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Little_Noodles t1_j6o745f wrote

Reply to comment by apathetic_panda in Gym bashes Union League, goes to cocktail party there next week by MagnusUnda

You asked for “one”, not a list. And yeah, it’s a mess right now, I’ll agree to that.

I’ll be glad when the pettier bullshit like this dies down and we can see who is left standing to actually make a decision about. At the moment, unless it’s revealing an actual problem (like say, the Jeff Brown article posted earlier), I’m not bothering with any of this high school bullshit in my evaluation.

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apathetic_panda t1_j6og44c wrote

Um, I think you're responding to somebody else- I'm not even registered for the primary-

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Little_Noodles t1_j6oguzl wrote

Ah, the person I was responding to in the post you responded to asked for “one”. So I should have said “they”.

And if you’re not registered for the primary, it frankly doesn’t matter what your opinion on any of the candidates is.

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apathetic_panda t1_j6on6lk wrote

I'm aware of that. But, if you're going to mute me because I don't want your stupid clubs' fundraising mailers coming to my house- you're not going to like the outcome regardless since the people left would do something asinine like elect Domb.

Seriously people, why go from a slumlord president then say hey, that was awful... let's have all of those bad ideas executed closer to home.

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Little_Noodles t1_j6op8pn wrote

Who said anything about muting you?

I just said that your opinion here, which is that you can be chased out of the electorate by the threat of recieving mail, means that your opinion on the primary isn’t worth taking seriously

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apathetic_panda t1_j6oqyw9 wrote

I didn't say I wasn't voting. I just won't register to a party whose politics I don't respect. The ballot questions actually matter more.

The closed primary format is muting me- it was just presumptuous of me to assume that you support it.

An assumption that is sound. So again, you can dismiss my opinion- as it's no more valid than anyone else's - it'll just be funny when people wonder why nothing improves here and all the same people in charge are doing exactly what their predecessors were 40-50 years ago

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Little_Noodles t1_j6ot14h wrote

Unless you’re very new here, you know as well as I do that in Philadelphia, the primary is the mayoral election. By that point, when it comes to your vote for this office, you’re either absent or a rubber stamp.

Whether or not you like the primary system is irrelevant. You’re not teaching anyone a lesson by refusing to participate in it.

Refusing to participate and then bitching that everyone who did did a bad job isn’t the principled or unique stand you think it is. Most of Philly doesn’t vote, and most of the ones that do don’t vote in the primary. THAT’S why it’s the same assholes getting in over and over again. Because they’re being elected by the same sliver of the population that’s willing to do shit like, say, throw out mailers sometimes

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apathetic_panda t1_j6ov3pt wrote

I'm not new here. Unless you're going to point out a local primary that turned on fewer than 300 votes instead of a greasy palm, your point is just as impotent.

If I cared that my nonparticpation were unique it actually wouldn't matter, but since that population outnumbers the primary electorate you make my argument for me

For the record, I do throw out the mailers. If you were going suggest something actually effectual it would've been to run myself or volunteer- but as it turns out you like circlejerking as much as I do

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Little_Noodles t1_j6ovj0k wrote

And again, if you’re not going to shit but bitch about the people that are pulling their weight, and how it doesn’t matter that you’re not doing shit because too many other people also don’t do shit, then your opinion holds about as much weight with me as the vote you’re not casting weighs in the outcome of the election.

The people you’re complaining about are going to pick your next mayor, just like they always have, and they’re going to do it because you and people like you are too salty to just make an effort. You think they give a shit that you’re sitting this out? They do not.

I frequently don’t like my choices come the general. But sometimes I do. Sometimes they’re even the person I helped collect signatures for, or donated to, or voted for in the primary.

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apathetic_panda t1_j6oxu25 wrote

You really like to repeat yourself don't you.

Wow, is that a salad 🥗.

The people pulling weight in the primary aren't the electorate, genius.

But yes, look at a 12% turnout and say yeah, the people rejecting the process due to the persistent corruption of the nominating bodies and the long-standing policy in place specifically to supress voting generally- they're the problem

Do you really think I'm trying to change your mind?

A stranger on the internet 🤣😂🤢🤮

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