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Cake day: December 12th, 2023

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  • This whole debate is so warped tbh. No-one ever says that voting for a candidate/party who would have won anyway is “throwing your vote away” but it does exactly as much good as not voting at all. Similarly, if you wake up the day after the election, and the Bad Dude won, well, your vote wouldn’t have changed anything anyway.

    You can register your dissent by voting third party. It’s not much, but that’s all you’re allowed to do.





  • I can’t really furnish you with a link, though I saw some pretty convincing breakdowns back when I was on Twitter. Long story short, nobody is actually buying e.g. James Ball’s books — they don’t even print nearly enough to cover what the author is paid. It’s similar to the columnist grift, which is definitely a thing in the US too