Don't vote 'for a laugh'

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Whether in this American election or in ones in your own country or future ones...

Don't vote for someone just cos you think it would be funny if they were elected.

Stay home if you don't care who wins.

Politics is serious and if you do win, you're affecting people's lives just so you can troll or do something funny.

I'm not going to name any candidates here, in case anyone is seriously considering him, and in order to keep this timeless.

I agree...

It is shameful that so many Americans from east to west flock around joke candidates like Trump and Biden, while a contender (I shall not name him) with a much more more powerful and serious political platform gets very little media coverage.

I didn't vote for laughs but this year 2020, TBH, both choices are equally unimpressive. I'm actually not worried who wins this time around because it's clear that neither is going to craft public policy that would make things any more or less messed up than they are right now. The biggest thing is getting our heads out of the bucket with existential risk, social media, etc., a lot of issues that have to happen well below the level of presidential politics and most of these are issues where if you actually get your political party to handle it and by the time all the solutions get screened through their lobbyists you'll be sorry you did.

Kanye would get 25th'd within days of being inaugurated.

It's the same here with people not voting MRLP.

Even though 'Conservative' means 'Conserve the laughter' and 'Labour' means 'Labour for Laughs'*

* (I'm joking btw)

On the other hand, write-ins kept Roy Moore out of the Senate.

I have never heard anyone vote for a laugh.

Speaking of all this is Vermin Supreme still in the runnings?

People are talking about it on twitter.

I hope they're either under 18 or not American.

They're saying what 'would be funny'.

Ah. That is why it is not wize to let those under adult age to vote.

And yet, strangely, "progressive" parties are more likely to campaign to lower the voting age, while "conservative" ones are more likely to be in favour of keeping it at current levels, or raising it slightly...

I don’t know about that.

For all we know, Seymour Butts and I.P. Freely might be great leaders.

I can't support them. I'm 100% behind Amanda Huggenkiss.

Only when choosing songs or decorations for nation-scale events (like the official Polish song for Euro 2012 )

Don't forget Ivana Tinkle

I agree except fot the point that neither of the candidates has the ability to mess up things anymore or less than they are now. I believed Trump would be hindered by the whole apparatus from messing things up entirely, and in a sense, they did, I mean, they didn't let him nuke that hurricane .... but he seriously did mess up things more once Covid hit. I don't think Biden can change this for the better anytime soon, and having listened to Mark Blyth, I understand that it's not clear how a different president would have reacted... but Trump made mask-wearing a partisan issue and THAT is making things a lot worse than they needed to be.