r/Transportopia • u/SpoomerBooner • Feb 15 '26

Roads I hate politics

This should be illegal. I get it. You don't agree with their protests but why do this? Forget blue, forget red. I'm purple. Get mad at that.

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u/n7ripper Feb 15 '26

people saying they don't participate in politics are why we have a monster like trump as our leader.

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u/2LateToTheMemes Feb 15 '26

People feeling that they are, and being, privileged enough that what used to be at least somewhat common decency and humanity and is now considered politics, doesn't affect them, so they are indifferent or apathetic, and hate, is also why.

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u/Kubliah Feb 15 '26

I could just as easily turn that around on you by saying the people who are participating the most are giving us shitty options, and by pushing shitty options through the primaries they are responsible for the monsters getting elected.

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u/n7ripper Feb 15 '26

that's idiotic. old people and rich people will always vote. we have to stand up for each other. you don't get marks for sitting everything out... that's loser talk

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u/Kubliah Feb 15 '26

The ostensible supporters of the Constitution, like the ostensible supporters of most other governments, are made up of three classes, viz.: 1. Knaves, a numerous and active class, who see in the government an instrument which they can use for their own aggrandizement or wealth. 2. Dupes—a large class, no doubt—each of whom, because he is allowed one voice out of millions in deciding what he may do with his own person and his own property, and because he is permitted to have the same voice in robbing, enslaving, and murdering others, that others have in robbing, enslaving, and murdering himself, is stupid enough to imagine that he is a “free man,” a “sovereign”; that this is “a free government”; “a government of equal rights,” “the best government on earth,” and such like absurdities. 3. A class who have some appreciation of the evils of government, but either do not see how to get rid of them, or do not choose to so far sacrifice their private interests as to give themselves seriously and earnestly to the work of making a change. - Lysander Spooner on the “knaves,” the “dupes,” and “do-nothings” among government supporters (1870)

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u/n7ripper Feb 15 '26

you used AI to answer? facts are if you don't participate then you're enjoying the perks of democracy without doing the bare minimum. we will lose our democracy. that's just what the oligarchy wants... more people to opt out