your political views. Back off.

the national socialist party had some political views too

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